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Dem Stacey Plaskett Defends Censorship: ‘Free Speech Is Not an Absolute’
Breitbart ^ | 07/20/2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 07/20/2023 6:59:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) defended censorship on Thursday, arguing that certain views should not enjoy the free speech protections of the First Amendment, which she said was limited by the Supreme Court.

Plaskett, the ranking member of the minority on the House Weaponization Subcommittee, attacked the alleged views of one of the witnesses, Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, calling them hateful.

“This is not the free speech that I know of,” she said. She recalled a recent controversy over remarks Kennedy made about the coronavirus affecting some population groups more than others, among other past comments.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: ccp; censorship; china; covid; fascistdemagogue; free; freespeech; nevertrumpers; notreallyavirgin; plaskett; rfkjr; robertfkennedyjr; speech; staceyplaskett; virginislands
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To: Rummyfan

Why, don’t we all know? The newly re-organized DHS run by Cuban/Greek Communist Alejandro Mayorkas— the re-named Disinformation prevention division (formerly run by the singing clownette “supercalifragilistic- expialadocious” idiot now freelancing for the WEF. Seriously).


21 posted on 07/20/2023 7:40:46 AM PDT by John S Mosby (.Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: CedarDave

See this anti- Rabbi Boteach article in the longtime Jewish journal “Forward!” (incidentally the cry “Forward” comes from the early Bolshevik call to revolution in tracts written in 1917 . See: Robert Conquest)

https://forward.com/fast-forward/554404/rfk-jr-covid-ashkenazi-jews-rabbi-shmuley-boteach/


22 posted on 07/20/2023 7:44:08 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: John S Mosby

BTW, the Pfizer plant in North Carolina was destroyed last night by a tornado.


23 posted on 07/20/2023 7:45:50 AM PDT by CedarDave (Pfizer's boosters: The medical equivalent of Russian roulette!)
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To: John S Mosby

:: The Constitution and its Bill of Rights outlines...freedom of speech >>within limitations of harm<< to other People ::

That is a personal interpretation and word salad [post-modern sophistry].
Bigoted speech is protected by the 1st Amendment.
It is not illegal to shout “fire” in a crowded theater.
If it is, I missed the legislative vote that made it such.


24 posted on 07/20/2023 7:49:34 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: CedarDave

Rocky Mount, yes. Early reports were that the warehouse housing injectables of every type (not necc. clot shot covid vaxes) such as insulin, hospital anti-coagulents and many other specialized agents-— were wiped out of controlled climate storage. Not the plant. Will check on that update.

Thanks. It wasn’t divine intervention, but a freak series of pop up 40 mph thunderstorms with hail and... a tornado. No where else in the entire NC/SC states and the mountains of TN VA and the Carolinas had this weather. Maybe it was divine come to think of it. It was freaky but heat generated as tornadoes require.


25 posted on 07/20/2023 7:52:16 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

The limitations Cletus, are described through history of the SCOTUS decisions— which is what was mentioned. Not in the Constitution, which protected all speech, tar and feathers and the very basis of our Revolution from the British Empire of George IIIrd. Understood, and thanks for the clarification.


26 posted on 07/20/2023 7:54:42 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: John S Mosby

Such is the weakness of Marbury v Madison being used as the “gold standard” of Constitutional law.
As I learned in my Law classes.
The Court then is allowed to (re)define the very document that created it.
To wit, if the SCOTUS had opined that shouting “fire” in a crowded theater WERE “illegal” speech, Congress should have moved forthwith to codify it in Law.
Since they did not, it cannot be considered “illegal”.

In the current atmosphere, such things turn out to be protected by unConstitutional rules and regulations (not “laws”, per se) that throw legal fences around such things as use of the word “ni88er”.


27 posted on 07/20/2023 8:03:07 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“ Upon reading this article I had two words come to mind. They are highly discouraged on FR so I won’t write them.”

Atticus Pünd (See “Magpie Murders”)


28 posted on 07/20/2023 8:03:59 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, it’s summertime! How about using this deranged piece of garbage for bait? Drag her behind your boat off the coast of Cape Cod. She doesn’t belong in the U.S. She belongs in Hell.


29 posted on 07/20/2023 8:04:32 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Bayard
Enemy of the people she governs represents.
30 posted on 07/20/2023 8:29:14 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Thank you, sir. Exactly, and well stated. It is interesting that RFK,Jr freelanced commented on McCarthy hearings- which have been lied about by omission. Omission of the facts revealed about real proven (Venona surveillance proof) Communists within the post WWII government— Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Hopkins and a host of others. Now being discussed in the newest Hollywood attempted trope to make Robert Oppenheimer a Leftist saint for “sharing” the atomic bomb secrets. Oppenheimer was a Communist, hidden from all but General Groves— all because someone decided Oppy could organize the Manhatten Project. And Stalin knew everything.

It is a battle that continues to this day. For our country’s defense we need to ID the current crop of Communist descendants masquerading like they did in this hearing.

Eloquent post, sir. Thank you, again.


31 posted on 07/20/2023 8:29:38 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anyone who has ever listened to her speak knows hers is the true definition of hate speech.


32 posted on 07/20/2023 8:57:54 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( Why I Oughta! Tired of leftards... Bang, Zoom, To The Moon!)
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To: fhayek
"You only have the freedoms that we allow you to have..."

This 👆👆👆👆 👀

And in a sane world, the people she represents would recall her from office.

33 posted on 07/20/2023 9:05:47 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: facedown

She needs to read the constitution again with emphasis on the BOR.


34 posted on 07/20/2023 9:35:53 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I hope it’s legal to post this.

35 posted on 07/20/2023 9:47:23 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since when does Virgin Islands have a representative?


36 posted on 07/20/2023 12:08:26 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

1973

Non-voting, but takes part in committees and such.


37 posted on 07/20/2023 12:13:18 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Interesting that she called out Kennedy as a racist for his comments.

The federal government was saying exactly that two and a half years ago.

The Disproportional Impact of COVID-19 on African Americans

38 posted on 07/20/2023 12:13:45 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: jjotto

Thanks.


39 posted on 07/20/2023 1:26:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’m beginning to wonder if freeing these people was a good idea.

L


40 posted on 07/20/2023 1:32:49 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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