We have lost our voice

No longer does the government listen to its citizens.

We have lost free speech. The exact time of death is difficult to measure. The process of losing it has been going on for a several decades. It started with social pressure limiting what people are allowed to say.

The control of mainstream media was a big part of losing our voice. What they report on started diverging from reality a little bit at a time. They don’t report on sensitive issues and report non stop on issues that support the official narrative. Their reporting is no longer factual and can only be verified by linking back to other false articles that they have created.

Twitter Files

The twitter files release was a turning point in discovering how much control the government had on what people were allowed to say. Millions of dollars were paid to social media companies like Twitter to censor and ban certain people. Many of these people were the smartest, brightest and most respected at what they say and do. Their voices were important and they were silenced. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya - (Illusion of Consensus) a Stanford Professor was one who went on to join the Missouri vs Biden lawsuit where two states were suing the federal government for violating our free speech. Dr. Jay was also one of the founders of the Great Barrington Declaration where over 930,000 medical professionals stated that in their professional opinion, the government was handling the pandemic in the wrong way. Many of these professionals were silenced for trying to have a global conversation about important issues that had lives depending on that discussion.

While the twitter files also exposed that the censoring extended beyond the pandemic to areas like the last presidential election, war discussions and other things, the courts declared that the lawsuit lacked standing on these issues so the legal battle continued on a reduced scope.

The court case resulted in an injunction and several appeals moving through multiple justices and courts. In the end, it wasn’t just a single judgment, but a consensus of justices that agreed that the government had overstepped. This was a victory for the citizens and showed that the courts are still honest and trust worthy enough to make logical decisions.

The Supreme Court

Now the case is before the Supreme Court where oral arguments were heard yesterday (March 18th 2024). It is very concerning some of the comments from the justices during this session that makes one wonder what kind of ruling will be handed down.

JUSTICE JACKSON: Suppose someone started posting about a new teen challenge that involved teens jumping out of windows at increasing elevations. This is the challenge. And kids all over the country start doing this. There's an epidemic. Children are seriously injuring or even killing themselves in situations. Is it your view that the government authorities could not declare those circumstances a public emergency and encourage social media platforms to take down the information that is instigating this problem?

Dr. Jay’s response to this statement was (listen 29:15) “Why not just tell people that jumping out of windows is a dangerous thing. In this example, the government was telling kids to jump out of windows and censoring people who were trying to stop it"

The statement here uses stupid children in a hypothetical as a reason to censor and ban experts in the field. The statement is wrong and frightening on so many levels.

Justice Jackson (this is the woman that couldn’t answer the question “what is a woman” during her confirmation hearing) went on to ask what if the first amendment ‘hamstrings’ government? As a justice who’s job it is to enforce the constitution should know that the first amendment’s main purpose is to allow criticism of your government. To claim that a social media monopoly is a private organization and they are free to gag whoever they want if they are critical of government is not an excuse. Either that monopoly must go or it needs to be restricted from limiting speech for that very reason.

JUSTICE JACKSON: So my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods. I mean, what would -- what would you have the government do? I've heard you say a couple times that the government can post its own speech. But, in my hypothetical, you know, kids, this is not safe, don't do it, is not going to get it done. And so I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country, and you seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information. So can you help me? Because I'm really -- I'm really worried about that because you've got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government's perspective, and you're saying that the government can't interact with the source of those problems.

Matt Taibbi of Racket news writes:

JACKSON: So my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods…

Can you help me? Because I’m really — I’m really worried about that because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.

MATT: “Can you help me?” Yes, I would love to help you, Justice Jackson, to a less challenging line of work… Hamstringing the government, Good God!

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Some brief history

We saw Julian Assange targeted because he exposed the corruption in government. Nothing he did was illegal. It was a message sent to journalists world wide that “if you see something say something” was a trap and to watch what you say or you could be next.

Voting

The Covid pandemic was an excuse to switch to mail in ballots. No longer is there the required chain of custody for your ballots. It used to require two signatures every step of the way to assure the voter intent was preserved without sacrificing privacy. The last election was impossible to audit or prove it was accurate or a fraud. It created the uproar it was intended to with the ability to declare any winner they wanted with no way to prove it wasn’t true. In the recent primary in my state of Washington, the last ballots required you to check Democrat or Republican on the outer envelope with your signature and phone number. No longer is your vote private or guaranteed to be counted correctly.

Jan 6th was a protest on votes. People disagreed with the election for multiple reasons. They tried to speak out and were met with a swift attack by the government. Rather than discuss it, they silenced people and jailed some for asking. They made it out to be an insurrection but no one was arrested for that. Trespassing was the charge.

Covid

The one voice that was allowed to speak on Covid was Fauci. “Trust the science we were told”. It is now proven that he lied to the senate and the American people. Biden lied about Covid. The CDC and the WHO lied about Covid. The Jan 6th committee lied and deceived the American people by showing deceptive footage. These issues have been proven time and time again, but justice isn’t within reach. The Vaccine could not possibly have provided herd immunity and they knew it at the time and we can’t speak about it publicly.

No one has in the last 30 years been tried or convicted of corruption in DC. The only way someone it removed from their position is through a sex scandal that has nothing to do with their ability to do their job. When the official narrative never admits errors, it becomes the only expert worthy of making decisions in the future.

Media’s Reality

If you look at where we are today. The issue of free speech, our first amendment, is before the Supreme Court. The mainstream news isn’t covering it so you won’t hear about it there. If you do it will be in such a way as to deceive you into reaching the wrong conclusion. If you talk about it on social media, you may be shadow banned, your post flagged with a ‘fact check’ or your account suspended if you say something that is considered against the official narrative. The necessary criticism of government will not happen. The illogical, stupid statements made by the Justices will not be ridiculed or laughed at so that others may hear. Some blogs, podcasts and substack articles will be a voice of reason, but they will become an echo chamber of a few million people who understand what is going on. These important voices will not reach the masses as they would have when mainstream media would cover these issues. Instead, while the Supreme Court is deliberating on the issue, the government and the media under their control will continue to silence and run counter articles to give the ‘illusion of consensus’.

The reality manufactured by the media will continue to push the need for silencing misinformation and explain the dangers of not doing so. People who ‘follow the crowds’ assume the media reality is accurate and nothing is wrong. The fact checkers will label articles that disagree with the official narrative as baseless and dangerous. More and more examples of constitutional violations will be written about in the echo chamber of a few blogs, podcasts and substack. Some will be used as an example of what to avoid and labeled conspiracy theories. New laws will be passed to penalize people who write such ‘dangerous’ articles. There is nothing to restrict the government any more and nothing to compel Justices not to rule against free speech and render the 1st amendment moot. The pressure and shame will not be felt in this manufactured reality.

We are no longer able to interact with government. Protest marches won’t be televised. Force against government will be considered ‘domestic terrorism’. Those who do will have their bank accounts frozen or they will be imprisoned. Jan 6th made sure of that. We are forced to stand by and watch as the media paints a false picture and the government reacts to that false picture. No longer in control, we are forced to watch a slow motion train wreck.