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Wednesday, February 25, 2009Ayn Rand Institute on Glen Beck >McCain-Feingold Act tells you when when no one is allowed to speak or some groupsaren't allowed to speak< Finally, someone on TV understands the nature of Objectivism, and has beenbringing speakers to his program from the Ayn Rand Institute. Its director hasbeen on the show. Last week Glen Beck had Onkar Ghate, a senior fellow at the AynRand Institute.Condensed transcript from the program, Feb. 20, 2009Tonight, we have a very special edition of "The Glenn Beck" program.We're going to play out some of the worst-case scenarios with some of the greatestminds around, asking ourselves one simple question: What if?And tonight, we're going to think it out with the help of former CIA agents, someof the best money people around, military analysts, survival experts. We're goingto try to show you how to prepare for the worst while everybody else is sittingback and hoping for the best. And I want you to know — everybody involved in thisshow is also hoping for the best.In mid-January, the government "war-gamed" a scenario where American cities weresubjected to a coordinated two-day attack. Why? Are they saying that an attack isimminent like that? No. They just understand that planning for the unthinkablewill allow them to act rationally while everybody else is panicking.The truth is — that you are the defender of liberty. It's not the government. It'snot an army or anybody else. It's you. This is your country.So, ask yourself: What kind of sentry do you want to be as you stand there at thegate?We're making decisions right now, and I don't think we're really thinking themthrough. Let that not happen to us. Let's make the unthinkable thinkable for 60minutes.Onkar, tell me a little bit about what you see happening with freedom of speech ina scenario like this. Does the government need to keep people muted in a situationwhere things have really fallen apart?GHATE Yes, I think so. In this kind of night player scenario that you'reenvisioning, what would happen is that the government wouldn't tolerate any kindof objections and dissent. And what would happen is, that there would be aclampdown on free speech, particularly, I think, political speech.And we've seen precursors of that with, say, McCain-Feingold Act which is anassault on the First Amendment rights which tells people, you can't spend yourmoney to advocate for views you want. It tells you when you can do it. It putsperiods when no one is allowed to speak or some groups aren't allowed to speak andwe would see a real extension of that so that the people in political power canhold on to their power, to get a real collapse in a dictatorship, it's a one-partyrule.But to get that, you really have to silence other people, and that — and you canonly do that by infringing on their free speech rights and making a mockery of the
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