More From the "Un-American Liars"

Via Power Line, Katherine Kersten had a chat this week with 23-year Marine and "un-American liar" Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson and chairwoman of MFU, Merrilee Carlson. Carlson is the mother of fallen soldier Michael, and Stephenson was stationed in Iraq in 2004-2005.

Carlson began to seek a forum for her views after Cindy Sheehan, a war critic whose son died in Iraq, became the center of a media circus in Crawford, Texas, last August. "She was giving the impression that most families of fallen soldiers believed, like her, that our troops died for nothing," she says. "Mothers like me had to find a way to get our voices heard."

Stephenson knows that many DFLers don't share Minnesota Families United's perspective. "But the DFL is supposed to be the party of free speech, of diversity and tolerance," he said. "To demand that our ads be pulled off the air seems to contradict their fundamental principles. It leads me to suspect that their political agenda is so intense that they're willing to discard core beliefs to gain a partisan advantage."

If the situation were reversed and it was the Republican Party who held a press conference to, say, encourage news stations not to run interviews or soundbites of Cindy Sheehan, there is little doubt it would be a huge national story. The ACLU would be gearing up lawsuits to protect us all from the latest attempt to "silence" critics of the war.

But for some reason it's just not news when the Democratic Party does it. Oh well, it hasn't gone unnoticed here at least.

...if the DFL is trying to stop vets like Stephenson from speaking out, the effort has been counterproductive. Carlson says that more than 300 families have joined Minnesota Families United since the controversy arose.

Those lying, un-American bastards. How could they? Don't they know that these soldiers are just spewing right-wing propaganda?

It just goes to show how dangerous free speech can be. People would never have even thought to join this fringe group if they hadn't been exposed to their horrible lies. Our citizenry deserves to be protected from the irresponsible rantings of our nation's "finest."

Thank Gaia for the Democratic Party. For it is they with the courage to jack-boot this dangerous distortion of free speech.