[Political Junkie Too]

First, I led with asking what your point was, and closed with it, too.

It would seem the administration want freedom of speech across the pond while stifling criticism, whether correct or not, here.

How much of this "free speech" controversy is around the visa-holding pro-Hamas protestors that are being deported? These are also some of the "bad people" that President Trump is referring to. I've been posting since Oct 7 the US Code that says that endorsing or espousing a terrorist organization is a deportable offense. Anybody who is on an American university campus with a student visa who is supporting Hamas by name (not just anti-Israel sentiments) and chanting their direct slogans ("From the river to the sea") are committing deportable acts.

Is this what you're referring to as "stifling criticism here?"

Can you name an American journalist that President Trump has jailed or stifled? I can't. Kicking the AP out of the White House Briefing Room doesn't count; they're still free to report on the President. Being in THAT room is a privilege.

Now, under which administration did the following happen?

1. Catherine Herridge was fired by CBS and had her personal investigative files on Hunter Biden and COVID-19 origins seized and held for one year by the network.

2. Fox News reporter James Rosen was spied on, had his movements monitored, his emails and phone records (and his parents' phone records) examined, and was labeled a "criminal co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act by the DoJ.

3. Former CBS News journalist Sharyl Attkisson accused the DoJ of illegally spying on her, including hacking into her computers.

4. The DoJ secretly obtained two months' worth of phone records from AP reporters, affecting more than 100 staffers. The DoJ acquired records for more than 20 different phone lines associated with the AP, including reporters' cell, office, and home lines.

5. Filmmaker Mark Basseley Youssef, an an Egyptian-American living in Los Angeles, was blamed for inciting the Benghazi attack on the American embassey in Libya. He was later cleared of incitement by immediately arrested for parole violations.

-PJ

[joesbucks]

The EU wants wants what they consider disinformation stifled. That’s what Vance was referring to. He wants that lifted. Yet here in the US, Trump wants to stifle it. When it’s against him. He wants to use it, but not allow it when it pushes back against him. That’s why he named journalists in his rant at Justice.