Now it has been codified into Law that you can be charged for the same Hate Crime Offense at every level of Government without the Constitutional Protection of Double Jeopardy.
Hate is a Motive, it isn't a Crime.
You are Free until the moment the Government Mob decides you are not.
Freedom of Speech is, in part, the Freedom to not speak.
Freedom of Association is, in part, the Freedom to not associate.
The transgenders are trying to force people to use invented pronouns. They are trying to force people to express “approval” of perverted lifestyles.
Homosexuals are forcing people bake cakes for them.
The courts need to support Freedom rather than PC.
A crisis is a decisive point, a turning point, when an important change takes place, either positive or negative.
A crisis doesn’t last forever. The word comes from Greek for “decision.” You don’t take forever to make a decision. You make your decision one way or another.
The choice has been made. We do not have freedom of speech or thought. The world’s biggest bookstore suppresses books with a certain outlook. Search engines and social media kick users off for their views. Some localities arrest you for refusal to use made up pronouns. We have the illusion of free speech on certain forums, but we don’t have it. We use pseudonyms so we won’t be arrested, fired, or have antifas firebombing out homes. No. There is no freedom of thought or expression.
I would love to hear ideas on how we can get it back.
The First Amendment does not establish freedom of the press, it guarantees the retention of freedom of the press. But freedom of the press was limited by the laws of libel and pornography, and the First Amendment does not touch those laws. It was crafted specifically not to. 1A doesn’t speak of “freedom of the press” but of "the freedom of the press” - freedom as traditionally limited.
- Amendment 9:
- The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
- Amendment 10:
- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The right to sue for libel is an unenumerated right, and going overboard on freedom of the press - as SCOTUS did in its 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision - produces licentious press behavior. Hence, “the media” as we know and despise it.
Licentious press behavior is Trump Derangement Syndrome, and the “borking” of Clarence Thomas and Justice Kavanaugh. And it resulted in the attempted murder of Steve Scalice - and, in principle, of the whole Republican Congressional Delegation.
Preventing politicians from suing for libel doesn’t affect politicians who do not get libeled. Such politicians exist. They are known as “Democrats.” The Sullivan decision prevents Republicans from suing for libel. As “controlling legal authority,” Sullivan has to go.