Posted on 11/17/2020 10:44:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Democrat and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is warning that the Biden transition team has taken an "ominous turn" after former Vice President Joe Biden hired a number of anti-free speech zealots.
"For those of us who have been critical of the growing anti-free speech movement in the Democratic Party, the Biden transition team just took an ominous turn. The New York Post reports that Biden tapped Richard Stengel to take the “team lead” position on the US Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty," Turley writes on his website. "As I previously addressed in a column, Stengel has been one of the most controversial figures calling for censorship and speech controls. For a president-elect who just called for everyone to “hear each other,” he picked a top aide who wants to silence many. Since it would be difficult to select a more anti-free speech figure to address government media policy, one has to assume that Biden will continue the onslaught against this core freedom as president. This is not the first Biden aide to indicate a crackdown on free speech in the new Administration and Biden himself has called for greater censorship on the Internet."
"Last year, Stengel wrote a chilling Washington Post op-ed that denounced free speech as a threat to social and political harmony. Like a number of liberal and Democratic figures, Stengel struggled to convince readers that what they need is less freedom: “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. "In January, Biden called for greater speech controls on the Internet and denounced Twitter for allowing others to speak freely. In insisted that tolerating such views in the name of free speech is same as “propagating falsehoods they know to be false.” Biden called for companies to bar Trump views on such things as mail-in voting as an invitation for fraud. He is not alone. Congressional leaders like House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff have called for labeling and removal of material with some members directly threatening a legislative crackdown."
This comes as Republicans continually warn about big tech censorship, which is the topic of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning.
Today at 10:00am: Chairman @LindseyGrahamSC will lead a hearing titled, "Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election".Tune in: https://t.co/8wsvW9q9wR — Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) November 17, 2020
Just took? The whole team is a an anti freedom horror show.
No surprise, Biden applauded the censorship.
Of course he did.
DR. DOBSON ON TRUMP!
Friend Gene Mikell and I interviewed Dr. Dobson on WNIV here in Atlanta years ago and Dr. Dobson said something I’ve never forgotten. The discussion turned to the current state capitalism. While a supporter of the system, he commented that “If not based on Christianity, capitalism is little more than a HUNTING LICENSE.”
Given the mess in which we now find ourselves, we’d extend that to our entire nation and ALL its systems.
John Adams put it this way: (You younger government school folks may need to look him up.)
‘We have no government armed with the power which is capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.’
PLEASE KEEP THIS ONE CIRCULATING as we’re headed into a very perilous period.
https://tinyurl.com/y4kujqyk
I’m shocked! /s
No transition until Biden takes a cognitive test given his refusal to do a real press conference in front of America.
Of course.....
Biden and his "Hi Heels Whore" want no truth reported about themselves...
Face it - we might as well be Falun Gong.
No surprise, Biden applauded the censorship.
Biden is in his basement sucking his runny maple oatmeal through a straw watching re-runs of Our Gang comedies.
He’ll never be involved in much of the process of anything should he get that far.
Democrats are complete liars.
Wouldn’t announce victory till certified. Nope
Don’t approve violence. Won’t denounce Antifa and BLM.
Unite the country. Bring in 125,000 Muslim refugees a year.
Censorship? I’m not sure they even lied about that one. They are for it.
It starts at censorship and then morphs into something much worse — repression, intimidation, and outright threats. They won’t be content with simply silencing us. They want total control.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Oh please. We all know that the RATs will ban any speech that opposes their sick, evil twisted goals.
We are on the verge of a Stalinist state, and gutless Republican politicians other than Trump do nothing.
SS elements: save America . Only you can get it done .
They act like Biden is actually allowed to make decisions like this. His handlers are taking care of it, just the way Obama’s did.
Who will Biden appoint as the first official Minister of Propaganda, to unite the masses in one thought?
The population unanimously cries out for the total rectification of divergent thinking, and the complete cancellation of hated speech.
Anti free speech zealots? This is just the new face of the Democrat party.
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