Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
Last week,
Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high
schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for
politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.
To one journalist,
this was more than an off-hand comment made by the first lady. In the
opinion of Cheryl Chumley, a reporter for The Washington Times and the
author of “Police State USA,” Michelle Obama’s remark reflects a growing
trend in America to target and attack individuals for committing
“thought crime.”
“Michelle Obama’s push for kids around the
nation to monitor their family members for perceived racist comments is
just another way the government seeks to inject itself into an area it
doesn’t really belong — the American home,” Chumley told The Daily
Caller Monday.
“Having the first lady wag her finger at us and
send America’s youth on some sort of quest to scour the homes and
backyards of our nation’s families for any mention of a racist joke,
slur or slight is nanny-governance run amok — something that belongs in a
George Orwell novel, not the White House,” Chumley said.
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