Censoring an organization that represents 10 million is so Soviet, George
On Tuesday, a coalition of women’s groups that oppose personal accounts accused the administration of employing a double standard.
The National Council of Women’s Organizations said the National Archives and Records Administration had canceled a Social Security forum scheduled to be held Saturday at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. The library is administered by the archives administration.
The council said it had received a letter from the library ordering it to call off the event “if you cannot provide at least one speaker who will speak on the features and merits of the administration’s plan for Social Security.” The letter cited the federal Hatch Act, which restricts political activity by government employees.
The council, which said it represented about 200 groups with 10 million members, characterized the planned forum as a nonpartisan discussion of the potential effect of personal accounts on women. It said it had invited two Republican members of Congress to participate, but they declined.
“In keeping with the Bush administration’s determination to quash anyone who disagrees with them, federal agencies now consider it partisan to hold any opinion that is not identical to the president’s,” National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy said in a prepared statement. The group is a member of the council.
The White House declined to comment on the New York event but said Bush was not trying to prevent outside parties from presenting their views.
So, a council representing 10 million people can be censored under the Hatch Act? But government employees who contract fake news videos selling Bush’s position are not in violation?
Keep it up, George. The more quasi-legal tricks pulled on this issue, the lower goes the public support for your privatization plan. How many holes can one person shoot through his foot before he’s permanently crippled?
I don’t know, but Bush is proving to be the worl’s most eager lab rat.
April 6th, 2005 at 3:12 am
I would agree with you about the foot thing except that he never gets caught. There’s no oversight in the corporate media. There’s no oversight in Congress. As long as that’s the case, we don’t have much hope of him having to answer for his actions.
(and since I also believe that we’ve lost the vote because of eVoting, I’m pretty sure we’re facing a permenant and shrinking minority position for the forseeable future)