How to Prevent a Coup in Washington
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3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection
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New York Democrat introduces new social media censorship bill
The bill aims to curb people’s speech by targeting platforms By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | December 27, 2021
If a state senator got his way, the state of New York could soon get a new law aimed at regulating what content can appear on social media. The bill is designed to circumvent existing federal-level solutions in some instances and is reportedly inspired by internal documents leaked by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen.
New York Democrat introduces new social media censorship bill
Constitution Day 2021: It’s Time to Make America Free Again
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | September 17, 2021
The Constitution of the United States represents the classic solution to one of humankind’s greatest political problems: that is, how does a small group of states combine into a strong union without the states losing their individual powers and surrendering their control over local affairs?
Constitution Day 2021: It’s Time to Make America Free Again
T Is for Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.”— French philosopher Etienne de La Boétie
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a convenient, traumatic, devastating distraction.
The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.
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[2012] It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote
Posted more for my own reference, as I still see people quoting “fire in a crowded theater” while advocating for censorship.
It’s Time to Stop Using the ‘Fire in a Crowded Theater’ Quote
In 1969, the Supreme Court’s decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio effectively overturned Schenck and any authority the case still carried. There, the Court held that inflammatory speech–and even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan–is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech “is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action” (emphasis mine).
Today, despite the “crowded theater” quote’s legal irrelevance, advocates of censorship have not stopped trotting it out as thefinal word on the lawful limits of the First Amendment. As Rottman wrote, for this reason, it’s “worse than useless in defining the boundaries of constitutional speech. When used metaphorically, it can be deployed against any unpopular speech.” Worse, its advocates are tacitly endorsing one of the broadest censorship decisions ever brought down by the Court. It is quite simply, as Ken White calls it, “the most famous and pervasive lazy cheat in American dialogue about free speech.”
The Second Amendment’s Right to Bear Arms: What It Means
Can the left defend critical race theory? Or merely oppose its critics?
Can the left defend critical race theory? Or merely oppose its critics?
CRT, in short, is an academic framework for looking at racism as systems, not an individual flaw. Contrary to the panic about a need to ban it from public schools, it actually is taught almost entirely in law schools. As one scholar is said to have told a parent who suspected it was being taught to her child, “Congratulations! I didn’t know your child was already in law school.”
The War Over Genetic Privacy Is Just Beginning
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead – The Rutherford Institute – June 8, 2021
“When you upload your DNA, you’re potentially becoming a genetic informant on the rest of your family.”— Law professor Elizabeth Joh
The War Over Genetic Privacy Is Just Beginning
Abby Martin Beats the Israel Lobby: Attack on Free Speech and Association Fails Court Test
By Philip Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation | June 3, 2021
Many Americans who follow developments overseas would concede that Israel and its supporters in the United States exercise a fairly high level of control over U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Some are also aware of Congressional attempts to introduce legislation that would define criticism of the Jewish state as a federal hate crime. That would narrow the options for discussion, infringing on First Amendment free speech rights, and further tighten the grip on policy. It would also make violators of the new law subject to fines and even imprisonment at the hands of the Department of Justice, which has traditionally responded favorably on issues of concern to Israel and its supporters.
Abby Martin Beats the Israel Lobby: Attack on Free Speech and Association Fails Court Test
CNN: Biden Admin Considering Using Private Firms To Conduct Warrantless Surveillance Of U.S. Citizens
President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly considering working with private firms to monitor “extremist chatter by Americans online” because the federal government is legally limited to what they can do without a warrant.
Biden Admin Considering Using Private Firms To Conduct Warrantless Surveillance Of U.S. Citizens
H/T: The Most Revolutionary Act.
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