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Yes … foreigners that come to the U.S. have freedom of speech under the U.S. Constitution.
Posted by M. C. on June 16, 2025
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Is Freedom of Speech In Danger No Matter Who Wins The Presidential Election?
Posted by M. C. on October 1, 2024
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What Noam Chomsky Can Teach Us About Freedom of Speech
Posted by M. C. on July 24, 2023
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“I don’t mind the denunciations, frankly. I mind the lies. I mean intellectuals are very good at lying. They’re professionals at it, in a wonderful technique. There’s no way of responding to it. If somebody calls you, you know, an anti-semite, what can you say? ‘I’m not an anti-semite.’ Somebody says you’re a racist, you’re a Nazi, you always lose. The person that throws the mud always wins. Because there’s no way of responding to such charges.”
and
“If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.”
—Noam Chomsky, interview included in Manufacturing Consent
I know what you’re thinking.
Noam Chomsky seems an unlikely companion for a disquisition in defense of civil liberties.
I’m not talking about the authoritarian, enemy-defining, menticided Chomsky who in 2021 advocated for the isolation, stigmatization, and deprivation of those who exercise their right to refuse an experimental injection.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/oyZNqDUnzyJb/
I’m talking about Vintage Chomsky.
The Chomsky who wrote Manufacturing Consent.
The Chomsky who uncloaked the mud-throwing tactic of kafkatrapping:
“I don’t mind the denunciations, frankly. I mind the lies. I mean intellectuals are very good at lying. They’re professionals at it, in a wonderful technique. There’s no way of responding to it. If somebody calls you, you know, an anti-semite, what can you say? ‘I’m not an anti-semite.’ Somebody says you’re a racist, you’re a Nazi, you always lose. The person that throws the mud always wins. Because there’s no way of responding to such charges.”
The Chomsky who defended a Holocaust denier’s right to express his views:
“A professor of French literature was … brought to trial for ‘falsification of History,’ and later condemned for this crime, the first time that a modern Western state openly affirmed the Stalinist-Nazi doctrine that the state will determine historical truth and punish deviation from it. Later he was beaten practically to death by Jewish terrorists. As of now, the European and other intellectuals have not expressed any opposition to these scandals; rather, they have sought to disguise their profound commitment to Stalinist-Nazi doctrine by following the same models, trying to divert attention with a flood of outrageous lies.”
The Chomsky who recognized the don’t-think-of-a-white-bear Streisand effect created by laws that criminalize unpleasant speech and thought:
“I don’t think the way to deal with neo-fascist groups is to try to shut them up forcefully. You should try to win the argument. It’s quite remarkable to see how it works. So take say, Holocaust denial. In a lot of Europe, Holocaust denial is a crime.…
“In the United States, it’s not a crime. The consequence is that in the United States, Holocaust denial is unknown. There’s plenty of it.… Nobody pays any attention to it.…
“In France and a lot of Europe, it’s all over the front pages, ton of publicity. Some guy somewhere does some marginal thing, everybody knows about it. It’s a way of giving publicity to Holocaust denial. If you treat it the sensible way, it’s about like somebody claiming the earth is flat—okay, forget it, it has no impact.
“I just don’t think it’s even tactically the right way to deal with say, neo-fascist groups, and it does give them an argument. As you said, they can claim freedom of speech, which is a value we all uphold.”
The Chomsky who identified the “Stalinist-style technique to silence critics of the holy state” and “the endless lies of the Anti-Defamation League.”
The Chomsky who warned us about the five filters of the mass media machine.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M%3Fembeds_referring_euri%3Dhttps
The Chomsky who pointed out “the difference between defending a person’s right to express his views and defending the views expressed.”
The Chomsky who condemned the hegemonic State:
“There’s no concern for justice and there never was. States don’t have a concern for justice. States don’t act on moral grounds.…
“They are instruments of power and violence, that’s true of all states; they act in the interests of the groups that dominate them, they spout the nice rhetorical line, but these are just givens of the international system.”
The Chomsky who exposed the hypocrisy of practicing censorship in the name of “protecting” Jews:
“It is a poor service to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust to adopt a central doctrine of their murderers.”
That Chomsky.
But can we learn anything from present-day Chomsky?
We can learn that no matter how awake we think we are, how aware we are of the tricks used to propagandize us, how skeptical we remain of media and the State, or how knowledgeable we are about history, there but for the grace of God go we.
We can learn that we must ceaselessly guard our hearts from the emotional manipulators, our minds from the behavioral psychologists, our souls from the totalitarian morality inverters.
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Ireland Government’s Hate Speech Bill Promotes ‘Thought Crime Legislation’
Posted by M. C. on May 3, 2023
The same people creating this law will decide what you say is right or wrong. Better pray the wind is blowing in the right direction on the day they decide to look at you.
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Naveen Anthrapully via The Epoch Times,
Irish authorities are pushing forward a bill that will make it a crime to disseminate and possess content deemed to be hateful—a development Elon Musk warns is a threat to free speech in the country.
The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 (pdf) seeks to “amend the law relating to the prohibition of incitement to violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of certain characteristics (referred to as protected characteristics) of the person or the group of persons and to provide for an offence of condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”
It aims at “combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.”
The bill classifies “race, skin colour, nationality, religion, national or ethnic origin, descent, gender, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, and disability” as protected characteristics.
Gender is “the gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses as the person’s preferred gender or with which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female.”
The bill empowers Irish authorities to convict people criminally for alleged hate crimes. According to the bill, a person can be deemed guilty of an offense if the individual “(i) communicates material to the public or a section of the public, or (ii) behaves in a public place in a manner, that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics.”
“Massive attack on freedom of speech,” Musk said in an April 30 tweet responding to an organization called Free Speech Ireland, which criticized the Irish government for voting against “human rights and quite literally for thought crime legislation.”
An amendment to include the UN Convention on Human Rights protections on free speech into the hate speech bill was defeated. Another amendment to excuse the section allowing for prosecuting individuals possessing offensive material without communicating it was also defeated.
This means that Irish authorities can arrest a person for simply possessing material deemed as potentially inciting hatred if disseminated.
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The Purpose of Freedom of Speech Is Primarily For Criticizing Government!
Posted by M. C. on January 7, 2023
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What’s The Opposite of Freedom of Speech and Worse than Censorship?? – It’s The Coverup! – LewRockwell
Posted by M. C. on November 14, 2022
If this article looks familiar, well, there’s a good reason. Stick with me here – – –
What’s the opposite of freedom of speech and worse than censorship??
I won’t keep you hanging, it’s ForcedSpeak.
ForcedSpeak is when a so-called “Authority“ — nearly always a government entity — tries to force you to make a disclaimer or other statement against your will.
Sort of Orwell’s NewSpeak but, rather than the bureaucrats and their MSM newsy mouth-pieces — modern translation: “presstitutes” — YOU have to do it.
Sounds like a knock-off from an old anti-NAZI or anti-communist Korean-War-era Hollywood propaganda flick doesn’t it? Maybe The Manchurian Candidate.
But it’s not Manchuria, Germany, Russia, Korea – – – or fiction. It’s Canada.
It’s Pastor Artur Pawlowski who grew up behind the Iron Curtain. He designated his church in Canada as sanctuary from the seriously destructive COVID narrative and it’s negative and often murderous results.
So, in the true spirit of current Cancel Culture tradition – – – you know, using the Big-Tech/government complex, when you can’t answer someone with facts and logic, you shadow-ban, censor or otherwise disappear and thus “Cancel” them – – – Canadian Authorities arrested Pastor Pawlowski and closed his church.
But that was just the beginning. I think it’s better if Rev. Pawlowski briefly explains a few things, including ForcedSpeak, himself – – – except as you can see, YouTube cancelled him too – – –
So, YouTube claims, “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.” That happened after the clip appeared in the previous version of this article and got significant attention.
I’ve posted the exact same video clip on alternative video hosting site Rumble so you can decide for yourself whether YouTube should have “cancelled” it – – –
So, do you find this clip objectionable? Should YouTube “protect” you — or anyone — from seeing it? Or is the Big-Tech/government complex using this tactic to coverup previous censorship? This would by no means be the first time YouTube has been complicit in this way.
So not only does the Big-Tech/Government complex censor the truth these days, they coverup the proof they’re censoring the truth.
Pretty clearly, covering up evidence is fast becoming Big-Tech/government S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure).
I will no longer patronize YouTube. If you think the above evidence of dishonesty and arrogant, highhanded censorship on the part of YouTube warrants it — and if you don’t want to be subject to it yourself — well, maybe you’ll join me? Alternatives are available.
And BTW, how long till ForcedSpeak shows up here?
You can find the article as originally published on October 23, 2021, censorship and all, here — if they haven’t reinstated the clip because of viewer heat or removed the evidence entirely – – –
What’s The Opposite of Freedom of Speech and Worse than Censorship? – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
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Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board Suspended
Posted by M. C. on May 20, 2022
Martin Armstrong
Freedom of speech won this Wednesday after the Biden Administration suspended its controversial Disinformation Board. Former disinformation tzar Nina Jankowicz announced her departure today, citing an uncertain future, and, of course, disinformation. “It is deeply disappointing that mischaracterizations of the Board became a distraction from the Department’s vital work, and indeed, along with recent events globally and nationally, embodies why it is necessary. “I maintain my commitment to building awareness of disinformation’s threats and trust the Department will do the same,“ Jankowicz said.
Jankowicz has a long history of spreading false news and gaslighting the public to believe that the Bidens are not a completely corrupt family. She firmly denied the existence of Hunter’s laptop, and perhaps it is no coincidence that the contents of that laptop are slowly being leaked to the public.
Although this Orwellian plan has been temporarily suspended, censorship will continue discreetly.
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Our Race Back Into the Cave – The Good Citizen
Posted by M. C. on January 6, 2022
So, like when we talk about hyper conformity under social pressure that literally silences voices and ideas to appease safety and feelings and appearances of virtue, which makes us all like dumber and stuff, that’s totally problematic, right?
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/our-race-back-into-the-cave
Seeds of Speech
We must think before we speak. This is not meant in the command one gives to another whose words they did not like and are asking them to self censor and choose words that will not offend them or another, like the performed outrage of a mother admonishing her honest son.
“Bobby, you get over here and apologize for offending them. You must think before you speak young man!”
“Sorry.” Bows head in pretend shame.
“Now go to your room and kill terrorists on your playbox with your friends.”
“It’s PlayStation, and they aren’t terrorists mom, they’re anti-vaxxers!”
“That’s what I said, terrorists! Now go to your room!”
We must think before we speak. That is to say, to hinder one’s freedom of speech is to hinder their freedom of thought.
Our thoughts that are converted to ideas are influenced by our sensory input that are converted to explicit memories. This can include what we read, hear, see, feel and how we interpret those experiences as individuals in the greater context of our past.
If you shut down one’s right to speak freely, you inhibit their ability to think freely and to think freely about terrible ideas that could plague society. This leads to creeping civilization ending plagues of ritualistic mentally ill cults masquerading as benevolent utopian progress under the cloak of terms like ‘social justice’.
“Social justice? How could anyone be against that mom?”
“I told you to go to your room Bobby!”
Social Justice Cult
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UK Considering Legislation That Would Imprison Internet Trolls | ZeroHedge
Posted by M. C. on November 8, 2021
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/uk-considering-legislation-would-imprison-internet-trolls
by Tyler Durden
Authored by Brad Polumbo via FEE.org,
f you ever need a reminder of how important freedom of speech is, all you need to do is look across the pond…
The United Kingdom, which doesn’t have a First Amendment, has slowly seen citizens’ free speech rights eroded—and now may soon start imprisoning people for being trolls on the internet.
At question is pending legislation called the “Online Safety Bill,” which ostensibly punishes social media companies that allow harassment. Yet it may be expanded to include new criminal penalties for individuals who engage in mean speech online.
“Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate,” the Times of London reports. “The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has accepted recommendations from the Law Commission for crimes to be based on ‘likely psychological harm.’ The proposed law change will shift the focus on to the ‘harmful effect’ of a message rather than if it contains ‘indecent’ or ‘grossly offensive’ content, which is the present basis for assessing its criminality.”
Social media users could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes ‘psychological harm’ under the government’s new online harms bill
Ministers are looking to include so-called Twitter “pile-ons” as a possible offence https://t.co/aXHNTfXaWQ — The Times (@thetimes) November 1, 2021
Other offenses will reportedly be created for “knowingly false communication,” applying to those who “send or post a message they know to be false with the intention to cause emotional, psychological, or physical harm to the likely audience.” The new offenses will also include punishment for social-media “pile-ons,” where groups gang up and are rude to people online.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is reportedly planning on adding these provisions to the Online Safety Bill when it’s introduced in Parliament next month.
This blatant attempt at the censorship of online speech is deeply concerning. The government has absolutely no business punishing people for words that “cause others harm,” such a subjective and slippery standard that it beggars belief. This vague standard could be used to silence just about any speech that one finds offensive. And it surely stifles the free exchange of ideas that leads to social progress.
Ideas like allowing women to vote, ending racial segregation, and legalizing same-sex marriage were all once considered “harmful” by many. If subjectively harmful or disruptive speech is stifled, progress is drastically held back.
Moreover, the government punishing “knowingly false” speech is deeply disturbing. Firstly, it’s not a black-and-white matter to actually determine what is “true” and what is “false.” There are a million shades of gray and robust debates over factual reality across countless subjects. No one who values freedom should want a government Ministry of Truth determining what speech is “false” and punishing those who spread it.
And this would all have a chilling effect on speech that questions the status quo or the government itself. After all, free speech doesn’t exist to protect popular or uncontroversial speech; such speech is in little need of protection. It’s dissident voices and information that threatens centralized power that is crushed under the guise of “protecting people” from “harmful” speech.
The UK’s new censorship efforts are no exception.
“The laws are highly likely to be ineffective at keeping people safe, whilst actually restricting free speech considerably, as well as creating a chill by making people who don’t really understand the law feel too scared to actually say what they want to say,” said University of East Anglia Law School Professor Paul Bernal. “That’s the bottom line here: the main impact of laws like this will be to restrict legitimate criticism of people in power.”
Indeed they will. Americans should heed the sad example of the United Kingdom as a warning of what fate could await us if we don’t jealously guard our free speech rights.
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What’s the Opposite of Freedom of Speech and Worse than Censorship? – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
Posted by M. C. on October 24, 2021
I won’t keep you hanging, it’s ForcedSpeak. That’s when a so-called “Authority” — nearly always a government entity — tries to force you to make a disclaimer or other statement against your beliefs and will.
Sort of Orwell’s NewSpeak but YOU have to do it.
What’s the opposite of freedom of speech and worse than censorship?
I won’t keep you hanging, it’s ForcedSpeak. That’s when a so-called “Authority” — nearly always a government entity — tries to force you to make a disclaimer or other statement against your beliefs and will.
Sort of Orwell’s NewSpeak but YOU have to do it.
Sounds like a knock-off from an old anti-NAZI or anti-communist Korean-War-era Hollywood propaganda flick doesn’t it? Maybe The Manchurian Candidate.
But it’s not Germany, China, Korea – – – or fiction. It’s Canada.
It’s Pastor Artur Pawlowski who grew up behind the Iron Curtain. He designated his church in Canada as sanctuary from the seriously destructive COVID nonsense narrative and it’s negative and often murderous results.
So, in the true spirit of current Cancel Culture tradition — you know, when you can’t answer someone with facts and logic, you disappear them — Canadian “authorities” arrested Pastor Pawlowski and closed his church.
But that was just the beginning. I think it’s better if Rev. Pawlowski briefly explains a few things, including ForcedSpeak, himself – – –
How long till ForcedSpeak shows up here?
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