Censorship – A Disservice To Our Service Men and Our Country

Posted by Larry Miller on February 26, 2010 under Why | Be the First to Comment

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council exercised his and his organizations First Amendment right when he spoke out about the replacement of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy with a positive acceptance of openly homosexual members. He wrote about the long documented problems this type of policy caused in the past and will cause in the future. Mr. Perkins understands that soldiers don’t like taking showers with guys that like taking showers with soldiers.

Sometime back, he was invited to give a devotional at a National Prayer Luncheon held at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside the liberal bastion of beltway thinking. However, somewhere along the line, commanders, ever mindful of their promotional opportunities and their relationship to their civilian leaders, decided that it would be best if Tony Perkins not spread his common sense ideas among the men in their charge.

Perkins was told that he and his group were “incompatible in our role as military members who serve our elected officials and our commander in chief.” Some would call it censorship if messengers are denied access based on their message. It is clear that only one message on this topic is permitted in the military and and our government in general.

This pattern is seen in our indoctrination centers called public schools, in all sorts of public offices and in the formerly mainstream media. This is a pattern that has been repeated in our country and others, always with negative consequences. Joseph Goebbels was quoted as saying, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

We need to be aware of this pattern… and I believe most of us are… but we need to let it guide our thinking and our actions. We need to keep speaking the truth, possibly being prepared for some negative consequences.

Even beyond adjusting their actions and policies to what many call the “gay agenda”, which is nothing more than gaining public acceptance of essentially antisocial behavior, it is possible to see an even more sinister undertone to the official response to Perkins. Let’s look at it again. Consider, “our role as military members who serve our elected officials and our commander in chief.”

I hope you will forgive my antiquated concepts, but it was always my understanding that our military and other governmental organizations existed to serve the people of the United States, not the congress and president. The military reports to these people who are supposed to be representing the welfare of the citizens. It has been reported that, at one time the new President wanted the military to take an oath of allegiance to him… not the country… not the flag… not even the people, but to the President, one Barack Hussein Obama. Thank God for groups like Oatkeepers who, having sworn to uphold the constitution are actually planning to do it in spite of orders that may come down to the contrary by commanders with more loyalty to the politicians who have such control over their career prospects.

We even saw this in the so-called health care summit, broadcast live to thousands where the President admonished GOP attendees that they should not be concentrating on the things they don’t like, but should be working on areas of common agreement. It’s as if other viewpoints do not exist, or at least, are not important enough to be considered… or perhaps these are the ideas that expose the lies of the state.

We see more and more dissenting views stifled, either officially as with “hate crimes” legislation or through attempts to homogenize our thoughts be defining acceptable ideas and discounting outliers. We can let the progressives inflict their distorted world view on us and our children or we can continue to speak the truth… and allow the truth to set us free.