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There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day. I assume we are in agreement that constitutional democracies are a good form of government or, at least, a better form of government than the other methods we have found to-date. This means that I am taking for granted the following assumptions. - People have fundamental rights to speech, assembly, religion and so on - People are innocent until proven guilty -...

When someone says something we disagree with, should we shut them up? In 1927, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had an answer: "The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Well, in that case, the internet should have solved everything, notes correspondent David Pogue – it's nothing but more speech. And yet lately, the news is full of stories about people trying to limit other people's expression. The free-speech erosion is even happening in schools. Since January last year, according to PEN America, Republican lawmakers have introduced more than 150 state laws that would restrict how teachers...

Politicians in the United States and around the world condemned the Canadian government after it announced it would use anti-terrorism laws to quell a peaceful protest of its own citizens. “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules, so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use,” said Canadian deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland at a press conference yesterday. “These changes cover all forms of transactions including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.” “The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use...

Joe Biden managed to cobble together a sentence during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt over the weekend, declaring that his message to people who want COVID to be over is that their personal freedoms come second to his mandates. “What’s your message to people who want desperately for [Covid] to be over and to be able to resume the lives they remember?” Holt asked Biden. “If your exercising personal freedom puts someone else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy, I don’t consider that freedom,” Biden sarcastically stated in response, before telling people who don’t want to continue wearing masks...

Medical freedom or autonomy gives people the right to choose with respect to their bodies; physicians the freedom to do what is best for a patient; and bio-scientists the freedom to communicate with, well, everyone. Washington has denied Americans their medical freedom in this COVID crisis, causing economic devastation and needless deaths. Regardless of dire, fear-inducing life-or-death warnings emanating from Washington about COVID, it is simply a new flu. Implying that COVID is an existential threat comparable to the bubonic plague is ludicrous medical hyperbole. COVID is simply a new flu. Risk of COVID death for the general population is...

Lightbound was alone in voicing these concerns in a press conference on Tuesday, but says he is not the only Liberal MP who is feeling uneasy with the direction the government has taken.... He said that he couldn’t help but notice that “both the tone and the policies” of his government changed “drastically on the eve and during the last election campaign”. “From a positive and unifying approach, a decision was made to wedge, to divide and to stigmatize. I fear that this politicization of the pandemic risks undermining the public’s trust in our public health institutions. Lightbound underlined that...

Former President Donald Trump on Jan. 31 lamented that the United States resembles a communist nation under his successor, pointing to rampant inflation, diminishing freedoms, and the porous U.S.–Mexico border. “They’re destroying our country. They’re making us a different country. We’re becoming like a socialist or a communist state,” Trump told former top White House aide Kash Patel on his EpochTV’s “Kash’s Corner” program. The interview will premiere at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 7.“Why would they want to have a weak military? Why would they want to have high interest rates and higher taxes? And why would they want...

GoFundMe says it won’t be giving the C$10 million ($8 million USD) raised to support the truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates to the organizers anymore, saying it will instead work with the organizers to send the funds to “established charities verified by GoFundMe.” “To ensure GoFundMe remains a trusted platform, we work with local authorities to ensure we have a detailed, factual understanding of events taking place on the ground,” the fundraising platform said in a statement on Feb. 4. “Following a review of relevant facts and multiple discussions with local law enforcement and city officials, this fundraiser is now in...

When U.S. President Joe Biden accused Facebook of "killing people" by spreading vaccine lies in July, many experts and researchers hoped it marked the beginning of a White House battle against a flood of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic coursing through the United States. Six months later, the deluge of misinformation continues and entities combating harmful information want the White House to do more. COVID-19 deaths recently hit their highest in almost a year, with over 2,600 people dying on average each day. U.S. studies show the unvaccinated are dying at much higher rates than those with jabs and boosters....

Regional governments in Canada have begun announcing plans to drop onerous civil rights restrictions on their citizens meant to contain the Chinese coronavirus this week following mounting pressure from national protests, most prominently the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa.

VIDEOMany people think that Joe Biden bragging about taking part in civil rights marches and desegregating movie theaters is only a recent phenomenon. As it turns out, Biden has been LYING about this for decades. In this video you can see Biden LYING to the NAACP convention in 1986 about marching for civil rights and desegregating a movie theater in Delaware.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s divergent rulings regarding COVID vaccine mandates offer a stark enough contrast between the constitutional limits of the government’s power. But there’s another takeaway from the High Court with far greater consequences to civil liberties, regardless of your position on vaccines. In a much-ballyhooed win for the rule of law and the Constitution, the High Court soundly rejected the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for large private employers. The 6-3 decision reaffirmed that the power to make law lies with Congress, not federal agencies, not even during a pandemic. That is, no matter how much the President desires...

Here is the text of the speech I'll deliver on Jan 23 at our rally in DCSteve Kirsch2 hr ago 361130 Rally info DEFEAT THE MANDATES...today! This event is a “let’s come together in unity to say the mandates must end.” I’m pleased to announce that Comedian JP Sears will be the moderator for the event. Here is the official website. Assemble at 10:30am at the Washington Monument for a walk to the Lincoln Memorial…Read more5 days ago · 395 likes · 313 comments · Steve KirschIntro: Steve Kirsch is a former high tech executive from Silicon Valley who left...

After Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona came for American parents, a new "ParentGate" campaign is coming for them courtesy of the Constitutional Rights PAC. The Wednesday announcement said that the initiative would demand the impeachment of the two men, who are alleged to have conspired with the National School Boards Association to go after parents who speak up in opposition to critical race theory, face masks, and gender ideology at school board meetings. ADVERTISEMENT The charge against the Biden appointees is that they are seeking to deny parents of their rights to free speech enshrined in...

Project Veritas just released a video of the results of a freedom of information act request by Judicial Watch about any communications between Pfizer and its employees or representatives and the FBI regarding Project Veritas. It was confirmed the FBI had material which is located in an investigative file exempt from disclosure. Pfizer had communications with the FBI regarding "misinformation" as per its own admission. So why is the FBI in contact with Pfizer regarding journalists, especially given the Project Veritas reports which simply convey the exact words of Pfizer employees?

Within hours of taking office, Virginia's newly sworn-in Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) cleaned house - firing dozens of lawyers, including those in the Civil Rights division - and announcing investigations into the Virginia Parole Board and Loudon County Public Schools."I've been told incoming AG @JasonMiyaresVA just FIRED the entire civil rights division in the Attorney General's office," tweeted VA State Senator Louise Lucas.I've been told incoming AG @JasonMiyaresVA just FIRED the entire civil rights division in the Attorney General's office. My bill helped create and expand the authority that this division uses. — L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) January 14,...

Joe Biden is a chameleon who, even when he was in possession of his faculties, probably didn’t believe in much of anything. Now, going with the flow, he has become a “woke” warrior who tries to portray himself as a civil rights activist, which he never was. Biden has repeatedly claimed in speeches to have been arrested in the cause of civil rights, once supposedly when he was trying to visit Nelson Mandela–a complete fantasy. But that’s not all: in his speech yesterday in Atlanta, he not only launched absurd smears against Republicans, he portrayed himself as an activist who...

After finding evidence that the "man of God" and "moral conscience of our nation," the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., participated in the rape of a parishioner, engaged in numerous sex orgies, received cash payments from known communists, and admitted that he was a Marxist, King biographer and Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Garrow wrote of King, "There is no question that a profoundly painful reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits." *snip* To have been a Christian minister, it is illuminating that King's ideology is anathema to Christianity, manliness, and American freedom. Consider this: after attempting to integrate an all-White hotel...

The COVID pandemic appears to supply yet another pretext for the move towards bigger and more authoritarian government. In his classic book, Crisis and Leviathan, economic historian Robert Higgs introduced a key concept that he called “the ratchet effect.” Higgs noted that the power of government grows during times of crisis, such as war or national depression, but that once the crisis passes, the newly acquired power of the State doesn't recede back to its original level. Higgs explained: “After the ideological transformation that took place during the Progressive Era, each genuine crisis has been the occasion for another ratchet...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, along with Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Louie Gohmert held a press conference Tuesday to call on justice for the detainees of the January 6th Capitol attack.