DURBIN ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT

From Breitbart's Big Journalism:

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, senior Illinois Senator, Democrat Dick Durbin, expressed doubt as to whether bloggers deserve constitutional protection for their work online.

On the May 26 broadcast of the Sunday show, Durbin told host Chris Wallace that he wasn't sure if bloggers or "someone who is Tweeting" should be given protections under a media shield law.

Video clip from Sunday, May 26, 2013:


Chilling words - especially in that Conservative bloggers are holding the Obama administration accountable when the mainstream media will not.

Erosion of the First Amendment enables and empowers tyranny.

Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves!

If something doesn't give, if Americans don't insist on strict interpretation of the Constitution, the Constitution will go up in smoke. And tyranny will win.

Home Bible Studies Deemed Illegal in San Diego

Are home Bible studies illegal in San Diego? That’s the question many are asking after Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary, who live in San Diego, were told by the county of San Diego they needed to either stop their Bible study or get a costly permit. Read more here.

Tea Party Organizer Muzzled at City Council Meeting

Could it be that Steve McQueen was denied his Constitutional right to be heard at a Quincy, Ill., city council meeting because of the fact that he is the chief organizer of the Quincy Tea Party movement? It sure appears that way.

It was the last thing McQueen expected to have happen when he appeared at the meeting last night. But it did happen. In a 7-6 vote down party lines, members of the Quincy City Council voted to him his right to speak, despite the fact that he had taken all of the proper steps required of a citizen to appear on the council’s agenda.

“I actually went last night with the idea that I was going to speak about our local city budget and a water-sewer increase,” McQueen told me this morning during a telephone interview. “I did ask to speak prior to going and I was placed n the agenda, so I went in with the idea that it was a foregone conclusion that I would speak. When I walked in and the vote happened, I was shocked.”

Shocked, yes. But not deterred.

To read more of my interview with McQueen (the citizen, not the late actor), click here.