Free Speech

Oh, You Naughty First Amendment

The First Amendment’s job is to forbid Congress from making any law abridging, among other rights, our freedom of speech. And it’s up to the courts to knock down any attempt — by Congress or by executive fiat — to do so. Tomorrow is America’s 248th birthday. The First Amendment is nearly as old, coming into force 233 years ago this December, and thanks to the wisdom of the Supreme Court, looks just as good today as it did in 1791.

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Censorship

How A Government-Sponsored Agency Is Censoring Journalism

It started in earnest in 2016 then exploded by 2020. Our own State Department and the CIA are complicit with funding and direction. These scurrilous attacks on Free Speech and the Freedom of the Press are unprecedented in history. Citizens for Free Speech intends to derail these self-proclaimed “arbiters of truth” by exposing them to the light of day: “Illumination leads to elimination.”  

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Free Speech

“We Cannot Cope”: Police In Scotland Deluged With Politicized Hate-Crime Reports

Almost overnight, Scotland has become the laughing-stock of Europe after passing a “non-crime hate law”. Police have been already deluged by over 10,000 complaints and they are accumulating at a rate of  one report per minute. Cases have not yet hit the court system, but it also will be hit with a tsunami of “he-said, she-said” charges.

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