After returning recently from speaking at the World Forum in Berlin, I testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee and warned about the building threat to free speech from the use of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has taken up the issue and received a letter from the EU’s Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen. The letter is both evasive and deceptive.
In my book, The Indispensable Right, I detail how the DSA has been used to allow for sweeping speech investigations and prosecutions. In direct contradiction to past statements by the EU, Virkkunen denied any effort to regulate speech or enforce the DSA outside of Europe.
What is particularly maddening is the false claim that the EU remains “deeply committed to protecting and promoting free speech.” Many in the free speech community view the EU and the DSA as the greatest threats to free speech in the West.
In his letter, Jordan correctly raised the concern that the DSA could “limit or restrict Americans” constitutionally protected speech in the United States by compelling platforms to crack down on what the EU considers “misleading or deceptive” speech.
In her response, Virkkunen bizarrely describes the DSA as “content-agnostic” while insisting that the DSA “applies exclusively within the European Union.”
That is not what EU officials previously said or what the law itself allows. Articles 34 and 35 of the DSA require all sites to identify, assess, and mitigate “systemic risks” posed by content, including any threats to “civic discourse”, “electoral processes,” and “public health.” It is up to the EU to define and judge such categories in terms of compliance.
The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”
Some in this country have turned to the EU to force the censorship of their fellow citizens. After Elon Musk bought Twitter and dismantled most of the company’s censorship program, many on the left went bonkers. That fury only increased when Musk released the “Twitter files,” confirming the long-denied coordination and support by the government in targeting and suppressing speech.
In response, Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans. (Clinton spoke at the World Forum and lashed out at the failure to control disinformation).
The EU immediately responded by threatening Musk with confiscatory penalties against not just his company but himself. He would have to resume massive censorship or else face ruin.
This campaign recently came to a head when Musk had the audacity to interview former president Donald Trump. In anticipation of the interview, one of the world’s most notorious anti-free speech figures went ballistic.
Former European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services Thierry Breton issued a threatening message to Musk, “We are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political — or societal — events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”
The EU has long been one of the most aggressively anti-free speech bodies in the world. It has actively supported the evisceration of free speech among its 27 member states. The EU is not “agnostic” when it comes to free speech; it has long championed a type of free-speech atheism. We have faced EU officials engaging in Orwellian doublespeak for years. Nevertheless, Virkkunen’s letter to Jordan stands out for its sheer mendacity.
Stand back. Let the EU fall and try not to get the mess on us when they do.
Simple message, a simple mind.
Upstate with another right on comment. Mr Upstate, don’t listen to the newest anonymous idiot, he is just trying to ruin the site.
You mean engaging in a different point of view? It’s amusing how Americans love the idea of free speech and don’t understand how it works at the same time. I believe it’s call Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. A product of their failing education system.
A question that is hard to answer is why the Clintons, esp. Hillary, are viewed as a source of leadership on political affairs by Europeans. It goes without saying that it cannot be their personal qualities, which are unspeakable. It must be their long-standing position in the very center of a network of non-governmental but highly-polticized, non-profit institutions that infest Washingon D.C. They are the unofficial leaders of that network, making a kind of shadow Presidency.
“It is especially free speech if it disagrees with what I believe.”
When have Europeans ever been straight talkers? To be European is to live and breathe in a world of obfuscation. We know that they have never really believed in free speech or a limited government. The elites of Europe have never accepted the United States as a cultural equal in anything. We sometimes connected with the common people if we could get through to them. The only thing they, or any state really, understands is power. ie-you touch our corporations and we smash right back. Don’t ever presume to impede our speech.
Time to send Hilary to Ireland and let her move in with Rosie and the other Expatriots from Hollywood. They no longer know how to make movies so what good are they here.
Send the Board and Administration of Disney to Ireland but keep the Mouse and his House and all film libraries here, except the new Snow White.
As far as Greenland is concerned. “Mighty nice island you have there. We have carved out a little area down on the Southern coast for your towns”. “We’ll take the rest and develope it. After all you have had it for 400 years and your population is only 60,000. With your long winters there should be about 40-50 million of you. What gives?” “Oh the Check is in the mail for the down payment on the Island or we can use Venmo. Your Choice”. “Have a nice vacation in Maui”
“When have Europeans ever been straight talkers? ” Since when have Americans been straight talkers, also has to be asked.
You really don’t have eye for facts do you. Blinded by your naivete.
Don’t the Europeans remember the Spanish Inquisition?
Nobody does.
Americans barely remember who wrote the Constitution.
Anonymous 12:31 PM-Europeans don’t even know what a constitution is much less who wrote the US Constitution.
“. . . Virkkunen bizarrely describes the DSA as ‘content-agnostic’ . . .”
In a way, she’s right. The DSA’s new Code of Conduct does *not* criminalize any particular opinion, e.g., “I hate Muslims.” Or any particular words, e.g., “Atheists are crazy.”
The EU’s new Code is far worse than that. It criminalizes the expression of opinions deemed “illegal hate speech online.” The censorship Code does what all censorship laws do: Its terms are intentionally vague, arbitrary, and capricious — so that a person cannot know in advance what speech is and is not a crime.
Such nonobjective “law” gives bureaucrats unchecked power to decree, after the fact, whether your opinions will land you in jail.
Sam- It must be that Napoleonic code thing.
“. . . that Napoleonic code thing.”
Exactly.
“Free speech” and “free” press — controlled by the government. Book publication — controlled by a Commission of government bureaucrats.
Henna Virkkunen,Vestager and Clinton -WOMEN! ha ha
Turls: crazy thing about the Turkish woman getting accosted and moved out of Mass. against a court order for writing that op Ed before fat Elvis was even elected ayy?
As you can see, George is just warming up.
Jon we don’t thank you enough….THANK YOU!
EU represent and follow the Globalist/Davos Agenda even if the vast majority of the EU disagree. Its the ruling Elites/Davos crowd and old established UK Elites. They simply to control. They believe in a two class system, The Elites and the rest of the people. Same group that want War with Russia and wants the world to Eat Bugs. Trump and the US should simply say NO and tell them where to Go.
Anonymous 8:24 AM- If this was Ancient Rome the Globalist / Davis crowd would be the ones holding daggers in the Senate in 44 BC, while yelling “For the Republic, For the Republic” but really meaning “for the elites, for the elites”. After all the murderers of Caesar had to vacate the city fast because the common folk went on a rampage to try to kill them.
The Left and their allies on the faux right will drag Western Europe into civil conflict–maybe even civil war. Globalist Leftism is national suicide almost by definition. Ultimately, Caesarism will have to prevail in Western Europe because there is no democratic alternative that can break the suicidal grip the globalist Left already has on Western European institutions.
I believe it’s too late to fix Europe.
How do I know this? Because America has the same problem, just to a lesser extent. About 15 RINO Senators are carbon copies of Europe’s faux right. The only way to govern such a Congress is to use the filibuster to jam up Congress so that the President can rule by Executive Order. Both parties have famously resorted to this strategy–THE PHONE-AND-A-PEN STRATEGY. Maybe that sounds familiar?
Because of America’s Presidential powers, we don’t have the complete gridlock of Parliamentary countries with their unworkable coalitions, but let’s face it:
Executive Orders are CAESARISM LIGHT. I hope those 15 RINO idiots figure that out and finally start supporting their President’s reforms. We’re on the same slippery slope Western Europe has already fallen off of.
As for you asinine trolls and your carping about Trump, your guys invented Caesarism Light, so shut the hell up.
Diogenes, I agree with almost all of your comment, as I usually do, but I do take a little issue when good conservatives go after moderate Republicans without also mentioning the Democrats that are the real opposition. We need Republicans from purple, or even blue states like Maine in order to have a majority so we have to live with the hand we have been dealt.
It is hard when the Democrats seem to never lose even one member on any important vote while Republicans always get a few peeled off. But a good lesson may be learned from the Dems and their Joe Manchin example. Manchin voted against the ending of the filibuster and the Dems trashed the guy to the point where he ended up not running again which helped them lose the majority. We don’t want to force 3 Republicans out in an attempt to get perfect candidates only to lose three seats.
As for the filibuster, why haven’t the Republicans at least threatened to end it? Even if we don’t want to end it let’s get Schumer and his band of idiots on record voting to sustain it to finally shut them up about it.
hullbobby, I’m having the worst time with this comment board today. Dropped comments, wrong avatars.
I agree that circular firing squads and litmus tests can backfire. It’s a judgment call. Romney was an intransigent never-Trumper, and he was voted out and we have a better majority today. On the other hand, Ossoff and Warnock the Warlock got elected in Georgia due to GOP infighting. One has to pick one’s battles.
The problem we have is that much of the so-called right in the West has sold out to globalism. This is a major problem in Western Europe. It has forced new parties to form, but all that did was split the right, but what choice did they have? It was split the vote or be silenced completely.
Trump got elected because he was willing to trade RINO’s for working-class votes, but the problem remains in Congress.
We need to know how many GOP Senators are sold out to mass migration and globalism. How we go about it can be debated, but if they are going to split the right and continue the trend to Caesarism, we probably need to consciously confront that reality.
My two cents anyway.
Your two cents is way more valuable than that!
Your point regarding the Romneys and the globalists is right, I did not mean to lump them in with the blue state moderates who vote the way they need to vote. Romney was in a red state voting like a blue stater and we are better off without him. People like Liz Cheney and Kinzinger (sp) are no use to our party or our country and we are better off without their type.
What Trump is doing is changing the dynamic and hopefully the libs won’t be able to stop him with the courts. Right now it looks like a jump ball.
Hullbobby, if the Republicans stay even keeled they will gradually remove the RINO’s along with taking Democrat seats.
Hullbobby-Totally agree.
The US government is arresting people at sending them to jail just for protesting or writing about a topic the government does not like. That is happing here, now, and Turley the free speech lover is ignoring it.
Sources?
Thank you, Barney, that will be quite enough.
Franke, the government is pulling the visas of any student who participates in protests in support of a terrorist group that denies CITIZENS, especially citizens of one particular religion, the right to go to class. That participate in riots that take over buildings, close libraries and disrupt classes in support of a terror group.
The left has moved the Overton Window so far that in todays world they would argue that it is right to march in support of Bin Laden in NYC on September 12th 2001.
If we invite you to come here to study you cannot support groups that want us dead. You cannot support groups that rape, kidnap and murder Jews and Americans.
But Hey Franke, die on that hill if you prefer, we will be over here watching your support go down to 20%.
Hullbobby, that’s rich. Nothing in the constitution says only citizens have a right to free speech. Everyone within our borders has a right to free speech, protest, and a right to assemble. Everyone. Mere accuseation withoout proof that students are supporting terrorist groups is the antithesis what our free speech rights.
Writing an op-ed critical of Trump or our govenment is the reason why a Tufts student’s visa was revoked and taken for deportation. Just for causing a “ruckus.” We are doing far worse that the EU and we are making ourselves look like massive hypocrites.
Green card holders are being detained for deportation because they participated in a protest against Israel and supporting Palestinians. Our government violating their free speech rights because it doesn’t like their point of view. Turley should be all over this like white on rice, but we know he’s not going to criticize Trump and his administration. He’s too scared and cowardly. It’s easier to attack the EU and whine about THEIR laws and restricting speech of Americans on social media platforms allowed to operate in their countries. Turley forgets that X, Facebook, etc. don’t have a right to operate in the EU. They are allowed to operate there as long as they follow THEIR rules. Just like Rubio said about visa holders. Right?
Yup, and to say otherwise supports fascism.
Nope. To say otherwise is to oppose communism and terrorism. I’ve listed in detail all the mischief and crimes you guys commited over the last four years, and I’m not going to waste time doing it again.
You’re out of power because after four years of it, nobody buys your arguments. You had all the major institutions and you still lost. Must have screwed up totally somewhere. Get over it.
says georgie,
“Writing an op-ed critical of Trump or our govenment is the reason why a Tufts student’s visa was revoked and taken for deportation.”
100% completely FALSE LIE.
Here is the “op-ed,” straight from the horse’s mouth. Not a single mention of TRump or “our govenment[sic]”
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj?ftag=MSF0951a18
Keep it up, georgie, and we will keep pointing out your lies.
And you think that Op-ed is a deportable offense?
Clown 2.0
No, I am pointing out georgie’s lies.
Can you read? Or are you relying on an interpreter?
The government claims she was writing in support of terrorists. You just proved them wrong. She was arrested for exercising her free speech rights.
No, georgie, you said, “Writing an op-ed critical of Trump or our govenment is the reason why a Tufts student’s visa was revoked and taken for deportation.”
Complete lie. Why don’t you read the op-ed? clown
This is the protected “free speech” that George believes is being violated on our campuses:
“But Columbia soon disabused him of his hopes. About 30 minutes into the first session of his seminar, four people, their faces shrouded in keffiyehs, burst into his classroom. A protester circled his seminar table, flinging flyers in front of the students. One flyer bore an image of a boot stomping on a Star of David; another stated: THE ENEMY WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-antisemitism-israel-palestine-trump/682054/
So? How is that a crime or unconstitutional? How do you know those students were not American citizens?
The right characterizes anything critical of Israel as antisemitic. Accusing someone or a group of antisemitism is used to silence and justify censorship of those expressing a different point of view. The accusation has be so abused and used as a pretext to justify silencing others and metting out punishment.
Shouting slogans or statements are all protected speech.
“ THE ENEMY WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW.”
So? How is this a punishable or deportable offense? Is it a direct threat? A call to attack? What is it? What law says this is a crime?
It’s no different than saying,
“REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE SHOT AND DRAWN AND QUARTERED”
It’s still protected speech. You can denounce it. Condemn it, even call for punishment all day long. But the moment the government or a public school acts on punishment or arrest for saying that it becomes a 1st amendment violation.
George: DO you get it?
I was not referring to speech; I was referring to the masked intruders who stormed into a classroom in the middle of a seminar. Yikes. Talk about reading comprehension.
WHAT they said is not my issue. How can I spell this out for you??? Please advise. Thanks.
Lin, again, you know for certain those masked intruders were all foreign students on visas? Was Khalil among them?
What do those masked individuals have to do with the Khalil and the others? They were not with them, so you’re accusing them being guilty by association?
“The right characterizes anything critical of Israel as antisemitic. Accusing someone or a group of antisemitism is used to silence and justify censorship of those expressing a different point of view. “
WRONG again. I just listened to an orthodox Jew who lives in Judea Samaria and fought in the IDF. He made very critical comments against some of the most powerful people in Israel. If you want I will provide the http. It is very interesting.
You are critical of Israel, but that doesn’t make you an antisemite. I think you might be too stupid to be classified as an antisemite.
“Nothing in the constitution says only citizens have a right to free speech. “
George Svelaz, you are a nutcase. Free speech is not the issue and it is not being denied to non citizens. Green cards are subject to the INA rules and regulations. We have lots of regulations impairing free speech. In this case green cards are removed if the INA rules are violated and that means the non-citizen cannot remain in the country.
Turley is not a coward. He knows the law. You don’t.
S. Meyer,
“George Svelaz, you are a nutcase. Free speech is not the issue and it is not being denied to non citizens. Green cards are subject to the INA rules and regulations. We have lots of regulations impairing free speech.”
What are those rules? You don’t know that they are. Why don’t you post the rules they violated?
Even if they were to voice support for Hamas it’s still protected speech. If an American citizen voiced support for Hamas or any other terrorist organization they still could not be arrested or punished by the govenment or a public university.
Free speech IS the issue. The government and those on the right are accusing them of supporting terrorism and Hamas withou a shred of evidence. The only reason they have been arrested or had their visa or green card threatened with revocation is an accusation without evidence.
You believe that an accusation without evidence is enough to revoke a visa or a green card and deport. By quickly removing them without a chance to contest the accusations against them in court is what the Trump administration wants. Doing that violates their due process rights and their right to free speech.
Foreign students are being silenced by threatening to revoke their visas or those with green cards. That is what Turley is ignoring and why he is a hypocrite and a coward. He doesn’t want to undermine Trump’s unlawful detentions and arrests by lending credibility to Trump critics. He knows Trump is wrong and he doesn’t want to face the wrath of MAGA like Laura Ingraham did.
“What are those rules? You don’t know that they are. Why don’t you post the rules they violated?”
The rules violated were posted, and the website for the rules is available for your perusal. I believe it was Lin, an attorney, who explained them in the simplest of terms, perhaps not meeting the needs of a very simple person.
When someone explains something you do not understand, copy the quote and ask for help. Stop making an A$$ of yourself.
“What are those rules? You don’t know that they are. Why don’t you post the rules they violated?”
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. Check the INA rules.
“If an American citizen voiced support for Hamas or any other terrorist organization they still could not be arrested or punished by the govenment or a public university.”
An American citizen doesn’t have a green card that can be taken away for violating INA rules.
“You believe that an accusation without evidence is enough”
Earlier, I gave you some of the reported reasons behind Khalil’s problem. Your problem is that you don’t have the capacity to remember them.
“Doing that violates their due process rights”
Didn’t Khalil get an attorney to protect due process?
“Foreign students are being silenced by threatening to revoke their visas or those with green cards.”
That is good. They are visitors and must act like visitors. You dictate the rules for visitors to your home, and the INA dictates rules for foreign visitors.
“That is what Turley is ignoring and why he is a hypocrite and a coward.”
Turley didn’t make the rules—the US government did. Why do the US government’s actions make him a hypocrite and coward? Again, you are demonstrating a deficit in your critical thinking abilities.
They aren’t being arrested for protesting. They are being arrested for supporting groups identified as terrorist organizations. Those deported are here as our guests. If a guest misbehaved in your house I’m quite sure they would be asked to leave.
Are they? We don’t know that because the government is not telling anyone what they are accused of. The correct process to tell the person the government wants to revoke the visa, give them a change to respond before the decision is made, revoke the visa, and deport them if they don’t leave. What they are doing now is revoking the visa and arresting them hours later without any warning or due process. Without due process we can’t know if their visa is being revoked legally or even if they are non-citizens.
They have zero evidence that those arrested are supporting Hamas. That’s an excuse to justify it. Our government is deporting and revoking visas and green cards because they exercised their right to free speech.
Secretary Rubio, has stated they are being deported because they are causing a ”ruckus” meaning they are participants in protests.
Nothing in the Constitution says free speech is only for citizens.
“They have zero evidence that those arrested are supporting Hamas.”
If there is zero evidence that the INA laws were violated, those people will not lose their green cards and will not be deported.
This country need not give green cards to disrupters and people who hate America. The violence on campus, where many with green cards are involved, tells us we are too indiscriminate as to who we let in.
You were born here, so we are forced to keep you.
You are ok with arresting people and then seeing if the arrest was legal?
People with green cards, diplomats, and illegals are not US citizen. Are you OK with murderers, rapists, terrorists, and people who hate America and act on it roaming the streets?
You were OK with arresting J6 citizens who did not vandalize, or threaten America or its values.
Lol what? The J6 people engaged in an attempted coup, which is very threatening to America and it’s values, or at least the non MAGA values.
Also straw man argument. Wanting due process here in no way implies letting known criminals roam the streets.
What coup? Many people were there by themselves and not with any group. They violated no laws, and despite that fact, they were jailed. Many months later, videos and testimony proved they couldn’t be found guilty of any crime and were released by a judge.
” Wanting due process here in no way implies letting known criminals roam the streets.”
Biden opened the border to rapists and murderers, and we saw the results with rapes and murders. They were roaming the streets because you didn’t vote for Trump. Biden was the worst thing to befall the US. Trump was the best.
S. Meyer,
“If there is zero evidence that the INA laws were violated, those people will not lose their green cards and will not be deported.”
That’s not how it works. They have to have evidence of a violation in order to revoke. Not after.
The government doesn’t want the courts to see the evidence either, because they have none.
“The violence on campus, where many with green cards are involved, tells us we are too indiscriminate as to who we let in.”
No, it tells us that we can’t read minds. You have no idea who was a green card holder or who wasn’t. The government is searching social media and college publications for things students or green card holders have said to justify a revocation and arrest. Expressing their opinion or criticism is still protected speech. Only after they are arrested are they accused of supporting terrorists and offer the accusation as evidence.
I was’t born here and I can still criticize Trump or the government or voice support for the KKK, the communist party, Marxism, Apartheid, etc. and I still can’t be arrested or deported for doing so.
“They have to have evidence of a violation in order to revoke. Not after.”
The process is not yet completed. Khalil asked for an attorney, and he remains in the country. You have been provided with evidence. So far, you whine, but don’t argue why the evidence isn’t good enough. You don’t have that ability.
“The government doesn’t want the courts to see the evidence either, because they have none.”
The evidence has been listed in the newspapers for everyone, even you, to read.
” Expressing their opinion or criticism is still protected speech.”
Protected speech has nothing to do with the green card; it is a privilege, not a right.
“I still can’t be arrested or deported for doing so.”
You are a citizen, born here or naturalized. If naturalized, immigration officials made a mistake.
To see the Democratic National Communist (DNC) Plan to destroy the Constitutional Republic, look no further than the EU and the UK. To label the actions as only “Free Speech” related is to underestimate their plan for One World Order. The test of the acceptable limits of executing their attack on a Free society the WEF and WHO unleashed COVID and the Totalitarian experiment. What we see in the EU and UK now is what they got away with during COVID!!!!!!!!!
Anyone see George?
Will probably start seeing him around 9 AM EST, when he gets his wakeup-call from his welfare rep
His job is to criticize whatever Turley writes. Be patient. It’s still early. He has to write several paragraphs.
Across several accounts, no less
Especially after viewing the ProPublic Frontline March 25, 2025, PBS presentation of “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram” (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram/), as a now eighty-one year old lay American male who’s been battling mostly mild (now) externally imposed chronic illness for forty-four years and counting I find that the real issue might just be the “Rage” JT refers to. And, what good is “free speech” when the so-called “experts” are ignorant and incompetent?
In 1981 the US FDA approved the expanded use of added artificially cultured “free” monosodium glutamate (MSG) knowing full-well it would be harmful to some of us but, apparently, not “how, how many or how soon?” I became mysteriously, seriously ill in early 1981, the US obesity epidemic presented by 1990 (CDC) and the US diabetes epidemic presented by 1994 (CDC). Mass and school shootings have been on a similar trajectory to the consumption of added MSG foisted on a mostly unsuspecting American population and gradually going global with the so-called “Western Diet.” In 2020 the world was turned upside-down with a phony Covid-19 pandemic additionally also illegally foisted on many, with most of the alleged deaths due to added MSG related preexisting conditions, comorbidities and medical mistreatments.
I’ve observed that excitotoxic, neurotoxic added MSG is a brain damaging, mind altering drug, worse than marijuana, cocaine and heroin, together. We now have two and a half generations of young (relative to me) Americans who’ve been ignorantly ingesting added MSG all of their young lives and many are second and third generation victims. In the state of Michigan the parents of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley (e.g., ingesting added MSG most, if not all, of their lives; Ethan probably too in school lunches) have been prosecuted and imprisoned for allowing their son to have a gun. Now it seems, that chemically induced “rage” has gone international.
Not everyone reacts the same to added MSG, probably because we don’t all have the same allergic reactions to common foods that added MSG can aggravate in ‘worse’ and ‘worst’ case individuals. So is it really a question of free speech or is it a question of mental capacity in a world poisoned with an alleged “flavor enhancer,” for Big Food and Big Pharma profits? Bottom line: how can any young adult be held fully legally responsible for any act while ignorantly ingesting officially approved food poisoning, all of their young lives, and that includes a new generation of domestic and foreign leaders; Trump?
What c-r-a-p
First, a correction: the FDA approved the expanded use of added MSG in 1980; I’m still never in the best of health and rather error prone. As to your c-r-a-p, other anonymous, check out “Murder by Injection” by Eustace Mullins, 1988; I’m not alone in this, just more directly involved; “experience-based” as opposed to fatally-flawed “evidence-based.”
For those who doubt an elite Illuminati exists in the Western World – START PAYING ATTENTION YOU IDIOTS!! When the Dems return to power (and eventually they will) they will first have to recover their precious bureaucratic machine that Trump dismantled and threw sand in the gears! However, as noted, the Clintonista’s will certainly be leveraging their EU Illuminati Trash friends to create containment around any unapproved free speech “leaking” from the USA! As we saw with the 2020 election – EU leaders are just empty wind socks with a STAY IN POWER agenda! Hopefully Trump has four years to wreak havoc on the EU status quo and encourage regime change!
Take your meds and go back to bed.
Keep your mouth shut, hillary.
Prof. Turley, it’s good to see that you’re concerned about free speech in the EU. When do you plan to speak out and give Congressional testimony about the attack on lawyers in the U.S.? Many longtime fans (like me) are beginning to suspect that you are a partisan hypocrite. Thanks.
Are you distinguishing between speech and conduct? What attorney is having their speech restricted?
To be clear, what you think is of no concern to Turley.
He’s afraid of the blowback he would get if he addresses Trump’s attacks on free speech. He needs those hefty Fox News checks and intetrviews as a Fox news legal analyst.
How does the big cat bring down its prey? By choking off its air supply. How does the leftist bring down its population? By choking off its freedom to speak. Finally, the left has arrived. Extoling the glories of socialism has failed. Advocating free stuff has failed. Inviting illegal immigrants has totally failed. Exterminating undesirables has failed. Finally, the left is trying to destroy democracy by working within democracy to dissolve the glue that binds it: Freedom of Speech. Will it work?
“It is only free speech if it agrees with what we say.”
Love,
Henna Virkkunen