[ April 16, 2024 ]
Crushing free speech is essential to leftists’ agenda of statism, and always has been. The National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazis), the Communists, Stalinists, et al destroy freedom by first restricting free speech. The First Amendment is first for a reason. It is our most precious and most protected freedom. And political speech is the most protected speech.
This has long been the ultimate goal of the Democrats, the leftists – silencing dissent. Totalitarianism. It’s why they are such enthusiastic supporters of the sharia where death is the punishment for dissenters (of Islam).
But they systematically use their free speech to defame, demonize and destroy good people.
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Under the first amendment, political speech is the most protected speech and it is that very speech the Democrats which to silence.
Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced. They blame truth and sites like the Geller Report for their crushing election defeat in November. So they mean to shut us down. Not once did they consider that the election was the result of their catastrophic failures. The Democrats are anti-freedom, anti-America, anti-individualism.
The left cannot win in the war of ideas, so they must silence the opposition. Crush freedom.
Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.
Inoffensive speech needs no protection. The First Amendment was developed precisely in order to protect speech that was offensive to some, in order to prevent those who had power from claiming they were offended by speech opposing them and silencing the powerless.
A free society is by its nature one in which people exchange ideas and opinions. The alternative is a quiet authoritarian society in which only one opinion is allowed and the others are silenced, and ultimately sent to the camps.
Schumer Calls for Amending First Amendment to Limit Political Speech
By Terry Jeffrey, Town Hall, Aug 01, 2019:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D.-N.Y., has determined there is too much political speech in the United States coming from sources he cannot tolerate. So, he stood in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, along with Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D.-Ill., to announce he is backing Democratic New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall’s proposal to amend the First Amendment.
The First Amendment — as it now stands — includes 10 unambiguous words about freedom of speech.
“Congress,” it says, “shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.”
Schumer and Udall do not like this sweeping restraint on government power. There are speakers whose speech they want to abridge. The Bill of Rights — as correctly interpreted by the Supreme Court — stands in their way. So, they are seeking to change it.
Specifically, in 2010, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission that Americans enjoy the freedom of speech not only when they act as individuals but also when they form corporations.
In other words, a movie-making company has the same right to free speech as its owners individually do.
The same can be said for a book publishing company — or a company that manufactures lawnmowers or fishing rods.
In the United States, they all enjoy a freedom of speech that Congress “shall make no law” that abridges it.
For Schumer, this principle, which the court upheld in Citizens United, is gravely wrong.
“Few decisions in the 200 and some odd years of this republic have threatened our democracy like Citizens United,” Schumer said on Tuesday
“If I get to be majority leader with the help of my colleagues here and all of you, Citizens United will go. It must,” he said.
“Overturning Citizens United,” Schumer said, “is probably more important than any other single thing we could do to preserve this great and grand democracy.”
It was not Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito or even John Roberts who wrote the court’s opinion in Citizens United. It was Anthony Kennedy.
“The court has recognized that First Amendment protection extends to corporations,” Kennedy wrote.
“If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech,” he said.
The court also concluded it was ridiculous for the government — as federal campaign-finance law then did — to try to distinguish between a “media” corporation and other types of corporations in order to exempt “media” corporations from restrictions the government sought to impose on the freedom of speech of non-media corporations.
“The exemption applies to media corporations owned or controlled by corporations that have diverse and substantial investments and participate in endeavors other than news,” said the court. “So even assuming the most doubtful proposition that a news organization has a right to speak when others do not, the exemption would allow a conglomerate that owns both a media business and an unrelated business to influence or control the media in order to advance its overall business interest. At the same time, some other corporation, with an identical business interest but no media outlet in its ownership structure, would be forbidden to speak or inform the public about the same issue.”
“This differential treatment cannot be squared with the First Amendment,” said the court.
“The purpose and effect of this law,” the court said, “is to prevent corporations, including small and nonprofit corporations, from presenting both facts and opinions to the public.”
“When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought,” Kennedy wrote. “This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.”
Their Democracy for All Amendment, as they call it, deploys 106 words to amend the 10 words in the First Amendment that protect freedom of speech.
The final 22 words of their proposed amendment assure corporations that own news outlets that Schumer and Udall are not coming for them. They say: “Nothing in this article shall be construed to grant Congress or the States the power to abridge the freedom of the press.”
There is no similar language to clarify that the amendment does not give Congress or the states the power to abridge “freedom of speech” for entities other than the “press” — because that is precisely the amendment’s purpose.
The first section of the Udall-Schumer amendment, for example, gives Congress and the states the power to “set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections.”
In plain English: The government can limit how much you speak about an election.
The second section specifically gives Congress and the states the power to “distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other entities created by law, including by prohibiting such entities from spending money to influence elections.”
More precisely, it would give Chuck Schumer and his incumbent congressional colleagues the power to enact a law prohibiting corporations from saying such things as “This member of Congress has too little respect for the Constitution to serve faithfully under it.”
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35 Comments
4 years ago
Now it really starts! After the millions of micro-aggressions from the Left that we all see every day, this is what they are really after: one of the first steps in the totalitarian state: shut them up, disarm them, lock them up, remove them.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
The Demonrat Party must be extinct. WTP must vote them out and for good. It’s not a party of JFK long time ago. It’s a party of George Soros. It’s an issue of the surviving of the US.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
The Demonrat Party must be extinct. WTP must vote them out and for good. It’s not a party of JFK long time ago. It’s a party of George Soros. It’s an issue of the surviving of the US.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
The “disarm them” part has to happen first or the rest of the plan goes down in flames.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Right, nothing is more sinister. The only speech that needs protection is speech that triggers people, particularly political speech. This freedom is uniquely American and if all falls without this and the Second to protect it from a corrupt government. All the other nonsense is just noise when the Sen. Min. Ldr.is siggesting this but considering their assault on the presidency and his election they are obviously stopping at nothing to achieve ahd guarantee unchecked power..
4 years ago
Wow, the left wing progressive commie’s phony mask has finally fallen off. It’s just as I’ve always suspected, the “old guard” , is exactly like the new radical guard, they just didn’t have the political courage to be open about it. The “new guard” set them free.
4 years ago
if they can take the 2nd amendment, why not everything else?
4 years ago
Reply to
joe shmoe
Great question.
“Unarmed person is just a slave of the government. And an armed one is a citizen.”
–Allen West–
4 years ago
Reply to
joe shmoe
1st of all, they need a Constitutional Convention with a majority of States to get rid of the 2nd Amendment or ANY Amendment and that is very hard to do since most states are now Conservative. And, with more Democrats turning against their own Party, well, THEY ARE DESPERATE. It’s a Saul Alinsky tactic. Someone with power putting fear into the hearts of gullible American citizens.
GOOD LUCK, CHUCKIE SCHUMER with trying to get THAT done.
DEMOCRAT PARTY = PARTY OF SATAN
4 years ago
Reply to
joe shmoe
…that’s the plan….I saw all of this that is going on right now in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty Four” novel….
4 years ago
Proving once again the Dems HATE the United States and the Constitution. POShiite DemoCommies.
4 years ago
Thank you Schumer.
With your ignorance no doubt Trump just got some more votes.
Democrats are working hard to elect Trump.
Schumer hates the U S as much as Turban Durbin.
4 years ago
Reply to
The Rodeo Clown
If the dimokrauts keep this up, President Trump will have to declare their frothings at the mouth as “in kind” donations.
4 years ago
Well it seems the political stage in the good old US is more “vibrant” than ever because of the antics of the squad, rising anti Semitism, a growing muslim demographic and a newly socialist anti freedom Democrat party trying to change the constitution.
Throw in for good measure sanctuary cities thumbing their left leaning noses at deplorables and the law, ANTIFA running the North West and the usal clowns of stage and screen holding their collective breaths in a tantrum about Trump until some turn puce and fall over, you guys have lots going on over there to put right .
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
You guys as well, assuming your are in the UK ….Tommy Robinson is your “canary in the coal mine.” I worry about the Mother Country as much as America.
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Agreed and yes I am ladywarrior, it’s a living nightmare at the moment, everyone is so apprehensive.
4 years ago
HATRED OF YOUR OPPONENT or SOMEONE YOU DISAGREE WITH, IS ALL CONSUMING, isn’t it, Chuckie?
Let’s see, if HATRED comes from Satan, then that makes you what, Chuckie?
GOD gives me my right to speak freely, NOT YOU Chuckie.
4 years ago
Take away the right to say “f**k” and you take away the right to say “f**k the government”!
~~~Lenny Bruce~~~
4 years ago
Free speech is a war and we have had many casualties. The enemy fires everything at us (deplatforming, freezing assets, fake law suits, gag orders) and some of our leaders are being silenced (e.g. Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Tommy Robinson). Now the enemy is seeking to increase their arsenal against free speech. God bless and protect † Free Speech †.
4 years ago
WTF? The idiot actually said this? Schumer is such a unAmerican POS,…who votes for these turds?
4 years ago
For a modern day example of how suppression of free speech works, consider the behavior of such social media giants as Google, Twitter, and Facebook.
Those in politics and the media, including social media, who seek to stifle the freedom of expression of others need to be reminded that the constitutional liberties that permit that freedom are the very same liberties that allow political discourse and a free media to even exist in the first place.
The Second Amendment protects all the others.
4 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Something needs to be done about those three….BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION!
It’s like Sky Net coming to life before our eyes. SHUT THEM DOWN!
4 years ago
Chuckie boy outing himself as a disgusted communist.
4 years ago
FOR TRUMP/FOR USA
4 years ago
Schumer is one of those perfect Jewish stereotypes that most of the world hate so much Including other Jews.
4 years ago
Really Schumer? Does that go for the Left also…no more free speech for you as well? Or is this another one of those..”rules for thee and not for me” things?
Slowly trying to dismantle our Bill of Rights and Constitution….first our self protective weapons…and then we speak up against it, then it’s our free speech you want.
Why don’t you Globalist enemies of America just go ahead put on your Mao jackets and march in D.C……oh wait, you already have done it with your mouth and actions.
There is nothing more that the Dimms want than a Civil War…..they are stupid. WE are not.
4 years ago
…except he’s got it wrong…..America is a “REPUBLIC”…..
4 years ago
Once again, if you are listening, the Dishonorable senator (little s intended) from NY Charles “Chucky The Doll” Schumer lets the proverbial cat out of the bag. No offense intended to the real horror movie 🙂
4 years ago
Once again, if you are listening, the Dishonorable senator (little s intended) from NY Charles “Chucky The Doll” Schumer lets the proverbial cat out of the bag. No offense intended to the real horror movie 🙂
4 years ago
Flag burning, taking a knee, name calling, threats are protected by the 1st Amendment freedom of speech. However, so called hate crimes are not. All of these actions than are hate speech and should be handled as such. As for Schumer and his cohorts, they took and oath to protect and defend the Constitution. He/they is in violation of that oath and should be impeached. Also, the US is a Republic, not a Democracy, and I for one am tired of hearing these people call it that. AND TO THE REPUBLIC, for which it stands!!! “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes truth.” Nazi Joseph Goebbles
4 years ago
Reply to
notme123
**** the whole concept of “hate speech” and “hate crimes”. They do not belong in a Constitutional Republic.
4 years ago
First of all, everyone needs to know that they have a powerful message to deliver to anyone in government. Anyone who attempts to abridge or infringe constitutional rights MUST be held to prove that he has authority from two thirds of the voters of his district, before embarking on any EFFORT to do away with a Constitutional Right that they do not like or would otherwise like to amend. Why? Every elected politician takes an OATH of OFFICE, and SWEARS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THE U.S. Constitution is in place as the Law of the Land at the time of swearing in. As such, EVERY politician that attempts to nullify or abridge or infringe an existing Constitutional Right, without the people’s permission, must be accused of VIOLATION OF HIS/HER OATH OF OFFICE, which is a serious offense, and he/she can be removed from office by his/her constituents for such violation of oath of office.
No politician can be delegated authority to promote their own agenda as being the will of the people that voted him/her in, when such is NOT the case. REMEMBER. It’s our duty to hold our elected politicians accountable.
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4 years ago
You forgot to mention Canada “ The National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazis), the
Communists, Stalinists, AND CANADA et al destroy freedom by first restricting free
speech”.
4 years ago
One should not assign special meaning to the fact that the 1st amendment is first of 10. The Bill of Rights was a package of 12 amendments presented to the states for ratification by Congress on September 28, 1789. On that day, what we know as the 1st amendment was the 3rd amendment. Proposed amendments #1 and #2 failed ratification and #3 – #12 were renumbered 1 – 10 and became valid parts of the Constitution. There is nothing significant about being labeled #1, especially when considering the subject matter of the original #1 and #2 — apportionment of Representatives in Congress and restriction on pay raises for Congress respectively. (Number 2 was ratified some 200 years later and is now the 27th amendment.)
