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  • The Modern Corruption of Separating Church from State

    05/01/2025 4:59:59 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 35 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 1 May, 2025 | Susan Quinn
    From the outset of forming our country, our Founders were determined to keep religion as a foundational element, given that many people had left their homes in Britain to be able to practice their religions as they chose. The goal was not for the government to reject faith, but for it to be prevented from dictating doctrine. But over the years, the Left has distorted the meaning of “separation of church and state” (a phrase that’s not written into the Constitution) and now the country feels obligated to ban religion from every nook and cranny. How did a country founded...
  • Marco Rubio Shutters ‘Disinformation’ Agency at State Department

    04/30/2025 10:14:47 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | Apr 16, 2025 | Sean Moran
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of the Global Engagement Center as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shutter the “censorship-industrial complex.”“Today, it is my pleasure to announce the State Department is taking a crucial step toward keeping the president’s promise to liberate American speech by abolishing forever the body formerly known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC),” Rubio wrote in an op-ed for the Federalist, titled, “Rubio: To Protect Free Speech, The Censorship Industrial Complex Must Be Dismantled.”Rubio wrote that, in 2016, the Obama administration changed the GEC’s focus on combatting international terrorism cover...
  • 20-year deportation case against two Palestinian men dismissed (two accused of PFLP support)

    10/31/2007 6:49:56 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 721+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 10/31/07 | Linda Deutsch - ap
    A marathon deportation case against two Palestinian immigrants, pursued by the administrations of four U.S. Presidents over 20 years, has been dismissed. The ruling closes a Byzantine legal saga that wound its way through federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court and federal immigration boards, breaking new legal ground along the way. It ended at the Department of Homeland Security, where the dismissal order was entered Tuesday. One of the defendants, Khader Musa Hamide, said in an interview that he will never get over the experience of being under suspicion for 20 years but now "I can breathe better." A...
  • Soros: The Chinese Model Of Suppressing Individuals Could Become The Envy Of The World

    03/10/2011 7:32:01 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 59 replies · 1+ views
    Business Insider ^ | 03/09/11 | Courtney Comstock
    Soros: The Chinese Model Of Suppressing Individuals Could Become The Envy Of The World Courtney Comstock Apparently, Soros is considering the possibility that people might some day want to be censored and live in a socialist society like China's. He said yesterday at the Traveller’s Club in Paris, according to Dealbook: “The world does need order, and that order needs maintenance. The idea that markets can correct their excesses turned out to be false. “Perfect order and global governance are not realistic expectations. However, it is a sad fact that Western democracies provide less successful leadership than China.”
  • We Now Have More Proof of How the Biden Admin Tried to Suffocate Free Speech

    03/13/2025 1:08:09 PM PDT · by lightman · 12 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 13 March A.D. 2025 | Matt Vespa
    Joe Biden’s final act of shamelessness was pardoning his entire crime family in the final hours of his presidency. There’s a mountain of corruption that’s yet to be fully revealed. On the weaponization of government front, you’d think the sustained lawfare launched against President Donald Trump from the Department of Justice was evidence enough. Pro-life activists and the January 6 defendants also being ensnared by the Biden DOJ’s extralegal crusade on political dissidents. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. The Media Research Center found not one, not ten, but 57 anti-free speech and censorship initiatives aimed at chipping away...
  • Trump's media company and Rumble jointly sue Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes in a U.S. federal court in Florida

    02/19/2025 4:35:49 AM PST · by hardspunned · 4 replies
    X ^ | 2/18/25 | Glenn Greenwald
    arguing that his most recent censorship orders require a global ban, thus violating US sovereignty and US law:
  • Maine legislature censures Rep. Laurel Libby for pointing out trans athlete who won girls' competition

    02/26/2025 4:04:17 AM PST · by C19fan · 73 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 25, 2025 | Jackson Thompson
    The Maine House of Representatives voted to censure Rep. Laurel Libby Tuesday night for a recent social media post pointing out that a transgender high school athlete won a girls' competition. The Maine House's Democratic majority, led by Speaker Ryan Fecteau, passed the censure resolution Tuesday night in a 75-70 vote. Libby is now no longer allowed to speak on the house floor or vote until she issues an apology.
  • Closing Arguments Resume for Irvine 11 [muslim disruption of israeli amb.]

    09/20/2011 1:56:35 PM PDT · by La Enchiladita · 10 replies · 1+ views
    MyFoxLA ^ | Sept. 20, 2011 | Gigi Graciette
    Irvine - Closing arguments will resume today in the trial of 11 students accused of disrupting a speech at UC Irvine by the Israeli ambassador to the United States. The students who interrupted the speech last year "meticulously" planned the disruption and one of the activists afterward boasted, "We pretty much shut them down," a prosecutor said Monday in arguing they should be found guilty of violating laws governing conduct at public meetings. But defense attorneys countered in their closing arguments that just because the students planned to protest the meeting doesn't mean they are guilty of the misdemeanor charges...
  • A Weaponized FBI: It's Real, Whistleblowers Testify, Boasting Scars to Prove It

    02/16/2025 10:08:51 AM PST · by AppyPappy · 29 replies
    Longview News-Journal ^ | Feb 16, 2025 | Ben Weingarten
    But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.
  • Ayanna Pressley really just said she will work with anyone who's serious about "censoring the American people"

    02/12/2025 10:28:43 AM PST · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | February 12, 2025 | Staff
    Hey Facebook, Google, TikTok, listen up, Ayanna Pressley has an important message for you: VIDEO AT LINK............ Ayanna Pressley just said the quiet part out loud: Democrats are willing to work with anyone who is serious about censoring Americans.What a bunch of commies. pic.twitter.com/xfci7X76kJ— Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) February 12, 2025"We are all willing to work with anyone who is serious about doing the work of censoring the American people and advancing progress." Talk about saying the quiet part out loud!
  • Homeland Security puts staff involved in 'disinformation' board on administrative leave, review coming

    02/11/2025 11:14:49 PM PST · by Libloather · 18 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/11/25 | Alexandra Koch
    The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on "mis-, dis-, and malinformation" were put on administrative leave. In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to "refocus on its mission," starting with election security. "The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation," according to the statement. As first reported by Fox News Digital, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified in April 2022...
  • Petitions Ask Trump To Pardon The Pro-Lifers He Promised To Get Out Of The Biden ‘Gulags’

    01/17/2025 7:05:18 AM PST · by Twotone · 4 replies
    The Federalist ^ | January 16, 2025 | Jordan Boyd
    The pro-life activists who suffered partisan prosecution over the last four years by President Joe Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice could have a chance at clemency if incoming President Donald Trump honors their request for “full and unconditional pardons.” The Thomas More Society, which has represented several of the peaceful protestors targeted by the Biden administration for their opposition to baby-killing, submitted nearly two dozen petitions asking Trump to give those who were “unjustly imprisoned” and “unjustly convicted” for advocating to protect life in the womb presidential reprieve. “These individuals participated in mere peaceable civil disobedience, in the heralded tradition...
  • Trump has pardoned pro-life advocate Bevelyn Williams

    01/20/2025 4:43:47 PM PST · by FLT-bird · 16 replies
    The Political Prisoners are being liberated.
  • Taibbi: WH-Directed Suppression Of Speech On Facebook Was Worse Than On Twitter

    01/17/2025 6:10:48 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 16 Jan, 2025 | Tim Hains
    Journalist Matt Taibbi spoke to Brian Kilmeade about Mark Zuckerberg coming out against government censorship of social media and revealing the pressure he faced from the Biden administration to censor content on Facebook and Instagram. "On the whole, it is a net positive," Taibbi said. "Zuckerberg coming out and saying all this confirms a lot of what I reported and a lot of the information that came out from Jim Jordan's committee investigation into the Facebook Files. Even if it is not 100% sincere, it confirms some things and suggests that maybe these tech companies are afraid to continue doing...
  • Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories

    01/13/2025 6:55:35 AM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 12 replies
    Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | January 13, 2025 | CNN Bitter LOSERS
    Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder. As fire crews scrambled in vain to contain the resulting firestorm, the fact-checking partners, still working for Meta, took on their own fight: trying to slow viral misinformation rapidly spreading around the wildfires. Rumor and speculation about the disaster began to swirl online like glowing embers, before eventually becoming a wild blaze of vast conspiracy theories. “Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department,” said Alan Duke,...
  • Trump Responds to Judge Merchan

    01/03/2025 8:50:52 PM PST · by usafa92 · 131 replies
    Truth Social ^ | Donald J. Trump
    Every Legal Scholar and Pundit, including the highly respected, and sadly recently passed, David Rivkin, as well as Jonathan Turley, Elie Honig, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett, Elizabeth Price Foley, Katie and Andy Cherkasky, Paul Ingrassia, and many others, have unequivocally stated that the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt is a nonexistent case, which is not only barred by the Statute of Limitations but, on the merits, should never have been brought. This illegitimate political attack is nothing but a Rigged Charade. “Acting” Justice Merchan, who is a radical partisan, just issued another order that is knowingly unlawful, goes against...
  • Obama’s ‘Censorship’ Office Goes Bankrupt

    12/30/2024 6:18:54 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 30 Dec, 2024 | Gabe Kaminsky
    Obama’s ‘Censorship’ Office Goes Bankrupt COMMENTARY By Gabe KaminskyDecember 30, 2024 Obama’s ‘Censorship’ Office Goes BankruptAP The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department and aiming to thwart disinformation and misinformation, has been forced by Congress to close up shop. It’s no mystery why; the taxpayer-backed GEC violated its mandate to work only overseas and devolved into a partisan enabler of speech suppression in the United States. Here’s how. Founded in 2016 and technically the product of an Obama-era executive order on counterterrorism, the GEC lapsed in December and lost congressional funding. Over the last two years,...
  • Howard Dean: When Trump Attacks Free Speech, America ‘Is Pretty Much Done For’

    12/19/2024 6:16:01 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/19/2024 | Pam Key
    Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that once in office, President Donald Trump will attack free speech, causing the country to be “done for as we know it.” Host Ari Melber said, “I am curious what you see here in the political side of this. These are political efforts to change how people act or change coverage or have some impact. ABC, going to make its own decisions but it was widely covered that the case was not an obvious loss by any means and their statement, I am referring to what ABC...
  • Time Is Running Out To Speak Freely About Free Speech In America

    03/20/2023 8:26:35 AM PDT · by george76 · 26 replies
    The Federalist ^ | MARCH 20, 2023 | Margot Cleveland
    Americans need to have an important discussion about free speech now — before the Censorship Complex makes it impossible to do so. The Censorship Complex — whereby Big Tech censorship is induced by the government, media, and media-rating businesses — threatens the future of free speech in this country. To understand how and why, Americans need to talk about speech — and the government’s motive to deceive the public. To frame this discussion, consider these hypotheticals: Two American soldiers training Ukraine soldiers in Poland cross into the war zone, ambushing and killing five Russian soldiers. Unbeknownst to the American soldiers,...
  • Karen Calls Cops On Man For Wearing MAGA Hat, Only To Discover He’s Most Influential Person In State

    12/06/2024 3:54:40 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 9 replies
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