When Tyrants Seek to Shut You Up...
Two Critical Acts, the Free to Speak Act, & the Online Freedom Act…
Phoenix, AZ June 29, 2023… First Amendment be damned, make no mistake, the radical Marxist cadre at work within our governments seeks to shut you up, sit you down, and send you pack’in. But there is a strategy that State Legislatures might employ to blunt the Fifth Generation Warfare that is aimed an dissenting speech.
August 4, 1735, “New York publisher John Peter Zenger is tried for libel after publishing criticism of the Royal Governor of New York. Zenger is defended by Andrew Hamilton and acquitted. His trial establishes the principle that truth is a defense to libel and that a jury may determine whether a publication is defamatory or seditious.”1
Imagine if Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” had been placed on Twitter or Facebook. Paper was the social media of the day, and Paine inspired the colonists to speak freely. Speech offensive to the Crown, would get one in serious trouble then, but now the oligarchy seems to have replaced the Crown.
Paine wrote, “We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Centuries before the existence of the internet, Common Sense managed to go viral, selling an estimated 500,000 copies. By the end of the Revolutionary War, an estimated half-million copies were in circulation throughout the colonies.2
September 15, 2022, “In Britain, people are now being arrested just for saying things like “Who elected him?” about the newly crowned King Charles. It’s a shocking authoritarian clampdown — and it’s being applauded by the supposedly “pro-free-speech” right.”3
Let us not forget the primary justification for free speech, the grant from God guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. Have the social media giants have become state actors? How is that you ask?
About 10-days before the general election in Arizona, then Secretary of State Katie Hobbs reached out to Twitter to express concerns about “misinformation pertaining to election fraud,” the same irregularities that Arizonas were witness to all over Maricopa County. And boom, Mark Finchem and Kari Lake suddenly had their Twitter accounts frozen. When the call from Jenna Ellis went out to Elon Musk, ‘Hey Elon what’s up with this?’, Elon was quick to reply, “I’ll look into it.” Then 41-minutes later, the Mark Finchem account was restored to full function. Even though quickly resolved, the event highlights the issue, Twitter claims to be a platform, but when speech is regulated and shut down, that moves to publishing.
We slip ever closer toward Marxist tyranny…
The onlinefreedomact.org is championing a set of acts to reinforce the First Amendment. What you say? Is the freedom of speech under assault in America today? Oh indeed it is, because the radical Marxist front in America does not want you to engage with critical thinking; they don’t want you in the public square, they just want you to sit down and shut up. They loath accountability, that is why they hate individuals who openly show skepticism toward those who ask questions about elections that have mountains of evidence showing irregularities, or even worse, outright fraud.
There is a state solution, but it will take courage, and the social media lobbyists will be out in force to defeat it. But first, let’s examine the problems.
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