Freedom is not free, a price is paid in blood, won by ultimate sacrifice of bravehearts, warriors forged by duty, honor, country. How quick ruling elites forget our history of life, liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it; the political power of sovereign people to control government tyranny, seen as inconvenience to present day self-chosen ruling elite masters, so defiled that a new President issues an executive order to restore the freedom, so callously disposed by corrupt public servants, our own fellow citizens of the more perfect union. The now famous blog cites a few historical tidbits to remind the callous elite of their errant paths, unfaithful to the Constitution.
In 1774, the Continental Congress addressed freedom of the press to colonial neighbors to the north:
The last right we shall mention, regards the freedom of the press. The importance of this consists, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal sentiments on the administration of Government, its ready communication of thoughts between subjects, and its consequential promotion of union among them, whereby oppressive officers are shamed or intimidated, into more honourable and just modes of conducting affairs.
Blog applauds the high purpose of shaming and intimidating oppressive government officials into better behaviour, constructive feedback to refine self-governance. In 1791, the First Amendment ratified 45 simple words restricting government control of public opinion, a foundation of the new Republic, restricting states by 14th Amendment in 1868.
In 1886, the high court of Michigan opined on criminal charges of disliked speech:
It is not the policy of the law to punish those unsuccessful threats which it is not presumed would terrify ordinary persons excessively; and there is so much opportunity for magnifying or misunderstanding undefined menaces that probably as much mischief would be caused by letting them be prosecuted as by refraining from it.
The criminal codes of long ago were, as today, weapons of tyranny wielded by malicious prosecutors, alien to the Madison’s design, demanding values of decency and virtue in the new Republic, now hopelessly lost in its modern form. Voltaire rings true today, as in 1790: ‘our masters are those whom we may not criticize’. In 1940, SCOTUS opined:
The freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the Constitution embraces the liberty to discuss publicly and truthfully all matters of public concern, without previous restraint or fear of subsequent punishment.
A most frightful statement, instilling terror in our masters that opinions of ‘we the people’ will out muscle tyranny. Steadily, as gravity; quietly, as thieves in the night, our masters plot to muzzle opposition, punish dissent, and chill thoughts of the timid. Goebbels would be proud of such alien efforts in the land of the free and the home of the brave. In 1969, SCOTUS opined that advocacy of violence is protected:
Accordingly, we are here confronted with a statute which, by its own words and as applied, purports to punish mere advocacy and to forbid, on pain of criminal punishment, assembly with others merely to advocate the described type of action. Such a statute falls within the condemnation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
The opinion went on to void the 1919 concept that anti-war protesting was ‘clear & present danger’ for intent of aiding the enemy, an alien concept to protection of public opinion. Our elite masters work in shadows defeating founding principles, a treasonous undertaking of alien and seditious promotion. Free speech is a fundamental personal right of liberty secured to all by the 14th Amendment, barring abridgement by rogue state actors; malicious prosecutors, corrupt judges. Defence of this right to the ends that ‘we the people’ may speak, as we think, on matters vital to us and our children is essential to free government and the blessings of liberty. Fearless reasoning and promotion of independence spread political truth against censorship of the Crown, a courageous exercise of the now enshrined right, so viciously attacked by our present masters, now begging effective exercise of popular remedy. A penal code sweeping political speech, designed and installed by elite agents, applied by discriminatory prosecution, on displeasure of blog, is continuous and pervasive restraint on all freedom of discussion; tyranny by censorship … clear & present danger.
