The First Amendment has been under attack for some time beginning with the so-called ‘Fairness’ Doctrine. Now they bring us ‘airwave neutrality’ or ‘localism’ and net ‘neutrality’.

Additionally, top Obama administration officials openly attack FOX news (or any person or group that doesn’t tow the Party line). The White House attacks FOX as ‘not being a news station’, but Charles Krauthammer correctly points out how destructive and un-American this tactic is: “…it is outside the democratic norms of our society, which are Madisonian. Our idea is that you have as a way to protect against tyranny in governments is to have the growth, the interaction, and the clash of what Madison called ‘factions’ but what we call ‘interests,’ special and otherwise, and you argue, you interact and you clash. But you don’t undermine, delegitimize, and destroy. That is the Madisonian way, and we are getting, instead, is the Chicago way.”

Now they are pushing for so-called ‘net neutrality’ regulation. If it passes, the government will have sweeping new powers, giving the FCC the authority to dictate application and network management practices to companies that offer Internet access, including wireless carriers. Supposedly this is to assure we all have access to the Internet and to the content we want. But Americans already have access to everything imaginable on the Internet. They want us to believe that by putting the government in charge we will somehow get more access to information. Is anyone so naïve as to believe they will not, eventually, enact more controls over the Internet? Once that door is opened, we will see content control based on politics. Why won’t it happen - the left has already tried (often successfully with speech codes and hate crime laws) to pass various forms of censorship and thought control. There is absolutely no reason to believe the government will keep its hands off forever. Unfortunately, some conservative groups have fallen for the ruse and signed on to net non-neutrality.

Moreover, the Obama administration appoints Mark Lloyd, the “Diversity” Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, who praised the Venezuelan dictator for clamping down on the media in his country. Hugo Chavez financially strangles groups that criticizes his government, revokes licenses of stations, and imposes tough new regulations to bring the media under his control, and Mark Lloyd praises him. The views of this radical are entirely consistent with not just this administration, but authoritarian dictators.

In the past, the political left generally did a better job of hiding their contempt for American values.