Thinking It Through: Advocates of sedition laws make strange bedfellows
By Richard Reeb
For the Victorville Daily Press
In the early 1960s, there was considerable campus debate about the freedoms of speech and press. This arose from the fact that federal and state governments in those days were concerned about Communist Party influence. But hanging like a pall over this effort was a parallel revulsion against the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who had been censured by his Senate colleagues for abusing his authority as chairman of the Government Operations Committee in his investigations of Communist influence in the federal government.
In the wake of the Capitol riot and the immediate and frequently over-the-top condemnation of President Donald Trump and his supporters, social media giants Twitter and Facebook began purging conservatives. The first to go was the president himself, but now the dominoes are falling. Big Tech platforms colluded to eliminate a competitor, Parler. Anyone suspected of being right-of-center is on the chopping block.
Before Donald Trump took office, it took a lot of effort to cross Big Techâs conservative red line and get banned. Now, however, just question the results of the presidential election and youâll be grouped with the same thugs who scaled walls, smashed windows, and tangled with cops at the Capitol.
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The images are surreal. Truckloads of National Guard troops pouring into the nation’s capital in the days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. As the perimeter of security fencing has been extended farther out from the recently violated Capitol, as well as the White House, these scenes symbolize not just the threat of disorder, but a deepening physical separation of the people from their elected leaders.
It should be a time of celebration, not of self-destruction and armed standoffs at the temples to our democracy, now fitted with extra metal detectors and swarming security.
President Trump has just been impeached for a second time for his actions before, and inaction during, the Capitol riots Jan. 6 that have left five dead. A second impeachment is unprecedented, as is the fact that 10 of the president’s own party members in the House voted in favor. Kicked off most popular social media sites, the president has lost his voice as well ther
Liberals are nothing if not reliable. Itâs been 13 years since Barack Obamaâs chief of staff sat down with ABC and declared, âYou never want a serious crisis to go to waste.â Rahm Emanuelâs party has lived and died by those words through two administrations, taking advantage of every situation to push an agenda that no one would even consider under normal circumstances. Weâve seen it with the coronavirus, the election process, voting laws, and now the Capitol riot. In every challenge, every catastrophe, Democrats prove: they donât want to help America. They want to exploit it to help themselves. And this impeachment is no exception.
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