Remember a quaint concept called “democracy?”
Apparently, progressive elected officials and partisans have forgotten that idea. Time and again, they have rammed unwanted policies down the throat of communities suffering from their radical and foolish ideas, protecting wrongdoers whose actions assault the very practice of free speech and participatory government by all.
New York’s senior U.S. senator introduced, several years ago, a measure which would have limited the application of the First Amendment. Fortunately, it was defeated. The attacks on free speech, a central tenet of democracy, remains under bitter attack. Under the dishonest guise of addressing “disinformation,” progressive-dominated federal agencies do all that they can to oppress, suppress and prosecute journalists who don’t kneel to progressive ideas. Consider reporter Mike Taibbi. Although generally siding with Democrat policies in the past, he broke rank with them when, in good conscience, he couldn’t abide by assaults on journalist integrity by the Federal Trade Commission when he exposed federal officials who strong-armed social media to help elect Biden in the 2020 elections. He has since been harassed for this noble deed.
A Federalist investigation reports that “…the ‘Twitter Files’ and the Washington Examiner’s coverage of the Global Disinformation Index have revealed an expansive Censorship Complex that seeks to silence Americans for money, politics, ideology, and power… A search of government contracts and grants for the eight fiscal years from 2016 through today for the keywords “misinformation” or “disinformation” reveals 538 federal government grants and 36 contracts were awarded to a wide range of academic institutions and non-governmental organizations… an initial investigation into the nonprofits and academic institutions mentioned in the “Twitter Files” reveals government grants, donations from other liberal nonprofits, and money from leftist billionaires funded the expansion of the Censorship Complex. Research also shows the non-governmental organizations pushing the disinformation narrative are uniformly directed and run by former government employees, left-wing media types, and left-leaning or anti-Trump individuals.”
Poll after poll demonstrates that Americans are deeply concerned about Chinese espionage, but some Justice Department officials ignore that and instead concentrate on nonsensical investigations of Roman Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass, and harassment of parents who object to sexual indoctrination of youngsters, both direct assaults on the First Amendment.
Our youngest students are subjected to “drag queen” exhibits and those who object are labelled homophobic. When NYC City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino objected to this offense, she was kicked out of the Council’s mental health committee. Parents who have objected to this and similar practices are labelled as “domestic terrorists” by the federal government’s rogue Justice Department.
The anti-free speech movement is an outgrowth of what has occurred on college campuses. Speakers, professors, and students who dare to differ with left wing thought are ostracized, harassed, and subjected to threats of violence. The lates example occurred at Stanford Law School. Federal Appeals Court Judge Kyle Duncan’s remarks were drowned out by Progressive students. Afterwards, Tirien Steinbach, the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, instead of rebuking the disturbing actions of these future attorneys, criticized Judge Duncan.
In truly Orwellian fashion, we have been asked to accept that, over months and months, violent, murderous mobs that invade police stations, attack federal courthouses, assault passersby, loot stores, burn buildings and declare portions of a city to be independent of state, local and national laws are “peaceful protesters.” These criminals are given this falsely benign title because they largely adhere to Progressive ideas. Indeed, they have been assisted at the highest levels of government. Then-candidate’s Kamala Harris’s campaign assisted in raising bail money for some participants
Ignoring the needs and wishes of local residents, City and State officials across the nation have instituted truly insane no bail policies and other so-called criminal justice “reforms” which have wreaked havoc on public safety, despite the frightened cries of the citizenry.
The assault on democracy is real, substantial, and ongoing.
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