Let's hear it for the First Amendment

[unixronin]

Well, unless you're on the Obama campaign, that is.  NewsMax reports that the Obama campaign has been sending "intimidating cease-and-desist letters" to radio and TV stations that air anti-Obama ads, including NRA ads, threatening them with loss of their FCC licenses, and is now urging Obama supporters to write letter campaigns to their local stations demanding that they not run the NRA's ads documenting his long-standing anti-gun record.

This is the second time the Obama campaign has been caught trying to suppress an opposing ad.  Remember when the PSA aired pointing out Obama's connection to a former Weather Underground leader, and Obama's campaign said the people running the independent nonprofit that put the ad together should go to jail for it?  Saying that criticism — even factual criticism — of even a Presidential candidate should be a crime punishable by jail is pretty scary, and not something I want to see in any Presidential candidate.  That's only about one long step away from declaring any criticism of the administration, justified or not, to be sedition.

It's been said that the Second Amendment is the most important in the Bill of Rights because it protects the First.  It looks like the Obama camp dislikes both, and is quite willing to attack the First Amendment to try to prevent the NRA from exposing Obama's dislike of the Second to voters, so that Obama can continue to stand up and say "I'm not anti-gun.  Really.  Would I lie to you?"

(And before any Obama apologists stand up and start accusing bias, yes, I already know the writing of the NewsMax article is hardly what could be called neutral.  I'm guessing it's an NRA-PVF press release published as-is.)

Comments

Re: Obama's Letter to TV Stations about the NRA Ad

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link.

(I've seen the Factcheck stuff the letter references before. I think in this case Factcheck is focusing on the strict letter, and ignoring things like past record. For example, there's already a perfectly good law barring civilian purchase of armor-piercing pistol ammunition; Kennedy's bill would have banned any ammunition that could be fired from any pistol, including things like the T/C Contender, that is capable of penetrating a police vest, which DOES include the majority of centerfire rifle rounds below about .358, most of which are available chamberings for the Contender. So yeah, it would have banned most deer-hunting rounds. The NRA is right on that one, and Factcheck is wrong.)

Re: Obama's Letter to TV Stations about the NRA Ad

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I was thinking of the .308

Fairly popular big game round, and definitely capable and defeating Level IIIA, maybe even III armor

Re: Obama's Letter to TV Stations about the NRA Ad

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

From a 24" rifle barrel, a .308 will breach III. I can't say about a Contender.