They've finally figured out that the Internet stands between them and "confining the Message"...
With the Internet, We the People can access and disseminate information - end running their heretofore control. Spiking a story is new impossible. It WILL get out.
The MSM and the pols in DC have had a very slow learning curve on this. But they finally get it.
It infuriates and frightens them. Their initial solution of course was to control it. They've lost that battle, so far.
Dissemination of information to the 'masses' had always been the biggest danger to despots intent on taking over a country/peoples. The first thing, in the past, was the shut down of communications, isolating people from news and the ability to connect and act.
The Tea Party is emerging as a shining example of how people can fight a tyrannical 'regime' - because of the ability to communicate. The printing press ushered in a great age of 'enlightenment' as people were able to get information on a wide scale. And the telephone. and the radio. but these could all be shut down by the 'invading despots.'
The Internet is an almost magical means of communication and information...and they can't figure out a way to control it. they have a problem - how do they shut us down from the Internet and still be able to operate themselves.
I am all for the Tea Party ,but it suffers from a couple of serious flaws. The first is the fact that over time the Tea Party has become less about the Tea and more about the Party. It is disturbing to watch something spontaneous and free be captured and morphed by the usual suspects. The second has to do with what I called Pavlov’s Nation. A large percentage of the these well intentioned people are still trapped in the secondary reality that the usual suspects helped create. It makes me want to grab them and shake the cognitive dissonance right out of them. If I were to self identify as to an ideology or philosophy it would be natural law. What I think we are witnessing with the current movement to a large degree ,is that part of natural law called human nature. There is only one absolute freedom that all humans are born with ,and that is freedom of the mind. It is unrestrained by the frailities of the body ,and cannot be chained down by the arbitrary laws of another. It is the very essence of human nature ,and it hates the unreality of lies and yearns for the reality of truth. The powers that be think they can construct a prison of false reality to take away this freedom ,and with it the rest of our physical freedoms. In the end this error in judgement will be their undoing.