What Happened to Free Speech?

Once confined to the educational establishment, political correctness has now broken out in the historical bastion of free speech - the press. "Political Correctness is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behavior, which were then legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be punished. It started with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten and written law within the community. With those who were publicly declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of persecution by the mob, if not prosecution of the state." -- Philip Atkinson

This attack on free speech and a free and independent press has happened on multiple fronts.

Bill Moyers addresses NCMR 2008

On one front is the corporate mainstream media's loss of its "gatekeeper" function as the provider of news as the Internet has opened the way for non-traditional journalists to publish their opposing perspective.

On another front is the same profit driven corporate media that has fallen victim to commercialism. Huge multinational corporation control the media with their advertising dollars and as a result control most of the information that citizens rely upon for making informed choices.

And, yet another front is the Marxist inspired New World Order campaign for world domination.

Whatever the reason, the one-time rallying cry of the media, "free speech," is no longer found in mainstream America newsrooms. It has been replaced with "politically correct" speech disseminated by biased reporters who refuse to speak the truth while ignoring the evidence that our country is being plundered.

Perhaps the following quote from the preeminent New York journalist, John Swinton, made at a dinner for his peers will help answer the question, whatever happened to freedom of press?

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." [Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979, as cited on nexusmagazine.com

The Truth Squandered

What the media represents as fact is what the "rich behind the scenes" powerbrokers seeking world control want us to hear. They focus on the problems at the bottom of the social ladder and not what our government officials are doing at the top behind closed doors.

We're told, for example, to cough up $4 plus for a gallon of gasoline because of "supply and demand" or because the price of a barrel of oil has been increased by Arab oil producers. We're not told how the Federal Reserve's devaluation of the dollar is impacting what you pay for that gallon of gas.

Bear Stearns and the Domino Effect

Or, we're told millions of Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure because they secured loans they could not afford to repay, so-called subprime mortgages. What we're not told about is how those banks that issued those loans repackaged them and sold them to larger investment banks such as Bear Stearns who leveraged that collateral to make bad investments in the unregulated credit derivatives market where they lost their shirts. We're not told how the Federal Reserve stepped in to cover Bear Stearns' bad investments with Billions of dollars paid for by the American taxpayer - many of whom were losing their homes in the scandal.

Wealthy people will always seek to influence politicians, because government unfortunately plays a very big role in determining who gets (and stays) rich in our country. They manipulate public opinion to elect government officials and garner support for unconstitutional laws. These laws are pushed and proposed by evil men whose only desire it is to undermine our liberty and freedom and wish to implement a socialist one-world plan. As a result, our federal government has become a taxing, spending, and regulating leviathan that controls every part of the economy.

The Corporation: Unsettling Accounts

Having rejected the notion of limited, constitutional government, we can hardly be surprised when corporate special interests use corrupting campaign money to influence the process! As long as we allow these special interests financial access to the government, we will continue to see their interests protected and the truth denied to the American public. We need to get money out of government; only then will money not be important in politics. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand.

For example, in 1996 Monsanto was able to censor the Fox News organization (WTVT/Fox 13 in Tampa, Florida) from reporting on the harmful effects of BGH (bovine growth hormone) on humans. Monsanto markets a BGH product by the trade name of Posilac that is administered to cows by injection and used to increase milk production. In 2003, an appeals court reversed an earlier unanimous Florida court decision that determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' new reporting on BGH." The appeals court decision was on the basis that FCC policies on news agencies reporting the truth did not legally require the station to report the truth in a news story, as FCC policies are not law. Read that previous sentence again! The court ruled...

News agencies are NOT required to report the TRUTH in a news story.

That ruling should send chills down your spine!

Monsanto's product, Posilac, is illegal in virtually every developed country with the exception of the United States and is hidden in much of the milk sold.

By Vic Bilson
Jeremiah Project