Texas loots elderly couple, tries suppressing story

How much more totalitarian does it get?

Recently, the state of Texas held an elderly couple against their will, took their money, and tried to bar a TV station from reporting the story.

The couple from Richardson, Texas - ages 67 and 70 - were confined after the elderly man broke his hip and his wife waited in the waiting room of the hospital for days. Although they do not suffer from dementia, the state placed them in a nursing home against their will - and took all their money to pay for this care.

When KDFW-TV in Dallas planned to report this story, the state of Texas tried getting a restraining order to stop the station from reporting it. Their argument was that the couple was incompetent and could not consent to be interviewed.

Sounds like government censorship to me. Clearly, state officials were trying to silence the couple when they complained about being locked up and having their money stolen to pay for their confinement.

Ironically, KDFW is owned by a Rupert Murdoch subsidiary. This is ironic because Texas is run by right-wing Gov. Rick Perry - an ideological ally of the Fox News empire. The Lone Star State ranks worst in the nation for economic freedom. It's also the home of Bush's "futile care" law - which lets hospitals create death panels to withhold care from patients they deem troublesome.

In conservaland, one can be locked up without due process, and any media outlet that airs their side of the story can be muzzled.

(Source: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/investigative/Elderly_Couple_Forced_into_St)