Elected teabagger West calls for mass censorship of US media

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/tea-party-allen-west-censorship-media/

By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 -- 1:01 pm

The government should censor news agencies that report on US documents leaked by websites like WikiLeaks, according to a tea party-backed Republican who will soon represent the 22th district congressional of Florida.

Speaking with an online radio station, Rep.-elect Allen West said that attacks on the US were not limited to "a bomb or an airplane flying into a building," but could occur "through cyber attacks" or "through leaking of very sensitive classified information."

"Regardless of whether you think it causes any harm, the fact that here is an individual that is not an American citizen first and foremost, for whatever reason gotten his hands on classified American material and put it out there in the public domain," West continued. "And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauding him for the efforts. So that's kind of aiding and abetting of a serious crime."

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Fuckers don't even try to hide it anymore.

[GCP]

7. Yup - rolling down that slope toward fascism

Day by day.

[ladjf]

2. That's what we need, less transparency. nt

[bighughdiehl]

3. I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning

My #1 pet peeve about conservatives: Shit like this, warrantless wiretaps, a bloated
military, but they say they're against "big government". Whatever, guys.
:eyes: :banghead:

[Old and In the Way]

4. So we should be in the dark while the rest of the world learns the truth?

These morons won't be happy until they turn this country into a right wing police state.

[katnapped]

5. Ah, the smell of FASCISM

Has quite the distinctive aroma

[Bandit]

6. "They Hate us for our Freedoms"

:shrug:

[KeepItReal]

8. "Will somebody tell Allen West that flattop went out with Kid N' Play??"

Best HuffPost comment on this guy.

[surrealAmerican]

9. Wow, that's stupid.

If he got his way, a few news agencies would go out of business, but it wouldn't stop people from getting the information if they want it enough to look for it.

[Glassunion]

10. I'm still amazed...

Not one of the people we elected(exception of Ron Paul) to be in charge is saying; "Hey, maybe we should not be doing this shit"...