The crackdown on free speech continues in the United Kingdom as officials use recent rioting to justify a roundup of citizens who they view as “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs.” The government is ramping up arrests of those with “extremist ideologies” in the latest wave of arrests. The crackdown includes those accused of misogynist views.In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss how difficult it is to get a free people to give up freedoms. They have to be afraid, very afraid. For that reason, governments tend to attack free speech during periods of public anger or fear.
That pattern is playing out, yet again, in the United Kingdom. The recent anti-immigration riots have given officials a renewed opportunity to use anti-free speech laws to target those with opposing views.
For years, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom and the steady stream of arrests.A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
While most of us find Brock’s views repellent and hateful, they were confined to his head and his room. Yet, Judge Peter Lodder QC dismissed free speech or free thought concerns with a truly Orwellian statement: “I do not sentence you for your political views, but the extremity of those views informs the assessment of dangerousness.”
Lodder lambasted Brock for holding Nazi and other hateful values:
“[i]t is clear that you are a right-wing extremist, your enthusiasm for this repulsive and toxic ideology is demonstrated by the graphic and racist iconography which you have studied and appeared to share with others…”
Even though Lodder agreed that the defendant was older, had limited mobility, and “there was no evidence of disseminating to others,” he still sent him to prison for holding extremist views.
After the sentencing Detective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), warned others that he was going to prison because he “showed a clear right-wing ideology with the evidence seized from his possessions during the investigation….We are committed to tackling all forms of toxic ideology which has the potential to threaten public safety and security.”
“Toxic ideology” also appears to be the target of Ireland’s proposed Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) law. It covers the possession of material deemed hateful. The law is a free speech nightmare. The law makes it a crime to possess “harmful material” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.” The law expressly states the intent to combat “forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.”
The Brock case proved, as feared, a harbinger of what was to come. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has vowed to crack down on people “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs.” That includes what she calls extreme misogyny.
Cooper said that the problem revealed by the recent protests was “gaps in the current system” and stressed that “it’s not OK any more to ignore the massive growing threat caused by online hatred towards women and for us to ignore it because we’re worried about the line, rather than making sure the line is in the right place as we would do with any other extremist ideology.”
She added: “For too long governments have failed to address the rise in extremism, both online and on our streets, and we’ve seen the number of young people radicalised online grow. Hateful incitement of all kinds fractures and frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy.”
For free speech advocates, it is chilling to hear UK officials state that they have been too lax on free speech in the past and must now take censorship and arrests more aggressively.
The United Kingdom has a myriad of laws criminalizing speech with vague terms allowing for arbitrary enforcement. For example, Public Order Act 1986 prohibits any expressions of racial hatred, defined as hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group’s color, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins.
Section 18 of the Act specifically includes any speech that is “threatening, abusive, or insulting.” An arrest does not have to be based on a showing of intent to “stir up racial hatred,” but can merely be based on a charge that “having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.”
For those Americans who have remained silent during as this anti-free speech movement grows, you need only to look to the United Kingdom to see what this movement means for our “indispensable right.” That wave has now reached our shores and it will require each one of us to defend a right that defines us all.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster).
Uncle Sam, not to be outdone by the Brits…
The Federalist
“CISA Censors Join Forces With Private Groups To Target So-Called Election ‘Misinformation'”
By: Logan Washburn
August 23, 2024
“The Council participates in security briefings with CISA, the FBI, election officials, and ‘private sector owners and operators.’”
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/23/cisa-censors-join-forces-with-private-groups-to-target-so-called-election-misinformation/
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dzxGlcErUo?si=-pgLp9OBNaQMhjzH&w=300&h=185%5D
This is what comes from being “subjects”.
See below as Dennis McIncrier, the Demented Draft Dodger, who 4 weeks ago claimed that pills mean nothing, again ignores the RCP polling, which still shows Trump ahead in 5/7 battleground states.
Dennis is too ignorant to know that polls in New Mexico mean as much as polls on Mars.
He is also apparently ignorant of the reporting from Politico, one of his favorite lefty rags, saying that Harris campaign internal polling shows she is still behind Trump, especially in the only states that matter. New Mexico not being one of those of course.
Its hilarious that Denny loves to quote polls that leave 10 or 15 percent of the respondents with no answer. Pathetic
Jonathan: Whose ahead in the polls now? Nationwide Harris leads DJT 50% to 47%. A new Emerson poll has Harris up 57% (+10) to DJT’s 42% in New Mexico. “538” has Harris up +3.6–47.2% to DJT’s 43.6%. Whatever poll you look at today Harris is leading DJT.
And what is DJT’s message to his MAGA supporters? Early this morning DJT sent a desperate email to his faithful: “Dear Trump supporters, it’s President Trump. I’ll be brief. Kamala raised millions [ $500 million to DJT’s about $137 million]… Please, if everyone reading this donates $7, we’ll outraise Kamala’s huge war chest!”.
DJT is one unhinged dude! He called into right-wing Newsmax to complain. He told the two Newsmax hosts he’s thinking of moving to Venezuela and told them they should do the same: “Caracas was once an unsafe city. Some day the three of us will go to Caracas because it’s safer than any place in our country. She’s [Harris] destroying our country. They’re allowing the criminals to come into our country!”. Why does DJT keep mentioning Venezuela? Could it be he thinks it’s a place he could pull off a coup that would be successful–unlike his failed attempt on J. 6, 2021?
Anyway, the NY Post, another Murdock property and supporter of DJT, joined the hysteria with this cover headline today: “And the Oscar goes to DNC 2024–Douglas Murray awards the Dems for their lying, fake a Hollywood con-vention–IT’S ALL AN ACT”.
DJT and his MAGA party have lost control of the narrative. They have no answer for Harris surging in the polls. So they resort to anti-semitic attacks on Josh Shapiro and claim all the polls are “fake”, that the huge crowds at the Harris/Walz rallies and overflowing crowds at the DNC are all “fake”. And DJT is peddling fear. I don’t think that will appeal to most voters come November!
It was reported today that Harris internal polls show they are behind and the media polls are shit.
“They have no answer for Harris surging in the polls”? Is that a joke?
Oh they have an answer, Dennis. Did you catch RFK Jr’s speech earlier today?
‘Tis your lunatic lefty batsh*t crazy Democrat party that has “lost the narrative” and “the country”…
and their “post-CON-vention bounce”
Kamala’s honeymoon is over. Now she may have to “work” for it.
This tweet says it all —>
“When a lifelong Democrat, from an iconic Democrat family, who tried to run as a Democrat, and who’s running mate was a Democrat, warns you about the dangers of voting for the Democrat in this election, you should probably listen.”
I bet you regret this post now huh?
OT and in entertainment news, ultra woke Star Wars series, The Acolyte, got canned after just one season! It was that bad!!!
Go woke! Go broke!
IMO Star Wars has been horrid almost from its very beginning. The first movie or two was somewhat entertaining, mostly because of the charm and talent of Ford and Fisher, all downhill after.
Now you’re OT posting about Star Wars shows?
Never knew any farmers who had so much time to waste.
They had all seemed ‘sane and normal’ (until now).
Boo hoo
Tauntauns are sexy on the inside.
Kamala Harris 25 Points Ahead of Trump Among Latino Voters in Arizona.
Kommila Heiress 100 points Ahead of Trump Among Headstones in Cemeteries.
How is Commie-Law Harris, descendant of Jamaican slave owners (according to her father during 2020 election cycle), polling among US descendants of slaves?
She is descended from Jamaican slaves, whose experience was not all that different from that of slaves in the 13 colonies that broke away.
Like almost all black Americans, she is also descended from at least one of those slaves’ owners. That’s how slavery worked.
The likely result of this type of petty censorship with ambiguous rules is England become North Korea!
In North Korea, citizens are literally required to ass-kiss all of their leaders or face severe consequences.
It’s always been that way in monarchies.
Fancy a cuppa, guvna?
Where’s me cheeky British bloke?
Blimey what dodgy rubbish.
Government officials operating in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia defy U.S. Supreme Court rulings and their oath of office. Officials knowingly breaking federal laws. These officials routinely censor perfectly legal First Amendment speech or sometimes place slow-walk software on their targets (something that can be typed in 1 minute takes 30 minutes).
John Roberts should enforce the U.S. Constitution in the Richmond, VA region!
My father was friends with RFK, and I’m friends with one of his sons…, not RFK Jr.
I seriously wonder if the family will be almost as traumatized by an RFK Jr. Endorsement of Trump as they are by the political violence in their history.
Good news!!!! A federal judge ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can continue to pursue his lawsuit against the Biden administration over censorship at the direction of the government. Another win for the 1stA and the fight against government/Biden censorship!!
That lawsuit will not succeed.
The 9th circuit shut him down.
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/08/court-to-rfk-jr-fact-checking-doesnt-violate-1st-amendment-nor-does-section-230-make-meta-a-state-actor/
…And RFK announced he is supporting Trump
Told ya he was nuts.
Sux for Gigenius
Gigenius, a good barometer for “nuts”
WHO’S nuts? From NPR, dateline 8/5/2024:
“A decade after the shocking discovery of a bear cub carcass in Manhattan’s Central Park, the mystery of who dumped it there has finally been solved.
And the man taking responsibility is none other than presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The conspiracy theorist-turned-third-party candidate’s campaign has weathered a series of increasingly improbable-sounding scandals in recent months, from Kennedy’s admission that a worm ate part of his brain to his denial of reports that he once ate barbecued dog (he said it was a goat).
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running as a third party candidate for president.
GOATS AND SODA
RFK Jr. is not alone. More than a billion people have parasitic worms
RFK unleashed this latest one himself, in a three-minute video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.
It shows him sitting at a kitchen table, telling an incredulous-looking Roseanne Barr (yes, the canceled comedian) about how the dead bear ended up in his van upstate and, ultimately, on top of a bicycle beneath a bush in New York City’s largest urban park.
Kennedy, an animal lover and former environmental lawyer, says he was driving upstate early one morning to take a group of people falconing in the Hudson Valley when a driver in front of him fatally hit a bear cub.
“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van, because I was gonna skin the bear,” he explains matter-of-factly. “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”
Kennedy added that it is legal in New York State to get a bear tag to take home a roadkill bear. Such a tag must be written up by a law enforcement officer.
The bear never made it back to his Westchester home, however.
Kennedy says he got waylaid by a busy day of falconry, and then had to rush back to New York City for a dinner at Peter Luger Steak House, which ran late.
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“I had to go to the airport, and the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” Kennedy continues.
Then, as he put it, “the little bit of the redneck in me” had an idea.
Kennedy just happened to have an old bike in his car, which he said someone had asked him to get rid of. He recalled that the city “had just put in the bike lanes” after a number of serious accidents, and decided to stage the bear in Central Park as if it had been hit by a bike.
“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea,” Kennedy said. “So we went and did that and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.”
The six-month-old, 44-pound cub made national news after a dog walker stumbled upon it that fateful October morning, in a wide-open part of the park right near the path where thousands of people run and bike each day.”
HE WAS GOING TO SKIN A ROADKILL BEAR AND EAT ITS MEAT. Is any of this something some normal person would do? Even deeper–WHY would anyone vote for a nutcase like this?
give it up, gigi, don’t try to hide under anonymous.
Gigi, I’m really worried about you. I know you’re not a fan of RFK, but he’s not crazy. However, I’m afraid that if Trump wins, you might do something drastic, like jumping off a roof. I think it would be best if they kept you where you are until after the election. Your room is rubber-lined, so even if you did jump, you’d just bounce.
The man left a dead bear in Central Park. He’s crazy.
Where the hell does someone like you who is so delusional as to fall for the MAGA lie machine come off talking down to anyone? Yes, RFK is crazy and even his family knows it, which is why none of them supported him. He’s a disgrace to the Kennedy name, which is all he has to trade on.
Meyer, no matter who wins the election, the gig is up and she/he/it will go down in history as a short-tempered, foulmouthed loser who has proven the lack of worth on this website. Maybe biden will give her/him/it a medal.
Gigi, I can stand and produce evidence to back up what I say and why.
You cannot do the same.
You have it exactly backwards. I provide citations. From “Newsweek”, dateline 8/23/2024:
“In a scathing joint statement released on Friday, Aug. 23, five of Bobby’s siblings — who are all children of the late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — publicly distanced themselves from his decision to join forces with Trump less than one year after leaving the Democratic Party.
“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride,” the statement reads. “We believe in [Kamala] Harris and [Tim] Walz.”
“Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story,” the statement concludes.
Posted on social media by Kerry Kennedy, the statement is also signed by siblings Kathleen, Courtney, Chris and Rory.”
” I provide citations. From “Newsweek”,
Crazy lady, you provide opinion, not fact. Ignorance is not knowing the difference between fact and opinion. Insanity is repeating the same stupidity repeatedly.
The opinions of other Kennedys don’t lead us to the truth. They only lead fools, as they are guided by what they wish to believe, not by facts.
The Svelaz-George Lie Of The Day
“I didn’t claim there is no such thing as “natural rights”, ”
George is becoming as much of a pathological liar as Gigi. You say so much stupid shit you cant even remember saying it.
Read it and weep dufus. Or is it reading comprehension?
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/20/keyboard-warrior-british-crackdown-on-free-speech-results-in-three-year-sentence-over-anti-migrant-postings/comment-page-1/#comment-2436562
S. Meyer, if freedom of speech was a natural right why isn’t it in the Bible? Why has that not been a consistent theme in the Bible or any other religious text? There is certainly no such thing as a natural right.
Some people (who believe in a deity), call it god given. Some call it natural. Some call it UNALIENABLE. Some call it Human rights. Your red herring about the Bible is pathetic. Do better.
So then tell us, Mr Hogwash, where does the right to freedom of speech come from? It clearly doesn’t come from the Constituion. 1A clearly assumes the right already exists. Did you do the homework I assigned you about the origins of 1A?
“That “natural right” sure seems like a hogwash.”
Huh, you seem to be arguing that liberty (freedom from bondage) IS a natural right. If it’s not, what would you call it? A right granted by the Crown or the 14th Amendment? Because those don’t apply in Russia or China. So I guess those people don’t have that right.
Wiggle and squirm, big mouth LIAR. Its fun to watch.
Clearly you’re obsessed.
“Huh, you seem to be arguing that liberty (freedom from bondage) IS a natural right.”
You seem to continue to suffer from your reading comprehension problem. Even the Bible doesn’t promote freedom from bondage. It promotes slavery and bondage to a master. Where’s the freedom and liberty?
Since when is the Bible focused on natural or even earthly maters? It’s not a political screen.
Screed. Farts.
“Even the Bible doesn’t promote freedom from bondage. It promotes slavery and bondage to a master. Where’s the freedom and liberty?”
Svelaz George, you are a numbskull. Most of what you say is made up because you are poorly educated and unread. You substitute your mores for those of others and are invariably wrong because you are not a moral person.
Torah law does not permit complete ownership of anything including people. Therefore the slavery you discuss is not accepted in the Torah.
According to the Torah, A Hebrew slave can only work for six years and on the seventh year has freedom without charge (Exodus). He can not be physicially or sexually abused. One is not even permitted to denegrate a servant.
The Torah is forward looking, far ahead of the mores of the crowd and near opposite the mores of the leftist we see on this blog.
Torah law does not permit complete ownership of anything including people. Therefore the slavery you discuss is not accepted in the Torah.
That is not true. The Torah (and the rest of the Bible, including the Christian sequel) totally accepts slavery as right and just and legitimate, and makes no objection to it whatsoever. Nobody thought there was anything wrong with slavery until the mid-18th century.
According to the Torah, A Hebrew slave…
Stop right there. You just refuted yourself. The restrictions you allude to apply only to Hebrew slaves, not to any other slave. Immediately after those restrictions the Torah hastens to answer the “obvious” question: If I can’t fully exploit my Hebrew slave, and I can’t enslave the locals because I must wipe them out, then whom can I exploit? And the answer it gives is that you can buy slaves from the surrounding nations, and you will own those wholly and forever, and it is actually forbidden to free them without a compelling reason. Moral qualms don’t count.
“That is not true. The Torah (and the rest of the Bible, including the Christian sequel) totally accepts slavery as right and just and legitimate, “
Millhouse, that is not what I said. My words were “complete ownership,” which means there are limitations. That is a positive movement toward abolishing the ownership of another human being and treating them in a humane fashion. The Torah is about human dignity, respect and Liberty.
If you are Jewish, which seems to be based on your recognition of what was written in Parshat Mishpatim, then you should further look at the phrase, “Should you buy a Hebrew slave.”
Is that slave a Jew, or is it a non-Jewish slave sold by a Jew? That interpretation is yours, but I do not consider it significantly vital because I am interested in the Torah’s positive change from the inhumane to the humane.
Be wise. Pursue compassion and justice.
—-
For further reading Avadim, chapter 9 (Rambam)
“The laws applying to a Canaanite slave apply whether the master purchases the Canaanite slave from a fellow Jew, a resident alien, a gentile living under our jurisdiction or a person from another nation.”
Turley run out of free speech articles to plug his book? No more Biden articles? He didn’t bother writing about the Biden impeachment inquiry report. All it did was show how incompetent and ineffective republicans are at…inquiries. Hunter Biden? He ceased writing about it too it seems. Man, Biden dropping out upended the narrative so much that he and Trump don’t know what to do about it. At least Trump stuck to making insults instead of promoting policy. He can’t focus and looks stupider every time he tries. No wonder he’s looking bad on the polls.
YAWN
Trump and Kennedy have played this perfectly.
Making this announcement immediately after the DNC is genius.
If the Kennedy supporters who don’t stay home split just 55/45 Trump, its over.
Which cabinet position will Kennedy receive?
Kennedy Attorney General
Gabbard Sec of State
Cotton Sec Def
McCarthy Chief of Staff
Burgrum Energy or Interior
If Kennedy endorses Trump, he deserves a Cabinet position, but I would much prefer to see Ken Paxton as Attorney General. Given what Kennedy documented in his books about the COVID/vaccine fraud, I think Secretary of Health and Human Services would be a good fit. With Paxton and Kennedy in those posts, I think we would see a gratifying number of heads roll inside and outside Fedgov.
Secretary of Brain Worms.
NUTCHACHACHA, after a career of parasitism, leeching, and affirmative action on a tilted playing field, merits a secretary?
Who’da thunk it?
At least RFK Jr. can nourish a brain worm. They’d starve to death in Gigi’s head.
I bet you hate it, dont you Gigenius?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahah
Kennedy was 5% in the swing states. Ouch
You are assuming a lot–mainly that if RFK, who is clearly nuts, endorses Trump that his supporters will automatically vote for Trump. Trump KNOWS he’s losing, proven by his desperate lying and pathetic tweets. I’d like to know WHY you Trumpsters WANT America to fail because everything Trump touches dies.
Democrat strategist James Carville went on CNN to tell them the problem Democrats have is they have too many “preachy” women and are driving away males, namely Black and Hispanic males to Trump.
As The Free Press did an article, the Democrat party has abused the Black vote to the point Blacks are either not voting at all this election or are going to vote for Trump.
Hispanics who came to this country legally are also turning away from Democrats as they feel insulted by the Democrat party for rewarding all the illegals and punishing them.
Many Jews are coming around to the fact the Democrat party is not their friend. They see it as Democrat support “From river to sea!”
If anyone is losing, it is the Democrats. Thankfully.
Trump leads Harris by 11 points among independents: poll
“Among all likely U.S. voters, former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris by 3 points.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/trump-leads-harris-11-points-among-independents-poll
Who is losing? 🙂
Crazy lady, RFK is supporting Trump, and anyone reading what you write might want to choose another party so they can avoid the idiot label.
I didn’t say they would automatically vote for Trump. I said that if they break 55/45, which is the guess before the endorsement, you lose.
If they are intelligent voters, they will vote in their best interests regarding the issues most importatnt to them, the economy and the border.
The liberal cultists will follow the machine.
That’s not a guarantee those who supported Kennedy will migrate to Trump’s camp. They chose Kennedy for a reason. For all we know RFK Jr supporters could migrate to Harris as punishment for siding with Trump.
The Court of Saint James
Wonder if he’ll bring a dead bear to the rally?
Interesting next couple of weeks…
Spanky will go down by 7-10 points in post convention polling. His campaign finance grift will slow down and trump will be faced with his sentencing in NY at the same time as getting thrashed by Harris in their debate. He wants out…, you can see it in his eyes.
It’s his last window to leverage a trump political disappearance as a bargaining chip in his unresolved cases.
Look for trump dropping out of the race just after Labor day weekend. He won’t care what it’ll do to the R’s.
You mean he hasn’t already dropped out??
Because you said he would be in a GA prison by now. How is he campaigning from there,
5% Ouch
You’re still confusing me with other contributors. By product of confusing your hyperactivity and general obnoxiousness with actual intelligence, no doubt.
Granted, for me personally, while definitely surprised at how much the SCOTUS crumbled on presidential immunity, it was always clear how much the Georgia right wing would put its thumb on the scale for trump…, making it clear it would be awhile before he went on trial there.
Add to that it being a RICO case. Charge a bunch of people to get the majority of them to roll on the higher ups. Takes a lot of time for that to play out.
“You’re still confusing me with other contributors”
That would be on you. Stop saying the same sort of ridculous, made up, based on nothing shit and maybe you won’t get lumped in with the rest of the libturds.
“Takes a lot of time for that to play out.”
You’re seriously trying to pin the delay on the fact its RICO? Bwahahahahahahaha
I guess you havent heard, the next trial is Fani’s.
I guess you werent around when your “friend” predicted last summer that Trump would be in prison by now and I told him then that there was something coming, and Fani had problems. The advantage to being connected in the Fulton County area.
“You’’re still confusing me with other contributors.”
Aren’t you anonymous? That means you are anonymous and take the blame or credit for all anonymous comments. Stop complaining and adopt a name with a picture.
You brits oughta find your guns, deal with your tyrant government.
Contemporary Brits don’t have the guts to shoot at anything more threatening than a small game bird, and even those need to be flushed out. Most of them wouldn’t have enough balls to do even that.
Limiting price gouging is just another way of saying that the government should control all means of production.
TiT,
Just after Harris announced her stellar economic policies, a economists noted that CPI, PPI, core CPI, and core PPI all went up at roughly the same rate due to Bidenflation.
He also noted, if food producers were “profiting” from Bidenflation, they were going about it all wrong.
To prove the point,
CNBC Host torches Elizabeth Warren on price control policies.
CNBC Host: “Nothing works when you try to artificially control prices… It’s a flawed idea”
Sen. Warren: “Is there a question?”
CNBC Host: “Yes. Why would you propose a flawed idea?”pic.twitter.com/YXhzIo6EtQ
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) August 23, 2024
Indeed, to broach price controls reveals the constitutional ignorance of the speaker.
Camel-faced Harris is nothing if not ignorant; just ask her beau, Willy.
Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property do not provide any governmental power to control prices.
People are maximally free, and government is maximally limited and restricted per the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
She does appear to have her cameltoe mounted on her neck, doesn’t she?
That is not true. The interstate commerce clause is enough to authorize Congress to impose price control, as it did in 1971. That was a disaster, but it was constitutional.
The fifth amendment does not recognize an “absolute right to private property”, at least not as absolute as you claim it is. All it says is that if the government takes your property for public use (which it IS allowed to do), it has to pay you. But merely restricting your use is not a taking, and does not have to be compensated.
“But merely restricting your use is not a taking, and does not have to be compensated.”
Actually, it is and it does. And fortunately the SC recognized that fact in the Nollan case.
286 of 300 delegates interviewed on the floor of the DNC could not name their favorite policy of Kamala Harris.
Probably because she has spent her entire campaign thus far as a Trump campaign spokesperson.
You mean the communist central committee ? The citizenry didn’t vote. No need to vote now with the CCC. No one seems to care. People were just eased into it.
All done
Actually, the CCC aka democratics didn’t like the citizenry and their Biden choice so the CCC just switched it out.
Oh yeah, the last election was on the up and up.
– “Free stuff”
– “Free status”
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Interviewed on the floor of the DNC…It’s the CCC.
The election is Republicans v. The CCC
constitutionalists v. communists
Reality. Capitalism v. Socialism
Oh, her policy position (her only policy position) is quite clear: “I am not Donald Trump”
A first? No new post?
We listen to many ignorant people on the blog who know little. My eleven-year-old grandson showed me this video. It should help some understand leadership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
This is a bit long but covers a wide territory and is for all ages.
Speaking of leadership, Thomas Sowell on:
Republicans Better Get on the Ball
Against this background, why is this election even close? Some Republicans may say that it is because the media are on the side of the Democrats and suppress or distort the facts accordingly. Others may say that the universities have become indoctrination centers, promoting the kind of ideologies that favor the Democrats’ agenda. But, even if we concede all that, the fact is that a similar situation existed back in the days when Ronald Reagan won two consecutive presidential elections by landslides. How did he do it?
He did it by addressing the voting public as if they were adults who could understand an issue—if you explained it to them in plain English, instead of in political jargon or snappy quips.
There are some Republicans today who seem to understand that. But they are not running in this year’s presidential election. Perhaps they may run in 2028. But there is such a thing as a country declining to the point of no return. Four more years of disastrous Biden-Harris policies, at home and abroad, can take us past that fatal point.
Many Republicans seem confident that they will win this year’s election. But just a couple of years ago, they were equally confident that they would win control of both houses of Congress in a “red wave.”
The public’s positive reactions to Vice President Kamala Harris’s first statements after becoming the Democrats’ nominee seem to be played down by Republicans— as if it were a sort of honeymoon response that will automatically evaporate as the truth comes out.
Election officials in some states will begin mailing out ballots less than a month from now. If the Republicans do not discredit what she claims within that month, the votes she gets then will be fixed—even if Republicans completely demolish her claims later on.
On Election Day, even if most voters would prefer Donald Trump, the votes of those who voted early, and later regretted it after the facts came out, will still be votes for Kamala Harris.
The time to refute what Ms. Harris says is when she says it, whatever the issue. Waiting to refute what she says, until after millions of early voters have already
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/republicans-better-get-on-the-ball-thomas-sowell-2024-election-kamala-harris-91883df6
Republicans are (once again) showing themselves to be the Beta males they always have been. As if the Bushes hadnt been enough of an emasculating experience. They deserve to lose with a shmuck like Trump launching snappy quips and sulking that people do not pay him homage. As for the US House GOP: what a sorry group of “men”. Reps Nancy Mace, Harriet Hageman and a few other women are showing they have bigger balls than all of the “men” combined. Pathetic.
Trump is no Reagan, as Thomas Sowell made clear. Ive said it many times on here to the conservatives who do nothing but kvetch daily: lead!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
– Edmund Burke
Estovir, we cannot choose the person we wish to be President, but we can choose who we don’t want to be President. Like it or not, that is the choice we have.
You posted a video on leadership, I replied with an excerpt from a towering intellect like Thomas Sowell on leadership, and you reply defensively. Disappointing but not surprised.
Estovir, as you know, I am a fan of Sowell and have read many of his books and editorials. I already read this one before you posted it.
Sowell showed why Reagan succeeded. Trump is not a Reagan; few are. That is where my comment came in. ” we cannot choose the person we wish to be President, but we can choose who we don’t want to be President. Like it or not, that is the choice we have.”
That comment was not defensive. Instead, it was responsive to the picture Sowell drew and your remarks afterward. I don’t know why you should be disappointed. It went to the heart of Sowell’s words and your comments afterward.
You’re not listening S. Meyers. You’re deaf in one ear and can’t hear out of the other.
The number one ‘rule for rulers’ is *honesty*. That’s the bedrock foundation of all human affairs. .. and always has been.
For example, you (if not Bibi Netanyahu) say you’re willing to negotiate a fair and equitable (see also ‘rules for rulers’) two-state solution with the Palestinians who have been living in Israel/Gaza for thousands of years. But that’s not true. You want [to rule] it all.
Lets cut to the chase: do you want a fair and reasonable peace deal in the Holy Lands or not?
‘Knowledge is a single point, but the ignorant have multiplied it’ ~ old Persian Proverb
dgsnowden,
Ruler of a small country
“You’re not listening S. Meyers. You’re deaf in one ear and can’t hear out of the other.”
@dgsnowden: I may not hear well with one or both ears, but at least I can listen and read with a brain. That is a component you sorely lack.
When it comes to war and peace in the Middle East, you function at the level of an idiot. I have provided the history many times, but you don’t dispute the documented history; instead, you continue with a stupidity that you consider wise. Don’t fool yourself. You are on the level of George Svelaz.
The terrorists refused all peace agreements, even those that were wildly in their favor. The Jews are indigenous to the area. Your so-called Palestinians come from everywhere, including North Africa and Egypt. You can see their origins in their names, al Masri (Egyptian) and Mugrabi (North African).
Jordan is actually a second state of the two-state solution since when Britain decided to provide their mandate for a homeland to the indigenous people, the Jews, fighting broke out, and they divided the land unequally, giving most of it to the Arabs and naming it Jordan. The smaller half went to the Jews. The fighting continued, and that small half was reduced further so that the State of Israel was left with only a speck of land in the Middle East. That speck was too much for the Islamists, so in an attempt to rid all of the Middle East of Jews, they again attacked the Jews, hoping to make the area Judenfrei. They failed again, and Israel rightfully regained Judea/Samaria, which Jordan had illegally occupied (based on international law).
You need to read the newspapers around WW2, before and after. The world knew that “Palestinian” meant Jew, and what today is referred to as the West Bank was Judea/Samaria. From the name, anyone can see that it is historical and present Jewish land. International law accepts Judea/Samaria as part of the sovereign nation of Israel.
Instead of making stupid comments about hearing loss, deal with actual history and law for a change. You haven’t in the past, but you can now by agreeing with the facts above or disputing them. That is how intelligent people deal with differences of opinion.
S. Meyer,
Well said.
I dispute almost everything you say, S. Meyer. You’re an obnoxious, arrogant, delusional, self-absorbed fountain of Quazi-religious voodoo revisionist history. .. and I do’t have time to refute it all today.
Suffice, you didn’t answer the question. Tell the truth: are you in favor of some kind peaceful solution to the horrible conflict in Gaza? Or not? It’s a simple question. e.g. pre 1967 borders?
*Netanyahu et el recently assassinated the chief ‘Hamas’ negotiator at the ‘ceasefire/peace’ negotiations .. . and Hell, they say, is the impossibility of reason.
p.s. .. and there is no justification for U.S./Israel killing all those civilians, most of them women and children .. . you blithering idiot.
“I dispute almost everything you say, S. Meyer.”
@gdsnowden: Good. State what I said wrong and tell us what you think is correct based on knowledge, not a syphilitic brain. You can’t because what I said is well-documented and based on international law. You say you don’t have time to refute it, but that is true of the last time you commented and the times before. You prove yourself a fool, ignorant and a liar.
” assassinated the chief ‘Hamas’ negotiator”
He was one of the main organizers of October 7 and a terrorist who would lie and kill without a blink of an eye.
@dgsnowden: Only the worst of fools don’t recognize the right to protect oneself from a terrorist and killer. Israel has been the most careful of nations and has protected innocent human life at the expense of its own soldiers. You get your news from terrorists and killers. There is no way of counting the dead impartially since only terrorists and the IDF can do so. In the past, Israel has proven its guesses reasonably correct, while your source has been proven consistently wrong.
How many innocents are killed by Israel? The number is near nil. What you call an innocent is:
1) A young man (who you call a child) trying to kill Israeli citizens or soldiers.
2) Combatants that pretend to be innocents. Some were killed when the IDF saved hostages, and some of them were actively involved in holding the hostages and killing Israelis.
3) Human shields forced to protect terrorists.
4) Deaths due to rockets meant to kill Israeli citizens but instead landed short killing women and children.
You demonstrate nothing but ignorance while pleading for a lack of time to produce your proof, even though these discussions have gone on for almost a year.
Again, you are proving yourself a fool, ignorant and a liar.
And there is no evidence of it either, but dont let that stop you, blithering idiot.
“I dispute almost everything you say, S. Meyer.”
@gdsnowden: Good. State what I said wrong and tell us what you think is correct based on knowledge, not a syphilitic brain. You can’t because what I said is well-documented and based on international law. You say you don’t have time to refute it, but that is true of the last time you commented and the times before. You prove yourself a fool, ignorant and a liar.
” assassinated the chief ‘Hamas’ negotiator”
He was one of the main organizers of October 7 and a terrorist who would lie and kill without a blink of an eye.
The “Ruler” and Purveyor of Freedom is The Constitution and Bill of Rights
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
At the American inflection point, 1860, secession was never prohibited.
Lincoln must have been required to act legislatively rather than through the unconstitutional pursuit of personal power and the unconstitutional employment of abject violence.
Americans must have retained faith in the Constitution and constitutional freedom and allowed freedom to play out.
America succumbed to Marxist communism and the incremental implementation thereof.
The entire current communist American welfare state is unconstitutional.
Congress taxes for Social Security, Medicare, and Defense; the only constitutional expenditure is Defense per Article 1, Section 8.
Do these fascists realize that forcing people to shut up creates radicalism?
That doesn’t bother them Steven T.,
They have a ready made solution for that. Arrests for those who can’t afford a defense, intimidation for those who can, and disappearance for those who were previously seen as one of their hero’s.
(Erwin Rommel – Back seat of the sedan with a cyanide capsule). Joe Biden – goodbye speech after midnight…