Comments on: The proposed press shield law

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Wed, 29 May 2013 13:48:11 +0000

The whole concept of a press shield law bewilders me. We already have one: it’s the First Amendment, part of the fundamental organizing structure that creates our government. This government despises the First Amendment and doesn’t comply with it. So why on earth does anybody think that it might comply with some statute?

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:46:11 +0000

No, whether they be tulips or roses, they’re attempting to send flowers as scandal damage control and to placate their number one mouthpiece.

Tulips are highly valued where I live because they bloom only once a year and only for a couple of weeks whereas roses are ubiquitous (I had one bloom right through the winter, snow and all). On a spring day a blooming tulip is more valuable.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:55:01 +0000

Or maybe it’s the equivalent of a guy asking the Homeowners Association to erect a little picket fence around his girlfriend’s garden to help deter his compulsion to steal even more of her roses and tulips.

Whatever.

By: nolanimrod

nolanimrod — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:37:15 +0000

It’s all very simple. Holder, his boss, and his boss’s other rather blasé minions need a law, which they promise to obey, to help protect them from the consequences of not obeying other laws, which they promised to obey.

By: parker

parker — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:55:02 +0000

It is always beneficial to revisit this scene from the Man for All Seasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk

We have reached a point where the rule of law is besieged by the highest office in the land. DC has become the epicenter of lawlessness. No one, including the messiah and his horde, will stand upright should the wall of law finally crumble. Everyman for himself, government against all is an invitation to a revolution of unintended consequences.

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 29 May 2013 00:59:38 +0000

Laws do not need to be “endorsed” if they are not followed. Barry and his bunch pay lip service to most of what Americans think as sacred; then just do whatever they want. It is all for the greater good. Any good leftist will solve anything with statistics, just ask them.

By: M J R

M J R — Tue, 28 May 2013 20:51:47 +0000

Instapundit* put it very succinctly:

* http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

“We need protections for journalism, not journalists.”

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Tue, 28 May 2013 20:18:08 +0000

its all for me, & not for thee
Dovetails nicely with O speech to Ohio State grads
“Resist those voices you have heard about government tyranny.” We the *people are the government* ergo its *impossible* for us to be tyrants.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 28 May 2013 20:13:32 +0000

The theory, which many Americans buy into, is that there is an elite that needs these rights and nobody else has them. The same for how police and military and armed guards of Hollywood aristos and political elites, have a right to guns. The rest of you don’t.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 28 May 2013 20:12:08 +0000

The press doesn’t need a shield. It needs a stake in their heart, in order to liberate all those they have enslaved in the US.

It is the people that freedom of speech was reserved for, not the “press” owned solely by aristos.