Hammond Mayor Following in Nancy Pelosi’s Censorship Footsteps

What is it with Democrats and the First Amendment? More and more they are becoming zealous in their attempts to stifle free speech that conflict with their beliefs. Earlier this week, Nancy Pelosi decided it was time that elected Congressmen only use “approved” sites to post messages potentially eliminating the use of Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and blogs cutting off other forms of contact between them and their supporters and constituents. Now that was just an edict that has since blown up in her face.

But the Democrat mayor of Hammond, Thomas McDermott, has literally taken it further through actual censorship by deletion of comments on the Northwest Times message board.

Via the Northwest Times:

Times columnist Mark Kiesling and Online Editor Yuri Victor researched the vaporization of comments on The Times message boards, at http://nwi.com, and traced the Internet protocol address of the offenders to the Hammond city government.

McDermott says this IP address could apply to any of hundreds of computers. But the IP address is clearly that of Hammond’s city government.

The mayor was quick to criticize Kiesling, who brought to light these actions by McDermott supporters. He has been less quick to criticize the supporters who have been censoring the comments on the message boards.

Chris Hedges, a blogger up in the Region had this to say:

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It’s a sad day in America when a newspaper has to ask a government official — a Democratic mayor — to tell workers using government computers stop censoring items on its website.

It’s another piece of evidence that shows why it is always important to not give government officials unlimited control over our lives and our businesses because they can use their control of these things to limit our freedom and liberties.

It’s a sad day indeed. But just another day in Pelosi’s America.

(H/T - Chris Hedges)