Posted on 09/21/2022 10:05:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Justice Department has hit the Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization’s First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to their elected representatives. It’s an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the department has become. This out-of-control behavior should scare every citizen and volunteer organization, no matter where they stand on the political or social spectrum.
Eagle Forum is a very small non-profit in Alabama. It only has one full-time employee and a second, part-time employee. Virtually all of its work on issues of interest to its members is done by volunteers. It is the quintessential, uniquely American grassroots membership organization that French historian Alexis de Tocqueville lauded in Democracy in America.
As the Eagle Forum’s motion to quash the government subpoena says, one of the issues its members have been concerned over is “gender-altering medical treatment to minors” and the “permanent and adverse effects of such medical procedures on those minors.” Those serious, lifelong effects deeply concern many physicians and parents.
Members of the Eagle Forum made their worries known by doing things every American has an absolute right to do: they spoke out, made speeches, organized meetings, talked to other residents and organizations in the state, and contacted their elected state representatives. In other words, they exercised their constitutional rights to engage in “freedom of speech,” to “peaceably assemble,” and “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” They also exercised their right to associate, recognized by the Supreme Court as implicit under the Fourteenth Amendment.
None of these activities should trigger stalking by Justice Department lawyers. So how has this come about?
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No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
The Aamerican people understand that the First Amendment calls for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Ping to the state list.
Evil.
Oh vey! That explains Demonicrat, trans-activist and libiot promotion of Newspeak.
Someone posted article saying Biden’s attack on MAGA voters means those voters aren’t going to tell pollsters how they’re going to vote.
Yep. I often think how glad I am that Garland ain’t on SCOTUS.
The Democrat party is acting as if they’ll never be out of power. Do they know something that we don’t?
Well, technically with their unelected activist infiltration of our bureaucracy, they’ll never be out.
“It’s 1984 somewhere, every single day. It’s like the never ending story.”
It’s Groundhogs Day..... But without the annoying Sonny and Cher song when the alarm goes off.
“The Democrat party is acting as if they’ll never be out of power. Do they know something that we don’t?”
They already received their drop shipments of ballots from China?
Maybe some of the regime should start getting picked off one by one...
still looking for someone to point out that the website and users being served could just as easily be free republic. at this point, is there any other reasonable expectation?
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“No doubt at some point they’ll be claiming it’s unsafe for them, that the people who are shocked by what they’re doing are actually the criminals here and that they’re getting threatening phone calls,” Carlson said. “They’re going to call the DOJ and anyone who comments on it is going to get a visit from the FBI. But the truth is, people who are horrified by this are not the bad actors.”
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