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There's some articles about the "Fairness Doctrine".

Initially somewhere I think in this thread someone stated that this is "overstated", and in a couple of other threads I've been accused of such things as being a "Fear-monger" or "alarmist".

Those are simply not true.

I have certain principles upon which I base my life, my writing, my goals, agenda and any other names you'd like to call what I do.

So, before I go much further here, I'd like to give you all some insight as to why I do what I do.... bear with me a few minutes (and if you don't like what I am writing, simply go away....)

First a couple of definitions.

"Fear Mongering" (or scaremongering) is the use of fear tactics to influence opinions or change the actions (or minds) of other people towards some specific end.

"Alarmism" or an "Alarmist": Alarmism is the production of needless warnings. The term is usually used to downplay the warnings.

In other words - in both cases these phrases are used to make an attempt to discredit others, usually. There are certainly both alarmists and fearmongers out there, but I'm not one, and here is why.

I believe strongly in the Constitution of the United States, and I have a philosophy that is based upon a statement by Edmund Burke, which goes: Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."

To sit and only listen, to do nothing at all allows the slow erosion of personal and individual liberties.

My basic "motto" is "Expect the worst, but hope for the best". Note, I don't say PRAY, I say HOPE. President Obama doesn't have any more link to the phrase "hope" than I or anyone else here.

By the same token, no one in the United States has any limitations on their individual liberties based on the Constitution. And yet, every day of our lives a new law is being legislated, or some group is trying to get something called "hate speech", or something else made illegal.

Those things are indeed limitations placed on our individual freedoms.

My points made on this site and other sites are not "fear mongering" because I attempt to explain and INFORM, educate and show facts. Fear Mongering entails the use of exaggeration and lies. I do neither.

Perhaps to some degree I might be an "Alarmist" - but only a small degree.

My job, my life, my work, all depend up on accuracy, facts and information and so do my individual freedoms and liberties I enjoy living in and being a citizen of the United States of America.

Thus, when it comes down to my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness - those things are not given for free. They were taken by the blood of men and women before me and given my own oaths to my offices in the past, I can not allow others to simply walk over the graves of those who've gone before us.

Our INDIVIDUAL liberties are more important than any government entity or single man or bureaucrat holding an office, from the dog catcher up to President and are NOT to be taken lightly or ignored, or pretend they come from "higher up". They do not, they come from "HIGHER UP". Way higher than a single man or President, or Congress or a taxation body.

Thus, the First Amendment rights in the Bill of Rights are decidedly and directly applied to each of us, the media, religion all equally.

That means we have the Second Amendment to ENSURE that we keep the First rights in place.

To those who think that banning guns is the way to progress, it's not, it's merely a way for Progressives to remove the rest of your rights, including but not limited to the Freedom of Speech we enjoy here in the United States.

So - there is reason a-plenty to speak out NOW about these things, and to jealously guard those rights in whatever manner we must to prevent them from being taken.

That there's even a slight suggestion to force a "fairness doctrine" on the media ought to be screamed about high and low, near and far by every person in the media, and without. NOT just Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.

The Left ought to be screaming too - so that the issue goes away once and for all time.