Shadow Government and Free Speech

Everyone is more or less leaving the czars alone. Obama’s unvetted shadow government. Hillary is Secretary of State in charge of anything which doesn’t matter – not Iran, Iraq, the so-called Middle East, Honduras. She has been well and truly neutralized – i.e.; until she wakes out of her trance. The Congress and the vetted Cabinet members are seemingly oblivious to the reality that their powers are being rather quickly subsumed into the White House. Census Bureau anyone? Oh, that one hasn’t worked yet, but just wait. Now even the CIA. The FBI is going to oversee interrogations from guess where? The White House. Surprised? At least Panetta has the sense to be upset. Not Nancy, Harry or even McCain. Who has standing in the Courts to combat this? And we have so many czars and advisors. All in the White House, running the nation de facto.

Enter Van Jones, an adviser to the White House on environmental issues, and a co-founder of ColorOfChange.org. A double felon – or as it only one? How did he get his security clearance? This takes convict rehab to a new level. Did you expect convicted felons to be running your government when you voted for The One? Well that felon doesn’t like Glenn Beck calling them out. ColorofChange.org demanding the boycott of Beck’s show by advertisers.

The press is all atwitter with notions of free speech. They insist that corporate advertisers are simply exercising their right to free speech by not advertising on Beck. Well, just hold on a minute there. If Van Jones’ organization is leading the charge against Beck and he has the ear of the POTUS, isn’t there just the slightest suggestion of intimidation from the White House? It is a brave corporation that will stand up to the White House, especially one so ready to punish those who do. So it doesn’t seem like the exercise of free speech when the power of the President is weighing in on the topic. A President who, in very short order, has a record of demonizing any large industry he chooses to, just for the hell of it. We don’t need insurance companies do we? Let’s just wipe them out. Car companies? Take them over. Co-opting as many as he can, threatening others with Acorn-like attacks of the ‘people’. Pull GE/NBC in, send goons to AIG executives’ homes. All orchestrated from you-know-where. Of course they’re just exercising ‘free speech’ by pulling ads.