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The Mask Is Off: The Coming Obama Thugocracy
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Remember “Baby Doc”? by Michael Barone - (Townhall) “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people’s faces. They seem determined to shut people up. That’s what Obama supporters, alerted by ...

"The Coming Obama Thugocracy"
Power Line — That's the title of Michael Barone's warning against the peril to free speech that an Obama Presidency will pose. Barone cites a number of examples of Obama's and liberals' efforts to suppress the First Amendment rights of those who disagree with them, and concludes: Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find ...

October Surprises
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... it extends to the campaign plane. A reporter who spent the past year on the Obama plane and has recently moved to the McCain campaign has apparently been freed to smell the fresh air of the Straight Talk Express. He said the Obama plane stinketh. The Democrat response to all of these facts and allegations? Call everyone racists. In fact, Obama and his campaign has attempted to shut down free speech throughout this election cycle. What does that bode for an Obama presidency? Another October surprise which will not be surprising for us ...

Barone: “The Coming Obama Thugocracy”
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... Well, as least someone in the MSM gets what’s actually at stake in this election : Once upon a time, liberals prided themselves, with considerable reason, as the staunchest defenders of free speech. Union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s made the case that they should have access to employees to speak freely to them, and union leaders like George Meany and Walter Reuther were ardent defenders of the First Amendment. Today’s liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, ...

Carol Platt Liebau: When Dissent Isn't Patriotic
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — The left has spent the last eight years telling us how dissent is the highest form of patriotism. That is, unless it's dissent from the prevailing media and cultural adulation for the greatness of Barack Obama. Then, as Michael Barone points out, dissent must be suppressed . It's already been done, rather effectively, by Obama allies -- and no doubt there's more to come from Democrats if their candidate wins.

"Sissy, that should be in Bartlett's"
sisu — ... awesome Atlantic Ave re our ailurophilic aphorism "Cats are neither Republican nor Democrat but Independent": Maybe a November loss will galvanize Republicans into becoming community activists — following groups like ACORN around, and sitting at the polls to observe. Here in NH, our last election had lots of "observers" up from Mass. We could use a lot of observers all over this land what with "The Coming Obama Thugocracy." ...

The Brown Badge Of Cowardice
Sadly, No! — ... …Because the election won’t happen for weeks, and they’re already running out of clean drawers. As for Mr. Yankee, we thought of a bumper sticker the other day: “You can have my foot when you pry it from my cold, dead mouth.” We’re prepared to offer a deep discount on case lots. ...

The best thing I read this weekend
SCSUScholars — ... of our society. Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead. Michael Barone . Here's their cue: ...

Barone: The thugocracy cometh
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Michael Barone warns that a victory by Barack Obama will endorse his tactics in silencing critics, which should concern all non-leg-tingling media in this country.  In fact, Barone points out that it will merely be the next step to the Left’s “progressive” march into killing free political speech — or at least that speech with which they disagree:“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them ...

A worst case scenario?
Power Line — ... In that scenario, a President Obama would have a huge advantage over any challenger. Weighing slightly against this analysis is the fact that voters today are, I believe, much more impatient -- i.e., spoiled -- than in the past. We certainly are not likely to wait five to ten years for a full recovery, as voters did in FDR's day. On the other hand, the gang set to take over power this time seems far more prepared to rely on Chicago-style machine politics, voter fraud, and perhaps additional anti-democratic methods than were their counterparts in 1980 and 1992.

Free speech for me, but not for you
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... Obama lawyer sent a letter to the stations that read in part: "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement." In other words, "We know where you live." I really didn't believe the NRA guy until I looked this up myself. Does it bother any one else that Obama's lawyers are threatening free speech? As Michael Barone points out: Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with ...

Daily effects of indoctrination IV, part 3
SCSUScholars — ... Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society. ...

Shots from the Show 10/13
Tammy Bruce — **This post will be updated throughout the show** A friend of mine noted the economy has been on steroids, and now we're seeing a settling down to what I would consider normal. Gas prices have been way too high for way too long and have fueled the rise of despot states Russia and Iran. They're now getting a big dose of oh-no! Read this and believe him. Barone: The Coming Obama Thugocracy Corsi falls ill after Kenya caper

Thin Skinned Democrats
Wizbang — ... when he is President the world will bow down to the newly transformed United States in awe of it's delicious Obama-ness, but those whose brains are not yet Obamafied might realize there will always be those in the world who hate America -- in spite of his Obamessianic greatness. How will Obama and those surrounding him react when someone in another country levels any criticism his way, or possibly even calls him a not nice name or (gasp) burns his likeness in effigy? I wonder if his thugs will attempt to silence those outside of America like they have those inside the ...

Obama's disdain for democracy -- will it stop in the workplace
Power Line — ... have affirmed it. CNN examined a statement by John McCain that "Senator Obama is. . .planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to … take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections." In one of the no-brainers of this election, CNN concluded that McCain's claim is "true." Obama's low regard for free elections can be attributed, in this context, to his desire to placate organized labor. Increasingly, though, there is reason to wonder whether it is also connected to a more general ...

The Coming Obama Thugocracy (cont.)
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Last week, Michael Barone wrote a column about Obama supporter's various attempts to silence critics titled "The Coming Obama Thugocracy." Sunday's Washington Post carried another example to be added to the list. ...

More Obama 'Thugacracy'
Hyscience — ... Justice to investigate not voter registration fraud, but people talking about voting fraud - including the GOP ticket? Find this hard to believe? (HT - Jennifer Rubin) Then check out the bizarre letter sent by the Obama campaign's lawyer which follows on the heels of another letter asking the DOJ to "investigate" the 527 independent group which ran one of the first Bill Ayers ads. Clearly, if Obama is elected, the Obama thugacracy is coming. And as Jennifer Rubin points out, if you are ...

Abuse of law enforcement powers for partisan ends
The Reality-Based Community — ... : “If they think a group has put out a misleading ad, they’re basically going to call a press conference and say the ad is misleading. I’m sure the Republicans would do the same thing." And, sure enough, McCain has law enforcement officials, including a state attorney general, on some of his own "truth squads." But of course mere facts don't slow down people like Michael Barone , who wrote a completely over-the-top piece about the coming "Liberal thugocracy," or ...

Papers, Please
Stones Cry Out — ... Americans have every right to be afraid of what will happen to their rights to free speech should Senator Obama win the election. If the Obama administration doesn’t use their power to suppress dissenting speech then they will just sic their media lapdogs on citizens to destroy them. Just ask Joe Wurzelbacher. ...

The Big Steal, 2008
Winds of Change.NET — ... With those advantages, Barack Obama can afford to aggressively suppress criticism (link). This too appears to be part of the new model. ...

Kate Smith was a fat lady, but when she sang, it was "God Bless America"
sisu — ... "Well, if Juan thinks a cog in the Chicago Thug Machine is a good role model, so be it," imails our sis, who emailed us last night just as the fat lady began to sing: ...