1.The Constitution is the only document the people of the free country of America have agreed to be governed by.
I'm gonna call this the most important part of the document: ""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech..."
2. I'm a conservative, a supporter of Trump, and a believer in Lord Acton's warning that power corrupts.
Great article by Stossel....
3. " I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"
Democrats, by contrast, had been eagerly censoring. During Covid, they threatened social media companies, ordering them to censor the internet.
"They are directly speaking to millions!" complained Kamala Harris, "without any level of oversight, and that has to stop!"
Fortunately, once Trump was reelected, he told his staff: "Stop all government censorship."
Hooray!
4.But now that Trump's president, and getting lots of criticism from the media, he's started calling speech that he doesn't like "illegal." "They'll take a great story, and they'll make it bad. I think that's really illegal, personally."
He also threatened TV stations: "They give me only bad publicity ... maybe their license should be taken away."
"There's free speech, and then there's hate speech," said his attorney general, Pam Bondi. "We will absolutely target you ... if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
They will "target" people?
5. Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, joined in. When Jimmy Kimmel said nasty and incorrect things about Charlie Kirk's murder, Carr threatened ABC's TV licenses, saying, like a mafia boss, "We can do this the easy way or the wawy. Yet months earlier, he'd tweeted: "Dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights."
And years earlier, he tweeted that the FCC does "not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the public interest."
He was right ... then.
But power tends to corrupt."
www.johnstossel.com
I'm gonna call this the most important part of the document: ""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech..."
2. I'm a conservative, a supporter of Trump, and a believer in Lord Acton's warning that power corrupts.
Great article by Stossel....
3. " I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"
Democrats, by contrast, had been eagerly censoring. During Covid, they threatened social media companies, ordering them to censor the internet.
"They are directly speaking to millions!" complained Kamala Harris, "without any level of oversight, and that has to stop!"
Fortunately, once Trump was reelected, he told his staff: "Stop all government censorship."
Hooray!
4.But now that Trump's president, and getting lots of criticism from the media, he's started calling speech that he doesn't like "illegal." "They'll take a great story, and they'll make it bad. I think that's really illegal, personally."
He also threatened TV stations: "They give me only bad publicity ... maybe their license should be taken away."
"There's free speech, and then there's hate speech," said his attorney general, Pam Bondi. "We will absolutely target you ... if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
They will "target" people?
5. Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, joined in. When Jimmy Kimmel said nasty and incorrect things about Charlie Kirk's murder, Carr threatened ABC's TV licenses, saying, like a mafia boss, "We can do this the easy way or the wawy. Yet months earlier, he'd tweeted: "Dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights."
And years earlier, he tweeted that the FCC does "not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the public interest."
He was right ... then.
But power tends to corrupt."
Free Speech - Stossel TV
The Constitution’s First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can’t say what they want, we don’t have honest debate. I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for...Read More
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