True North

...was codified to protect the citizens against the government. Specifically, against folks like Henry Waxman (emphases added):

Rep. Henry Waxman has asked his investigative staff to begin compiling reports on Limbaugh, and fellow radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin based on transcripts from their shows, and to call in Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to discuss the so-called 'Fairness Doctrine.'

'Limbaugh isn't the only one who needs to be made uncomfortable about what he says on the radio,' says a House leadership source. 'We don't have as big a megaphone as these guys, but this [is] all political, and we'll do what we can to gain the advantage.If we can take them off their game for a while, it will help our folks out there on the campaign trail.'"

So what does this mean? It means that Henry Waxman, who runs the government oversight committee, has officially, or is going to, begin investigations of me and Hannity and Levin.

Does anyone else besides me smell a bit of abuse of government power here? Is anyone else (Democrat or Republican)just a bit bothered that someone in government would overreach authority to squelch free political speech? Does anyone else besides me find it a bit Orwellian, and nothing less than frightfully audacious that such a thought would even be entertained, much less openly, by an official who is otherwise sworn to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States?

Thomas Jefferson once stated,

"A government afraid of it's citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!"

Folks-- be very afraid of Henry Waxman.

And be very, very afraid of the democrat party.

(Cross-posted, and comments welcome at The Ice Palace)