Go Long Idiocy

Yep. The value of idiocy is rising. However, I fear it is a bubble. Wot? A French Bank is going after the Wall Street Journal for Euro failure opinion piece. Evidently they are not aware of the American Constitution. Namely the First Amendment. Something about freedom of speech I hear.

Reuters has a tit bit.

(Reuters) - BNP Paribas said on Tuesday that it had asked French market regulator AMF to open an enquiry about a Wall Street Journal opinion piece claiming that France's largest bank could face a dollar funding crunch.

I guess that in France you are not allowed to have the "wrong" opinion.

So far the US has not gone too far down that path. Unless you count "hate" speech laws.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

MSM Does The Right Thing

I never thought I would say that. Ever. But when confronted with a fundamental challenge to the free press in America the press did not cave. Obama caved.

Moe Lane has a few words on the dust up.

So this administration had what passes for a brainstorm among that group: now that they’ve made it clear that they disapprove of one particular news network, why, there would be nothing stopping them from stepping up their attempts to marginalize said network. So the White House announced today that a specific White House Press Pool access - Ken Feinberg, who is one of the myriad ‘czars’ so beloved of this administration - would explicitly exclude Fox News. Despite the fact that the Press Pool is supported in part by Fox News.

And the media refused to play along.

This, oddly enough, has not been brought up by any of the other networks, so for right now the best source for this story is FNC (yes, savor the irony)

Well other than standing tall when it counted I guess I can't give the MSM as much credit as I would like. Damn shame because had they reported the news instead of burying it they would have deserved it.

Baby steps.

There was one MSM reporter who sees an ominous connection between the psychology of this administration and one long passed into history

How do you know that the White House's anti-Fox News campaign has gone seriously wrong? When CNN, let alone Anderson Cooper, begins to compare the Obama and Nixon administrations

As I recall the Nixon thing didn't end well. Nixon was forced to resign and his Vice President, Spiro Agnew, was convicted on corruption charges. Leaving Gerald Ford to baby sit the country until Jimmy "incompetent" Carter's election.

H/T Instapundit and Judith Weiss on Facebook

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Religious Liberty

Not having much profound to say at this time I'm going to quote our profoundist president, Thomas Jefferson on religious liberty. Virginia Statute For Religious Freedom

Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as it was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow-citizens he has a natural right; that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

And though we well know that this assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act shall be an infringement of natural right.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

On the Radio

I was listening to the 50,000 watt Blow Torch of the Midwest WLS AM and heard this most amazing anti-Jew political rant from the Jim Condit Jr. for Congress Campaign (Ohio 2nd).

The best thing we can do for Homeland security, ----- is arrest the head of Homeland Security.

Michael Chertoff is a traitor to America.

Descended from Russian Jews, a citizen of Israel, Chertoff is now an “American.”

Investigative Reporter Christopher Bollyn has proved in many articles that Chertoff and Israel are implicated neck-deep in 9-11. In August 2006, three mysterious Homeland Security-related plain-clothesmen trespassed onto Bollyn’s Illinois home, handcuffed then tasered him in front of his family, and took him to jail WITHOUT CAUSE.

We charge Chertoff is retaliating against Bollyn for his patriotic, honest reporting.

Furthermore, I charge that CHERTOFF, and the Criminal Neo-Con Jews around him, are planning a SECOND horrible, TERRORIST ATTACK against America, a phase II of 9-11, as an excuse to suspend the Bill of Rights.

Arrest Chertoff, free Christopher Bollyn. Go to “TheTruth247.com” -- TheTruth247.com --- Paid for by Jim Condit Jr. for Congress.

So who is Jim Condit Jr and what does he stand for?

* born in 1953 in Cincinnati, Ohio

* oldest of eleven brothers and sisters

* St. Margaret of Cortona grade school, 1959-1967

* St. Xavier High School, 1967-1971

* Xavier University, 1971-1974 (graduated from the HAB, i.e., Honors Bachelor of Arts program, with emphasis on Latin, Greek, philosophy, history, literature); as far as we know, Jim Condit Jr. was the only person in the history of the university to graduate from the HAB program in three years.

* In 1990, the precinct candidates under the banner of the Platform Republicans, followed the law and, due in part to a missed date by the old-line Republicans running headquarters, actually won the legal party county convention that year, and should have taken control of Hamilton County Republican Headquarters. The courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court, simply stole that victory from our "insurgent" group, which was known as the "Platform Republicans." The Ohio Supreme Court actually stated in their decision that the Platform Republicans were right "in law and in fact" -- but gave control of party headquarters to the old-line Republicans anyway.

* In 2002 became the first political candidate to reach the public over 50,000 watt radio stations with the message that the 9-11 cover story was false, and that the evidence pointed to unsettling conclusions, such as that controlled demolition had been used to bring down the WTC towers in NYC, as the airplane crashes and resulting jet fuel fires were completely insufficient to do so. Today, over one hundred university professors, retired military men, and former government officials are stating the same conclusions publicly at www.scholarsfor911truth.org and other prominent websites, and there is also a rapidly growing list of published books, DVDs, and CDs blowing the lid off of the phony 9-11 cover story, which is still being used to push us towards World War III.

* In 2002, became the first candidate to predict on radio ads on major AM talk stations in the midwest that the Bush administration was going to invade Iraq, and later Iran and Syria (the latter two have not happened yet). This "amazing" prediction was done on the basis of documents from "The Project of the New American Century" (PNAC) and many other public documents and news items, many of which are now common knowledge.

What about the issues?

Jim Condit Jr. agrees with almost every line of the national platform of the Constitution Party, which can be found here:

http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php

This is not the only radio ad that his group has bought time for. Take this one for instance:

The same Zionist Jewish Crime Syndicate that controls the five major Big TV Networks, computerized election stealing, and which perpetrated 9-11 to attack Iraq – is frantically jailing those who expose it.

Arrested in Tennessee, writer and pacifist Ernst Zundel is being held in jail because he proved in a court trial that the World War II gas chamber story is false.

Best selling English historian David Irving is jailed in Austria, for a speech he gave in 1989 questioning aspects of the Hollywood version of the Holocaust. And scientist Germar Rudolph, arrested last year in Chicago, is in jail for a scientific experiment he did indicating that the Auschwitz gas chamber story is a lie.

Have you heard those despicable Zionist Jew sock puppets, Bush and Clinton, who are always lecturing us about freedom – protest these outrages? Of course, not. Zionist Jewish Power must be broken, to save these heroes, and to save America. For more go to TheTruth247.com, that’s TheTruth247.com. Paid for by Jim Condit Jr. for Congress.

I think he is taking advantage of "must run" laws that control what kind of political ads a broadcast station can turn down around election time.

Not that this is a bad thing. I like knowing what people are up to. No better way to find out than to have such folks advertise on their own dime. (Does he get Federal Matching Funds?)