Obama to Alter 1st Amendment, Attack Legal Marijuana Dispensaries

	Obama to Alter 1st Amendment, Attack Legal Marijuana Dispensaries Obama's chief political strategist, David Axerlrod, announced earlier this week that the administration will push for a constitutional amendment to rollback free speech if his boss is re-elected in November. "When we win, we will use whatever tools out there, including a constitutional amendment, to turn this back," Axlerod said on Wednesday. "I understand the free speech argument, but when the Koch brothers can spend $400 million, more than the McCain campaign and the Republican Party spent last time, that's very concerning." "This has never been done before — in 235 years — to make it possible for the government to control political speech in this country — a truly radical, astonishing thing to say out loud even if you believed it," remarked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday. "America was built on free speech — the most important part of the Bill of Rights — and so we need to defend speech we don't like. And we certainly want to fight against those who are trying to shut us up," he said. McConnell accused the Obama administration of using the the Federal Election Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service to muzzle its critics. He added that the tactic is reminiscent of Nixon's enemies list in the 1970s. White House Counsel John Dean said Nixon wanted to "use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." In April, Rory Cooper wrote about Obama's "Truth <b>...</b>	From: TheAlexJonesChannel Views: 17880 352 ratings
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