Under no circumstances do I want anyone to silence the free speech rights of anyone, but here’s the rub. “They” think the State should be able to shut “you” up, and COVID set a new benchmark for these critical points in that debate.
As it turns out, an astonishing new release of discovery documents in Missouri v. Biden—in which NCLA Legal is representing plaintiffs including Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Aaron Kheriaty against the Biden administration for violations of free speech during Covid—reveal a vast federal censorship army, with more than 50 federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies having secretly coordinated with social media companies to censor private speech.
Secretary Mayorkas of DHS commented that the federal Government’s efforts to police private speech on social media are occurring “across the federal enterprise.” It turns out that this statement is true, on a scale beyond what Plaintiffs could ever have anticipated. The limited discovery produced so far provides a tantalizing snapshot into a massive, sprawling federal “Censorship Enterprise,” which includes dozens of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies and components identified so far, who communicate with social-media platforms about misinformation, disinformation, and the suppression of private speech on social media—all with the intent and effect of pressuring social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech that federal officials disfavor.
The scale of this federal censorship enterprise appears to be far beyond what anyone imagined, involving even senior White House officials.
There is compelling evidence of a cabal weaponized during the COVID era to suppress free speech. None of our readers will be surprised. An already willing deep-state, weaponized during Obama’s tenure, and left unaddressed during Trump’s term as president, has a compelling interest in silencing dissent. But the First Amendment is a problem, so they used fear and forced preference falsification to bypass its protections.
The answer lies in forced preference falsification. When those who speak up in principled opposition to a dictator’s policies are punished and forced into silence, those with similar opinions are forced into silence as well, or even forced to pretend they support policies in which they do not actually believe. Emboldened by this facade of unanimity, supporters of the regime’s policies, or even those who did not previously have strong opinions, become convinced that the regime’s policies are just and good—regardless of what those policies actually are—and that those critical of them are even more deserving of punishment.
Senger points to Mao as an example of how this plays out, which is essential, especially after PedoHitler’s recent hate Speech targeting Republicans. The State is attempting to create a forced preference falsification that Trump supporters are not human. That Republicans are Jews in Hitler’s Germany. There’s no mistaking it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t stop it.
While many still cling to the COVID fearmongering chapter and verse, out in the real world, vaccinated people are getting COVID two, three, or even four times. The armor surrounding that authoritarian impulse has chinks, and even though states like California are prepared to silence doctors who dare point them out, they are there.
The State is not just fallible. It is demonstrably incompetent.
Point Two.
The evidence of failure is abundant. COVID set a standard, not just of fear-politics but of bumbling incompetence. The experts are idiots and not to be trusted with anything, especially power. California can’t punish everyone, and threatening Doctors will only result in fewer of them practicing in the State.
The First Amendment isn’t dead, and if you climb high enough up the Federal Court system, even the liberals on the US Supreme Court have defended it.
You can’t control the narrative if you can’t shut people up. You also can’t prevent people from exposing how the corporate media is just as corrupt as the State.
The Daily Signal helped clarify that in a video titled “10 times experts lied about COVID.”
Good times but that report could use some updating. The vaccinated do not experience milder symptoms when re-infected; another lie from the experts. They can end up in the hospital or dead, and most COVID deaths are NOW among the vaccinated (NOT the unvaccinated). A truth they still try to hide.
So, the lies keep coming, which is why California wants to legalize protecting them. Biden needs a mob’s worth of folks to dehumanize his political opponents – something they’ve been working on for years.
Pedohitler’s got his red guard (Antifa). But he doesn’t have the truth. And as long as we can share that, there is hope that we can get out of this without Uncle Joe calling up the F-15s to bomb his own citizens.
As if they would. A problem the State is also working on, but I don’t think we’re there yet. And that leads to a third point.
Will enough elected Republicans ever step up and get in the way, or will they all sit at whatever table the Democrats set and act like proper dinner guests for a meal whose main course is the heart of the Republic?
Note: The original version suggested most deaths were not among the vaccinated. It should read are NOW among the vaccinated. The text has been corrected and clarified for emphasis.
