Giving up free speech

 

 

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“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” -- Benjamin Franklin

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Americans have sewn their own mouths shut--first through accepting that it was not politically correct to say certain things. Next, through assenting to the idea that some speech is hateful, and therefore should not be aired. Then it was discovered that oligarch tech giants and their government partners had the "right" to censor what they found politically unpleasant.

As a natural consequence we have local Facebook community pages that allow only one side of an issue to be shared, politicians who feel free to chastise constituents if they have the gall to disagree with a vote, and self-appointed locals who take to task anyone who has the temerity to publicly criticize our dear leaders in the Church and in Government.

Americans, having lost the valuable trait of being able to vigorously debate ideas, will you now go quietly as our Congress seeks to make it a crime to quote the New Testament? What a terrible pity we are doing it to ourselves. Here a little, there a little we give up our God-blessed rights and think we have done the Lord's work.

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“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

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