“The United States Constitution legally protects your fundamental human rights. Every citizen should feel free from an immediate threat, so limited speech restrictions make sense. However, valuing free speech means that our collective tolerance for new ideas needs to increase. Redefining every negative interaction as hate speech hurts everyone, creating a climate of political correctness that ultimately muzzles every American. There is a reason that free speech is legally defined. No one person or group can impose their ideas or priorities on another, nor should they. Ultimately, these values promote mutual respect, which creates the safest public climate for all citizens across every political stripe and social issue.”
… Sujit Choudhry is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions and the I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley – School of Law.
Personally, I could not agree more whole-heartily about the U.S. Constitutional human rights agenda against suppression and controls than what Professor Choudhry stated above. However, not everyone sees the U.S. founding documents in that light or interpretation.
In my opinion, the First Amendment expresses support for, plus also guarantees, free speech and the practice of certain rights associated with freedom of belief, speech and religion, which in today’s political climate are denigrated by the very persons who claim to be “free speech rights advocates and enforcers.” Hello! What am I missing? Their rabidness is indicative of their disdain for freedoms, in my opinion. They seem to align with corporate dictates that mandate “their way or the highway” when it comes to healthcare, vaccines, GMO ‘phood’, weather geoengineering, microwave technology and AMI Smart Meters, public utility commissions, the U.S. CDC/FDA and a host of other actors which I would label a “Corporatocracy” form of socialist-fascist governance.
However, as I view the First Amendment, it also should include and enforce precluding the denials of suppression of free speech, beliefs, and religious tenets EXCEPT when radicals overstep their zeal and enthusiasm to promote fascist-like tactics as witnessed on today’s supposedly ‘free-thinking’ college and university campuses. That preclusion also ought to extend to financial support extended to radical ‘free thinkers’ like George Soros and his many-faceted agendas, e.g., the color revolutions in various countries, Bill Gates and his foundation, the Rockefeller clan, the Rothschilds AND the one percent elites who want to control humankind.
Apparently, the “more narrow interpretation” Professor Choudhry talks about in his article comes from the “political correctness” meme which, ostensibly, gave birth to what ought to be labeled “Democrat radicalism.”
Another sphere of First Amendment restraint factors, in my opinion, which ought to be impacted with harnessing their rabid controls of the First Amendment regarding free speech are the six media corporations that own 90 percent of free thought and free speech media-output in the USA: GE, News Corp., Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS. Ninety percent outputs boil down either to collusion or control! Which is it? And why have citizens fallen for it?
As I assess the status of the First Amendment, it looks like it’s up on the checkout counter traveling down the belt to a final demise. Apathy on the part of those who believe in the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments, plus our country’s founding documents, are responsible for allowing the socialist Democrat radicals, who are changing the Democratic Party, to get their pernicious and communist-like-thinking socialized “mad world” into what some radicals think the USA ought to become.
As a Nation, do we want the total loss of our freedoms that were paid for in blood, sweat, tears, honor and devotion to be lost?
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Corporate Communism (synthetic communism) VS Natures Oneness (natural communism) has always been a bone of major contention in all the forms of government on this planet. Without free speech (communication), enslavement like corporatism and the tyranny of any special interest groups will always pose a threat to freedom. All forms of ART are predicated on FREEDOM not the “liberty” granted by special interest groups including governments who curtail development of freedom through taxation, fees, fines and surcharges. Communication is a fundamental principle of the multi-verse (natural communism) and cannot be restrained or function is lost; that function is FREEDOM. Everything in the multi-verse communicates with everything else; that is what composes REALITY. Intelligence directs energy.
MSM is bent on communism. Turn off the boob tube and throw away that rag that arrives every morning.
Nothing but propaganda agenda 2030. The plebes will not be allowed to own anything.
Learn to discern.
JFK, at a Yale University speech, given on June 11, 1962, said: “For the greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
Nice write-up. But hard to take what you say seriously as you do not even seem to know what type of government we have here in the USA. It is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. NOT a “Democracy”, though we do have elections done democratically. Everything else is in writing, the duties that all who serve within our governments – state and federal – are delegated to the BRANCHES, or to NAMED OFFICES WITHIN A BRANCH, not to a person who serves. The authority they use is the authority of the branch or named office, which they are allowed to use for as long as they KEEP the contract (US Constitution/state Constitutions), take and KEEP the Oath. It mattes not what position they serve within, those are the requirements they accept when they take that position – elected, hired, contracted, etc.
At this time we have many domestic enemies as warned about in the required Oaths; we have ignorant people inside and outside of our government (dumbed down) because that ignorance was deliberately fostered so that what is happening today could be made to happen.
Want to Really make a difference? Read the Declaration of Independence – a legal document. Read the US Constitution – a legal document; the supreme Law of our land that requires that all legislation be in Pursuance thereof it; the definer of our government; the compact between the states; the CONTRACT that all who serve within our governments – state and federal – are required to be Oath bound to support and defend, and to KNOW and understand; that all who serve within our governments are bound to and must follow – as any contract. Read your own state’s Constitution so that then you will recognize what those who serve within our governments may or may not do. They get by with much because those who serve tell us what they are allowed to do – most of it is usurpation and/or color of law/pretend law.
Also, while reading, discover WHO is to
— Enforce the US Constitution (supreme Law) and each state’s Constitution (highest law of the state),
— Enforce and keep the “Laws of the Union” (which are constitutional laws ONLY),
— Protect the country against all enemies both domestic and foreign, and
— “to suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”.
That would be us, the people. But how can they when they do not even KNOW what type of government we have? How can they when they do not even know what those who serve are contracted in writing to do?
Reply from Catherine Frompovich:
I think you didn’t read nor interpret my article correctly. I did not
state USA was a Democracy. Furthermore, didn’t I say, “Apathy on the
part of those who believe in the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments,
plus our country’s founding documents, are responsible for allowing the
socialist Democrat radicals, who are changing the Democratic Party, to
get their pernicious and communist-like-thinking socialized “mad world”
into what some radicals think the USA ought to become.” I think your
comment is indicative of the very thing I’m trying to point out.