Posted on 03/20/2021 10:06:38 AM PDT by blam
Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the House Judiciary Committee ranking member, recounted some of the aspects of a hearing and Big Tech, where he questioned how the First Amendment applied in certain circumstances.
Jordan explained much of what Democrats were doing in the beginning stages of this Congress had bypassed the committee process.
“They’ve been taking bills around the Judiciary Committee straight to the floor, almost every piece of legislation that’s passed in the last three weeks, we had jurisdiction over but the full committee is yet to have a hearing,” he said. “We’ve said why not have a hearing about this crisis on the border. Instead, they go around the committee, and they passed just 40 minutes ago, Maria, they pass a bill that gives amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants. So, amnesty while there’s this chaos on the border, that I mean, this is so out of touch with where the American people are, but this is how radical left the Democrats are.”
“And then, of course, the canceled culture issue, this idea that, you know, I always asked it this way, do you have a functioning First Amendment when only one side is allowed to talk?” Jordan continued. “Do you have free speech when only the left can define what can be said? So that’s the situation Maria in the Judiciary Committee should be focused on those two issues. Instead, they pass radical things like defund the police, federal control of elections, and now an amnesty bill without having the kind of hearings you’re supposed to have
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The Cultural Marxist were only interested in the 1st while they could use it to shield themselves. It has no place if they think they have the upper hand.
So, Jim, what’cha gonna do about it? The Social Democrats said plenty of clever things about Hitler and the Nazis, but that didn’t stop them.
It’s called communism Jim and it can’t be voted out. So what’s your plan now?
The real problem is that they have an out of control police agency which now acts as their political enforcer.
Between Robert Mueller and Chris Wray there hasn’t been one bit of difference in the focus of that supposedly neutral agency: get the Republicans, get the white people (they’re all KKK, right?), aid and abet the foreign takedown of the United States by arresting and imprisoning anyone who opposes the Globalist / anti-American agenda.
That is how history will record the activities of these two men. Without them, the Democrat party is a squabbling gang of fringe groups, hostile to the original settlers and their self made government.
We can add the “Intelligence” agencies to the mix, but the big kahuna is the infiltration and takeover of those agencies by the Left, turning them into American KGB/STASI operations.
Lois Lerner was just a drop in the bucket.
We are doomed by the people who run the government agencies.
It's like Rush said when asked if Obama instructed Lois, "she already knew what to do, she needed no instructions from anyone."
Don’t forget the Cheap Justice of the Supreme Court, he needs to be in that list of crooked bastards too.
The First Amendment served its purpose, which was to allow Communism to take over the country.
It is no longer needed.
Correct. They’re in power now, and they want more of it. And they’re getting it.
Hate to say it but the Left is stronger and more motivated than we are. We’re passive. They’re aggressive.
The strong win, the weak lose. Yes, they’re evil but they’re driven to get what they want. We’re not.
Do you have a functioning 2nd Amendment if only one side is allowed to use it?
It would have helped if we had a real political party fighting for us. We’ve never had that. And as long as the GOP exists we never will.
the Democrat party is a squabbling gang of fringe groups, hostile to the original settlers and their self made government.
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The GOP seems close to fitting that description too.
Do you think any of these Republicans are realizing that being a pussy and going along just to get along with the demonrats was a good idea?? I think a lot of them are comfortable right now, which means Bye Bye America and your Freedom.
The First Amendment predates “sides”.
The problem with Jordan’s analysis is that each “side” gets to say who can and can’t talk. At the moment, both “sides” are talking the same game, and, even according to the Jim Jordans of this world, if you’re not on a side (or if “both sides” say so), you’re not allowed to talk.
You raise an important point.
Do you or do you not believe that the First Amendment INCLUDES speech by the KKK (the five of them that are not FBI agents)?
When they get what they want the wrath of the Lord will turn earth into a hell all around them.
“Repression of political speech by large institutions with market power…is—I say this advisedly—fundamentally un-American,” Silberman
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This is the phase where the democrats allow the gop to engage in some harmless criticism of the democrats. It gives the impression of some oppostion, but it has no effect.
“Jim Jordan: ‘Do You Have A Functioning First Amendment When Only One Side Is Allowed To Talk?”
The same way you have a functioning 2nd Amendment when only criminals are allowed to have guns.
With all due respect to Rep. Jordan, the real problem with the desperate Democratic-controlled Congress that he has overlooked is actually the opposite of free speech in the context of the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
More specifically, the only things that congressional committees should be regularly discussing are thing like non-INTRAstate trade, U.S. Post Service, militia, strengthening constitutional rights like the 2nd Amendment, and under a handful of other things which the states have expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific powers to do something about.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, unless closed-door congressional discussions deal with resolutions for petitioning the states for new constitutional amendments for new powers for Congress, congressional discussion on things outside the scope of Congress’s constitutionally enumerated powers could be regarded as evidence of state powers that the feds have stolen from the states, such discussions possibly triggering corrupt committee members being removed from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
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