Posted on 08/11/2024 4:23:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Are runamok UK censors laying down the blueprint for a Harris/Walz administration crackdown?
Very scary things are happening in the United Kingdom. Sir Mark Rowley, Met Police Commissioner, has threatened to jail U.S. citizens over online posts he deems hateful or disinformation. At the same time, the UK is openly enforcing a two-tier system of justice where antisemitic rioters, pro-jihadi and pro-open borders thugs are given free rein to terrorize citizens, and those who object are beaten and jailed. One jurist has, in fact, just sentenced someone for being a just a looker-on and even retweets of anything the UK overlords object to subjects one to arrest.
I’m not worried about Rowley’s threat because, unlike the UK, the Founders recognized that without free speech citizens have no agency in their own governance. Recognizing its importance, they made the right to free speech the very First Amendment to the Constitution. If conduct in the U.S. is not illegal, no extradition request could be honored. But it is clear that many Democrats, like their autocratic Labour counterparts in the UK, would love to muzzle us and they have put forth untenable definitions of the parameters of this right.
In an exceptionally brilliant essay, Professor Jonathan Turley sets out why the Harris-Walz team presents the greatest threat to free speech in two centuries.
The Biden-Harris administration has sustained an unrelenting attack on the freedom of speech, from supporting a massive censorship system (described by a federal court as an “Orwellian Ministry of Truth“) to funding blacklisting operations targeting groups and individuals with opposing views.
President Biden made censorship a central part of his legacy, even accusing social media companies of “killing people” for failing to increase levels of censorship. Democrats in Congress pushed that agenda by demanding censorship on subjects ranging from climate
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I asked a Brit expat what his escape plan was when Americans start getting extradited to England for online posts. He was shocked by the question. They have no idea the hell they will experience.
Thanks for posting.
We can dream of better days ahead, but then they’ll send the dream police after us.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPemyipJzAM
Waking up to a new nightmare every day.
Even the commercial leading to the video has the deceivers Tim & Kamala! Sheesh.
“But it is clear that many Democrats, like their autocratic Labour counterparts in the UK, would love to muzzle us and they have put forth untenable definitions of the parameters of this right.”
They already are... The internet safety bill they almost passed will do exactly that. Fines and incarcerations included. And just like terrorists they are hiding behind “for the kids” to do it. They are not done yet, they will persist and the foolish will let them take total control of the internet and speech.
For the kids of course...
No, because I believe Americans will shoot before they would allow such a “crackdown”. We will not live in tyranny. We will not be cowed into silence. Our rights do not come from man, and men cannot take them away. Not without a fight anyway.
If American law-enforcement or courts try to arrest an American to enforce British laws against free-speech, that law-enforcement or judge is no different than a British Passport carrying Bobby, or MI-5 coming to your door and trying to arrest you.
1776 fully applies in that case.
Thanks for posting that. But to see Clarice Feldman drawing the conclusions she is, is one of the most depressing articles I’ve read in a long time.
Have any more details come out about the warning Trump got in Montana? Oh, excuse me, the mechanical difficulty with his plane in Montana?
How long before average Brits revolt?
Free Speech —so it seems—only exists in the walls of Parliament.
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