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3 overseas leaders who know how repression and tyranny work speak out on censorship of Trump and election skepticism
American Thinker ^ | 01/10/2021 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/10/2021 11:38:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind

When people with experience of political corruption and repression warn Americans about danger signs in the current efforts to shut down dissidents, we should take note.  The democratically elected leaders of 2 major Latin American countries are speaking up and warning Americans about the efforts to censor and repress skepticism about the legitimacy of an election. They are joined the leader of Russia’s opposition, the bête noire of Vladimir Putin, in whose pocket Donald Trump supposedly resides.

Ryan Saavedra of The Daily Wire reports on the leader of Mexico, a country with a history of political corruption and questionable elections:

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador [AMLO, as he is called – TL] condemned social media companies for censoring President Donald Trump this week, saying that he does not “accept” the move as being okay.

“I don’t like anybody being censored or taking away from the the right to post a message on Twitter or Face(book). I don’t agree with that, I don’t accept that,” López Obrador said.

“How can you censor someone: ‘Let’s see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you’re saying is harmful,’” he continued. “Where is the law, where is the regulation, what are the norms? This is an issue of government, this is not an issue for private companies.”

AMLO is not the sole Mexican official warning us:

‘The Washington Post reported that presidential spokesman Jesús Ramírez doubled down on the message from López Obrador, writing on social media: “Facebook’s decision to silence the current leader of the United States calls for a debate on freedom of expression, the free exchange of information on the web, democracy and the role of the companies that administer (social) networks.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202101; brazil; censorship; foreignleaders; freedomofexpression; freedomofspeech; mexico; navalny; obrador; russia; trump; waronfreespeech
The leader of Latin America’s biggest nation, Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro also has been warning of the dangers of election fraud and the suppression of Trump’s voice,
1 posted on 01/10/2021 11:38:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador [AMLO, as he is called – TL] condemned social media companies for censoring President Donald Trump this week, saying that he does not “accept” the move as being okay.”

And he’s a SOCIALIST!


2 posted on 01/10/2021 11:41:43 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

The democratic party since it’s inception in the United States of America has really done nothing but burn loot and murder.

Plunder deceive and subjugate !

It is time for some self reflecting of the Democratic Party and its current principles.

Which are antithetical to the constitution of the United States of America


3 posted on 01/10/2021 11:45:24 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: SeekAndFind

To be pedantic, neither Brazil nor Mexico is oversea. It might make sense to journey by sea to either place, depending on where you are departing from, but that is optional. They are part of the same land mass. It would be easier to take journalists seriously if they reflected upon what they wrote.


4 posted on 01/10/2021 12:02:56 PM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hong Kongese. Taiwanese. Mohdi of India. Duda of Poland. Orban of Hungary. Israel and all the nations that are now normalizing relations with Israel. They all see what’s happening and dare speak out against it because they know Biden’s puppet masters are going to be disastrous.


5 posted on 01/10/2021 12:09:02 PM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: SeekAndFind

When the SHTF up here maybe they can smuggle us some RPGs to liven things up.


6 posted on 01/10/2021 12:12:27 PM PST by dljordan
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To: SeekAndFind

Well we could have not received Ryan Saavedra, as his was pitiful in my opinion.


7 posted on 01/10/2021 12:14:01 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: aquila48

Back when he first got elected, he stated he will not work with Trump. You can even archive his posts and mine. Unbelievable that he’s siding with Trump. He was one of the very few persons I was wrong on judging.


8 posted on 01/10/2021 12:17:18 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: SeekAndFind
‘The Washington Post reported that presidential spokesman Jesús Ramírez doubled down on the message from López Obrador, writing on social media: “Facebook’s decision to silence the current leader of the United States calls for a debate on freedom of expression, the free exchange of information on the web, democracy and the role of the companies that administer (social) networks.”

Jesús Ramírez is standing with us? Amazing.

9 posted on 01/10/2021 12:21:31 PM PST by GOPJ (Seventy-three million citizens thought the election was rigged - enough to start a new party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When foreigners know our system better than those who made
fortunes under it.


10 posted on 01/10/2021 12:24:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The party of tolerance, is growing more intollerant by the hour...)
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To: SeekAndFind
I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.
11 posted on 01/10/2021 12:43:59 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Lazamataz

We are all Feinbergs now.


12 posted on 01/10/2021 12:48:38 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Organic Panic; aquila48; max americana; GOPJ; DoughtyOne; Chode
Hong Kongese. Taiwanese. Mohdi of India. Duda of Poland. Orban of Hungary. Israel and all the nations that are now normalizing relations with Israel. They all see what’s happening and dare speak out against it because they know Biden’s puppet masters are going to be disastrous.

And Angela Merkel, The French finance minister, Mexico...

World Leaders Denounce Big Tech Censorship of President Donald Trump

If Merkel and the others had cheered, I would have thought, "Of course globalists are going to want to silence Trump!" But what did George III of England do when the French revolutionaries beheaded his enemy Louis XVI? He declared war against France. Killing a king, even one you hate, was taboo.

13 posted on 01/12/2021 8:03:30 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Liz

See #13


14 posted on 01/12/2021 8:05:09 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Also helps explain how we got 40% of the Hispanic vote... People who have lived in commie hellholes don't fall for progressive bullshit.

And the one in six black men who voted for Trump?

I'm guessing stories from grandfathers about how democrats ran the Jim Crow South was a factor...same kind of commie thuggery by democrats then...

15 posted on 01/12/2021 10:18:43 AM PST by GOPJ (Seventy-three million citizens thought the election was rigged - enough to start a new party.)
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To: GOPJ

Dems may have received fewer legal votes than the official numbers show. That could change the ratios.


16 posted on 01/12/2021 11:11:03 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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