Category: First Amendment

Meanwhile, Across the Pond

In these documents, in particular the fining decision issued on Monday, October 13th, 2025, the UK’s Internet regulator claims that its powers have supremacy over the U.S. Constitution, including the First Amendment, and U.S. law for U.S. companies and citizens engaged in constitutionally protected speech and conduct occurring exclusively on U.S. soil. [More]

I note all the extortion attempts are signed “Yours faithfully, Ofcom Enforcement,” meaning “Yours facelessly,” with the indignant martinet who has spent untold hours compiling “hamster bedding” failing to see how personally cowardly, impotent and absurd he is.

I wonder, if the client ever travels within UK jurisdiction, if he’d be subject to arrest and prosecution, and if the U.S. State Department would come to his defense.

I also wonder how I can get on the list, maybe by inviting anyone from the UK to leave a forbidden comment here…

[Via Michael G]

It’s Time for Commonsense Thought Safety Laws!

New York City has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the design and operation of their platforms. [More]

Not that I give a damn about any of those platforms, but I notice no one is saying anything about the portion shared by the Democrat government the yutes live under, the compulsory Democrat school systems that put them through 12+ years of standardized indoctrination, and the Democrat parents who vote for more of it.

Here’s what else is missing: What an acceptable platform and information would look like, especially after they elect the commie.

[Via bondmen]

Do You Come from a Land Down Under?

Australia Police Seize Guns from Dozens of Owners Over Personal “Sovereign Citizen” Statements [More]

True, they don’t have a First or a Second Amendment, but contrary to popular opinion, Australians have a right to free speech and a right to keep and bear arms. Everyone does.

What most don’t have is the will to keep violence monopolists from denying them.

A Trump Judge

This week in Washington, D.C., a federal judge made a ruling so shocking, so unprecedented, that it flips the First Amendment on its head. Judge Trevor N. McFadden declared that the Israeli flag — with the Star of David at its center — is not a political symbol at all, but a racial one. [More]

But have at Old Glory…

And what happened to “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion…”?

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A Win– For Now

A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld an earlier preliminary injunction against a section of the California Business & Professional Code which had been used by the state to stifle gun-related advertising in Junior Sports magazine, in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation and others. [More]

Now we see if the en banc court reverses that.

Welcome to California, where advertising a “swell vacation gift from Dad” is verboten and LGBTQ affirming picture books for kids are mandatory.

Killers Anonymous

Why Are Authorities STILL Hiding Social Media Profiles After High-Profile Crimes? [More]

So much for government censorship being a First Amendment violation…

Which makes the advocacy by some on “our side” not to name names a self-defeating gift to the controllers, ever eager to seize the opportunity to blame opponents of Democrats with headlines like “Domestic terrorist groomed by MAGA parents.”

I’d like to see a bill putting constraints on disabling profiles, requiring a judge to determine which specific pieces of information must necessarily be withheld because they could jeopardize investigations.

[Via Michael G]

Smile! You’re on Coerced Camera!

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) have filed their opening brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, challenging California’s sweeping surveillance mandate on firearm dealers. This appeal is part of the ongoing case against Cal. Penal Code Section 26806, which forces all FFLs—including home-based dealers—to install 24/7 video and audio recording systems to surveil customers, and then retain that data for warrantless inspection by the state. [More]

Democrats to Orwell: Hold our beer.

Hey… any law against putting that poster next to the cameras?

Meanwhile, Over at the Religion of Peace…

Claremont McKenna’s Muslim Student Association had criticized the college’s choice of Rushdie in a May 2 statement, calling it “disrespectful” and out of line with the college’s commitment to inclusion. [More]

And nothing says inclusion like issuing ideological fatwas.

So much for “an open and welcoming space for everyone“…

Ah well, “misdirecting” on that is supported by history, text, and tradition… and I’m sure the word “rigorous” appplies to all those friendly faces.

[Via Michael G]

And I’m Proud to Be an American Where at Least I Know I’m Free

But last May, police in New Haven, Conn., arrested me — because a parking attendant falsely claimed I had used a racial slur against him nearly a year earlier. [More]

With he said/she said, how was there even probable cause to arrest?

Name everyone involved. Starting with the racist POS parking lot careerist.

And sue.

[Via Michael G]

What Did He THINK Was Going to Happen?

The lawsuit stems from a 2021 Zoom meeting where then-Commissioner Ron Clous briefly displayed a rifle on camera… Four years later, the settlement was finalized with insurance funds, not taxpayer dollars, covering the cost. [More]

Whose dollars pay for the insurance, and did it go up after that?

Yeah, she’s a meddlesome old prohibitionist biddy, but what kind of reaction should this have provoked?

Tell me if an Antifa promoter in government had done this as a response to something you’d said that you wouldn’t take it as the unwarranted chilling of speech and challenge to escalate beyond words that it was. He invited this, a lawsuit response from an indignant community busybody was predictable, he invited it, and the board should have immediately dressed and shut him down, and made him liable for the fallout.

All Hat and No Prattle

A Michigan school did not violate the free-speech rights of a third-grade student who was told to remove a hat that had an image of an AR-15-style rifle and the message “come and take it” in capital letters, a federal court said Friday. [More]

I’m probably going to take the unpopular view here and say the parents knew what the dress code was and let their kid be the one to take the heat for their views by challenging school policy over an issue they’re hardly developed enough to understand beyond a superficial level.

I would not have allowed either of my sons to wear that hat to school for that reason, and also because it was my job as their father to minimize risks where I could, including now the child will have to deal with the fallout from other students and teachers, and it will follow him through the system until he graduates.

There’s a reason I have never named my sons beyond the created-for-effect “feral sons Uday and Qusay,” and never posted current photos of them. Choices I have made carry repercussions and even dangers, and those are mine to bear, not my family’s. That’s also why I deliberately kept a low profile on local politics.

Change my mind.

[Via Jess]

Sounds Like Europe Could Use Some Pre-Rebellion…

Not wearing a black hooded cloak for this, I see…

The same globalists who forced “vaccines” on bodies now demand to do it to minds.

[Via WiscoDave]

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