Will the end of free speech start with Democrats?

Question

Limbaugh Letter Fetches $2.1 Million on eBay
Rush Limbaugh appears to have the Midas touch.
The conservative radio talk-show host turned an inflammatory letter written by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and signed by 41 of his fellow Democrats into a more than $4.2 million gold mine for the kids of Marines and law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty, all courtesy of eBay.
The Eugene B. Casey foundation Betty Casey coughed up more than $2.1 million to be the sole owner of the letter sent to the radio host's boss demanding that Limbaugh be reprimanded for a "phony soldier" comment he made on air. Limbaugh has pledged to match whatever was paid for the letter.
Limbaugh described Betty Casey, a trustee of the foundation, as a loyal listener to his show.
“She gives significant sums to hospitals, hospices, colleges and private schools,” Limbaugh said during his radio show Friday afternoon, just after the eBay auction ended. “Betty has been a listener to my program since its inception, and we can't thank her enough for her support. This was kind of the last straw for her, what Harry Reid did here.”
The letter, sent by Reid and signed by his Democratic colleagues, was delivered Oct. 2 to Mark P. Mays, president of Clear Channel, the parent company of the conservative talk show host’s radio broadcast.
Click here to read the letter sent by Reid to Clear Channel's Mark Mays.
In exchange for the $2.1 million, the Maryland-based Eugene B. Casey Foundation, will receive the letter, the Halliburton briefcase in which the letter is secured 24 hours a day, a letter of thanks from Limbaugh and a picture of him announcing the auction at a speech in Philadelphia last week.
The foundation released the following statement on acquiring the letter:
"The Eugene B. Casey Foundation believes freedom of speech is a basic right of every citizen of this country. Their purchase of the smear letter was to demonstrate their belief in this right and to support Rush Limbaugh, his views and his continued education of us."
Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Maine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, a nonprofit that gives scholarship assistance to children of Marines and federal law enforcement personnel whose parents die in the line of duty.
Limbaugh has denied the term "phony soldiers" referred to former servicemen and women who served in Iraq and now oppose the war, but to those who lied about their service. A literal reading of the Sept. 26 show in question shows that the controversial host did not say that soldiers opposing the war are "phony."
On his Friday radio show, Limbaugh said Reid’s letter was an “abuse of power against a private citizen.”
“Harry Reid in a speech on the Senate floor at 12 noon today, a little over an hour ago, attempted to hone in on all this and take some credit for it, claiming that he and I had buried the hatchet, or implying that that had been the case, and then kept using the pronoun "we" in discussing how good this was, the money going to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation,” Limbaugh said on his show.
“Three words, that means, ‘Rush, you win,’” Reid told his colleagues on the Senate floor. “I asked Sen. Reid to match and all the other senators who can afford to do so. I haven't heard from them on that. I asked Sen. Reid to go on the program and discuss his discussion of me as "unpatriotic." He did not accept my offer to do that and now has the audacity to climb aboard this, praising the effort, saying that "he" never knew that it would get this kind of money.
He also announced an unknown number of certified copies of the letter signed by him will be sold on for $1,000 on his Web site, with proceeds going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
So did the foundation get their money's worth?
Kieta, the vice president of AmericanMemorabilia.com who goes by only one name, said what makes the letter appealing to a buyer is all the media attention the correspondence has received, but it holds no real historical or collector value.
“If you compare it to an Abraham Lincoln document, there is obviously no comparison,” Kieta said. “This is strictly a promotional marketing ploy. Historically speaking, is it a historical document? I wouldn’t categorize it as a historical document.”

Answer 1

Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern LIBERAL democracies. The right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, although implementation remains lacking in many countries.

Your Post is Too long to read, but the answer to you question is that the Republicans have stolen the country's treasure and military might in a war for oil and money. I can see why they would like to talk about something else.

Answer 2

The essence of political correctness is the censoring, not just of speech, but of all thought. Look at the current climate in both the news and the entertainment media, where only politically correct statements are allowed, regardless of how factually incorrect they often are. Conversely, all politically incorrect ideas are rigorously censored, despite in many cases being factually correct.
This is most obvious in education where at levels below college, and often even there, the curriculum is almost devoid of actual facts. Claiming that presenting facts is equivalent to rote learning they have been replaced by indoctrination in politically correct theories that the students are taught to believe in without being given enough information to analise the theories for themselves.
The reason that the U.S. has the worst education system in the industrialized world is that ever since the leftists of the sixties started to take over education all thinking by students has been suppressed in favor of mindless parroting of PC dogma. It now compares to education in Nazi Germany at its worst. All subjects, from science to social studies are subordinate to political and social dogma, even if the majority of actual facts have to be deleted or distorted because they will contradict the PC opinions of the educators.
I've experienced this myself with my daughters education. She's had whole units in social studies devoted to Harriet Tubman and Sacajawea, but had been told nothing about the contributions of George Washington and Benjamin Frankin Her American history teacher thought Alexander Hamilton was one of the Presidents.
Enough said, I could cite examples at greater length than the original, overly long question.

Answer 3

Casey was in the employ of Roosevelt when he was convicted of tax evasion and then did time in prison after a felony conviction. Roosevelt was glad to be rid of him, but only because he had used him as a hugely successful fundraiser during his camaigns. Harry Truman gave Casey a Presidential pardon in 1951, ending his prison term. Apparently Mrs. Casey has decided to support the Republicans now. Her family owns lots of real estate in D.C.!

Answer 4

WOW long question. Well i just scimmed over it.
And yes i believe that democrats will lead Amerca towards socialism (communism) in other words yes not free speach. AND... (now you got me going) not freedom at all. If you work at burger king u get payed the same as a doctor. True there is free health care but. Ive seen socialist hostpitals. You have to wait for weeks to get in. It is completely unclean. The doctors are only partically trained. Very lilttle kindness i could say. so yea that just a lilttle bit of what i believe

Answer 5

The issue is not necessarily the contents of the letter or its intrinsic value--the issue is the blatant abuse of power and utter disregard for the 1st amendment of Reid and his fellow co-signers.

They issued the letter on public time, printed it on official letterhead, completely misrepresented the original Limbaugh remark and used their status as US Senators in an attempt to browbeat a private albeit Federally regulated entity to silence a private citizen. Yeah, with this as a shining example, you tell me--do you really trust these fascist Democrats with your other rights?

Answer 6

It already has started with them.

The "Fairness Doctrine", Hate Laws, Political Correctness...

MC actually nailed it. Both sides are political elites. Remember Trent Lott? "Something needs to be done about [conservative talk radio]"

Answer 7

You see what your typical Liberal will say about a question being to long ! If Liberals can`t listen to CNN or any of the other Liberal Socialist Bias` Media, they can`t seem to come to a common sense conclusion to answer a question on their own ; unless CNN or NBC does it for them. How in the world can you expect to answer a question much less understand it , if you don`t read the whole question ? Selective Ignorance ?

Answer 8

It started with stopping you from saying a prayer and then the "N" word being black exclusive and now you can't say husband & wife or Mom & Dad in the satan state. The "demon"crats will stop us from opening our mouths if we just let them. God help us.

Answer 9

One of these days people will wake up and see the Democraps and Republacraps are just different sides of the same coin...one is as bad as the other...neither can be trusted...(and Rush is a druged out old coot who likes to hear himself yak)

Answer 10

A lot of things will end if the Democrats get the white house, including free speech, having money in your wallet (your taxes will go up), and a safe country to live in (the terrorists actually want the Dems to win). Its scary isnt it?

Hey Jim W, you have obviously never listened to Rush.