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Congress proposes bill to restore First Amendment rights… then kills it

  Sovereign Man  

January 23, 2015
Santiago, Chile

To this day, many countries around the world maintain a tight grip on dissent.

Students in Thailand have been arrested for using a three-fingered salute they saw in the movie Hunger Games.

In Turkey, Twitter, Youtube, and other social media sites have been blocked. And in Russia the word “crisis” has been banned from use in public.

You can see the backlash of insecure governments against the free expression of their citizens everywhere.

There was a time long ago when the US was a refreshing outlier in this trend.

At the time of its founding, the Land of the Free took a bold stance in asserting that its citizens all had a number of inalienable rights.

But gradually these rights have been chipped away, particularly in this century as we’ve seen the rise of a tradeoff between liberty and security. . . .Read Complete Report

Dig a little DEEPER ~ THEI.us Archive “First Amendment”

Ex-CBS Reporter: Spineless Media Bosses Eroding Our First Amendment

youtube by RT America

Published on Nov 29, 2014

Former CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson joins Larry with her personal story of harassment, intimidation & spying by the federal government and about the media bosses who allow government spin to weaken the press’s freedom.

Dig a LITTLE DEEPER ~ THEI Archive ” Freedom of the Press”

Feinstein: First Amendment is a Special Privilege, Not a Right! (With Video)

And so it begins. . . EDITOR

Featured Image: Thanx to David Dees.

From Intellihub.com By Sergey Baranov
September 25, 2013

Don’t let the mainstream sewer media flush your brain and rights away!

EXCERPTS:

“While sharp-looking guys on TV are transmitting the state approved “news’’ readily packaged for public consumption, the American people are waking up to the televised lies and mechanized deception of so-called mainstream media.” . . .

“In the recent judicial hearing Senator Feinstein made an attempt to give a new definition to the freedom of speech and freedom of press, claiming that if a person is not an employee of the state approve media entity, then he isn’t qualified to be journalist.

“While attempting to define a reporter, Senator Feinstein brought an example of a 17 years old high school dropout starting a blog vs.“real” reporters with “bonafide credentials” and professional qualifications.” . . .  Read Complete Report

From youtube uploaded by 68Truthseeker

Feinstein: First Amendment is a Special Privilege, Not a Right!

NewspaperX Isolated by Petr Kratochvi SOURCE publicdomainpictures.net (Public Domain

Published on Sep 17, 2013

California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law that would ignore the protection afforded by the First Amendment and would limit the law’s protection only to “real reporters,” not bloggers and other upstart alternative media types.

Chicago Police Echo White House Saying First Amendment Rights Can Be Terminated (w/video)

What “freedom of the press”?

Americans better wake up. This is not a case of members of the alternative press being arrested at some protest. This is the case of a MSM crew being harassed while trying to do their assigned job. And this is not an isolated incident. This type of stomping on our 1st amendment rights is becoming more and more common. Scary tactics. . . EDITOR

from Godfathers Politics

There is one thing that Barack Obama has been successful at since taking the helm of the nation and that is trampling on the US Constitution and the constitutional rights of American citizens.  The Constitution requires the President to obey and protect the laws of the land.  Nowhere does it say that he can ignore or pick and choose which laws he wants to keep and which ones he can disregard.  That’s one of the reasons our Founding Fathers established three branches of government and not one.

Obama has often expressed his desire to do away with the Second Amendment right to carry and bear arms.  More recently, he seems to be also trying to do away with the First Amendment rights to free speech, freedom of religion and the freedom to redress grievances against the government. . . . Red Complete Report

A Political Realignment is Necessary – The Real Struggle is Liberty vs. Authoritarianism

A Political Realignment is Necessary – The Real Struggle is Liberty vs. Authoritarianism

Source: Political Blitzkrieg

Michael Krieger | Posted at 3:13 pm

Until the American public ceases bickering amongst itself along Democratic and Republican or “left” vs. “right” lines, we’ll continue to be divided and conquered by authoritarians who wield tremendous power throughout both sides of the traditional political spectrum. This isn’t to say there aren’t real, meaningful differences between those who classify themselves on the “left” or the “right,” but it is to say there’s a much bigger battle afoot and nothing’s going to get better until we frame the new political reality for what it is. The most significant, existential struggle at play in these modern United States is a battle between Liberty and Authoritarianism, and it’s extremely important you know where you stand.

While the entire Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution is crucial to our civil liberties, no right is more significant than the First Amendment. If we lose freedom of speech, it’s game over for our society, and we have to understand that authoritarians on both the “right” and “left” are taking shots at freedom of speech as I write this. As such, differences between “right” and “left” should be deemphasized because if we lose the First Amendment, we lose everything.

A major political realignment is not simply a good idea, it’s absolutely crucial to the survival of a thriving civilization here in the U.S. The historical struggle we face today is not Democrat vs. Republican, or right vs. left, but Liberty vs. Authoritarianism. . . . Read Complete Report

Congress Moves To Outlaw Alternative Media – Dave Hodges, Activist Post Article (Video Report)

Featured Image: Newspaper clip art by Petr Kratochvi SOURCE: publicdomainpictures.net (Public Domain). “X” added by THEI.

From youtube uploaded by BackToConstitution

Published on Sep 27, 2013

This one will really fry your potatoes and I could not help swearing on this one When you hear what Feinstein did, you will swear too, even if you never swear!

Dig a LITTLE DEEPER ~ THEI Archive: The Current Move towards distroying the REAL free press

Retro: COP Protects 1st Amendment at TSA Opt Out & Film Campaign (Video Report)

Featured Image: Thanx to David Dees.

We spent a lot of time reporting on the actions of bad cops here at THEI.  But I know as well as you do that there are way more good cops than bad. The only problem is the good cops get no coverage.  Well, here is the story of one who knows our constitutional rights and knows where his loyalties lay. . . EDITOR

From youtube uploaded by 829speedy Nov 28, 2012

From youtube uploaded by djgabrielpresents  Nov 30, 2012

Sheriff Protects First Amendment & Becomes Internet Star

Did you miss this? Obama signs bill ‘in secret’ making FREE SPEECH ILLEGAL! (Video Report)

Featured Image: Thanx to David Dees

From youtube uploaded by  gvloanguy

Published on Mar 15, 2012

And yet another ‘bill’ signed into law in secret. HR 347. Obama does it again. This time the attack is against the First Amendment and free speech. This new law make ‘No Free Speech” Zones wherever the Secret Service says so. Bye bye Protests. Bye bye Free Speech. Bye bye Constitution.

Obama vs. the Press: the fight wages on and Obama appoints Holder to investigate himself (Video Report)

Featured Image: Thanx to David Dees

Holder investigating himself.  He has to do it, anyone else would find him as the major problem at Justice and probably send him packing. . . . EDITOR 

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on May 28, 2013
First Associated Press, then Fox News: as the days progress as of late, the Obama administration has been linked to investigating more and more American journalists. President Obama campaigned on a promise of transparency, but is that possible for the country when journalists can’t report without risking arrest? Obama has touted a proposed s media shield law, but some say it might hurt instead of help. RT’s Margaret Howell speaks with Michael Brooks of The Majority Report to discuss the latest on the war against leaks and how the White House, Congress and Attorney General Eric Holder are handling increased scrutiny from the media during this fight over the First Amendment.
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Protesting the Democratic National Convention; Reports from the Front Lines (w/videos)

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Thursday, September 6, 2012
10:00am until 8:00pm
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Please join us as we gather and work to reform Cannabis Law Nationally and in North Carolina. THREE tours are coming to our state for the Democratic National Convention and the Coalition will be there to greet them and support them. . . . Posted with video at ustream

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Protesting Is Now Terrorism

Thursday, September 6, 2012 3:24

Posted by  – September 5, 2012 at 9:45 am – Permalink – Source via Alexander Higgins Blog

An activist was designated as a terror suspect put on the terrorism watchlist, which was used to prevent him from protesting at the week’s DNC in Charlotte.

Activists James Tyson was shocked when he was giving an extremely high $10,000 bail after being pulled over on his way to protest at  the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

Court documents show prosecutors were able to get such an unreasonably high bail set because they argued he was a dangerous person listed on the Department of Homeland Security’s terrorism watch list.

Tyson’s only two previous  run-ins with law enforcement  were for fishing out of season and driving while impaired.

Even more ostensible is prosecutors argued that Tyson be held in jail without bail until after the DNC was over. . . . Read Complete report

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from Info Wars

DoD Training Manual Describes Protest As “Low-Level Terrorism”

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, June 15, 2009

Current Department of Defense anti-terrorism training course material states that the exercise of First Amendment rights in the U.S. constitutes terrorist activity.

The ACLU has written to the DoD regarding its Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course, which advises personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism”.

“It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense’s Annual Level I Antiterrorism (AT) Training for 2009 misinforms Department of Defense (DoD) personnel that certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to “low level terrorism” The ACLU writes. . . . Read Complete Report

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Vietnam vet arrested at DNC protest

Recorded live on September 4, 2012 2:44pm ET

from Timcast

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