Freedom of Speech is Slipping Away From Us
Let's take it back
"'LONG LIVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH'" by Newtown grafitti is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
A 55-year-old woman, Bernadette Spofforth, in England, was arrested by Cheshire Police for posting "inaccurate or misleading" information on social media. Whether or not this information was inaccurate or misleading is not known, because British police are very hush on the circumstances surrounding the murders of three young girls, the wounding of eight other young girls, plus stabbing two adults who attempted to protect them, at a Taylor Swift themed dance and yoga lesson. The post Ms. Spofforth was arrested for was in relation to those murders and murderous attacks.
The harshness of the arrest for posting one's thoughts in public is not new for the British Government. In fact, British laws implemented to stop printing information in the American Colonies prior to our Revolution were the reason that the very first rights in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to our Constitution. The first of the first was that of "Abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;" among others; including freedom of religion and the right to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. All of which were illegal in colonial America under British rule.
It seems that the Brits never learned their lesson, as a British Met Police Commissioner, Mark Rowley, recently advised that he would arrest American citizens, including Elon Musk, for posting on social media about the violent riots in the United Kingdom. However, we do have a First Amendment right to speak our mind in America.
No matter what the Biden/Harris team, all the scions of social media, or the Brits have to say, Americans can say what they wish. After all, we did earn those rights after a very long and nasty fight with Great Britain and those American turn coats that preferred British tyranny rather than freedom.
Which brought us our founding fathers
Our founding fathers were geniuses. They could foresee that people who rise to power will do anything they can to usurp We The People from having the final say. So they wrote a constitution that protected Americans from those who would try to exert power over us. In fact, the first three words of the Constitution say exactly who they wrote the document for; "We The People."
Our Constitution was written in a way that protects us from the tyranny of the majority, which a true democracy is. So, in order to protect the minority, we became a republic. All those socialist Democrats screaming about America being a democracy have never read our Constitution. Or else they would understand that we are a republic, and not a true democracy.
As soon as the document was ratified, our founding fathers realized that there were some basic flaws in it. Those were corrected with the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights. The First, and most important in order was the First Amendment.
The freedom of speech
Each section of the first amendment was well thought out, even if it was compressed into only a few phrases. The section on religion, which is first, was there because America was founded by those seeking religious freedom. It was the most important and most fundamental right that is not granted by the government, rather a right given us at birth by our creator, God.
All of our rights come from that higher authority, called the 'creator' in the Constitution. Which means that politicians have no ability to usurp those God given rights. However, our founding fathers knew that politicians would eventually try to strip us of our God given rights. The Second Amendment was written to insure they cannot.
The very next phrase of the First Amendment is, "Abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." This phrase was at the very heart of why the American Colonies revolted against Great Britain. The very first affront to free speech in the colonies was the Stamp Act 1765. Although first imposed to raise tax revenues to pay for British troops in the Colonies, it also hamstrung the press, making them obliged to the British Government in order to continue to print. It was a way for Great Britain to control what the Americans said about them.
Very much like Joe Biden and his FBI controlling what is allowed on social media today. American Colonist not only resented this tax, which they thought illegal, they also vehemently opposed it. So much so that it was repelled a year later. However, the Brits persisted, and passed a series of laws known as the Townshend Acts.
Again, these acts were to both raise revenue and assert control over Americans. These new taxes were to control the distribution of pamphlets, bills, and letters that were circulated by newspapers, billboards, and at Town halls.
The British, being British, confiscated all bills, letters, pamphlets, and newspapers that spoke ill of Great Britain, and arrested the authors, distributors and printers. Very much like the arrest of Ms. Spofforth. Which, in America, only led to more written documents addressing the unfairness of the Brits.
This, in turn, led to more acts to impose power over America. The final affront became known as the Intolerable Acts. They predated our Revolution by less than a year.
It was very much like what Biden/Harris have done to Americans who oppose them since January 2021. Just look at the horrendous treatment of those who support President Trump, in the J6 trials, those who protest against abortion, those who are religious, and those who love America, like PTA mom and dad's, and anyone else who does not agree with the radical left.
Unfortunately, Biden/Harris are not smart enough to understand what that tyrannical behavior causes. Neither were the Brits. The Harris/Walz ticket will be the most anti-free speech ticket since John Adams was president. And he used lawfare against his opponents just as Biden/Harris has.
Free speech is the most important liberty we have, without it we cannot be free
About 400 years ago John Milton (1608-1674,) renowned English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost," said: “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
Free speech isn't really free, it must be fought for, just as we fought to gain our independence from Great Britain in the first place. By the way, our Revolution began not over free speech, but was the cause of it.
The British Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, decided to confiscate our weapons of war, the muskets that our militias used. Not our fowling pieces, hunting rifles, blunderbusses or pistols for defense; rather what they feared would be used to stop their tyranny. Just as today's tyrannical Democrats are trying to do with our AR-15's.
A tyranny pointed out on all those illegal books, letters, pamphlets, and newspaper articles posted in public places. That free speech told Americans what the Brits were doing to suppress our liberty. It inflamed passions for freedom from tyranny and was the heartbeat of our Revolution.
Is it any wonder that Democrats want to suppress free speech?
That is why the very next Amendment to the Constitution, the Second, is about the God given right to freely be armed to protect ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our state, our nation, and our Constitution. Because our founding fathers knew that politicians would taste power and not want to let it go. If only the government has weapons, they control everything. When John Q. Citizen has weapons to oppose tyranny, only then will our Constitution last.
And it all starts with the right to say what we really think
That is called free speech. We have been undergoing the most horrific assault on our right to free speech by our very own government, big business who is in bed with government, and a deep state of unelected bureaucrats for the past four years, or more, that is about to culminate with the election in November 2024.
What can we do to preserve our freedom of speech?
It will take a new Sons' and Daughters' of Liberty to right the wrongs inflicted upon us over the years. Men and Women willing to stand up to tyranny and insure a free and fair election in November.
Are you among the freedom fighters of the 21st Century? Willing to stand up to tyranny and evil? If so, become involved in this election process. Stand up at polling places and let those who would steal this election know that they are being watched. Or risk losing it all.
See you at the polls!