Fairness???

Two boys in the same class at school, Jerry and Howard, were competing for class president. Both were popular among the students and the staff, and the contest promised to be an interesting one. As the campaign neared its close, there were three final events in which the candidates were to compete before the votes were cast. These three events were, first, a question-and-answer session in the school auditorium; second, a half-page “ad” in the school’s weekly newsletter; and, third, a five-minute speech over the school P.A. system, given during home room on election day.Things had moved along smoothly throughout the contest, but toward the end, the Principal of the school, who was partial to Jerry, planted selected students in the question-and-answer assembly and, as moderator, monopolized the time for his candidate.

Next, the Principal, through promises and subtle threats, coerced the newsletter’s student editor to reduce Howard’s ad to an eighth-page, while keeping Jerry’s half-page in size. This resulted in some of Howard’s key campaign points being dropped from his ad.

Finally, on election day, Jerry was given seven-and-a-half minutes for his speech, and when it was time for Howard’s speech, the P.A. system “suddenly developed technical difficulties” and Howard’s speech never got aired. When the votes were tallied, Jerry won by a very slim majority.

Many students and staff members were angry over the obvious tampering with the campaign events, but when they protested, the Principal denied any improper activity and insisted that, in spite of their “perceived” inequities, the class election had been more than fair. They ought, after all, to be satisfied with what they got, he said.

Rumors next ran through the school saying that the votes had been miscounted, and when a recount was requested, the Principal refused. A group of parents took the matter to the School Board. However, that particular Principal was from a minority group. The Board feared that an investigation, and any subsequent action, would be seen as racist, and the matter was officially dropped.

How do you see the above incident, friends? Is your sense of fair play frustrated? It should be. Such blatant favoritism and fraud is outrageous. But the above story is fiction. It never happened. The reason I gave it is to stir up your sense of what’s fair and what’s not.

Why? Because a very similar situation is about to take place in our federal government. It is just as unfair as the above story, and just as outrageous. What is it? The so-called Fairness Doctrine. (Have you noticed how liberals always clothe their proposals in flowery expressions?) The Fairness Doctrine is anything, and everything, but fair.

How’s that, you ask? Well, in the story above, the Principal claimed that, even though three out of three events were skewed in Jerry’s favor, Howard’s people had no reason to claim unfair treatment. This is exactly how the liberals feel about media exposure. They already control the TV and print media, but they are determined to control talk radio as well. And they call this fairness!!! Having two out of three, to them, is not unbalanced in their favor. It is not unfair! No; the fact that conservatives control one out of the three – only one – is what is “unfair” to them!!! So they have to correct it with the “Fairness“ Doctrine, which will shut down conservative talk radio. (The “Fairness” Doctrine was abandoned years ago exactly because it had been found to be unfair!)

All honest people ought to be outraged over this. Even if you are a Democrat, if you have a sense of fair play, you ought to see the wrongness, in a country that has always championed fair play, of this outrageous move. Liberals claim to champion diversity, but they do not, for one moment, even tolerate it when it comes to allowing conservatives to have a voice. So much for diversity, so much for tolerance, two “virtues” they love to rant about being all for.

Just like the Soviets, when Communism reigned in the U.S.S.R., the liberals have their very own moral code. In the U.S.S.R., if it promoted Communism, it was right; if not, it was wrong. No other principles mattered. It is this way, today, with the liberals. They will lie, cheat, deceive, coerce, anything, to forward their agenda, and principles of right and wrong, of fair and unfair, have no place in their thinking.

This “Fairness” Doctrine issue clearly slows a very alarming trait of liberals. That is their determination to control what Americans think and believe. By silencing all opposing voices and being the only source of information, they can effect a nationwide brainwashing over time. THIS IS THEIR GOAL, my friends. That’s why they are hard at work in the schools. They are bent on training up whole generations of liberal thinkers. Our schools and colleges are about 90% liberal right now. If they can shut off conservative talk radio, their task of mind control will become much, much easier.

If you saw the story, in the beginning of this post, as unfair, you ought to see what the liberals are doing as unfair. I appeal to your sense of fair play! No matter what your political party, you ought to care deeply about anyone taking almost total control of the minds of a whole nation.