White House sued for free speech violations

sfgate.com ^ | August 28, 2009 | Jaikumar Vijayan

[Berlin_Freeper]

Two conservative organizations, a physicians' group and a social policy think tank, are suing the Obama administration for privacy and free speech violations over a recent attempt to get people to e-mail the White House about any "fishy" misinformation they hear regarding health-care reform.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, claims that the call for such information was designed to shut up opponents of President Obama's health-care reform proposal and to chill free speech.

In the lawsuit, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CARE) claim the White House had "illegally" used its power to collect information on political speech. It claimed that the White House knew its data collection would chill free speech and in fact intended to do just that. The suit demands that the White House remove any information it might have already collected and that it be prohibited from collecting personal data in the future.

[Cindy]

Background Link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308266/posts

[RedCell]

Maybe they should include this little gem in their lawsuit...

http://www.breitbart.tv/officer-it-aint-america-no-more/

[gwilhelm56]

BRAVO!! GO GET'EM

[Bender2]

Re: In the lawsuit, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CARE) claim the White House had "illegally" used its power...

Gadzooks! Shouldn't that CARE be CURE... as in The Øbamanation gave us all the clap and now someone wants to CURE it!

[Old Badger]

This is exactly what needs to be done!

Anybody that has even the remotest standing to bring any issues before the courts regarding the Obama administrations actions needs to hook up with a conservative public interest law firm and file suits until “hell wouldn't have them” (so to speak).

[ContraryMary]

LOL! This will certainly give the White House a few PR headaches — being sued by a physicians group and the Coalition for Urban Renewal.

[FrankR]

Relating back to the "healthcare" mantra, the best time to cure a sore is when it first happens...you ignore it and infection sets in, and that could have disasterous consequences.

We need to snap back decisively at these attempts to twart free speech, like commiebama's tattletale line, or the cop who wanted to arrest a protester for showing an obama-joker poster.

These issues need to be addressed while we still have a Constitution, because if free speech is abolished, then the Constitution is history.

[blackie]

It’s a sad time we’re living in...