Notes from the Resistance
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.
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.
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]
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]
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.
Ahead of Midterms, New Demands Urge Meta, Twitter, Google, Tiktok to Remove Disinformation on Election, Abortion & Deplatform Accounts That Violently Threaten Poll Workers [More]
The in-your-face domestic commies are dictating the terms of acceptable political discourse. Basically, if you don’t support handing them all the power, shutting up, and then killing yourself, you need to be shut down.
And THEY’LL decide who “feels” threatened and over what.
KU Law school says ADF discussion of the First Amendment is ‘hate speech’ [More]
Like the Keeper always said…
[Via Michael G]
Someone inside the event didn’t like the sign Mr. Rose was holding and had the City of Alachua Police approach Mr. Rose to tell him to leave because it was a private event. [More]
I guess if you don’t have to respect the Second Amendment, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t feel free to ignore the First.
So some tight-@$$ed Vichycon at a DeSantis event, rather than doing the right thing and living up to that fidelity to the Second Amendment he makes such great political hay over, decided instead to channel their inner “progressive” snitch and sic the jackboots on a patriot?
And we’re supposed to just forget about this?
[Via Jess]
Breaking: Sandy Hook Families Now Seeking $2.75 TRILLION in Addition to Billion from Alex Jones [More]
My natural sympathy has gone right out the window. Whether they’re launching this obscene attack on freedom out of greed or out of grief ceases to matter at this point, because this group of blinded tools is allowing itself to be used to undermine both speech and RKBA. Either way, they deserve to be repelled.
Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to families of Sandy Hook massacre victims [More]
I’ve never particularly been a Jones enthusiast– I know Mike didn’t much care for him but I was on his program once and was happy for the opportunity. That said, what you or I think of the guy is irrelevant to this, the most absurdly disproportionate, dangerous, and un-American verdict order I have ever heard of. That it would be countenanced in a U.S. court shows how serious the power structure is to shut down forbidden speech.
How many of Jones’ “millions” of followers committed an illegal act? How many “threats” were actually sentiments? How many transitioned into actual meatspace attacks?
And as long as I dragged Mike’s name into this, he knew what it was like to be blamed for the actions of others.
Who does the Jones verdict and sentence chill and discourage? Who is turning cartwheels?
Time was the left at least pretended to be all about free speech. That’s for the benefit of the useful idiots and to accelerate social degradation — until there’s the confidence that masks can be dropped, as just happened with this order.
Indeed, the government’s seditious conspiracy charges against Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, and several of his associates for their alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots puts the entire concept of anti-government political expression on trial. [More]
As I keep pointing out:
No person who advocates, or has been or is a member, or associated with, any organization, formal or informal, that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or the violation of the Constitution thereof, shall be entitled to be a member or associate member.
There’s a huge difference between being “anti-government” and “anti-regime.”
[Via bondmen]
Classical Liberalism vs Modern Liberalism (Socialism) — A Primer by Miguel A. Faria, MD [More]
A fine article, like a fine wine, can improve with age.
Then again, I’m clearly biased.
They don’t want you to have guns and they don’t want you to have free speech. Hey, if you can get away with ignoring the Second Amendment, why should you respect the First? [More]
What’s more, a globalist collectivist tyrant from New Zealand is joined on her pathway to tyranny by what our media pass off as a “conservative.”
Campus police detain Turning Point USA protesters during Cultural Resource Center altercation … Turning Point USA called campus police for assistance… [More]
What did we learn?
Those privileged commie kids sure have hostile victim attitudes instilled in them by the cultural Marxists, don’t they? I kind of wonder if you got one of them alone and asked them to flesh out what specific overt acts of white racism have been committed against them personally, you’d get a lot of this:
[Via Michael G]
U.S. Postal Service caught tracking mail of 2nd Amendment advocates [More]
And here I thought that red flag on my mailbox meant “outbound”…
On Saturday, September 24th from 1-4 pm, patriots will gather in Washington, D.C., at the corner of Constitution NW and First St NW, North of the Reflecting Pool, to stand united against the political persecution of the January 6th political prisoners. [More]
I was thinking of titling this “Calling All Provocateurs,” but don’t want to be seen as discouraging honest efforts. That said, I’m staying away from politically-charged crowds these days, especially ones monitored by corrupt feds planning on coming for you in force afterward at a time and place of their choosing.
Then again, some will counter, if we give our right to peaceably assemble up to that, in a way the enemies have won.
Me, I’m thinking a developing “wartime” footing makes the idea of a peaceable assembly a wishful thinking illusion, we’re beyond that now, and the new rules are, let the other guy be the one who’s vulnerable.
Anybody heard any online chatter about this?
[Via bondmen]
U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right [to] regulate online speech [More]
So… no more “wrong-thinking“…?
With a conflict between the 5th and 11th Circuits, we’ll have to see what SCOTUS does.
[Via Robert J]
Ari Dodge Sheehan, the counseling secretary for the Seattle-area Lynnwood High School, in March sent an employee-wide email to promote “Transgender Visibility Day” and provide guidelines on how to work with transgender students. The message included a section on “terms to avoid” that listed “born a man,” “born a woman,” “biologically male,” “biologically female,” “biological boy,” “biological girl,” “genetically male,” and “genetically female.” [More]
Like Orwell wrote, “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
[Via Michael G]
Biden Asks Congress To End Social Media Immunity At WH Summit Due To “Hate-Fueled Violence” [More]
It will be selectively enforced in such a way to only apply to the destruction of Gab, Truth Social, Parler, and the like, and give the giant administration-friendly Twitter and Facebook platforms all the legal excuses they need to up the censorship on behalf of the government…
[Via bondmen]
They asked him about Colorado and Dominion voting machines, then provided him a warrant to seize his phone. At first, he said, he didn’t want to turn it over because he runs all of his companies off that phone and he couldn’t operate without it. They didn’t raid him at his home. They tracked him down. He had been on a hunting trip in Iowa and was driving back. He stopped at a Hardee’s in Mankato, Minnesota. That’s when they appeared out of nowhere. They went to the trouble of hunting him down. [More]
That was to send an ominous message.
He’s lucky he was in a public place. Imagine the free rein they’d have had if they’d pulled him over on a secluded stretch of road.
[Via Michael G]
In a letter today to FTC Chair Khan, the senators highlighted the firearms industry’s efforts to mislead consumers about the safety of guns and the employment of advertising tactics that target children and teenagers – including using video games, popular musicians and television shows, and even Santa Claus to market its deadly products. [More]
There is no level of obsession too ludicrous for these power freaks to demand control over. None.
[Via Jess]
Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in the case of Jones v. Bonta, challenging a California law restricting the rights of young adults to purchase long guns, are asking the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an “All Writ” enjoining the state from enforcing a new state law that penalizes plaintiffs in cases contesting state gun laws. [More]
Why should arrogant tyrants who ignore the Second Amendment with impunity have any respect for the First?
The New Civil Liberties Alliance, the Attorney General of Missouri, and the Attorney General of Louisiana, have filed a lawsuit that blows the lid off a sprawling federal censorship regime that will shock the conscience of Americans. The joint statement on discovery disputes in the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., reveals scores of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies have secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor. This unlawful enterprise has been wildly successful. [More]
A Justice Department that wasn’t a prime violator would make this a top priority. That it won’t tells us much.
[Via Michael G]
