AP - Associated Propaganda - sheds veil of journalistic ethics for liberal agenda

I challenge the liberal progressives at the AP (Associated Propaganda) to show me how a FOIA request for all the records of private gun owners in Illinois is not a grossly biased act. For what purpose have they made this request? How is this news? Will it serve the public beyond the scope of advancing the liberal progressive agenda?

No, it’s not ‘news’ to name all the people who own guns. Our laws and our Constitution support the right to own guns. This is nothing more than the AP’s version of a Wikileaks moment – exposing information for the pure and simple sake of exposing information.

OK, it’s not news, so why do it? Why ask the Illinois State Police to provide information about individual citizens that, for those who have chosen to exercise their right to bear arms, is required by the State of Illinois? If I grant the Associated Propaganda a great big, enormous benefit of the doubt, assuming it has nothing to do with furthering the liberal cause, I draw a complete blank.

So, help me out. Show me how this has a reasonable and appropriate purpose from a journalistic standpoint. Oh, and that means with the application of actual journalistic ethics and standards, not the Left-serving version the Left-stream media has openly operated under these last several years. I say the “last several years” because, prior to that, I think the Left-stream media made a thinly veiled attempt to hide its bias or at least to give the impression that they were policing their own work.

Now, the veil has been torn aside. And who has exposed the Left-stream media for what it is? The Left-stream media has. It wasn’t an incredible case of investigative reporting. The Left-stream media, with a ultra-liberal president and an ultra-liberal Congress assumed, a couple years ago, that they didn’t have to hide any longer. They didn’t have to worry about it.

You might say the Left-stream media misread the elections of 2008. There is a quietly long-held sense within the liberal camp that, with liberal indoctrination in our schools, matched by liberal propaganda in the press and subliminal liberal messages in entertainment, as the old fogies died away, those folks once called by a Left-winter – “The Greatest Generation” – the nation would eventually become a liberal socialist utopia.

The TEA Party upset that applecart, though it took the Left-stream media a while to catch on. They thought they could call conservatives TEA Baggers and make unsubstantiated claims of violent conservatives with impunity.

So, when the Left-stream media outlet – the Associated Propoganda – makes a wholly unreasonable request for the private records of gun owners in the state, they assumed they had the forces in power to push that request through quietly. They were almost right.

Lisa Madigan apparently thinks gun owners in this state don’t have a right to privacy. Of course, she also doesn’t think gun owners in this state have a right to own guns. She’s all too willing to help the Associated Propaganda line Illinoisans up like sheep to be sheared.  

Madigan shares the same agenda with the Associated Propaganda and, instead of performing her duties based on principles, she has chosen to apply her ideology to her responsibilities, just as the idiots at the Associated Propaganda have done.

Governor Pat Quinn might go along with that, though he’s less likely to do so in the face of a political firestorm. Thankfully, the Illinois State Police were a little more level headed about the request.

Who's taking that swan dive into the political rocks below? Lisa Madigan, that's who.

I wonder if the term "political suicide" means anything to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan? It should as she seems to be taking a high dive off of the Cliffs of Most Idiotic Decisions by Public Officials. Madigan, for those of you who haven't heard, has endorsed the FOIA request from a Associated Press reporter demanding that the Illinois State Police turnover the list of gun owners in the state and a list of the weapons those owners are allowed to own.

To their credit, the Illinois State Police have said, "No." Madigan appears to think she has the authority to force the issue though I understand the State Police actually answer to the governor.

The Freedom Of Information Act compels government bodies to provide copies of government records to citizens upon appropriate request and at a reasonable cost for duplication. Of course, the way things work in this country, Madigan would probably try to enforce an FOIA on the Illinois National Guard if it was submitted by Al Qaeda.

What some may not realize is that an FOIA request does not absolutely force the government to turn over documents. The government body has a certain amount of time to consider the request. The government body can also say, "No." If the government body does say, "No" the requester has a right to go before a judge to ask that the government body be forced to comply.

At that time, the judge will consider the argument of the government body for withholding the information. In the case of the AP's request for a list of those with permits to own guns, the FOIA request runs roughshod over individual rights to privacy. It also illuminates one of the greatest concerns raised by gun owners over the years who have argued that gun-ownership permits create lists that defy the goal of the 2nd Amendment in establishing a safeguard against a takeover of the government in opposition to the Constitution.

With the release of this information, should such a government takeover occur, the enemies of Constitutional government would know just where to go to collect all the 'legally owned' guns and their owners. Of course, that's merely a hypothetical situation at this point. But, as shown in the FOXNews story linked above, Illinois Representative Ron Stephens has pointed out that turning over such a list not only identifies who owns a gun but who doesn't.

Once published, criminals who don't want to worry about breaking into the home of someone who could shoot back would be able to quickly identify which homes are easy pickings.

I suppose, if Madigan has considered the political implications of this situation at all, she's banking on the support of all the anti-gun Liberals in the state to maintain her future electability. I think this is a pipe dream. Once those who don't own guns realize that 'everyone' knows they don't own guns, even the anti-gun crowd may find their continued support for her problematic. And, for the gun owners in the state, this is a galvanizing moment.

I wonder what Madigan was planning after public office. She might just want to dust off that resume. I think she's going to need it.

Right to Bear Arms - clearly stated (a must see video)

I just received this in an e-mail from the Schaumburg TEA Party. It's definitely worth a few minutes of your time: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4069761537893819675#