If Senator Barack Obama becomes president, will he use the power of government to stifle speech he doesn’t like?

The answer clearly seems to be yes, considering he is now asking the Justice Department to investigate a political ad—one that I cited on Monday—that highlights his multi-year connection with unapologetic domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

The Politico reports (emphasis mine):

Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign—and tens of thousands of supporters—also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.

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The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.

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Obama’s campaign has written a pair of letters to station managers carrying the ads.

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“Obama supporters have now sent more than 93,000 e-mails to the Sinclair stations that have decided to run the ad,” said Obama’s spokesman Tommy Vietor. “Other stations that follow Sinclair’s lead should expect a similar response from people who don’t want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks.”

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“Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it?” asks the ad’s narrator.

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“With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the ’60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?” says Obama’s ad. “McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers’ crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old.”

The problem for Obama isn’t that the revolutionary organization run by Ayers and his wife bombed U.S. targets when Obama was a kid, the problem is that even today the only regret Ayers has is that he wasn’t successful in overthrowing the government.

As with Reverend Wright, this is someone Obama chose to embrace.

For four years, Barack Obama chaired an organization just after it was set up by Bill Ayers to advance his education agenda in Chicago. Ayers is clearly more than just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” as Obama disingenuously characterized him in a debate.

Does Obama not see why his refusal to explain his relationship with former Weather Underground leaders would concern people? If so, that fact alone should disqualify him from the presidency.

Americans do not want their president to be chummy with Marxist revolutionaries who tried to overthrow the very government he would be leading. To a presidential candidate with any judgment, this would be obvious.

But not only doesn’t Obama think he owes America an explanation, his campaign is actually trying to use the Justice Department to intimidate private citizens who believe that this is an important topic to address.

It’s interesting that the Obama campaign has not yet contested any of the facts in the ad. If the ad is “an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind” as the Obama campaign maintains, then demonstrate what statements are false. And then maybe sue for defamation.

Why Barack Obama would choose to work for a Marxist bomber of American government buildings is a legitimate question, but in order to prevent any questions from being asked, Obama’s resorting to totalitarian tactics.

The Messiah says it’s time to shut up.

We must not question The Messiah. He will reveal The Truth to us, but only once we discard the False Consciousness to which we so bitterly cling. He’s helping us towards The Light by saving us from any knowledge that might stand in the way of His Ascension. We must not question The Messiah.