Blog: The Real Significance of the ‘Executive Order on Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States’

The Executive Order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States," establishes the Trump administration as truly formidable. If you haven't heard or read about it, you soon will. The Order requires, among other things, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by undocumented aliens.

There is an old adage: you should never pick a fight with anyone that buys his ink by the barrel. The corollary is that the U.S. government "speaks" with an authority that threatens even the independent media, and it's billions of barrels of ink. It is for this reason that scholars developed the doctrine of "government speech," which acknowledges the risks posed by a government engaged in propaganda. That is why, for example, that U.S. propaganda efforts like Voice of America are prohibited by law (the Smith–Mundt Act) from broadcasting in the U.S. Simply, when the government "speaks," it does so in a loud, authoritative, and potentially exclusive voice. Read more here: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/the_real_significance_of_the_executive_order_on_enhancing_public_safety_in_the_interior_of_the_united_states_.html