Truth In Advertising
Restoring Honesty to Where It’s Needed Most!
We have a problem in America with a very small but very powerful and
extremely dangerously destructive population segment: the secular progressive
socialist.
They are a
cancer that if left un-checked will continue metastasizing and destroying our
entire way of life. For those of you who are
so blind that you find that appealing, you’re the victim more than you realize.
We cannot
bring back a law that was and still is vilified by these same enemies of America
The Alien and Sedition Act but Congress recently did give us a
viable alternative that can work to end this nightmare.
When
consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, radio or
television, or anywhere else, and federal law says that ad must be truthful,
not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence.
The
Federal Trade Commission enforces these truth-in-advertising laws, and it
applies the same standards no matter where an ad appears – in newspapers and
magazines, online, in the mail, or on billboards or buses. The FTC looks
especially closely at advertising claims that can affect consumers’ health or
their pocketbooks – claims about food, over-the-counter drugs, dietary
supplements, alcohol, and tobacco and on conduct related to high-tech products
and the Internet. The FTC also monitors and writes reports about ad industry
practices regarding the marketing of alcohol and tobacco.
When the FTC
finds a case of fraud perpetrated on consumers, the agency files actions in
federal district court for immediate and permanent orders to stop scams;
prevent fraudsters from perpetrating scams in the future; freeze their assets;
and get compensation for victims.
Well let’s
carry this law into the classrooms, news rooms and govt. offices of America!
In the classroom:
Any educator
at any level who intentionally violates the first Amendment rights of a student
to speak of different ideas or theories in any classroom is in violation of
their own mandates and is an act of sedition. It is in direct conflict with
this Republic’s founding.
A liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the
cultivation of a free (Latin: liber) human being. It is based on the medieval
concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of
Enlightenment. It has been described as "a philosophy of education that
empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a
stronger sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement ... characterized by
challenging encounters with important issues, and more a way of studying than a
specific course or field of study" by the Association of American Colleges
and Universities. Usually global and pluralistic in scope, it can include a
general education curriculum which provides broad exposure to multiple
disciplines and learning strategies in addition to in-depth study in at least
one academic area.
So based on
education own professed doctrine the cloistering of information from only
pre-approved ideological viewpoints is in direct opposition to their own
professional standards of conduct.
They are in
essence breaking their own canonical law with the direct intent to indoctrinate
and not educate our children. For the express purpose of creating misanthropic,
myopic, Marxist, Muppets which they have been very successful in doing for at
least the last 2 if not 3 generations of Americans.
The Penalty:
Fine the
educator $5000 for first offense and the University or School System $25000.
For second offense double the fines and cut
federal funding an equivalent dollar amount.
For third
offense the loss of teaching position removal from the teaching profession and
a fine of $100,000 dollars to the school or system.
In the news room:
Any supposed
journalist that wishes be protected under the First Amendment must first be a
journalist not an editorialist.
Far too many in the media express opinion either their own or those
given to them as fact.
As expressed by Dem. Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan: “You have your right to your own opinions but not your own
facts”.
One story written
by one individual but expressed in similar terms by multiple news agencies for
the express outcome of directing a singular conclusion is propaganda not journalism.
When you
have every supposed television news outlets in America devote a majority of
their resources to promoting and propagating information that is not factual at
best and a created lie at worst, it is not journalism it is outright
deception.
When you
have thousands of words written without a scintilla of fact to support their
conclusion this is dissemination of a lie and it is fraud.
When you
have any journalist in any media format call for illegal acts of behavior
because they’re ideological core is in disagreement with what they are reporting
on, it is an act of sedition.
When they
refuse to report the news that is paramount to the people knowing, for making
an informed decision, that is fraud.
When the
media colludes with any government entity to create misinformation to further
their agenda to the detriment of the people that is fraud.
If a
journalist or news media outlet wants to have their First Amendment rights then
they must first support that right by honoring its intent. If they wish to hide
behind it like cowards and destroy the Constitutional representative form of
government that we currently still hang on to by a very thin thread, then they
damn well better serve it and the people or lose it completely.
We can no
longer continue to give these treasonous actors the benefit of the first
Amendment if they will not honor or protect it.
The Penalty:
For first
offense fine the “journalist” / “newscaster” $50,000 and the station,
newspaper, journal, periodical or parent source $250,000.
Second
offense you double the fines.
Third offense the offending party is barred from
the broadcast industry by removing their FCC license and suspending the
broadcast license of the parent corp. for 6 months to one year. If a print journalist
then you fine their publishing parent $50,000 dollars a day for every day the
fired liar has been employed and disseminating lies since the second offense
was found guilty.
Elected Officials and Candidates for
Office:
Honesty is
imperative in a Constitutional Representative Republic WHICH IS WHAT THE UNITED
STATES IS. Not the lie we are a democracy, we have democratically elected
representation despite the secular progressive socialists best attempts to
destroy it through their Hegelian Dialectic diatribes.
Our moral compass has
been skewed south due in no part to their collective behavior. It has also led
to the creation of a “political ruling class” that is born within “ivy league”
academia and self-identified educational degrees.
It has led
to their loss of the simple fact that they are govt. employees and elected
officials who, We the People employ. We are the boss not the other way around
as they delude themselves into believing and behaving based on that delusion.
They have demonstrated contempt for we who pay the bills including their
salaries. They have come to think, because of no direct or immediate
repercussions, that their continuous criminal behavior and complete and total
lack of honesty or moral turpitude is not only acceptable but well within their
perceived boundaries of decorum for their station in life.
It is do as I say
and not as I do in our elected office and bureaucratic agencies at EVERY level
of govt.
They have been breaking the law at every level of govt. with no fear
because no one except for the occasional acts that are so egregious in their
violation of the laws that even they cannot hide from punishment.
But far too
many Lois Lerner’s and Hillary Clintons feel above the law because they have
gotten away with decades of criminal behavior.
And it
starts with their first transgressions of violating the moral code of honesty
to us their boss.
This must
end and morality through honesty must be returned to governing.
If they lie
they pay the price with NO EXCEPTIONS.
The Penalty:
Any elected
official that lies or misleads for any reason while in office for the first
offense is fined $5000 and their political party is fined $25,000. Govt.
employee or bureaucrat either federal, state or local who intentionally
misleads or directly lies for the first offense should be fined $5000 and the
dept. or body they are elected to pays $25,000. If a candidate for office the
fines stay the same but the political party pays in lieu of the dept. or
organization they work for.
Second offense you double the fines.
Third offense the employee or
office holder is removed from office or fired from their position. The
candidate is removed from the election and barred from running for any
political office ever again.
Yes that would
make the first and second penalties a misdemeanor and the third a third degree felony.
And all the fines should be directed
towards payment of the federal, state or local govt. debt so as to at least
lighten the taxpayer’s burden created by those same miscreants.
The Rule of
Law applied equally and justly to all IS the cornerstone of our society and critical
to a functioning government.
And until we can restore a moral center and code
of conduct for those who wish to ascend to one of our highest callings, We the
People must demand by every means necessary the tools to ensure their adherence
to that code.
Dr. Keith C.
Westbrook Ph.D.
Ps. I ain’t
holding my breath but you gotta start somewhere!
