The 1st Amendment Is Back In Style!
The 1st and 2ndAmendments are tied together and the elite on the left need to destroy both to achieve their goals. Without free speech, you might not know that your 2nd Amendment rights are being threatened. And the 2nd Amendment protects all the other rights.
Donald Trump made a speech about our 1st Amendment rights and how he would be defending them, but you may not have heard about it. Thanks to our friend Tom Shepstone at Energy Security and Freedom we were alerted about it.
In trying to get a date when the speech was made, I searched “Trump speech on the 1st Amendment” on line and the first 6 pages of results never mentioned it and, further, all but one of the links had Trump as anti-free speech or abusing the 1st Amendment. (I stopped searching after 6 pages.) This further demonstrates why Trump’s actions to defend free speech are necessary. Censorship is alive and well – for now.
However, I did find that on November 11th, the Washington Times started an article about the speech by writing: President-elect Donald Trump isn’t messing around. His first major policy statement since his landslide victory outlines his plan to restore free speech.
We can hope that Trump takes as aggressive a line on defending the 2nd Amendment as he is on defending the 1st Amendment.
Below are highlights of the speech and a link to the actual speech is at the end.
“If we don’t have Free Speech, then we just don’t have a Free Country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominos one by one. They’ll go down.”
“FIRST, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as “mis-” or “dis-information”.
“And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.”
“SECOND, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime…”
“These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.”
“THIRD, from now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination.”
“FOURTH, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called “mis-” and “dis-information.” The federal government should immediately stop funding all non-profits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal and blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more.”
“There will be criminal penalties for any federal bureaucrat found to interfere with elections by depriving Americans of information:”
“We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country.”
“Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former Deep Staters and intelligence officials, there should be a 7-year cooling-off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.”
“FIFTH, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process, in other words, government officials should need a COURT ORDER to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt-out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.”
“The fight for Free Speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I am President, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech, we will begin to reclaim our democracy, and save our nation.”
