Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 29, 2008

Whichever major party candidate wins the election this November, the First Amendment -- at least, what?s left of it ? will take a beating.

John McCain famously helped write a so-called campaign finance reform measure that radically restricts political speech in the critical period immediate before an election.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, McCain stated: ?If I could think of a way constitutionally, I would ban negative ads.?

For its part, attorneys for the Barrack Obama campaign have threatened the FCC license of television stations running critical ads, and unleashed a so-called ?truth squad? of Democratic officials ? including prosecutors and sheriffs ? to threaten TV stations running negative ads in Missouri.

During the past eight years, the office of the presidency ? which was already engorged with unconstitutional power ? has become a kind of elective dictatorship. Both McCain and Obama have displayed a disposition suitable to dictatorship.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.