Thread: Glenn Beck our founders the National Endowment for the Arts

Recently, Glenn Beck did a show(s) regarding the Obama administration using the National Endowment for the Arts as a tool for propaganda. Some of Glenn’s inside information came from a tapped conference call arranged by Yosi Sergant. The conference call included at least 16 participants who had received grants from the NEA. Glenn went on to point out the grants were our money and when he first brought it up, there were those who were complaining that Glenn was on “a Hitler huntâ€

I am surprised there seems to be little interest in the NEA, Obama's personal propaganda machine, which also brought us such things as Andres Serrano's anti-Christian bigotry called "Piss Christ", Robert Mapplethorpe’s homosexual display called “The Perfect Moment“, and that Mary and Joe Sixpack, who can barely meet their own economic needs have even be taxed by our federal government to fund Annie Sprinkle‘s pornographic performances at a New York theater. So, let us consider the following which may create some interest.

The irrefutable fact is, Congress is not authorized under the Constitution to tax for and spend federal revenue to promote the production of art. And more importantly, for Obama’s ringleaders at the NEA to appropriate federal revenue in the form of grants so their recipients will advance the personal interests of the Obama administration, as Obama’s administration has been caught doing and is on tape conspiring in such an act, is not only a misappropriation of federal revenue but a criminal offense under statutory law!

Aside from the criminal aspects mentioned above it may come as a surprise to some, but funding the arts using federal revenue violates the protection guaranteed to taxpayers under the First Amendment! Let me explain.

In 1998, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in the case National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley that NEA grants are constitutional if content does not offended "...general standards of decency..." But the Court not only ignored the absence of a power granted to Congress by our Constitution to fund the promotion of art, it likewise ignored the carefully limited wording in our Constitution granting power to Congress To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts and how shall this be done? by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries Now how could Justice texualist SCALIA, who claims the words of the Constitution must be followed, managed to have joined in part in the ruling in the case?


So, how does federal funding of the arts violate a taxpayer’s guarantee that Congress shall make no law …abridging the freedom of speech ? Federal funding does so by allowing A, who has received federal grant money taxed away from B, to vocalize and express their opinions and feelings in a more forceful manner than B, while B’s financial resources, which may have been used by B to finance his or her own expressions and feelings are reduced by the hand of the federal government in its quest to fund A. In clear and simple language, federal funding of the arts provides a select group with a powerful megaphone to express their opinions and feelings, while such funding is forcefully taken from those who may object to the expressions and opinions spewed out over the federally funded megaphone.

And this brings us back to the danger of allowing the federal government to engage in such funding as stated by Representative John Page:

"The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. … the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government …Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Rep Page

Glenn Beck needs to follow up on this issue, especially its criminal aspects as I outlined above.

JWK


As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.___Supreme Court Justice William Douglas