Judge Napolitano Under Attack

Judge Napolitano Under Attack
Posted by Lew Rockwell on November 26, 2010 07:45 AM

Andrew Napolitano is an unusual man–an important legal thinker, a scholar, an influential public intellectual, a tv star, a real advocate of freedom among the phonies in the vast wasteland. See his books, for example. Under the Bush regime, he argued against the patriot act, the torture, the camps, the police state. He still does under Obama, adding his assassination policy, his TSA violations of the 4th amendment, his oppressive "health care." The Judge's Freedom Watch TV show, where I am an occasional guest, has gone from once a week on the internet to a daily show on Fox Business. With a growing audience, surely the main channel is next. So, of course, the usual suspects on the corporatist left have gone after him, most recently George Soros's Media Matters and GE's Keith Olbermann. Olbermann has even called for the Judge to be fired. (Sure, Keith.) Why? The Judge discussed a forbidden topic–the downing of Building 7 on 9/11/01, on a forbidden radio show, Alex Jones's. Under the soft totalitarianism of the US, there is vast State-corporate pressure not to discuss a whole list of topics, though free speech is not yet directly outlawed in most cases. When such a significant figure as the Judge brings up a subject or a point of view that is never supposed to be mentioned, he strikes a blow for liberty and the first amendment, and empowers millions of other people to resist. But for the Judge, such courage is simply the path of his life.