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Freedom Of Speech: DEAD! .. Public Now Restricted From Orally Redressing Government On Stimulus



Jun 1, 2009 29 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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News Media Journal:

In a May, 29, 2009 posting on the WhiteHouse.gov website by Norm Eisen, Special Counsel to [Alleged] President Obama for Ethics and Government Reform, it is disclosed that the public will be included in a restriction barring lobbyists from having oral communications with government officials about specific Recovery Act Projects. Instead, the public is limited to redressing their government through the written word.

“I am writing with an update on the President’s March 20, 2009 Memorandum on Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds. Section 3 of the Memorandum…barred registered lobbyists from having oral communications with government officials about specific Recovery Act projects or applications and instead required those communications to be in writing…First, we will expand the restriction on oral communications to cover all persons, not just federally registered lobbyists…We concluded this was necessary under the unique circumstances of the stimulus program.”

The new restriction, although it does not transgress the rights of the American people to redress their government — the option of writing elected officials or visiting their offices in person to register a complaint or comment is still available to the public — severely limits public accessibility to elected officials on matters of governmental performance.


  • GRIZZ

    Why would they want to hear from “the chattering class”?….we have nothing to say,just throw us some crumbs please,may I shine your shoes?

  • cooper

    Wow…so what exactly are they going to do if we do decide to orally redress them?

    Does this make tea parties officially “illegal?”

    Is this what hussein is going to send out his national security force to enforce?

    • cooper

      …And on a larger scale, will this effect talk radio?

  • toldyouso

    Where are ACLU and all the lib hacks on this one. :gun:

  • Specter

    Fuck that :gun:

  • DoubleTap

    Wow. I feel the iron hand of socialism clamping over my mouth. No longer will we be allowed to criticize the government in any manner.

    This is bad… very bad.

  • toldyouso

    I re-read this again and my blood if boiling. People are going to be forced to draw a line in the sand. Decide which ammendment you are going to let Barry crush before you have had enough.

  • ignifer

    I suggest calling your elected representatives IMMEDIATELY.DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THEM PERSONALLY ASAP, DEMAND A RESPONSE FROM YOUR CONGRESS CRITTER TO THIS STATEMENT FROM THE USURPERS WEBSITE, AND DEMAND THEY ADDRESS THIS SITUATION AND DENOUNCE IT PUBLICLY and IMMEDIATELY.
    PRESS THEM ON IT NOW.
    PRESS THE USURPERS ADMIN.
    MAKE THEM BLINK.
    you may not get your congress critter on the phone,but demand it anyway specifically mentioning recovery act and this notice from the white house.
    tell the assistant that you are registering STONG unhappiness and wish to have a specific response from your elected congress critter.

  • DoubleTap

    Yea, tried that. They hung up on me. Apparently they have already decided not to listen to anyone speaking. They will now only accept complaints in writing – so it can be used against you as physical evidence.

    • Tim Roesch

      Who hung up on you? Give out numbers. Everyone. Get numbers and pass them around. You got cell phones with unlimited calling or plans that allow calling anywhere for the same price.

      Let’s get calling. Call every Federal (state too?) congressman/woman. Even outside your district. Start calling, now (or when the office is open).

      Pat, can we set up a site where we can exchange info on what transpires? Who says what or hangs up on whom?

      Make the calls similar-Hi, I am calling about the Stimulus? Or something neutral like that.

      GO GO GO GO! This is an excellent way to tease and mock. Call three or four times. Call randomly. If you live in TX call MA too. If you live in MA call CA.

    • DoubleTap

      Tried calling the Colorado Liberal from Hell… AKA Mark Udall. I spoke to the mush head that answered the phone for about 15 seconds and she then decided to unplug me after saying “there is no such thing”.

  • CPLViper

    Ok let’s see. This, GM owned by the gubm’t, Chrysler on their knees to the gubm’t, Ford hoping that the gubm’t doesn’t mess with the regulations to favor GM and Chrysler and put them out of business, all those “too expensive for government contracts” that were turned over to the private sector 30 years ago have been changed back to be owned by the gubm’t (betcha didn’t know about that one … someone who works in government contracts told me about it). This train just keeps on rolling (and picking up speed) without notice but by the subset of the minority who are the true conservatives (aka patriots). This train is coming to the end of the line and everyone (you, me and every other US citizen) will have no way of jumping off before running of track. We are almost there. Once we collapse economically, there will be a push to change the government to a different form and, unfortunately, there will be so many people suffering that they will go along with anything (see Germany and Hitler’s rise for an example). Reagan was right … one generation (about 20 years) is all it is taking for tyrany to rise in America.

    Our citizens have been lulled into a deep sleep with a willing media singing a lullaby while the bed is burning. I hope people wake up soon.

    • German Dragon

      Agreed. This is what I imperfectly saw when Bush interrupted the 2008 election with Paulson’s TARP bill, and came into focus with the revelation of the Cloward-Piven strategy.

      What Obama is fomenting is the Mother of All Crises when China decides to both (1) stop buying our debt, and (2) retool their manufacturing to support their home market instead of creating cheap crap to sell to us.

      Bush 41′s “New World Order” vision of “global markets” (and succeeding presidents) has resulted in most of our manufacturing base being out-sourced to other countries. What’s left that’s actually “Made in America?” If China made good on its threat and stopped exporting to us, our infrastructure would collapse. And should such a collapse occur, how many people — trained to be dependent on government largess — will cry to the government to fix it?

      We could well be facing the “Mad Max” scenario in the near future.

    • CPLViper

      China doesn’t want to stop buying America’s debt but does want more of a return for the added risk. This is what America did back before WWII, we bought everyone’s debt. It is how we became a super-power. It is how China will become a super-power. The problem is that we are one of the countries selling our debt to them, which means we will not be a super-power any longer.

      I hope everyone likes working long hours and breathing smog … but don’t worry we will also have shorter life spans … all new imports from who will be our masters.

    • WingCommander

      We are barreling down the tracks, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

      IT”S ANOTHER FUCKING TRAIN!!! :evil:

  • http://www.killingjanefonda.com cllucas

    not without a fight.

  • http://bb.bbboy.net/themainepatriotboard Poe

    Nah, its just talking to government officials about it, talk radio, press, ect. can still run there sucks.

    I fucking hate lobbyists, so I am kind of ok with it, I mean after all, when was the last time any government official gave a flying fuck what we had to say anyway? It is also only dealing with the spendulus as well, I can see why they would not want the lobbyists involved in that but am not sure why they would try and make it illegal. I don’t understand how they can say the right to redress is still there when this in effect negates it on this subject.

    I got nothing.

    /still buying ammo

  • The sad truth

    Unfortunately your Representative in the House for your area and your Federal Senator are known as Government officials.

  • Support your local Jihadi Killer

    Okay, I say we fill every office, every day with hundreds waiting in line to make a complaint. We’ll see how long they can take it before they plug the phones back in.

    As a side note. This just in! A must read!
    Sotomayer only judge in America to “rule” against the 2nd amendment. Read on.

    http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12524

    http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/26/blackwell_ken_obama_sotomayor/

  • FIU Alum

    The 1st 2nd and 4th are going by the wayside under this Commie punk

    • aboutTObegin

      nope….they will FOREVER live!!!

      -aTb

  • Jim McKindles

    Should read gold + guns = groceries

  • Bob

    Guns = anything you want, food, gold, more guns.

    • falconfixer

      I’ve been stocking up for some time now.

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  • http://patdollard.com Average Joe

    :arrow: ALL
    I will say this AGAIN.
    Anyone who thinks Obama will allow a fair 2010 election is STUPID…

    Military needs to follow the Constitution and remove DEMOCRAT TRAITORS.

    • Jarhead68

      Amen…

    • Sgsaur

      +1

    • aboutTObegin

      agree!

      -aTb