Mass. Democrat Says Gov’t Should Control Media

-By Warner Todd Huston

That darned old media is just out of control and filled with “hate crimes,” Senator Ed Markey (D, Mass.) says. So, he thinks the best solution is that government should control everything we see and hear. What could go wrong with that, Mr. Orwell?

Markey has proposed a tax dollar-wasting “study” to find ways to force broadcast media from showing “hate crimes” to we stupid, uneducated Americans. Markey is here to save us from ourselves, you see.

As to that whole First Amendment, freedom of speech thing? Markey doesn’t see any reason why that should be a problem. Why? Well, he doesn’t really say, but just take his word for it, won’t you? He should change his name from Markey to Malarkey.

Of course, not everyone is hailing Malarkey’s idea as such a great idea. Gene Policinski, who works at the First Amendment Center, says that this is something we’d better notice. “Anytime government in any form or level looks to study our speech–even something that we might all consider detestable speech–we need to pay attention.”

That is as understated a reply as one can imagine from an advocate of the First Amendment, isn’t it?

The truth is, this is yet one more authoritarian Democrat move to control our lives from the second we awake to the second we lay our heads down to sleep and every other hours in between. Nothing about Malarkey’s ideas could be less American.

And let’s not even get into the sham that is a “hate crime.” Hate crimes do not exist. There is either crime or no crime.

And what about the money for this so-called “study”? That’s no problem, either, despite that the US is broke.

Malarkey, who entered Congress as a Mass. Representative back in the 70s, has voted to raise his own government salary six times, so apparently money is no object.

But that darned ol’ Constitution thing could pose a problem for him… if only he cared anything about it.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.

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