First Amendment Gag Order

[Armando Ramos]

Why does radical Marxist college professor George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) think he can abridge free speech and free discussion?  

Another board reported that Gollin has been threatening the Chicago Tribune, the Chronicle of Higher Education and others to get them to remove negative discussions and comments about him and his inept "Conflict of Interest Officer" wife, Melanie Loots.  I'd post a link but for some reason all the posts have disappeared.

Well why the hell not?  That's exactly what the Obamunist regime is doing.  If it's good enough for Our Dear Leader, muslim Barry Soetoro, it's good enough for Self-Appointed Expert, anti-Christian bigot George Gollin.

Threats and scare tactics to abridge free speech are apparently what's in vogue among Marxists this year.  Bogus G-Man Gollum is just marching in step with his fellow brown shirts.

What First Amendment?

Quote:September 22, 2009

Joseph Ashby

Yesterday Kentucky’s Courier Journal newspaper reported that the fight against political free speech has reached new levels.

Louisville-based Humana is under federal investigation for a mailing that asks seniors to protest proposed cuts in funding for the Medicare plans sold by the company and other health insurers.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, launched its investigation Friday at the urging of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who accused Humana of “scare tactics.”

The mailing from Humana, the second-largest seller of Medicare Advantage plans, warned that if Congress cuts funding, “millions of seniors and disabled individuals could lose many … important benefits” while possibly facing higher costs.

If speech rights have become so diluted that shareholders cannot communicate their views on legislation to their customers without the fear of federal investigation, what speech is not in danger?

The slow train to despotism continues to pick up speed.

"Shut Up! The Government Says" - McConnell on Humana Letter

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September 22, 2009 3:11 PM

ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports: Democrats announced yesterday that HHS was investigating whether the insurer Humana was misleading seniors about health reform legislation. And CMS, the government entity within HHS that administers Medicare told Humana, in no uncertain terms, to cease and desist lobbying its customers on health reform legislation.

But today Republicans accused the White House and CMS of trying to implement a “gag order” on insurance companies that provide Medicare Advantage programs.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not normally get riled up, but he just gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor about the gag order, Humana, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who initiated the HHS investigation. McConnell referred to Baucus only as “a colleague.”

“Using the full weight of the federal government’s enforcement powers to stifle free speech should trouble all Americans — and all of us — even more,” McConnell said. “We cannot allow government officials to target individuals or companies because they do not like what they have to say.”

“Shut up! the government says,” said McConnell on the Senate floor of the CMS letter to Humana. “Don’t communicate with your customers. Be quiet and get in line,” he said facetiously.

There are two points to remember here. Humana is based in Kentucky, so McConnell is quick to protect them. And second, he is a staunch defender of the first amendment. For instance, McConnell is the often the only Republican to vote against a flag burning amendment when it periodically arises.

In a written statement, House Minority Leader John Boehner calls a letter of rebuke from CMS Humana “outrageous” and accuses the White House of “trying to keep seniors in the dark about the consequences of congressional Democrats’ costly government-run health care bills.”

“Would the Administration impose this sort of gag order if seniors were being given information promoting the Obama health care plan?  I don’t think so,” says Boehner in the statement. “Seniors have a right to know about the cost and consequences of the Democrats’ health care bills, and Republicans will continue to tell the American people the facts about the nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts that Democrats are proposing.” ...

Obama Tries to Intimidate Humana Corp to Stop Talking About Government Health Care Option

Quote:The Obama administration is continuing its strategy of attacking the first amendment rights of anyone who disagrees with the Obamacare bills making their way through the congress. The latest victim is the Humana Corporation. Humana created a mailing for seniors that talked about the $500 billion dollar Medicare and Medicaid cuts in the Baucus version of the Obamacare bill suggesting that it would lead to service cuts. Baucus contends that the "efficiency fairy" will swoop down and sprinkle dust on the Medicare/Medicaid budgets and make the programs work just the same despite the budget cuts.

Humana doesn't believe in an efficiency fairy, and in its mailing suggested that the budget cuts will lead to service cuts, so the secretary of Health and Human Services is now investigating Humana with the sole purpose of intimidating the insurer to stop sending the mailing...

[Dickie Billericay]

George Orwell Wrote:"No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

[Herbert Spencer]

It was our own Don Dresden who, back in May of 2008 said this:

Don Dresden Wrote:With so many outstanding, clear-thinking black people available, that the first serious black candidate for president should be a socialist dimbulb loser like Obama...it's like waiting for Jackie Robinson and getting Mario Mendoza instead.

So far Obama is well below the Mendoza Line and fading fast.  If Jackie Robinson had been hitting .180 at the All-Star break in 1947 it's a safe bet he would have quickly finished up his career back in Montreal with Chuck Connors, Tommy Lasorda and all the other near misses.

Obama is an over-rated rookie who was all hype and no talent.  A lot of people were hoping that as The First Black President he might be something special, the way Robinson was in baseball.  

But the difference is that Robinson was tested and proven at the highest levels of minor league baseball, in multiple sports at the highest levels of college athletics, and had even stood up to the entire US Army to fight racism.  He had already shown he had the skills and character of a hero before he ever stepped onto a baseball field with the Dodgers.  

At least Mario Mendoza could play big league defense, a talent that kept him in the major leagues for nine seasons (Robinson only played 10).  Obama is showing he has no big league skills and no likelihood of developing any, which should earn him a bus ticket back to the minors in 2012, if not sooner.  He's rapidly overtaking Jimmy Crater as the Worst President Ever, and after the next congressional elections in 2010 he may well be honored as The First Black President To Be Impeached.

[ham]

Quote:Obama is an over-rated rookie who was all hype and no talent. A lot of people were hoping that as The First Black President he might be something special, the way Robinson was in baseball.

Please...
As if any real consideration of real matters of real importance played any part in politics...
Like it or not, Berlusconi IS probably the greatest political success after de Gaulle in a post WWII western nation. In a few months he banded a party from nowhere based on nothing and it became the biggest party. How? The campaign was basically tailored to the needs of a retarded middle schooler, with crappy songs and Franklin Delanus kind of crappy slogans, but it worked.
Obama?
Come on...
I read one of the biggest concerns his team had to face was how many white broads would find him sexually alluring...please...
Was Woodrow Wilson 'special'?
Hell, he licked the boots of all panelists on the money/bank cartel and bend over to accommodate them...
Was Franklin Delanus 'special'?
Hell, he was a demagogue ancient Rome would envy.
Was Kennedy 'special'?
Morally bankrupt from a gangster family took the world on the verge of WWIII...
All those people are sitcom material.
Einsenhower was no sitcom character, but he had purposefully either starved or let die countless Germans in internment camps...of course the official story goes about some guy in a basement who did not notify another guy in another basement about the right amount of food needed given the circumstances.
If he had been on the losing side, he'd probably have been locked up in a cage and would have withstood his twelfth process for 'atrocities' at age 98.
Take your pick.

[Albert Hidel]

ham Wrote:The campaign was basically tailored to the needs of a retarded middle schooler, with crappy songs and Franklin Delanus kind of crappy slogans, but it worked.

Speaking of which, lift up the man hole cover, peer into the socialist sewer, and which filthy sewer rat will be looking back at you?  

Remember when you flush, George Gollin will be there to carefully analyze the effluence using the same scientific methods he heard his 15 friends used when they wrote his doctoral dissertation for him. (Did you remember to ask him for permission to flush?)



Despite his preoccupation with bathroom fixtures, Gollin still can't tell the difference between a damper ring and a wax gasket.

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Albert Hidel Wrote:Speaking of which, lift up the man hole cover, peer into the socialist sewer, and which filthy sewer rat will be looking back at you?  

As all Pulp Fiction fans know, personality goes a long way!  So by that rationale, if Gollin had a better personality (or any personality at all) would he cease to be a filthy sewer rat?  

[Armando Ramos]

Herbert Spencer Wrote:Obama is...rapidly overtaking Jimmy Crater as the Worst President Ever, and after the next congressional elections in 2010 he may well be honored as The First Black President To Be Impeached.

Impeachment campaign has already started:

[Geoff Vankirk]

Herbert Spencer Wrote:It was our own Don Dresden who, back in May of 2008 said this:

Don Dresden Wrote:With so many outstanding, clear-thinking black people available, that the first serious black candidate for president should be a socialist dimbulb loser like Obama...it's like waiting for Jackie Robinson and getting Mario Mendoza instead.

So far Obama is well below the Mendoza Line and fading fast.  If Jackie Robinson had been hitting .180 at the All-Star break in 1947 it's a safe bet he would have quickly finished up his career back in Montreal with Chuck Connors, Tommy Lasorda and all the other near misses.

Obama is an over-rated rookie who was all hype and no talent.  A lot of people were hoping that as The First Black President he might be something special, the way Robinson was in baseball.  

But the difference is that Robinson was tested and proven at the highest levels of minor league baseball, in multiple sports at the highest levels of college athletics, and had even stood up to the entire US Army to fight racism.  He had already shown he had the skills and character of a hero before he ever stepped onto a baseball field with the Dodgers.  

At least Mario Mendoza could play big league defense, a talent that kept him in the major leagues for nine seasons (Robinson only played 10).  Obama is showing he has no big league skills and no likelihood of developing any, which should earn him a bus ticket back to the minors in 2012, if not sooner.  He's rapidly overtaking Jimmy Crater as the Worst President Ever, and after the next congressional elections in 2010 he may well be honored as The First Black President To Be Impeached.

At the end of his career Jackie Robinson retired rather than play for the archrival Giants. Obama will never voluntarily give up the power he so craves. Gollin and that old fart John Bear seem to share a similar attitude.

[Dickie Billericay]

Armando Ramos Wrote:Impeachment campaign has already started:

It's coming sometime and maybe...

Quote:Is it time to whisper the word ‘impeachment’?

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, World Net Daily

The Impeach Obama Campaign is gaining steam

At the tea party in Washington, D.C., a popular sign read simply, "Impeach Obama."

As a moderator of discussion on the blog http://www.exposeobama.com, Floyd has observed the discussion of impeachment is mushrooming amongst conservative activists.

Radio personality Tammy Bruce may have captured these activists’ beliefs about Obama best: "Ultimately, it comes down to … the fact that he seems to have, it seems to me, some malevolence toward this country, which is unabated."

But has Barack Obama committed an impeachable offense? What exactly constitutes an impeachable offense? Former President Gerald Ford, while serving in the House of Representatives, said an impeachable offense was "whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."

Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution reads: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

Here’s a passage from C-Span.org that succinctly summarizes the historical significance surrounding the inclusion of the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" in the Constitution: "’High crimes and misdemeanors’ entered the text of the Constitution due to George Mason and James Madison. Mason had argued that the reasons given for impeachment – treason and bribery – were not enough. He worried that other "great and dangerous offenses" might not be covered … so Mason then proposed ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ a phrase well-known in English common law. In 18th-century language, a ‘misdemeanor’ meant ‘mis-demeanor,’ or bad behavior."

In other words, "high crimes and misdemeanors" does not refer to a criminal act. Our Founding Fathers fully intended to allow for the removal of the president for actions which include: gross incompetence, negligence and distasteful behavior.

For those who mistakenly hold the illusion that impeaching Barack Hussein Obama would be a simple matter of "playing politics," the founders fully intended that the impeachment of a sitting president be a political act.

As C-Span.org notes: "The Congress decides the definition [of impeachable offenses]: by majority vote in the House for impeachment, and by two-thirds vote in the Senate for conviction. The Framers of the Constitution deliberately put impeachment into the hands of the legislative branch rather than the judicial branch, thus transforming it from strictly a matter of legal definition to a matter of political judgment."

Impeachment is no more or less than the recall of an elected official who isn’t up to the job. Obama deserves recall much more than Gov. Gray Davis, and he was replaced by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a special recall election Oct. 7, 2003, in California.

America is a monument to the triumph of freedom. When Barack Obama thinks about freedom, he sees a world in which some people, due to personal initiative and good fortune, will do better than others. In that regard, he is right. But Barack Obama sees that as unfair. Where you see freedom, liberty and the opportunity for any American to be all that he or she can be, Obama sees greed and bigotry.

Like so many on the far-left before him, going all the way back to Karl Marx, he believes that it’s his mission to promote "equality of outcome" over "equality of opportunity." This worldview makes Barack Hussein Obama a very dangerous man, and a threat to your personal liberty.

Worldview explains why he has gobbled-up major banks and why the government now controls more and more of our money. And if you wake up one day to discover you’re broke, don’t be surprised. Barack Hussein Obama is Bernie Madoff with the political power of the presidency at his disposal.

Worldview explains why Obama intends to take away your freedom to choose your own doctor and your own treatment. Wherever government controls health care, bureaucrats decide who gets treatments, transplants, dialysis and costly medication.

The groundswell of calls for the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama is growing.

It's good to see people pissed off about the government trying to destroy freedom of choice in health care and its doing a Madoff on the financial system.  The G-Men have been doing the same thing to higher education, and are continuing to do so, such as by tightening their grip on its throat by nationalizing the student loan industry.   The little CHEA nazis like Gollum are hell bent on controlling higher education in the same way, such as by driving Christian schools out of business and closing the market to startups.  Can we start a groundswell of calls for impeachment of Gollum?

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Dickie Billericay Wrote:Can we start a groundswell of calls for impeachment of Gollum?

Got a copy of the CHEA bylaws?  They don't seem to be available on the CHEA website.  That would be a starting point.  

By now he must have either embarrassed or pissed off enough people at CHEA that somebody there would be happy to start the ball rolling.