patrick.net

https://rudy.substack.com/p/free-speech-is-life-itself

Salman Rushdie in Imaginary Homelands:

“Free speech is a non-starter,’ says one of my Islamic extremist opponents. No, sir, it is not. Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

…How is freedom gained? It is taken: never given. To be free, you must first assume your right to freedom. In writing The Satanic Verses, I wrote from the assumption that I was, and am, a free man.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, including religious orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

In America today, Rushdie’s “Islamic extremists” are people like MSNBC hosts and Biden Admin apparatchiks.

https://babylonbee.com/news/leftists-on-twitter-report-disturbing-rise-in-people-they-hate-having-speech

U.S. — In the tumultuous wake of Elon Musk taking over Twitter, many Leftists on the platform are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of people they hate being allowed to use speech.

"Ever since Elon took over, I see more and more people saying things that I don't like, and I hate them!" said BBC reporter and Twitter user James Clayton. "Just the other day, I saw an opinion I hated, voiced by a person I hated. I can't remember what it was, except that I really hated it. How is this allowed? Can't the government do something about this? Waaaaaaaa!"

Several internet disinformation experts have concurred with the worries expressed by Clayton. "Hated people having a voice is dangerous to democracy, and to marginalized voices, like mine," said Vice President Kamala Harris, briefly interrupting herself to laugh at inappropriate moments. "Imagine if everyone I hated was allowed to talk! That would be so many people talking! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

Experts are recommending government officials reign in Twitter before more hated people get away with saying things freely. According to reports, government officials finally acknowledged the need to do something about Twitter after seeing Elon Musk tweet something and realizing they hated that.

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay/status/1646006232484913153?ref_src=patrick.net

@ElonMusk
shut down this pro-censorship BBC reporter and left him scrambling on how to justify his own questions on misinformation and the supposed rise in hate speech.

Listen till the end.

Lol.

https://twitter.com/Demo2020cracy/status/1649760752868155393?ref_src=patrick.net

Anti Lockdown Alliance(GLOBAL)
@Demo2020cracy
NOT ON BBC "NEWS" Large crowd in Glasgow today out for the vaccine injured and bereaved

https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-the-government-must-shut-down-unapproved-news-agencies-to-defeat-fascism

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/27/can-justin-trudeaus-canada-get-any-more-authoritarian/

Canadians will soon be relieved of the stress of seeking out content they find interesting on social media. Instead they will be able to relax, while the government chooses it for them.

This is the intention of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, which is currently being debated in the Canadian Senate. If passed, it will empower the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a government agency, to filter what Canadians see in their social-media feeds and on YouTube. ...

It was Trudeau’s Liberal Party, you may recall, that pushed through Bill C-16 with next to no public debate back in 2017. This law introduced ‘gender identity’ as a protected category under the Canadian Human Rights Act. It also opened the door to classifying ‘transphobic’ acts, like ‘misgendering’, as hate crimes. The Liberal Party dismissed all criticism of Bill C-16 and the CBC framed all dissenters as hateful bigots.

Women like me who fought back, arguing it was important to protect women’s spaces and rights, were labelled as ‘despicable’’ purveyors of hate speech. ...

Then, of course, came the Covid pandemic. When Canadian truckers organised to fight back against Trudeau’s vaccine mandate in February 2022, the prime minister invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in history. This act gives the state the power to deprive Canadians of their Charter rights. It is designed for a situation that ‘seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it’. Trudeau, however, used it to silence, punish and criminalise those who opposed his authoritarian Covid policies. He even went so far as to freeze the bank accounts of protesters.

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/on-war-and-wars/

“When we see the few truth-tellers who are the stars of their organizations jettisoned – Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone, Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept, James O’Keefe from Project Veritas… we must face the fact that there is an organized conspiracy to suppress truth.” — Paul Craig Roberts

https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-abc-news-admits-it-censored-rfk-jr-interview-for-false-claims-about-covid-19-vaccines/

ABC News Admits It Censored RFK Jr. Interview For “False Claims About Covid-19 Vaccines”
by Steve Watson
April 28th 2023

He said something about vaccines that ABC News didn't like, but we are not allowed to hear what it is.

"When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable build-ups, as fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of anti-fascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public mind constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell... The association will, after enough repetition, become fact in the public mind".

- 1943 American Communist Party directive -

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/abc-censors-and-misrepresents-rfk

ABC Censors & Misrepresents RFK Jr.
Network cuts statements it deems heretical so that listeners won't hear them.

On Thursday, April 27, ABC aired an interview—conducted by prime time news anchor Linsey Davis—with US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. It seems to me that the interview is the most shocking and corrupt censorship of political speech since the US Constitution was ratified.

In the interview, anchor Linsey Davis assumed a role reminiscent of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino during the trial of Galileo. Without citing any evidence to support her claims, Davis vehemently asserted that RFK Jr. had, in effect, committed heresy by expressing his concerns that there is a link between MMR vaccines and autism, and by questioning the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 gene transfer injections, which Davis erroneously called “vaccines.”

Instead of engaging in a debate with RFK Jr. about this public policy issue of vital importance, Ms. Davis and her network CUT the presidential candidate’s statements from the pre-recorded interview so that the audience wouldn’t be able to hear them. ...

At the risk of sounding intemperate, I would like to state my opinion that, with this act of censorship and misrepresentation, ABC has revealed itself to be a garbage network acting like Glavlit—the Soviet censorship office. Though I’m usually not one to quote Bolshevik criminals, I’m reminded of Trotsky’s famous exhortation to the Mensheviks at the 1917 Congress of Soviets

"Go to the place where you belong from now on - the dustbin of history!"

https://www.racket.news/p/who-helped-overturn-the-pentagon

Who Helped Overturn the "Pentagon Papers Principle"? The Washington Post and New York Times
First reported by Michael Shellenberger, new details about the "Burisma leak" tabletop exercise of summer 2020 reveal a notable betrayal of principle by two famed papers ...

Newly uncovered documents show the war-gamed, choreographed response to the New York Post piece in October, 2020 — which included temporary suppression by those tech platforms Twitter and Facebook — may have been part of a broader plan to re-think basic journalistic standards in general, beyond just the one incident. This included junking what experts involved with the tabletop exercise referred to as the “Pentagon Papers Principle,” under which journalists since Daniel Ellsberg’s 1971 leak had “operated under a single rule: Once information is authenticated, if it is newsworthy, publish it.” ...

The concept theoretically represented a major shift, asking reporters to move from focusing on the what of news to why? and who from?

“That seems to be the whole predicate of why they ignored the laptop story, even though they knew it was real,” says Miranda Devine, author of the New York Post exposé. ...

For nearly half a century since 1971, the Washington Post and the New York Times earned fame and praise for standing up to government attempts to suppress newsworthy information in the Pentagon Papers. In 2020, key figures from both papers openly abandoned the legacy of that episode in favor of a questionable new standard that stresses the mechanics of information suppression. How much more evidence do we need that the traditional role of media has been turned upside down?

Lol @ gutfeld drawn so short compared to the others

Patrick says

Even Carlson didn't speak freely, and he admitted it when he said you couldn't talk about WTC7.

We're at an inflection point now. Our "news" media has lost all trust, is openly viewed as propaganda, and has been caught in 5 years of lie after lie. Viewership is down in the toilet.

Freaking took long enough.

https://troypoint.com/us-bill-s-686-the-restrict-act/

US Bill S. 686: The Restrict Act – 20 Years In Prison For VPN Use?

Bill text:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text

https://palexander.substack.com/p/dr-naomi-wolf-and-mark-steyn-under

DR NAOMI WOLF and Mark Steyn under censorship attack by UK MEDIA REGULATOR...

As a journalist, I am appalled that Ofcom censured me for primary source evidence directly from Pfizer’s own internal documents released under court order, presented in reports compiled by 3500 medical and scientific experts, including oncologists, radiologists, medical fraud investigators, RNs, biological scientists, and a range of other physicians and clinicians.

The documents contain 1223 fatalities in three months. In two of the reports compiled by our experts, using the Pfizer documents themselves, half of the adverse events, which included fatalities, occurred within 48 hours of the injection.

When it came to unborn babies, the deaths in Pfizer’s own documents include scores of fetuses, some of which Pfizer identified as suffering from ‘transplacental’ exposure to the vaccine.

A baby died after drinking its vaccinated mother’s breast milk; vaccinated mothers’ breast milk was found by Pfizer in its own review to be contaminated and injurious to babies.

Given that Pfizer knew by Feb 2021 the many ways in which its mrna vaccine was killing adults, babies and fetuses, with adverse events ranging from 3 to 1 to 8 to 1 ratios affecting women, and yet did not inform the public, but rather launched intensive campaigns to urge people, including pregnant women, to take this dangerous product, of course it is a mass murder event.

https://slaynews.com/news/montana-first-state-completely-ban-tiktok/

Montana Becomes First State to Completely Ban TikTok

Not a fan of TikTok, but this is a clear violation of the First Amendment. If they get away with it, patrick.net will also be banned.

"The Texas dairy farm explosion that allegedly killed 20,000 cows is bunk."

What kind of an explosion was it?

"Investigators said an engine fire in the manure hauler caused the explosion.' https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/investigators-reveal-cause-texas-dairy-farm-explosion-that/

And get this, the driver of the the manure hauler was trying to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher right before the explosion. And he survived the explosion but 20,000 cows died!

They expect us to believe this nonsense?

To add insult to injury "A State Fire Marshal report... did not determine what caused the engine fire..."

This is in my thinking BS.

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld/status/1660624077269405697?ref_src=patrick.net

https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-covid-social-media-censorship

May 24, 2023
Australia Ordered Social Media To Censor Covid-Related Posts Over 4,000 Times, Censored Non-Australians And Memes
The revelations come after a freedom of information request and insight from the Twitter files.

Putin on the Traditional Notions of Mother, Father, Family and Gender.

From a Putin speech on May 24, 2023 at the Eurasian Economic Forum:

Putin addressed the Globalist demand against Traditional Notions of Mother, Father, Family and Gender...

The advocates of this attack believe that they are introducing humanity to a new and better consciousness. And this, says Putin, is not new. Russia went through the same experience after the 1917 Revolution when the Bolsheviks relying on Marx and Engels promised to change the culture and customs of the country.

See https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1661916524943409152?ref_src=patrick.net Watch at least the first 3:30 Minutes. -- 7:22 Minutes long.

Oh, will people be fined for the continuous stream of anti-white hatred and villification?

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-security-state-turns-inward

https://www.leefang.com/p/biden-justice-dept-intervened-to?publication_id=1239256&post_id=126299522&isFreemail=true

Biden Justice Dept. Intervened to Block Release of Social Media Censorship Docs
Newly obtained emails reveal an attempt to censor the censorship documents. ...

The federal government maintains what is known as the “state secrets privilege,” which permits the Department of Justice to block the release of any information that could undermine national security. There are, no doubt, cases in which the federal government’s stated national security concerns provide a legitimate reason for withholding a document from the public.

But there is abundant evidence that the federal government abuses this power to shield itself from scrutiny. Multiple administrations in the past have intervened in record release cases to prevent transparency using similar legal tactics.

https://www.wnd.com/2023/06/criminal-charges-now-urged-police-arrested-christian-preaching/

Criminal charges now urged for police who arrested Christian for preaching
'You do have a crime on your tapes. It's your officers'

Criminal charges have been dropped against a Christian man who preached the Gospel in public this month at an LGBT event in Pennsylvania, and now many are calling for charges and lawsuits to be filed against the police who made the arrest.

As WND reported, Damon Atkins was arrested June 3 by Sgt. Bradly T. McClure on disorderly conduct charges after voicing biblical opposition to the Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania.

But once prosecutors examined the video, Berks County authorities announced the dismissal of the charges against Atkins. ...

Comments posted on the district attorney's own Facebook page include:

"That sergeant lied on his arrest affidavit after blatantly violating Damon Atkins' constitutional rights. He should be charged locally (by your office) and/or federally (by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division). Regardless of criminal prosecution, I hope Damon Atkins makes an example for others by filing a Section 1983 suit in federal court against the city and police department."

"When are you bringing charges against the little tubby officer with an overexaggerated sense of self-importance and apparently a massive chip on his shoulder, and the two 'females' that felt that harassing and manhandling a citizen on public property ... after 60 seconds of 'existing' (doing nothing wrong)? When are these (hopefully soon to be ex-)cops going to be educated that their views and opinions don't trump the law, and since they're law enforcement, and can't seem to handle themselves or follow the law ... they're going to be given 'opportunities' to find other employment? This is inexecusable ...we all know it." ...

Officers who clearly violate basic Constitutional rights should be immediately fired at the very least, and hopefully also prosecuted for betraying their oath of office.

Patrick says

Criminal charges now urged for police who arrested Christian for preaching
'You do have a crime on your tapes. It's your officers'

"Urged?" By who? Nothing will happen to this cop.

Patrick says

Officers who clearly violate basic Constitutional rights should be immediately fired at the very least, and hopefully also prosecuted for betraying their oath of office.

Its a civil rights matter, and I don't expect DOJ to help investigate this. It can first be labeled as a false arrest.

If this involved the feds, then a Bivens Action would apply.

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https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-ominous-new-mood-of-the-american?publication_id=268621&post_id=128748416&isFreemail=true

All Western countries have a twofold political discourse, bifurcated into what I’d call formal and informal spheres. The formal sphere consists of the major press and broadcast media, where content is heavily influenced by corporate advertising; and of the establishment political parties and their politicians. This sphere is an arena for staged debates, for the performance of acceptable opinion and for the forging of broad political consensus on all matters which the establishment considers important. The formal sphere still makes sporadic efforts to cast itself as the whole discourse, but especially since the rise of the internet it’s hard to deny the existence of a vast informal discourse, sustained largely on social media, in smaller independent press venues and by outside political candidates. In Germany, this informal sphere, which consists of the populist AfD party and all media to the right of Axel Springer, is considered fundamentally illegitimate if not directly illegal. American political culture, which is genuinely influenced by speech protections more robust than those in Europe, requires a different approach. Before 2016, the American informal sphere was largely unmoderated, apparently because the establishment considered it politically unimportant. After the populist backlash of that crucial year, social media became the object of unusual fear and scrutiny, while steps were taken behind the scenes to neuter its political influence. ...

Tucker Carlson, who served as a crucial juncture between the two spheres and brought many arguments from informal into formal discourse, has been removed, all the better to seal the one arena off from the other and limit the range of ideas and arguments at play in mainstream American politics.

In sum, we’re seeing the consolidation of what elites hope will be the new, post-Trump American political and media system – one which will be more firmly controlled and robust to populist interference. Social media censorship is obviously very bad, but it’s also a sign that what you’re saying has some hope of making a difference.