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Democrats’ Assault on Free Speech
Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2021 | John and Andy Schlafly

Posted on 02/03/2021 9:26:51 AM PST by Kaslin

Liberals have realized that the massive support for Donald Trump and his views is not going away. As long as freedom of speech survives and distrust of the liberal media persists, Democrats are unable to capture control of the minds of the American people.

First they wrongly impeached President Trump for a political speech, and now the Democrats are going full throttle to censor anyone who speaks out for ordinary Americans as Trump did.

Newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the latest target of this liberal censorship. Despite being sworn in less than merely a month ago, Greene is being subjected to an all-out national attack by Democrats to silence and marginalize her.

That is a surprising amount of attention given to a freshman barely weeks after the opening of the new session of Congress. During Biden’s first 100 days, one would think that the Democratic leadership in Congress would have better things to do than obsess about the blond housewife from Georgia.

Well, Phyllis Schlafly was just a blond housewife from a small town in Illinois when she defeated the Leftist agenda. Five years ago, Trump himself was just a businessman whom the media insisted would never be elected president.

A plain-speaking American, Rep. Greene is no ordinary congresswoman as she single-handedly wakes up the entire country to what is happening. She tweeted that “America Last globalists are clinging to relevance because the People have rejected them.”

Leftists were aided by a handful of Republican congressmen who are so hateful of Trump that they refuse to defend freedom of speech by him and those who support him. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) voted to impeach Trump for his speech rather than stand up against Leftist control of free speech for all of us.

Nearly a dozen county Republican organizations throughout Wyoming are exercising their right of free speech to censure Cheney. The South Carolina GOP has done likewise to Rep. Tom Rice for his pro-impeachment vote.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), whose weak leadership as Senate Majority Leader contributed to the loss of the GOP majority in the Senate, has failed to defend the importance of freedom of speech. “Conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party,” he declared in support of the censors.

Rep. Greene shot back, “The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country.”

Rep. Greene is so right about that. Charismatic and effective, Rep. Greene’s outspokenness resonates with Americans as Trump’s own statements have.

For that she has been subjected to relentless smears by the Left and intrusive scrutiny of everything she has ever said. She married in college and her husband runs a construction company, we are told, while she raised their three children.

Twitter suspended her amid her enormous following there, and she has started on Telegram where she instantly picked up a large crowd. She is not backing down, nor should she.

On her first day in Congress she wore a mask with the lettering “TRUMP WON,” and she has introduced articles of impeachment against Biden. She told Never-Trumper Mitt Romney to grow a spine.

Rep. Greene was elected with 75% of the vote over her Democrat opponent after President Trump called her “a future Republican star.” Democrats should be abiding by democracy in Georgia’s 14th congressional district, rather than excluding their duly elected representative from committees.

et the same liberals who preach about respecting democracy are being anti-democratic towards Rep. Greene and the many Georgians who elected her. Rather than improperly banning her from sitting on House committees, the real issue should be whether the two senators from Georgia elected based on unaudited signatures on numerous mail-in ballots should be seated.

The “unity” professed to be a goal of Joe Biden does not mean conciliation by the Left, but instead silencing the conservative opposition to the liberal agenda. The ferocious attempt by Democrats to destroy Rep. Greene illustrates how far they will go to stamp out freedom of speech for all of us.

New terms are invented as euphemisms for this assault against our basic free-speech rights. “Deplatforming” sounds innocuous, but it means censoring someone’s entire website on the internet, even though it may have millions of followers.

Churches may be the next target. The right to free speech in the First Amendment, which is unique to the United States, was supported in colonial America by pastors who wanted to be sure that they would never be intimidated for what they say from the pulpit.

After taking control of the White House, liberals’ real goal is to silence Trump and demonize his supporters to the point that neither Trump nor anyone like him can ever be elected again.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; democrats; freespeech; liberty

1 posted on 02/03/2021 9:26:51 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I am not allowed to say this but our loss of freedom of speech is one of the worst crimes committed against us by the Dems./s

Do we really think websites like the conservative ones which we use for threads will long survive? They could be tied to conservatives, who then are tied to “domestic terrorists” on the Right. Out they go.

Did America let the bin Laden and pro terrorist sites just go on unhindered after 911? No. Bank accounts were even seized. And credit cards would not allow money involving them. That happens to “terrorists.”


2 posted on 02/03/2021 9:40:20 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

And the snake, having by now begun to swallow its own tail, continues to swallow still more, with apparent great relish, until it cannot flex its head about to swallow the last remaining bits of itself.


3 posted on 02/03/2021 9:45:38 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: alloysteel

Great image.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 9:47:38 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Kaslin

Free speech is just part of the beginning of what democrats will be taking away. They’ve already taken away school choice and public education is firmly under liberal control, and universities/colleges have gone the same way. Democrats have taken control of around 80-90% of the media, including TV and radio and print media and the internet.

They’ve managed to take control of the major cities and towns and many states are hopelessly liberal. With that kind of control in many major states and major cities and districts, they’ve managed to take control of the voting systems, and voter fraud will become institutionalized, meaning that, democrats will be in control of who gets elected, just about everywhere.

All of that (and more) is for the purpose of consolidating their power(s) over every decision that matters, including over the economy and our freedoms.

Next, democrats will try to take away our gun rights, and they could succeed with control of the SCOTUS and other major judicial systems.

Democrats have been in control of the lockdowns in major states and cities, and that too points to the biggest grab of power of all.......

namely......

Control of the monetary powers, including the banking system and people’s bank accounts. All that they’ll need is for the economy to collapse, which is already happening in the liberal controlled areas.

With the economy producing less of everything, and the government collecting less and less revenue, DEMOCRATS will take the next step towards a socialist totalitarian system.....

which will include taking control of people’s bank accounts and major assets, such as homes and stocks.

For democrats, there is only one way forward, and that’s to take complete control of the country. Companies and people will be working for the government, and government will be dictating how we live our lives.

The constitution has suffered a lot of losses, even as democrats and republicans pretend that it still exists as it was written by our founders. Making the constitution and our rights completely moot and worthless, is not that far off.


5 posted on 02/03/2021 9:48:10 AM PST by adorno
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To: Kaslin

We have allowed this.
I blame us.
We have protested without using our guns.


6 posted on 02/03/2021 9:48:27 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: Kaslin
"After taking control of the White House, liberals’ real goal is to silence Trump and demonize his supporters to the point that neither Trump nor anyone like him can ever be elected"

Excellent article! God Bless her.

The only thing I would change is- "After taking control" should be "After seizing control of the White House through a vote fraud coup" . Also IMO the Marxist Democrats have already achieved their goal of making sure that Trump, nor anyone like him can ever be elected again.

Vote fraud ensures the Democrat dictatorship will continue to its inevitable collapse of the country.

7 posted on 02/03/2021 9:55:15 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: adorno

They’ve taken away the ballot box.
They’re taking away the soap box.
You know they want to take away the cartridge box.

They’ve got plans for us. And these are not good plans.


8 posted on 02/03/2021 9:59:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Kaslin

Hope Congresswoman Greene keeps fighting for Americans.

She’s making them nuts pointing right at the target: “America Last globalists.”

Superb.

Just love her now!


9 posted on 02/03/2021 10:20:55 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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