On Fox News, Brian Kilmeade, one of the co-hosts of Fox & Friends, their lovely fascist morning show starting stumping for an Office of Censorship for the U.S.
KILMEADE: Not crushing -- preserving our freedom by preserving our secrets because war is not a free thing. Intelligence is not something to be shared: It's to be coveted and used to our advantage. Here's what Roosevelt did. He appointed Byron Price, a respected journalist, to run the office. Price accepts the post on the condition that the media can voluntarily agree on a self-censorship. The Office employs 14,000, and they are civilians, to monitor cable, mail, and radio communications between the United States and other nations. The Office closes in 1945. Our nation still flies. The flag still soars.
Source (http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290009)
Lovely. I am reminded of a quote from Eisenhower who had something to say about all of this:
"Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides."
I bet that if something like this Office got set up the censor's office wouldn't even swing by Fox News, but they'd try to shut down people like the Washington Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and so on. Luckily I don't think this would work. The difference between today and World War II is that the internet makes blogging and news sharing too quick and anonymous for the government to quash.
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