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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/dems-love-censorship-so-much-they-do-it-at-   
   a-censorship-hearing/   
      
   Democrats truly hate free speech — so much so, in fact, that they actually   
   tried to censor people at a hearing on censorship.   
      
   On Thursday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) sought to use a   
   technical House rule to try to stop RFK, Jr.’s testimony on the grounds   
   that he had made earlier “despicable” statements.   
      
   And he certainly had.   
      
   At a press event, as documented by The Post’s Jon Levine, America’s   
   leading anti-vaxxer pushed the insane (and racist and antisemitic) claim   
   that COVID may have somehow been “ethnically targeted” at blacks and   
   whites, while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.   
      
   He’s also famous for his other kooky thoughts on “Big Pharma” and other   
   vaccines.   
      
   Of course, the First Amendment is specifically meant to protect   
   “despicable” speech.   
      
   (It’s not needed for remarks no one objects to.)   
      
   That includes offensive, scientifically illiterate and tinfoil-hat-ready   
   speech.   
      
   Wasserman Schultz’s attempt to shut down RFK, Jr. on a technicality lines   
   up nicely with the blistering hostility her party has shown in recent   
   years toward protected speech.   
      
   As does delegate Stacey Plaskett’s (Virgin Islands) effort at the   
   hearing’s start to slash Kennedy’s speaking time.   
      
   Plaskett earlier this year threatened journalist Matt Taibbi with jail   
   over his own congressional testimony on . . . you guessed it, government   
   efforts to censor Twitter.   
      
   From the feds leaning on social-media companies to suppress opinion and   
   uncomfortable truths as “disinformation” to the assault on open inquiry   
   and discourse on campuses, the left has been waging a guns-blazing culture   
   war on the right of people to express themselves.   
      
   The result?   
      
   Warnings and blocked posts on social media.   
      
   Universities where debate is crippled.   
      
   Entire realms of scientific research closed off.   
      
   And a media that ignores any fact threatening the progressive narrative on   
   race, economics, public health and every other topic of any consequence.   
      
   Funny how the party that sounds the “democracy is dying” siren every five   
   minutes acts so brutally inimical to the bedrock principles of democracy.   
      
   Lifelong Dem RFK, Jr. said at the hearing “censorship is antithetical to   
   our party.”   
      
   Not anymore, it’s not.   
      
   Especially in the pursuit of silencing political opponents. RFK, Jr., who   
   is running against President Joe Biden, is finding out what it feels like   
   to be a Republican.   
      
   And our republic is the poorer for it.   
      
      
   --   
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
   Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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