The Fifth Estate- pirate wires #85 // summary and analysis of the twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers, and technology’s nature brings the industry home [More]
And the Fourth Estate showed ’em how it’s done.
[Via bondmen]
Category: First Amendment
When Everything Looks Like a Nail
We’re the Only Ones Off the Cuff Enough
Send Not to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls
Right-wing evangelical Laila Mickelwait teamed up with billionaire Bill Ackman to demand credit card companies stop processing payments on PornHub, and the protests worked. [More]
Power usurpation and coercion are not the answers to this problem. Vance should know that.
Authorized Opinions
The eleventh chapter of The Road to Serfdom is entitled “The End of Truth,” about the historical imperative in all totalitarian states throughout history to destroy freedom of speech so that the only true belief is “the social plan” imposed by the state, whatever that may be. This is achieved by relentless institutionalized lying and propaganda, coupled with harsh censorship of all contrary ideas or even questions about the propriety of forcefully imposing one single “social plan.” [More]
What kind of fascist wouldn’t want that?
[Via bondmen]
Groomer Squadron Go!
Schiff Happens
By publicly pressuring Musk to censor “hate speech,” which is indisputably covered by the First Amendment, Schiff and Takano are trying to indirectly accomplish something that the Constitution forbids. [More]
Well, it also says “shall not be infringed, but that’s never stopped either of these @$$holes.
A Plan Comes Together
SWAT’s Happening
Some recent terrorist school hoaxes from around the Republic:
I wonder what kind of “commonsense” prior restraints on the First Amendment would stop these…
[Via Scott J]
Not Monkeying Around
Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests [More]
The obvious intent here is to destroy the man for allowing unapproved speech and to divert the conversation away from Hunter.
So naturally, leave it to The French Mistake to take point for the left-enabling Vichycons and “not understand” collusion and marching orders.
Just Like the Founders Intended
Feds Pay Journalism Group $5M To Create Software To Turn People Into Anti-‘Misinformation’ Bots [More]
What Article and Section is that again…?
[Via Michael G]
Full Court Press
MAJOR 2A CALIFORNIA COURT VICTORY: Critical Win for Gun Rights Supporters TODAY [Watch]
California’s tyrannical attempt to stifle peaceful revolution by economically coercing against petitioning government for redress of grievances gets set back by Judge Benitez.
I didn’t find announcements on SAF, FPC, and Ninth Circuit websites yet, and nothing yet on a news search, so Mark W. Smith has the scoop.
Rob Bonta really is evil.
[Via Jess]
I Beg to Differ
Stranger Than Fiction
“In my view, Twitter now is jumping to the front of the queue of the regulators,” Věra Jourová, the European Commission’s vice president for values and transparency, told POLITICO. [More]
And here Kurt Vonnegut thought he’d pushed the edge of the absurdity envelope with Diana Moon Glampers…
Funny, what happened to all those “progressives” who used to smirk at canceled “conservatives” and say “Twitter is a private company. It can do what it wants. If you don’t like it, start your own company.”
It’s also revealing how their political machine is so significantly funded by unions, where the members don’t do that, but instead, use the government to coerce changes in practices/wealth redistribution.
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Washington Goes to War Against Twitter and Free Speech [More]
Those who do their dirty work in the dark fear the light.
[Via bondmen]
A Rhetorical Question
White supremacist rhetoric online, including the promotion of racist conspiracy theories, has been linked to Gendron and his motive behind the Buffalo attack… [More]
The goal here is not just to disarm the citizenry– it is to reduce allowed speech to that which won’t trigger the lowest common denominator sociopaths, meaning to eliminate any but approved speech. It’s the same crap the Bloombergians are pulling on Daniel Defense.
I don’t suppose it’s in anyone in power’s interests to focus instead on those who can’t be trusted with words…?
[Via bondmen]
Psychological Lawfare
The federal lawsuit was filed Monday by Everytown Law on behalf of Sandra Torres, the mother of Eliahna Torres, who was fatally shot on May 24 at Robb Elementary along with 18 other children and two teachers. The lawsuit also includes the gun store that transferred the rifle to the shooter as well as police officers and agencies that were on site that day. [More]
Why would those who get away with eviscerating the Second Amendment with impunity give a damn about the First?
There’s no one’s grief these evil, blood-dancing bastards won’t exploit.
Doesn’t Everytown filing this when they know PLCAA is in play constitute a frivolous action designed to extort a settlement for which they could be countersued? It almost seems like a form of insurrection…
[Via Jess]
Far from the Madding Crowd
A New York Times analysis of more than 700 armed demonstrations found that, at about 77 percent of them, people openly carrying guns represented right-wing views, such as opposition to L.G.B.T.Q. rights and abortion access, hostility to racial justice rallies and support for former President Donald J. Trump’s lie of winning the 2020 election. [More]
As long as they’re going to bring up lies, just calling questioning the election “baseless” does not make it so, nor do demands to impose coercive Marxist wealth redistribution equate with racial justice.
I’d argue going unarmed anywhere you know violent communists are going to be is not prudent. Then again, I’d also argue for being very selective about joining public displays and the part you choose to play in this era of embedded provocateurs and seditious conspiracy trials…
I’ve been a speaker and observer over the decades. Ours wasn’t the side frothing with “hostility.” Another lesson learned: You don’t do yourself any favors or advance any issues by becoming a victim or a patsy.
Certifiable
Removes the national rifle association from the list of entities authorized to grant certificates as instructors in small arms practice [More]
Can it get more in-your-face that this is about the politics of destruction than this? Among other things, this seems like a blatant punitive violation of the First Amendment. Then again, why would that slow down someone who believes they can get away with eviscerating the Second?
But OK, just make sure none of the “authorized” instructors got their certifications from NRA. Then again, those imposing this won’t mind if a shortage means New Yorkers can’t get permits– they’re no doubt counting on it.
Maybe the Moms can do the training from now on. They claim to be “commonsense gun safety” experts.
Any gun or ammunition supplier who arms New York state enforcement entities is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
This, of course, is one more nose-thumbing at SCOTUS and its Bruen decision. It won’t stand unless we get court packing in the years it will take to go through the challenge and appeals process, and meanwhile, the state will have unlimited resources while the plaintiffs will have to scramble and compete for them.
What a POS Sean Ryan — and anyone who voted for him — is.
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Alien Invading Enough
Arnu said both his homes were raided “without warning” on Nov. 3 “by 15-20 agents in full riot gear.” The agents broke open the doors while Arnu was in the Rachel home and his girlfriend at the Las Vegas one, and then they “were detained and treated in the most disrespectful way.” [More]
Because a knock on the door and a deputy handing him a warrant and explaining what the issue was wouldn’t have “secure[d] the Blessings of Liberty” anywhere near as much as deploying jackboots to initiate paralyzing terror against a citizen looking for answers. Besides, it’s not like Russian and Chicom satellites can see anything a drone bought at Best Buy might miss.
Here’s the great threat to national security.
And here it is before he took some stuff down.
Enemies of the State
Now Fly! FLY!
In an opinion piece for Scientific American, writer Bryn Nelson insinuated that my factual reporting on Drag Queen Story Hour was an example of “stochastic terrorism,” which he defines as “ideologically driven hate speech” that increases the likelihood of unpredictable acts of violence. [More]
Such smears by agents of those who crave power and control seem to be all the rage these days.
Figures Scientific American is carrying their water.
[Via Michael G]
Montana Warns YouTube of Consequences for Acting as a Democrat Proxy to Censor Speech
Big Tech argues they deserve exemptions because they are not content providers. Acting as content deniers, suppressing anything that does not advance a state-approved “progressive” narrative, and facilitating the universal spread of that which does, effectively amounts to the same thing. [More]
How is removing legal content at the demand of Democrat politicians not a de facto First Amendment violation?
We’re the Only Ones Humorless Enough
A Louisiana man is fighting in court for the First Amendment right to express satire after he made a joke about COVID-19, and was arrested by a sheriff’s armed SWAT team that confronted him with guns drawn. [More]
Talk about deprivation of rights under color of authority…
The only thing they’re laughing about is their qualified immunity.
Time to Waterboard ‘Conservatives’
Former CIA Intelligence officer suggests using ‘counterterrorism’ strategies against ‘right-wing’ Americans [More]
I’m probably going to write this one up because I’ve got a lot more to say about such embeds.
We’re the Only Ones Scripting Enough
FBI Agent Who Pushed To Censor Hunter Biden Story Is Shaping Biden Admin’s Response To ‘Misinformation’ [More]
Who better to feed out the official line than an official with a line?
[Via Michael G]
The New Totalitarians
Homegrown Tyranny
U.S. Marshals in Houston, Texas, on Monday arrested True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht and board member Gregg Phillips for contempt of court in a defamation case against them after they refused a federal judge’s order to release the name of a confidential source. [More]
Before you read the whole thing, get this playing in the background.
[Via Jess]
The Official Line
Just Call Him Racist and Be Done with It
After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, there was a reported dramatic increase in usage of the N-word on the platform — the Network Contagion Research Institute said the term saw a 500% increase on the platform. [More]
A percentage without numbers is meaningless.
And look who they work hand-in-hand with. No political agenda there!
And there’s more than one way for government to get around that pesky First Amendment!
Elon Musk’s Twitter roils with hate speech as trolls test new limits [More]
“Trolls”? So, as with all hate hoaxes, it’s the accusers, not the accused?
Those against free speech are resorting to sabotage by smear.
