Thought Police Arises In Oakland, Bolstered By The 9th Circuit

Captain's Quarters by Ed Morrissey | Jun. 24, 2007 (Opinion)

Oakland has banned a group of African-American Christian women from accessing a government e-mail and message board system because it considers them bigoted and interested in conducting hate speech. While the same systems regularly carry political statements from gay-rights groups, the city has banned the women because of the loaded language in their communications -- words such as marriage and natural family. Full Story »

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by Carl Pham - Oct. 1, 2008

This is an opinion piece, and does not appear seriously intended to appeal to anyone not already of a similar mindset, so it is perhaps not surprising that the opinion is not very well argued. It is also historically naive, insofar as it imagines some halcyon past age when the sturdy, virtuous American yeomanry venerated the First Amendment for its intrinsic worth alone.