Free Speech Not So Free Under Obama

Please allow me to start with a little something found in our constitution; in fact, its first amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

A lot of people are up in arms about Obama's so-called "healthcare reform," and rightfully so. Many are very concerned about the government getting increasingly involved in something as private, and as near and dear to us, as our healthcare - whether that is how we get it or how we pay for it. As such, many Americans have called and written their representatives and confronted them at town hall meetings across the country - thus they "petition the government for a redress of grievances" about this matter, a matter of no small significance both fiscally and idealogically. What a country! Right?

It appears that the Obama administration is uncomfortable with Americans exercising this freedom. (God forbid anyone suggest that Obama keeps the change!) The White House blog now offers a special email address (flash@whitehouse.gov) encouraging citizens to alert the administration to anyone providing "fishy" information about healthcare overhaul. The idea of a partisan-controlled government collecting information from certain citizens about certain other dissenting citizens and potentially investigating their exercise of free speech makes me downright nauseous. And so much for Obama being a great uniter! Maybe Obama is trying to identify the socialists versus the non-socialists in America.

Congressman Brian Bair, seemingly offended by Americans exercising free speech at his town hall meetings, has referred to these dissenters as being like Nazis and "brown shirts." You see, this is another example of how liberals in our government want to demonize Americans who support independence and freedom. They view these people as a threat to change, and the change they seek is an America to become a socialist nation, a withered has-been like so many countries in Europe. Now I have already outed Janet Napolitano in an earlier writing how Homeland Security has tried to demonize right-wing Americans as potential "extremist terrorists." And this administration has also demonized Wall St. and painted anyone pursuing material success in America as greedy. But who's really intimidating here? Hecklers protesting at a town hall meeting or a government gathering information on its citizens?

Please help fight the insanity! Don't fight change, fight this change. Don't let our government turn our nation into a bankrupt, socialist disaster!