FIRST ATTEMPT

What appears to be a first real attempt at censorship by the Administration has, thankfully, fallen apart. Ex Governor Palin is hosting a series of book signings and appearances to sell her new book. One appearance scheduled is FT Brag NC. At first, the Army command decided not to stop the visit but did decree that there could be no Press coverage, no Photo opportunities or even any comments by Mrs Palin. The Army contended that they were trying to avert any attempt at disparaging the President or providing a platform for political dissent.

Later on, a similar event planned for Ft Hood carried no such restrictions, which seemed rather strange for the Army to take such opposite positions on essentially the same event (show?). Buy week's end, the Army relented albeit slowly, and now, the Ft Bragg event will not have the previously planned restrictions.

It seems to me that this is a great deal of silliness until I realized that the Ft Bragg restrictions were, in reality, a first attempt at censorship based upon purely political grounds. It didn't work because of the nature of the effort and, maybe, also, the belief by even the major news organizations (besides Fox) that this action would have set a very dangerous precedent.

Hopefully, future efforts at censorship will also fail, and that this Country will wake up to the dangers to our freedoms being presented by the present Administration.