Message From Tea Party Nation, January 15, 2011

The land of the free?


Freedom House released its annual report on freedom in the world. It has been a while since this report was this depressing.

Freedom is in retreat around the world. Twenty-five countries showed declines in freedom. Only eleven showed increases. Freedom House rates countries as free, partially free or not free.

The United States was of course, in the free category. The question is, for how long?

The Ukraine was no longer listed as a free country, but only a partially free country. Why? Deteriorating levels of press freedom, election fraud and politicizing of the judiciary.

With the actions of the Obama regime, how long will it be before the United States slips to the ranks of the “partially free?”

The Obama regime and the left has been committed to trying to destroy freedom of the press. Between their commitment to try and reinstate the “Fairness doctrine” to blaming conservative talk radio, to attacks on freedom of speech on the Internet, the left does not want a free opposition voice. Their attempts to smear the Tea Party have been striking. From the issuance of the DHS report in April 2009, warning of “right wing extremism,” to the Pelosi parade, where the left tried to provoke American citizens into acting against them and when that did not happen, lying about it, the left wing regime of Obama, Pelosi and Reid has done its best to try and stifle and silence any opposition.

Election fraud is massive and growing in this country. In 2008 in Nevada, a state with only 2.6 millions people, ACORN submitted a stunning 400,000 fraudulent voter registrations. State authorities have prosecuted ACORN, but the Federal Government has done nothing. In deed, the Motor Voter law was passed with the specific intent to aid voter registration fraud. In Philadelphia, in 2008, two members of the New Black Panthers Party stood at a polling place with truncheons to intimidate voters. The Obama regime did not file criminal charges and even ordered a civil suit against the New Black Panthers, which the NBPP did not even contest, to be dismissed.

No discussion of the loss of freedom in America would be complete without a discussion of the politicized and imperial judiciary. In California, an openly gay federal judge invalidated the votes of millions who decided in California, a marriage was between one man and one woman. In Oklahoma, the votes of millions of citizens who amended their state constitution to prohibit the use of international law, particularly Sharia law, to decide cases in Oklahoma, was invalidated by a nutty, liberal federal judge. Throughout the country, gay marriage has been imposed on the states, not by a popular vote but by the vote of unelected and unaccountable judges who rule by whim.

Freedom House does a service to the world every year by publishing this report. As horrifying as it sounds, freedom can be lost in this world. Freedom can also be lost in this country. Thanks to the Obama regime, we are taking steps in that direction. Fortunately, those steps can be reversed.

Otherwise, our national anthem may have to be changed to “the land of the partially free…”