Archived It's time to end propaganda news once and for all...sign the petition pedes!! (petitions.whitehouse.gov)
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Archived It's time to end propaganda news once and for all...sign the petition pedes!! (petitions.whitehouse.gov)
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We have 30 days to get 100,000 signatures!
If you are not familiar to what the bill H.R.5736 - Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 is, Obama snuck this in with the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA).
"The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (Public Law 112-239) allows U.S. government officials to disseminate in the United States news and information programs produced by the government at taxpayers’ expense for audiences abroad."
H.R.5736 amended the original Smith-Mundt act of 1948 which, in a nutshell, prohibited U.S. government officials from actively distributing such material domestically, raises constitutional and civil liberties questions. Now it never made it illegal, but the information that was being re-broadcasted must be obtained on their own.
Now the kicker...
"What the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was incorporated into the FY 2013 NDAA, did was to give government officials, specifically the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials, the power to disseminate these programs in the United States upon request.
The new law still does not allow the BBG, which includes such media outlets as the Voice of America (VOA), to produce programs for domestic audiences. Fears have been raised, however, that government officials will use their new powers to in fact produce such programs or at least to target specific groups of Americans based on their ethnic or religious origins."
Is it all starting to make sense now????