QUESTION TO THE MEDIA is the Bill of Rights “anti-government” too?

BY

Dorothy Anne Seese

This is a general question to those reporters and editorialists who love to
toss
around the phrase “anti-government” when citizens or citizens groups
challenge
their individual, property or other rights when a government agency takes
action.

The Bill of Rights states what powers and rights belong to the people, upon
which
the government may not trespass. Does that make the Bill of Rights
“anti-government?”

If not, why not?

Why is it that individuals and groups who assert their rights under the Bill
of
Rights become “anti-government”? The Bill of Rights gives to us, as
citizens,
certain rights upon which the government may not infringe, and when we
assert
those rights, you, the media, immediately attach to us the label
“anti-government.”

If the Bill of Rights gives us our rights, and it is still the law of the
land,
then are you guilty of libel when you label people who invoke such rights as
“anti-government”? Maybe that’s one that should be tested in a court of law.
You’re banking on the lack of funding behind people’s groups to keep them
out of a
court of law in such tests, or you, the media, would not be so careless
about the
invective with which you label people who merely stand up for what our
founding
fathers gave us to protect us from government oppression.

You use your First Amendment rights of freedom of the press. If some of us
use our
right of freedom of speech, we’re “anti-government.”

Dual standard for the fourth estate versus the common man? Or it is just
that you,
the liberal media, are so bent on taking our Bill of Rights away from us
that
short of labeling the Bill of Rights itself as “anti-government” you attach
the
label to those of us who dare …. dare … to defend our rights against
government intrusion?

Do you, the media, realize that fully two-thirds of the laws now on the
books in
the United States would likely be declared unconstitutional if put to the
test by
a fair and just Supreme Court? That if we had elected
constitutionally-conscious
representatives as our lawmakers, such laws would not be laws today?

Or is that an anti-government question?

Your freedom of the press is abused by your use of it to intimidate, label,
libel
and malign United States citizens who invoke their constitutional rights.
Pravda
could do no better, and Xinhua, the state-controlled Chinese press, could do
no
worse!

Is it any wonder that thinking Americans are turning to certain cable
networks in
the hope of obtaining honest information rather than biased reporting?

Is it any wonder that newspaper circulation is dropping like a rock while
internet
news thrives?

We not only need an honest government in this nation, we need an honest
national
media system, and if we had the latter, we might have the former!

Now take the above and shove it down your anti-constitutional presses and
think
before you write or blather on the airwaves.

I just exercised my First Amendment right of freedom of speech.

*** Contributor Dorothy Anne Seese is committed to defending our founders
vision
of liberty in America. Visit her website The Flagship Log or e-mail Dottie
at
[email protected] http://www.tech.com.au/flagship/

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