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February 18, 2025 The American Moment: Critics Prove Vance’s Point on the Threat of the Anti-Free Speech Movement
Jonathan Turley ^ | 18 Feb 2025 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 02/18/2025 5:17:06 PM PST by Rummyfan

On Friday, Vice President JD Vance gave a historic defense of free speech at the Munich Security Conference. In front of a clearly hostile assemblage of European diplomats, Vance confronted our allies with their systemic censorship as they demanded more support to “defend democracy.”

For the free speech community, it was akin to Ronald Reagan’s call: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Vance questioned how our allies could claim to be the bastions of freedom while denying free expression to their citizens.

He then delivered this haymaker: “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.”

Not surprisingly, the Europeans sat on their hands while glaring at Vance for calling them out for their hypocrisy. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius declared Vance’s remarks were “not acceptable.” An unnamed German official in attendance declared, “This is all so insane and worrying.”

The outrage of the Europeans was only surpassed by our own anti-free speech voices in government, the media and academia.

(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 4threich; eu; fourthreich; germans

1 posted on 02/18/2025 5:17:06 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

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2 posted on 02/18/2025 5:18:37 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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Vance drew a bright line in Europe and we will all have to decide on which side to stand. Some obviously have made the decision to stand with Europe.

For the rest of us, we will stand with free speech.

3 posted on 02/18/2025 5:19:40 PM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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Can anyone picture Cackling Kamala delivering such a powerful speech in front of a (presumably) sophisticated, international audience?

I cannot. It’s pretty funny to imagine, though. 🤪


4 posted on 02/18/2025 5:31:06 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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“Free speech is, you know, free. And it’s speech. And we have free speech in America and you don’t have free speech in The EU of Europe and like Germany. And it’s not free. So stop charging for speech and make it free!”


5 posted on 02/18/2025 5:49:17 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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The Left said the quote part out loud when Biden was President now they are screaming it:

“WE ARE IN CHARGE, YOU OBEY!! YOUR FREE SPEECH NEEDS TO END BECAUSE IT IS INHIBITING YOUR OBEDIENCE!!!”


6 posted on 02/18/2025 5:49:46 PM PST by FlipWilson
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Some obviously have made the decision to stand with Europe.


Turley has this wrong. What I believe he means is: Some have made the decision to stand with European autocrats and censorious governments.

Europe, as a continent full of people is not the same as the current globalist movement.


7 posted on 02/18/2025 5:53:31 PM PST by marktwain
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Does this other statement by Turley cancel out his article referred to in this post ?

Fox’s Turley decries ‘prosecution’ of Ocasio-Cortez over immigration webinar

Asking for a friend.

8 posted on 02/18/2025 5:53:36 PM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations .)
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9 posted on 02/18/2025 6:04:09 PM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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Oh, my goodness…you could’ve been Cackling Kamala’s official speechwriter; you sounded just like her. 😂😂


10 posted on 02/23/2025 2:18:21 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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