Oral arguments were given today on the First Amendment cases concerning the government influencing social media sites to ban and censor speech. I listened to the greater share of it, though I could not do so and remain unprovoked. I don’t know who was arguing the case on either side and didn’t particularly care, because the poor quality of arguments were remarked on even in the chat box next to the screen.
I think we're getting around to the starting point again - it will be 250 years next year:
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-draft-of-the-declaration-of-independence.php
The Bill of Rights as well as the Constitution itself, both of which extoll the unalienable rights bestowed on individuals by God Himself, are meant to be lines in the sand protecting individual citizens from government, NOT the government from citizens! Considering one justice doesn't even know what a woman is, one may be compromised from Lolita flights, another worked for Bush and may be sympathetic to government, along with two nit-wits, I'm not too comfortable about pending results.
We have no more rights. It's always been an illusion. The only right I have is to be taxed. Oh well I'm glad I don't hide in Lala Land like so many others. My advice has been to prepare because it's going to get ugly.
I think we're getting around to the starting point again - it will be 250 years next year:
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-draft-of-the-declaration-of-independence.php
Yep, we're getting there...
A People seem to Get the GubMint they/them Deserve, sadly or necessarily perhaps
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
~~H. L. Mencken
"It would be a right of the people, even if there were no government at all"
Bless you, sir.
The Bill of Rights as well as the Constitution itself, both of which extoll the unalienable rights bestowed on individuals by God Himself, are meant to be lines in the sand protecting individual citizens from government, NOT the government from citizens! Considering one justice doesn't even know what a woman is, one may be compromised from Lolita flights, another worked for Bush and may be sympathetic to government, along with two nit-wits, I'm not too comfortable about pending results.
We have no more rights. It's always been an illusion. The only right I have is to be taxed. Oh well I'm glad I don't hide in Lala Land like so many others. My advice has been to prepare because it's going to get ugly.