Why The Liberal Witch-Hunt & Libel Against Rush Limbaugh Is Important

Because if they can go after Rush, the most powerful and influential voice in America, and prevent a business deal he was a participant in from occurring; what can they do to regular, ordinary people in order to intimidate them from expressing opposition to the far-Left agenda?

In his Wall Street Journal piece explaining the smear attacks on him, in his bid to become part owner of the St. Louis Rams, Limbaugh said:

...this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.

These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.

Here's example of how these intimidation tactics Rush wrote about are being used by the far-Left, under the guise of "equality." In Washington state, they are going after opponents of homosexual marriage. And this isn't just organizers, it is everyday Americans who decided to put their signatures on a petition (Seattle Times).

Referendum 71 will ask voters to approve or reject the Legislature's latest expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which grants marriage-like benefits to gay and some senior couples.

Thursday's ruling by a three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California reversed a previous decision by U.S. District Judge Ben Settle in Tacoma, who had blocked release of the petition signatures.

Gay-rights activists and others have promised to post the names and addresses of signers online for anyone to see.

In its brief order, the appeals panel said Settle used a wrong legal standard in granting a preliminary injunction that barred release of the petitions, and that the injunction therefore must be reversed. The judges said they would issue an opinion later explaining their reasoning.

Protect Marriage Washington had argued that petition signatures are protected free speech under the First Amendment, and as such should be shielded from public release. The group said it wanted to keep the petitions out of public view because it feared harassment from gay-rights supporters.

A similar episode happened late last year, after Proposition 8 passed in California. Some homosexual marriage advocates decided to print names of working people and small business owners on websites who had contributed money to the Prop 8 campaign, in the attempt to slander them professionally as "bigots," "homophobes" and "hatemongers." One LA restaurant manager resigned after high profile protests were held at the restaurant.

Similarly, one can also look at what happened to Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California. Simply for holding to a deeply held religious belief, she was smeared in a despicable manner as a bigot and homophobe, while pressure was put on cowards like Donald Trump, forcing him to strip her of her crown.

If the Ninth Circuit decision to release the names of the signers of the Protect Marriage Washington is upheld, it will mean more attacks upon working people who believe marriage should be limited to one man and one woman (or other controversial issues), which could cost them their livelihoods. It would make people more likely not to sign petitions or utter a controversial opinion against the agenda of the far-Left, for fear of losing the job or business.

It is the same thing that happened to Rush Limbaugh, but to people who don't have the power he has. In short, it is the chilling of free political speech in America, the punishment of any political thought that is opposed to the secular, progressive-socialist views of the far-Left via intimidation tactics. This tactic is wholly un-American, and conflicts with everything the founders of this nation intended, as well as what generations of brave Americans sacrificed in blood to defend.

Liberals have spent the last 50 plus years denouncing the "blacklists" of Hollywood communists. In 2003, far-left Hollywood loon Tim Robbins falsely stokes fears of "a chill wind" coming from the Bush White House.

How hypocritical then that these liberals are silent today when political conservatives are dropped from business deals based on nothing but their opposition to the current administration. Likewise, they are silent when regular citizens are intimidated by threat of their livelihoods from expressing political views or deeply held religious beliefs.

That is why I believe it is up to people like Rush Limbaugh and Carrie Prejean to publicly fight these libelous slanderers by any and all means, including legal avenues. Because if it doesn't stop, the far-Left will have no fear of using their fascistic tactics to silence with an iron fist anyone who dares to dissent.