Ed Cline discusses the threats posed to our First Amendment rights by the Obama regime in this essay.
No, they aren’t going to try to amend the Constitution to do away with that old-fashioned idea that the government can’t interfere with freedom of expression. Instead, through regulations they’ll find ways to hurt institutions that don’t go along with the regime’s plans.
To authoritarians like Obama (and FDR, LBJ, Nixon) political power and control are what matter and anything that gets in their way is fair game. They will gladly whittle away at our liberties to achieve their goals. Property rights and freedom of contract have been on the chopping block for many decades. The First Amendment has suffered some erosion, such as the restraints on employer speech with regard to unionization and the demented McCain-Feingold legislation. I fear that Cline is right — much worse is may come.
