Category: First Amendment

Meanwhile, Across the Pond

The government of the United Kingdom, wielding the controversial Online Safety Act 2023, has issued a direct ultimatum, launching a blatant assault on the principles of open discourse that define our community. They demand that Gab submit to their stringent censorship regime, threatening exorbitant fines potentially reaching £18 million or a crippling 10% of our global revenue if we refuse to bow to their demands. [More]

So, what “3D chess move” is Trump up to?

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

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Keir Starmer to the rescue!

[Via WiscoDave]

The Buck Stops Where…?

GOA & GOF have been GAGGED from printing the news (uncovered in a FOIA) for 18 months. Despite a recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit prohibiting such gag orders, Biden holdovers in @TheJusticeDept are asking the court to extend this First Amendment violation. [More]

Those “holdovers” report to someone…

UPDATE

Here’s the Motion to Lift Protective Order.

Guess whose name is at the end:

Words and Deeds

Joe Rogan: America Has ‘Unique Freedom’ Because 1st Amendment Protected By 2nd Amendment [More]

So, why did he use his oversized influence to stump for gun-grabbing communist Bernie?

I don’t get the “conervative” and “gunfluencer” fascination with this guy. He’s every bit the phony carnival barker Michael Savage was.

[Via Jess]

It’s Showtime!

The U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a third Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) case, B&L Productions v. Newsom, for conference on Friday, Jan. 24. The case challenges California’s statutes which ban gun shows on state-owned property. Because the gun shows at issue are not only opportunities to view and purchase firearms, but also for like-minded individuals to assemble and share ideas, the case presents questions about both the First and Second Amendments. [More]

Having followed this issue for many years, I say apathetic gun show attendees own their share of the mess they’ve allowed. They’re no doubt part of the majority that don’t contribute to efforts like this to clean up that mess.

The Worst Defense is a Bad Offense

Yet Gannon’s defense attorney, Stephen Colella, described Hayes as “someone who, allegedly attending a peaceful rally, saw fit to bring a semiautomatic weapon and 20 rounds, and a person who has, in fact, attended similar rallies in the past similarly armed”… [More]

Yeah, to keep hotheaded lunatics like your 32-year-old buttwad client from attacking his 47-year-old target peaceably exercising his First and Second Amendment recognized rights with potentially lethal force.

This you, Stephen…? I ask not just because of the rather unique name and the same state, but also because of similar seedily manipulative approaches to the law…

[Via Edmund M]

Charlie’s Idea of Great R&R

New Vietnamese internet rules requiring Facebook and TikTok to verify user identities and hand over data to authorities came into force on Wednesday, in what critics say is the latest attack on freedom of expression. [More]

Start small, using “for the children,” and take it from there.

Who says we can’t learn from other cultures?

The Key Word is ‘Purportedly’

Newly uncovered photos and online accounts purportedly associated with the Wisconsin teen school shooter suggest a deeply disturbing obsession with other school shooters such as Columbine killer Eric Harris — and even show her wearing a T-shirt of his favorite band. [More]

But we have no way of knowing that, do we?

I reject this excuse and this one. The evidence left by the perpetrator on social media will not change and there is no realistic way to keep names from being shared. Both the First and the Second Amendments are put at risk by accepting authorities to be the sole possessors of knowlege vital to contextualizing what they tell us.

Change my mind.

[Via bondmen]

We’ll Tell You What Your Rights Are

In 2025, several new gun laws will go into effect in California. [More]

More attacks on RKBA, due process, self-incrimination protections, and privacy rights, while dragooning dealers into spreading the state’s terms of surrender…

You’ve got to scroll down to find them. The “real reporter” figured we needed to hear Kamala and Joe prove they’re cluelsss how the election went and demand more infringements on everybody first because of Madison.

Question about Sec. 34210: Do you see anything in there prohibiting dealers from putting a stamp on the pamphlet warning customers it’s state-mandated bull$h!+? I guess if they wanna stay open, because the vindictive bastards don’t neeed laws to persecute…

[Via Jess]

Pure Michigan

That idiot Polehanki again…

Once more high population areas full of Democrat government addicts prove how stupid and self-entitled they are and **** everything up for the rest of us by voting in communist hags.

[Via WiscoDave]

Blend Over, Here It Comes Again

Under the banner of establishing global governance in the metaverse, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is pushing digital ID for all users, so all blended reality interactions and transactions can be tracked-and-traced. [More]

Hey, if you aren’t doing anything wrong… and it’s not like systems are ever hacked.

If only there were a way to control the aftermath, because some things really do call for French Revolution solutions…

[Via Antigone]

Commonsense Constitution Safety Laws

The American flag, Constitution and other “props” are no longer allowed to be used during the public portion of Township Council meetings under a new ordinance that also limits the time residents have to address the governing body. [More]

It’s a clown show over there, all the way around.

Any questions why...?

How do they swear them in, as required by the supreme Law of the Land?

[Via Jess]

The Authorized Journalist Protection Act

Dubbed “Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act,” the broadly supported bill would ensure federal protection for journalists. It would prevent authorities from abusing subpoena powers and protect reporters from being forced to reveal their sources. [More]

I know what it’s like to live with that fear hanging over my head, so I guess my biggest question is will us “just a bloggers” have the same expectation of protection or will we have to prove ourselves eligible under the presumption that we are not?

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Unaffected Enough

While the Atmore Four live with the trauma and expense of fighting bogus charges, there have been no repercussions for the DA or sheriff. [More]

Hopefully the civil suit will change that, but it still leaves the question of where the hell AL AG Steve Marshall is on this.

We could ask.

[Via Michael G]

The Heckler’s Veto

It’s literally 99.9999 or something like that of the AR-15s in America will have no connection to a murder in any given year, in other words well over 99.9 % of the AR-15s in the United States will have no connection to criminality in the United States in any given year, so if you’re going to have the government ban the 99.99% of the AR-15s in the United States because of a few hundred bad apples misbehaving with AR-15s you have engaged in a violation of our constitutional rights known as the Heckler veto… [Watch]

Good points. It sounds like you could make a good case that of all the people who heard Donald Trump speak on Jan. 6, only a handful ignored his call to be peaceful and got rowdy to the point of striking out at others, and that shouldn’t abridge his First Amendment-protected rights.

As an aside, I know speaking is different thatn writing in terms of not being able to go back and edit remarks before they’re released, but I hope in the future he’s mindful to say “killed with” more and “killed by” less.

[Via Jess]

What You Need to Be is Controlled

Michigan Senate Democrats are trying to ban making a ‘false statement or misrepresentation’ about elections. [More]

They hate the First Amendment as much as they do the Second, with every one of the sponsors also signing on to this.

Who are the idiot “third way” Republicans acting like what’s needed here is clarification instead of repudiation?

[Via Michael G]

Who’s the Fascist?

DSM über alles!

Funny, how someone with a Bachelor of Arts in English feigns competence to make qualification pronouncements on state and defense…

And funny how the side whose vision was rejected is determined to impose it anyway.

Good for the Goose?

Don’t hold your breath.

And not to justify tyranny, but to illustrate it…

Do the Right Thing

Petition in Favor of Free Speech and the Right to Bear Arms [More]

My own thinking is you shouldn’t need the inducement of a chance to win a million bucks. I’m in Ohio and I’m not eligible.

Hopefully Mr. Musk has had a chance to reconsider some of this earlier endorsements of infringements. Maybe he will be an angel after all.

Figures Josh Shapiro would be a little snitch and b!+ch.

And as always, I never ask anyone to do anything I’m not willing to do myself:

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Foreign Election Interference…

The left-leaning British Labour Party is sending nearly 100 members to U.S. battleground states to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the presidential election. [More]

First Amendment notwithstanding, how is this not that with election laws?

[Via Michael G]

Commonsense Speech Safety Laws

Biden’s executive order targets modern manufacturing processes in ways that implicate the First Amendment. [More]

So if Democrats want to ban “misinformation” and now real information, what kind of information will still be “legal”?

The good thing is, the First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law…”

They’re not making it. The executive is!

‘Wrong Thinking is Punishable’

“We will hold Social Media Platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms – because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our Democracy. And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare. If you don’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community.” [More]

I like her rebuttal to Jon Stewart better than mine.

[Via bondmen]

His Masters’ Voice

Jon Stewart blasts Elon Musk for claiming the Second Amendment protects our right to free speech. “Guns don’t protect our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the governed laid out through the Constitution.” [More]

And when tyrants ignore that?

Mr. Kennedy knew. And he knew how:

Stewart’s call for obedience to his masters is about what we’d expect from the hack propagandist.

He’s always been an apologist for criminals/despots (and if Internet Archive goes back up, check out the Examiner link there).

[Via Jess]

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