Should American journalists require a state license to do their jobs, a permit that gives them access to the freedom of the press enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution?
Senior US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seems to think so! He advocates a “media shield law” designed to “protect” journalists from court subpoenas and other actions that might compromise their sources. As Ben Swann points out in the video below, though, that puts the government in a position to control who is a government-accredited journalist – and who is not. Very, very dangerous.
Check out the video at the bottom, but first, a little sound bite on the topic from Neil Boortz:
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“But wait a minute, you say. There’s the First Amendment, there’s freedom of press. The United States government doesn’t license journalists.”“Well, think about this most Americans get their news from radio, t.v.; they get their news from entities licensed by the government, but let’s get to the journalists.”
“Chuck Schumer wants the government to, in effect, accredit or license journalists. Chuckie says the licensed journalist or the accredited journalist would get exemption from subpoenas and other legal requirements that may expose their confidential sources.”
“Do you want the government deciding which journalists are covered by this law and which are not?”
Source: Rare
Photo: Greg Hauenstein on Flickr
Time to arm the citizens.
$#%&!@* him commie basturd
People we are going to have to open our eyes. Obama is going to do something soon for if the Democrats go into the November election he knows its going to be bad for the Democrats. Obama and the liberals have got us into debt over 17 trillion and he is cutting back on our military to the lowest since before Word War II . Now North and South Korea are shooting at each other, Puttin is making this little girly girl president look like a total idiot. The middle East hates us and will destroy us at the first chance they get. America is falling apart as we speak, and the Democrats and some Republicans set back and let Obama do anything he wants. When at the Democrat convention they booed God our fate may have already been sealed just like the Titanic when the designers said even God himself could not sink her. That ship was doomed before it ever left port, it was going to sink even if it had never left port. God will not be mocked. A friend told me what he through Obama would do, and I have always said that something like this would happen. Obama is being backed into a corner and at some time before the election Obama will fine a reason to declare Marshal Law then he can go after all the peoples guns and then he would not leave the office for as long as we are in Marshal Law Obama will remain in as our Dictator and if we the people don’t do as we are told then we will be put into one of the FEMA camps like the SS troops did. There they will most likely be killed because I know if we kill our own baby’s I know they would kill troublemakers. Obama is running in fear for he knows he will be impeached if the Republicans and the tea party gets in then he knows he’s history . I and thousands of other gun owners will not let this happen without a fight , They are people training every day to stand up to the ones that try to take our guns and shells . WE WILL FIGHT TO OUR LAST BREATH TO PROTECT OUR FAMILY’S AND OUR NATION . GOD BLESS AMERICIA
Schumer is just one of many Manchurian Candidates serving in Congress!
hey $#%&!@* you liberal jew bastard political left wing hack. retire
Chucky needs a permit to open his mouth. in fact they all do. Permits start at 10 million $$$ & up depending on how much bull$#%&!@* we need to listen to. Payed to the order of We The People.
We need a Nuremberg type trial for Schumer and his ilk.Don`t worry Chuck we will use only union rope made in the USA.
Commie $#%&!@*
schumer is, was, and will always be a horses ass and better off in a boat with the bottom removed.
Vote him OUT