Free Speech is Under Full Assault

American Thinker.com ^ | June 19, 2020 | J. G. Carter

[Kaslin]

Increasingly, we see people holding unpopular views being attacked and refused a forum in which to speak. Through the threat of force and censorship to control people's speech, free speech is under full assault. History is replete with others using similar tactics. As in the times before the Nazi rise to power, the Soviet gulag era, and Mao's revolution, similar trends are prevalent today.

Freedom of speech is engaging in unrestricted speaking of one's mind without fear of retaliation or censorship. It is the freedom to use one's natural rights to engage in complex thought and speech. This is not a new concept. Freedom of speech has a history centuries old, long predating the founding of this country. Some want to control these natural abilities. This is where the dispute lies.

One does not have to look far to find multiple examples of the threat of violence and censorship. This ranges from online mobs to technology company and media censorship and peer attacks. Those with differing opinions are blackballed, blacklisted, attacked, and censored out of existence.

Take, for example, distinguished University of Chicago professor Harald Uhlig, attacked by his professional peers and online mob for writing that Black Lives Matters "just torpedoed itself, with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice." And, "Time for sensible adults to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it all... We need more police, we need to pay them more, we need to train them better."

[Ciaphas Cain]

I am a writer for numerous online publications. My name would be recognized.

I cannot write anymore, unless it is under a pen name. Out of fear that what I would write about BLM, socialism etc. will get back to management and have me dismissed (and I'm in a government job).

It is practically killing me to get my ideas out in the open and unable to do that. The term "chilling effect" has never been more appropriate than now.

[ThunderSleeps]

Increasingly, we see people holding unpopular views being attacked and refused a forum in which to speak.

It's not just unpopular views. In fact many people/views attacked are, in my experience anyway, very popular, very common.

The views being attacked are any that conflict with the leftist/fascist agenda, regardless of popularity, correctness, or common sense. The left is increasingly using active/direct measures. Not satisfied with social media based public floggings, not satiated by taking bakers and photographers to court... The left is now mobilizing for full-on direct action. Burn, loot, vandalize, threaten, attack, even kill.

The left is pulling out all the stops to try to stop President Trump's MAGA agenda. Look for 2020 to be the year of fear. It is going to be a wild ride up to the election.

[foreverfree]

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