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Congress Must Stop The Executive Branch’s Heinous Attempts To Censor Americans
July 25, 2023
The First Amendment’s mandate that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech” is a guarantee that, no matter how inconvenient to those temporarily holding high office, the people have an absolute right to express their thoughts and opinions. Despite this constitutional requirement, over 200 years ago, President John Adams and the Federalists in Congress used the threat of war with France as a pretext to enact into law the Sedition Act of 1798, which made it a crime for Americans to “print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” about the government.
The debate surrounding the Sedition Act was about the nature of freedom of speech. One supporter of the law, Alexander Addison, believed that some opinions were so dangerous that it was in the public interest to suppress them, stating, “Truth has but one side: and listening to error and falsehood is indeed a strange way to discover truth.”
An opponent, Thomas Cooper, presciently argued that the purpose of the Sedition Act was to empower one party to “suppress the opinions of those who differ from them.” Unsurprisingly, all the defendants prosecuted under the Sedition Act would be Republicans.
Sound familiar?
On Independence Day this year, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the Biden Administration from collaborating with social media companies to censor and suppress constitutionally protected speech. In his opinion, Judge Terry Doughty stated that the Biden Administration’s efforts to suppress opinions it opposes “arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in the United States’ history.” It is difficult to disagree with Judge Doughty’s description.
For years, the Biden Administration demanded social media suppress and censor conservatives who dared question the origins of Covid, the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns, and election integrity, among other issues. The Biden Administration was so zealous in its enforcement of censorship, even parody content did not escape its anti-free speech campaign.
And the Biden administration didn’t ask nicely. When then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki publicly called on social media companies to censor speech relating to Covid, she mentioned Biden’s support for a “robust anti-trust program,” all but threatening to break up tech giants if they failed to adopt the administration’s censorship policies. Later, the White House announced that it was reviewing policies relating to whether social media should be held legally liable for spreading so-called misinformation. In other words, the Biden administration effectively told social media “Do our bidding, or else.”
The White House was so aggressive that a Twitter representative stated the site was “bombarded” with censorship requests from the executive branch. But that bombardment was not really directed at Twitter — it was a monstrous attack on the free speech rights guaranteed to every American by the First Amendment.
In addition to countless numbers of Americans, I was targeted by the censorship regime. When I posted a video on YouTube to educate the public on the potentially harmful consequences of relying on ineffective cloth masks to prevent transmission of Covid, YouTube took my video down and suspended me for a week.
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Americans are a free people and we do not take infringements upon our liberties lightly. The time has come for resistance and to reclaim our God-given right to free expression. Permit me, as a member of the resistance, to present a solution that that restores and protects the First Amendment.
I introduced legislation called the Free Speech Protection Act, which will prohibit federal employees and contractors from using their positions to censor and otherwise attack speech protected by the First Amendment. My legislation will impose penalties for those that violate this rule, as well as empower private citizens to sue the government and executive branch officials for violating their First Amendment rights. Additionally, the bill will mandate frequent publicly accessible reports detailing the communications between an executive branch agency and media organizations, ensure that federal grant money is not used to label media organizations as sources of misinformation or disinformation, and terminates authorities that threaten free speech.
Under my Free Speech Protection Act, the government will no longer be able to cloak itself in secrecy to undermine the First Amendment rights of conservatives, libertarians, liberals, socialists, and all others who wish to exercise their right to free speech and engage in public discourse.
My legislation will make it difficult to hide efforts to censor constitutionally protected speech. Those officials who censor Americans are on notice: if you infringe upon First Amendment rights, under my bill, you will face severe penalties, such as potential debarment from employment by the United States, a civil penalty of no less than $10,000, and revocation of a security clearance. Any administration employee who prizes his livelihood would not dare threaten free speech after my bill becomes law.
Looking back upon his defeat of John Adams for the presidency, Thomas Jefferson wrote, the “revolution of 1800 . . . was a real revolution in the principles of our government as that of [17]76.” Jefferson’s victory was a vindication of the First Amendment as he allowed the Sedition Act to expire and pardoned those convicted for expressing their views.
Once again, the American people are called upon to defend the founding principles over which our forebears fought a revolution. To protect free speech, Congress must prohibit the government’s collusion with Big Tech and other media organizations. Congress must pass the Free Speech Protection Act.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/25/congress-must-stop-the-executive-branchs-heinous-attempts-to-censor-americans/
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Sidney Powell - Defending The Republic Newsletter
July 26, 2023
Let’s Talk about the Media
Dear Patriots,
We have talked many times about the current state media. It goes by many names: Fake News, Drive By News, Corporate Media, Mainstream Media.
Almost no one refers to it as The Fourth Estate. The entire enterprise has dramatically shifted away from the concept of an independent press, whose main charge was to hold government accountable to the people.
These days, the fake media all has one thing in common, it is enthusiastically and uniformly pushing a far left, insane, pro-Democrat Party agenda.
For this reason we have urged you to avoid it. We have suggested alternatives. Many of you now get your news from many of these alternative sources.
Of course, one great alternative is THIS three-days-a-week newsletter, which we hope you will subscribe. As a Donor you receive these newsletter complimentary. Thank you for your support.
Today we give you more reasons to turn to independent news gathering.
1- If you have any doubt that Fox News has gone off the cliff, this should remove all doubt.
People working at Fox News have come to The Blaze to show them the company website that lists the organizations Fox News is encouraging their employees to support. Fox offers to match the donations.
These companies are antithetical to our Christian and American values, as is Fox News.
DO NOT WATCH FOX NEWS!
TheBlaze
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News whistleblowers expose company’s support for far-left charities
2- The difference between the coverage of Biden vs. Trump is stark. The fact of the matter is, the coverage shoud be the same. Both Presidents should be treated the same way and questioned on policies and decisions with equal zeal.
It is heartening that despite the never ending positive, glowing and glossed over coverage of Joe Biden, the overall public is not buying it!
Issues & Insights
Media Can’t Understand Why Biden Is So Unpopular (After Everything They’ve Done For Him)
3- Newt Gingrich said: “At some point, the dam is going to break and even The New York Times and The Washington Post are going to recognize that we have a huge problem on our hands.”
Is that dam going to break? Will the WaPo and NYTimes objectively cover this massive story of government corruption? We are not holding our breath. We are counting on all the alternative media to fill the role of The Fourth Estate.
NY Post
‘We may have a criminal family sitting in the White House’: Gingrich on Biden bribery doc
4- What are the alternatives?
We are big fans of podcasts. You can listen any time, any where. You can pause them and share them.
This is by no means a comprehensive list. We offer you a few to check out. Our advice is to listen to several episodes to get into the style and see if you like it. (Rush always said you had to give him a couple of weeks of listening to get comfortable with him.)
You will not agree with everyone and everything said. We don’t! But we appreciate a full array of ideas in order to come to our own conclusions.
All of these can be found on Apple Podcast app that comes on your phone with a quick look up by the name of the podcast, or by searching on YouTube.
-The Charlie Kirk Show
-The Monica Crowley Podcast
-The Rubin Report
-Ruthless
-The Dan Bongino Show
-The Victor Davis Hanson Show
-Red Pilled America
Although not a pure podcast, we suggest that you listen and watch The War Room daily.
You can get the episodes on Apple podcasts later in the day. Or you can listen live at WarRoom.org
Of course, what more do you need than the Defending The Republic newsletter three time a week from Substack?
https://truthsocial.com/@realSidneyPowell/posts/110780961101713313
https://defendingtherepublic.org/lets-talk-about-the-media/
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San Francisco: Naked Woman Shoots Gun at Cars (Video)
Jul. 26, 2023 2:06 pm
A naked woman was arrested after firing a gun at cars in traffic at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon. No one was reported injured in the incident. The woman reportedly first exited her car in traffic brandishing a knife. She then drove down the road and stopped again, this time exiting the car after stripping off her clothes and wandered the traffic lanes firing a handgun.
Witnesses filmed the bizarre incident. The first video shows the naked woman exiting her car in the middle of the road. The second shows her roaming, shooting at cars–two apparent gunshot can be heard.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/san-francisco-naked-woman-shoots-gun-cars-video/