Kurt Nimmo<br /><a href="http://www.infowars.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.infowars.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.tv/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.prisonplanet.tv/</a><br /><a href="http://www.infowars.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.infowars.net/</a><br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.prisonplanet.com/</a><br /><br />April 4, 2011<br /><br />In response to the idiotic and pointless burning of the Koran by a Florida pastor and the deadly riots that followed, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has proposed limiting the First Amendment.<br /><br />"I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war," Graham told CBS' Bob Schieffer on Sunday.<br /><br />Graham mentioned government censorship of the First Amendment during the Second World War. FDR signed Executive Order 8985 in December of 1941 and established the Office of Censorship. The order gave a legion of bureaucrats "absolute discretion" over the exercise of the First Amendment and the free speech of all Americans.<br /><br />In the years following FDR's decree, the government attempted to squelch free speech a number of times for political reasons, most notably in regard to the Pentagon Papers. During Bush Senior's invasion of Iraq in 1991, the Pentagon revisited wartime censorship and prevented journalists from independently reporting the news. Bush and Reagan tightly controlled the flow of information during the invasions of Panama and Grenada.<br /><br />In 2004, then vice president Dick Cheney outlined what Americans should expect henceforth -- a war against shadowy enemies that will last generations.<br /><br />President Bush went so far as to tell NBC's Matt Lauer it was possible the war could never be won, while Democrat John Kerry said terror would probably never be done away with, but that it might be reduced to a "nuisance."<br /><br />Graham reminded us that our rulers have in mind a forever war not unlike the one envisioned by Joe Haldeman in his Hugo-winning 1976 novel by the same name. It is said Haldeman wrote the science fiction novel in part as an antiwar response to Robert Heinlein's fascisticStarship Troopers. Haldeman served in Vietnam.<br /><br />It seems Graham and his neocon fellow travelers are in agreement with Heinlein's premise in the novel that social responsibility requires being prepared to make individual sacrifice, especially when humanity is engaged in a never-ending "Bug War." A character in the novel, Colonel Dubois, specifically criticizes the Declaration of Independence as naïve and unrealistic.<br /><br />According to neocon globalist faction, our once proud heritage of liberty and its reflection in the Bill of Rights has "no contemporary relevance," as Georgetown University law professorRandy Barnett noted in 2007. "Sure it was fine that persons should be secure in their papers and effects back in the old days when there wasn't a danger of terrorism and mass murder," said the professor in regard to the Fourth Amendment. It is "archaic [and] we don't need it anymore." Strangely, Mr. Barnett is considered a libertarian.<br /><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/lindsey-graham-advocates-killing-first-amendment.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.prisonplanet.com/lindsey-graham-advocates-killing-first-amendment.html</a>