Roy Said What?

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Last week, I read this headline, “FBI to restrict student freedoms”.  Man, talk about your viral news story. It’s on every blog I know and a ton of them I never heard of.

Where’s the coverage in the MSM? (silence….cricket chirping)  Nada. Yet another example of the media in lockstep with our fascist government. Goebbells would be proud. After all, the Webster definition of fascism is a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. Welcome to the USA.

I mean, think about this, it is a real constitutional issue. Can the government tell you who you can associate with? It seems obvious that even though the freedom to associate is not a listed freedom, it is implied in the First Amendment guarantee that we have the freedom to freely assemble. Okay, I’m no lawyer and words can be tricky.

The freedom of association is an essential part of our guaranteed Freedom of Speech and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process clause. Again, I’m no lawyer, but it’s pretty clear that if you can’t join together, you can’t be with like-minded people and talk about things you want to.

I love this quote by JUSTICE BRANDEIS in Whitney vs. California,

"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that, in its government, the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end, and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness, and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that, without free speech and assembly, discussion would be futile; that, with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty, and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government."

Do we have liberty in
this country or is it a fairy tale we tell our children?  We need to resist this trend toward fascism.

“The liberty of a society is measured in part by what its citizens are free to discuss among themselves.” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy HILL V. COLORADO