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Throughout history, every successful despotic regime has understood the critical importance of establishing and maintaining a monopoly of information. A governing body that intends to rule with absolute authority and impunity simply cannot afford to have its inevitable mistakes and failures highlighted in front of the general public, whose unquestioning loyalty and devotion it needs in order to survive.

It is becoming grimly obvious that the Obama Administration and Democrat dominated Congress, being of the same mindset, are determined to establish just such a control of the airwaves. This goal is a cornerstone of their effort to stifle all critical analyses of the platitudes and excuses they offer as justification for their relentless assault on the foundation of these once-great United States of America.

New and menacing rumblings of their planned assault on free speech come from Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who on February 4 told interviewer Bill Press "It's time to bring accountability to the airwaves." In her world of all-knowing Beltway insiders, "accountability" simply means that those who disagree should be summarily stripped of their ability to say so in front of the gullible masses.

The Founding Fathers understood the essential importance of an open debate to the perpetuation of a just and free republic. Thus they established the First Amendment to ensure the preservation of real checks on those in power. Only by highlighting and informing of the dangers of an ever-expanding and overbearing government could "we the people" hope to prevail against its self-serving power grabs. Clearly, Stabenow understands this concept as well. And she does not like it.

It is strikingly significant that in her attempt to deny the realities of the corruption of her party, while attempting to project guilt onto its victims, she cleverly invokes the word "accountability" as if it is the common citizens, or anyone daring to speak on their behalf, who need monitored and controlled.

Washington, now under the total dominion of budget busting Democrats, has no need of "accountability." Stabenow has been completely absent from any demands to assign real guilt in the crises of home mortgage scammers Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae. She has no interest in bringing fellow Congressional and Senate Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the real criminals of the mortgage crisis, to justice. In her world, it is instead those who might recoil at this pillaging of the national treasury, no longer in terms of billions but now in trillions, who need to be suppressed and eventually, silenced altogether.

Stabenow speaks of "accountability" as a means of imposing government oversight on her political opposition. The greater the extent of such "accountability" that she can implement, the more ignorant and compliant the public will be. And thus, she and her Capitol Hill collaborators will face that much less real accountability. When brought down to basics, this plan to censor talk-radio would constitute the final pillar of an Orwellian edifice owned and operated exclusively by governing Democrats, for the ultimate benefit of governing Democrats.

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