Ender’s Shadow Looms Over U.S. Media

By Ken Hanson, Esq.

Orson Scott Card has an excellent essay on the sorry state of U.S. Media posted at Greesnboro, N.C.'s RhinoTimes, entitled "Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?"

It is an excellent examination of what the media is telling (and not telling) the public this election cycle. He takes it a step forward in a follow-up essay looking at the current history of constitutional usurpations and the possible need for constitutional conventions in 2010.

For those of you wondering, yes, this is the same Orson Scott Card who wrote Ender’s Game and its' progeny. Even if you are not a science fiction fan, you owe it to yourself to read Ender’s Game. For many young adults, it is a transformative work. I was thrilled to find that he is blogging/writing somewhat regularly in Greensboro, N.C.. (He is one of my favorite authors, though I admit you will either like his books or hate them, and I’ve swung between the extremes depending upon the work. There is such a thing as too cerebral.) The fact that he is turning his futurist, imaginative eye toward modern politics and issues of liberty makes for some exciting reading.

As I have said before, the people in Ohio need to wake the hell up and reclaim our elections process, which is being ACORNed to death this season. And we have had to rely upon a group of college journalists (Palestra.net) practicing in a laboratory setting to do the investigations and reporting that Card’s article laments is not happening in the mainstream. While this is not directly related to your gun rights, if you do not believe that the media has an agenda and is using every resource available to implement this agenda, you are living in a fantasy land that will only be shattered long after it is too late to do anything.

The U.S. Media has become nothing more than an informal 527 advocacy group. Read Card’s article. Ask those questions every chance you get. It isn’t too late.

- This month Buckeye Firearms Association was contacted by journalists from Portugal and Japan to obtain an “inside look” at Ohio and why the gun vote is so coveted. Journalists are flying in from Portugal and Japan to cover things Ohio’s media won’t cross the street to cover.

-Two weeks ago, during a legal presentation to a ccw class, I was asked a question about the police forces and their lobbying the government to restrict your rights. This prompted me to ask the class “How many branches of government are there? How many levels of government are there?” The class responded “Executive, Judicial and Legislative. Federal, State and Local.” Good textbook answers. They were all shocked when I told them the correct answers were “Executive, Judicial, Legislative and THE PEOPLE. Federal, State, Local and THE PEOPLE.” There was literally silence in the room as everyone realized what they had forgotten, and what is being taught to our children in classrooms as I write this.

People, wake up.

Ken Hanson is a gun rights attorney in Ohio and is the attorney of record for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, which filed an amicus brief in the Heller case. He is the author of The Ohio Guide to Firearm Laws, is a certified firearms instructor and holds a Type 01 Federal Firearms License.