When Tyrants Seek to Shut You Up...
The stacked deck against the People must be challenged, we fight on!
Phoenix, AZ October 18, 2023… First Amendment be damned, make no mistake, the radical Marxist cadre at work within our governments (local, state and federal) seeks to shut you up, sit you down, and send you pack’in.
We slip ever closer toward Marxist tyranny…
The onlinefreedomact.org is championing a set of acts to reinforce the First Amendment. Would 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 just want you to sit down and shut up. But they have powerful friends, in the Uni-Party caucus that refuses to admit that we have a serious problem with election security and transparency. So much so that it Congressman Jim Jordan could not get the 10 votes needed to get over the minimum number for election to the post of Speaker of the House.
You see, the political establishment, not including the radical Marxist caucus combined with the Uni-Party caucus (mostly Neo-cons) loath accountability, that is why they hate individuals who show skepticism toward those who ask questions about elections, even when we have mountains of evidence showing irregularities, or even worse, outright fraud.
The Problem…
The marketplace of ideas has been under assault by Big Tech companies that selectively censor and remove opposing viewpoints on a wide range of important political and social matters—all without the slightest fear of legal liability, and in defiance of Congress’s mandate that the “Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for true diversity of political discourse.”1
The propaganda industrial complex has captured the public forum and turned it into a perverse coliseum where lions and tigers, savage anyone who dares to challenge the consensus view. Gone are the days of meaningful debate over public policy, now we endure endless ad hominem attacks on people, Saul Alinsky style, (if you can’t kill the idea, kill the messenger).
Title 47, Sec. 230 of the United States Code was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and generally provides immunity for online computer services with respect to third-party content generated by its users. The debate is publisher v. platform. In an open society, the platform model promotes public square debate. However, the publisher model limits debate of ideas. In a society “served” by government education, our youth are no longer taught critical thinking skills, but that is by design. Think Common Core.
Section 230 is the devil’s playground. It provides cover for big tech communications oligarchs who seek to shape public opinion in the absence of opposing views. David Morgan, author of the two Bills says this, “My goal is to amend Section 230 rather than revoke it. Both drafts, titled above, revise Section 230 and each include three major components.
Tech companies get immunity IF they host but did not create.
Tech companies must promptly remove likely unlawful content when the know or are notified of such content.
Users of the internet can restrict anything they wish — even unlawful speech.
This is the very issue at work from 2016 through 2020, and even on to the 2022 Arizona Mid-term Election in Arizona.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on BBBT’s
April 2022, long before the election, Kari Lake and I filed suit in U.S. District Court to demand either the transparency to inspect the machine code used for “black box ballot tabulation” (BBBT) election machines, or in the alternative ban their use. Note the date of the original filing, it was well in advance of the harm that would be caused by Maricopa County’s use of illegally configured machines and the massive failure of nearly 60% of the BBBT’s they used in mostly Republican districts. We asked for expedited review, but the court slow-walked the process to make the question mute. Then the tyrannt’s employed one of their favorite tools of the lazy if not totally corrupt federal courts, the Motion to Dismiss. It was used to prevent any meaningful redress of the grievance affecting every voter in America, which is the reason the courts exist in the first place.
On September 12, 2023 the (th Circuit Court of Appeals, essentially known as the west coast kangaroo court, entertained the argument that there were reversible errors the trial court had made, and that the Dismissal should be reversed and a trial be had. The Circuit Court judges that “heard” the case were, Ronald M. Gould, Andrew D. Hurwitz, and Patrick J. Bumatay.
Observations from the courtroom…
Andrew Parker argued that case for Kari and I, attempting to present his case in chief. Unfortunately the vocal, and clearly biased Judge Hurwitz exhibited total distain for the plaintiff’s attorney, constantly inputting him and talking over him when points of law and fact were to be made.
Hurwitz stunned observers when Parker asserted the people’s right to vote, saying, “Can you show us in the Constitution where it says the People have the right to vote?” Parker did not respond, I presume because he was stunned at Hurwitz’ ignorance of the 19th Amendment on display for all to see. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote.2 The right to vote is a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution. See, e.g., Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 561-62 (1964). The fundamental right to vote encompasses the right to have that vote counted accurately. See, e.g., United States v. Mosley, 238 U.S. 383, 386 (1915).
But wait, it gets worse. While the other two judges remained silent, Hurwitz asserted that there is a long history of fraud with paper ballots and that is why machine counts was adopted. Two points here, first such “fraud” was in the days when we did not have the capability for digital camera over-watch to record every action, every ballot and the marking on them. Second, Hurwitz totally circumvented the question raised at trial court pertains to the inspection of the machine code to verify there is not malware or other malicious code that can flip votes and alter the count unseen.
On October 16, 2023 the Per Curiam Opinion was issued…
CIVIL RIGHTS/ELECTIONS: The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal for lack of standing of an action, brought before the 2022 general election by former Republican nominees for Governor and Secretary of State of Arizona, alleging that Arizona’s use of electronic tabulation systems violated the federal Constitution.
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