Sometimes I want to turn it all off

Watching the news and reading the newspaper have been getting to me lately. Today I almost wish I could turn it all off for awhile and remain blissfully ignorant just like what seems to be 90 percent of the rest of the population.

News programs pretend to be informing us of the news but are really trying to brainwash us.

I did the blog entry the other day noting the irony of Bill Clinton and his Democrat leadership buddies trying to get ABC to censor or pull their little 9/11 docu-drama. It's gone beyond just the funny irony to frightening. The Dem congressional leaders have proceeded to threaten Disney/ABC to pull or significantly censor the film "or else". It really is heavy-handed government censorship in plain daylight!

Worse yet, nobody seems to care.

Remember when the Dixie Chicks (watch out, here comes the Dixie Chicks fan again) went off on Bush and ordinary citizens gathered together to smash their CD's? The Chicks called that censorship and did their best to fan outrage that somehow that little demonstration was the equivalent of a Nazi book burning.

Yet here we have, not private citizens, but powerful government officials, threatening ABC with serious consequences if they air this little miniseries. They can make good on those threats by holding up renewal of ABC's FCC licensing, for example. You can't get any more clear first amendment violation than that!

And the proof is that ABC has admitted to caving under the pressure by Bill Clinton, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, et al, and have cut the scenes Bill and the Dems find so objectionable. Even though, according to an interview I happened to stumble across with the writer and producer of the film, the substance of what they so vigorously objected to was true!

That producer also noted that the miniseries is every bit as tough on the Bush administration. Heard any GOP demands that those scenes be cut? Anyone?

And scariest of all, we're being told by just about all the "experts" that those same Democrat leaders who have so willfully violated the free speech rights of those who created this film will be in control of the country starting next year.

It's too late already. Here's what will happen over the next decade when the left wing takes over:

Churches will go underground because anyone caught practicing real Christianity within earshot of an atheist will be deemed a dangerous radical.

Taxes will go out of sight, possibly even as high as they were under Jimmy Carter. Make a decent middle-class salary? Watch out, the government is going to continue to take half of the first $100K, they they'll take about 80% of anything above that. If you die worth over, say, a quarter-million, they'll confiscate at least half that from your heirs.

Gas will go to $4 or $5 a gallon. Domestic oil exploration will be stopped. No new refineries will be built, and some existing refineries will shut down because of severe new environmental restrictions.

The welfare state will return in force, and will openly include illegal aliens (a term which, by the way, will be outlawed). Illegal immigrants will also be given the right to vote along with convicted felons, thus insuring that the left will never lose power in America again.

Unemployment will top 10% and may even see 15 or 20%.

Terrorism will skyrocket after we make an early exit from Iraq and fail to respond to Iran and Syria and North Korea. Bombs will go off in cities across America while the government continues to combat terrorism as a "law and order" problem and creates expensive new "programs" designed to teach people "tolerance".

America will be notably absent from the war between Israel and Iran, Iraq (after Iran takes control when America pulls out), and Syria. Iran detonates their first nuke in an Israeli city while the US continues to petition the UN to impose economic sanctions.

The standard of living for everyone but the very poor will fall precipitously. Crime will increase in inverse proportion.

"Recreational" drugs will be legalized so the government can tax them, leading to unprecedented levels of addiction, especially among young people between 14 and 24. Who of course will require continuously expanding taxpayer-supported social services that ineffectively try to help them overcome those government-sponsored addictions.

Abortion, Gay Marriage, Pornography, Pedophilia, will gleefully resume their ascendancy to become commonplace throughout society. Ordinary broadcast TV will no longer be restricted from portraying and celebrating graphical sexual content, obscene language, and gay-friendly messages 24/7.

Everyone will have "low cost" access to low-quality healthcare. Hospitals will close and frustrated physicians will find new careers. Drug companies will drastically cut back on R&D as they try to avoid bankruptcy selling their existing drugs at government-imposed prices.

Bush will finally leave office after 2 years of accomplishing little besides vetoing the most egregious of legislative initiatives from the Democrat-controlled congress and fighting impeachment proceedings and enduring a multitude of "special investigations".

I'm sorry for the kids who will never know the greatness this country once represented.