House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas DOJ, FBI Records for Social Media Censorship

The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from passing laws restricting freedom of speech and abridging freedom of the press. Of all the clauses in the Bill of Rights, this is the one is the basic foundation of our Constitutional Republic.

This would mark the end of our Constitution. It is illegal on every level. Make no mistake, these are the actions of totalitarian destroyers. History is riddled with the human toll of these villains. It’s why I fought so vigorously all the years to ensure our freedom of speech.

“The principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise who would determine which ideas are good and which have been? The government?” Ayn Rand, America’s greatest political philosopher, eloquently explained.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed the Department of Justice and FBI for documents on Thursday related to allegations they worked with social media companies to censor First Amendment-protected content, including the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. Jordan told Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray in letters accompanying the subpoenas that the documents would help his committee’s investigation into “how and the extent to which the Executive Branch has coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.” The chairman asked that both the DOJ and FBI provide him with all internal documents and communications involving the moderation, suppression, or removal of content on private companies’ platforms. He gave them a deadline of Sept. 15 to deliver the material (Washington Examiner).

Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced. Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Amendment I, The U.S. Constitution

“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” Benjamin Franklin, Letter from Silence Dogood, printed in The New England Courant, July 9, 1722

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” Thomas Jefferson

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“For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”George Washington, Address to the officers of the army, March 15, 1783

“In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors.” Benjamin Franklin, Dogood Papers, written by Franklin in 1722, at the age of sixteen

“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” John Adams