For years, some of us in the free speech community have warned about the threat of the European Union to free speech, particularly in the enactment of the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU has virtually declared war on free speech and is targeting American companies. That war just began with the first DSA fine. Not surprisingly, X was the chosen target — a company blamed by many in the EU and the U.S. for rolling back free-speech protections.
In a historic speech in Munich this year, Vice President J.D. Vance confronted the Europeans over their attacks on free speech, declaring, “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” However, the EU has long worked in conjunction with many on the American left in seeking to force companies to censor Americans.
One of the lowest moments came after Elon Musk bought Twitter on a pledge to restore free-speech protections. Clinton called upon European officials to force Elon Musk to censor American citizens under the DSA. This is a former democratic presidential nominee calling upon Europeans to force the censorship of Americans.
She was joined by another former democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, who called for government crackdowns on free speech.
In my book on free speech and various columns, I write about the DSA as one of the greatest assaults on free speech in history. As I wrote in the book:
“Under the DSA, users are ’empowered to report illegal content online, and online platforms will have to act quickly.’ This includes speech that is viewed not only as ‘disinformation’ but also ‘incitement.’ European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager has been one of the most prominent voices seeking international censorship. At the passage of the DSA, Vestager was ecstatic in 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.’”
After the Vance speech, American politicians and journalists quickly added their voices of condemnation. CBS anchor Margaret Brennan confronted Secretary of State Marco Rubio to suggest that Vance’s support for free speech was outrageous because he was “standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Brennan’s bizarre suggestion that free speech contributed to the death camps was amplified by Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who accused Vance of using “some of the same language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust.”
In the wake of the Munich speech, leading anti-free-speech figures from around the world gathered at the World Forum in Berlin. I was one of the few speakers from the free-speech community at the conference which declared “A New World Order with European Values.” Various Americans were present to reaffirm the worst about the United States as a nation descending into tyranny.
The two most celebrated figures were Bill and Hillary Clinton, who also criticized the current Administration.
After returning from Berlin, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and warned about the growing threat to free speech posed by the use of the DSA.
Since then, the EU has moved forward with its aggressive campaign against U.S. companies and figures who refuse to yield to its expansive censorship demands.
This is the first fine under the DSA and the EU officials acknowledged that it will lay the foundation for additional penalties to come to force companies to comply with EU “values” on free speech.
The European Commission has imposed a €120 million ($140 million) fine on X after finding that it misled users with its paid-for blue checkmark verification symbol, failed to provide researchers with access to data, and did not properly set up an advertising repository. X has 60 days to develop solutions to address the issues and 90 days to implement the changes, or it may face additional fines.
Under the DSA, the EU can impose fines of up to 6% of an online platform’s annual global revenue for failing to address illegal content, disinformation, or transparency requirements. It is still investigating X as well as several other major US tech firms, including Apple, Google, and Meta, under the DSA and the Digital Markets Act. This includes investigations for failing to carry out demands for censorship, including of American citizens.
This is just the first salvo in a war that some of us have warned is coming. We cannot be passive at this moment. The EU is threatening the very indispensable right that has long defined us as a people. Many in the United States are rooting for the Europeans to roll back free-speech protections at X and Meta. Some have appeared before the EU to call for this type of action. They could use the EU to achieve abroad what they have failed to accomplish in the United States. The results will be the same for Americans, who will find themselves subject to European censors and “values.”
I think I will wait and see. This affront from the EU may be something that will get negotiated away. That being said, one wonders what the EU hopes to accomplish here. I think this is more a statement, fairly mild in character, with a desire by the EU to see how we respond. Also the EU is not all of Europe. It is a superstate imposed on the nations of Europe and has varying levels of support from nation to nation. This may have unanimity but it may not. There is particularly a disconnect between the people of Europe and their EU masters, again state by state. So I am really not sure if this a real shot across the bow or simply an unpleasant note that starts negotiations.
An attack on an American company may bring people to close ranks (except for the Clintons). So the effect of this note could have a result opposite to what the EU hopes for.
European Sates tend to be less direct and like to play their little games and pretend to be obscure to their real purpose.
Suggest the US impose tariffs on member states in the EU equal to the fines.
You mean impose taxes on US citizens to punish the dastardly EU? That is how “tariffs” work, dear boy.
Americans don’t pay tariffs, the supplying country does. Americans won’t buy from abroad at the high tariff price, and so those countries unwilling to trade fairly won’t be making sales here, costing them dearly. Even better, the plus-element, every dollar of tariff collected represents a dearth of local options and foreign dependancy and drives the obvious best long-term solution resulting in a huge win for Americans.
Keep drinking the Revd Trump’s Koolaid, dear boy. It is US citizens who pay the tariffs, because the tariffs increase the cost to the consumer of the imported goods. You will of course be buying just US-made toys to gift to any children in your family this Christmas, because of Donald’s genius economic strategy suddenly making US toys appear from nowhere in place of Chinese-made toys…
Toys were coming from China. Long before Trump because the prez.
Butt-hurt cause the money stays in america, and unfair traders get the shaft. sheesh entitled commie can’t get hands on enough US dollars because their own currency is worthless. Try and get your own economy off the skids will ya sonny boy.
“Americans don’t pay tariffs, the supplying country does.”
That is false.
Tariffs are paid by the *importing* company — Walmart, Amazon, Ford, your local flower shop, as a condition of taking possession of the foreign products.
The old adage “when in Rome…” comes to mind when looking at how US companies operate in other countries.
If people from across the globe come to the USA, we not only expect them to follow our law, we demand it, and we prosecute those that break our laws. I find it a bit hypocritical to try to force other nations to conform to our laws when we travel to their countries.
Conclusion
If US companies don’t like the laws in other countries, including free speech, then don’t operate in that country, period. Instead, intentionally isolate countries that suppress things like free speech and let their population exert their power to change their own country.
If I was Musk I would simply make a statement to them that I do not recognize their authority to issue a fine any more than the International Communist Party does. I would tell them if they want to make X usage illegal in their countries that’s up to them, and suggest they align with other Arab and 3rd world countries to censor free speech within their nations.
The EU would welcome such a statement and action from Musk with open arms.
Then they could simply pull his business licenses, shut him down, and be done with him for good.
Indeed, this may be their preferred outcome.
The idea that American companies have a “RIGHT” to operate as they please in foreign countries is absolutely absurd.
When the situation is reversed, the US has no hesitation in shutting down foreign countries operating here.
The US has banned dozens of Chinese companies from operating here.
Our might is our right, idiot. Don’t like it? well get ready for fifty more years of American exceptionalism right up ya pipe.
The point is our might will drive the rest of the world to decide if they want to move toward our perfection.
If Elon forces the EU to declare against human rights, the forces of freedom will turn toward the continent.
The EU will back down or go full commie, your choice EU, choose wisely.
The EU would welcome such a statement and action from Musk with open arms.
Then they could simply pull his business licenses, shut him down, and be done with him for good.
Yep… the EU elite thinkers are convinced the only part of Musk’s widespread empire that touches them is his messaging platform. They don’t use anything other than that. And of course, having lost licensed access for X, Musk’s entire business empire will immediatelycollapse.
And if they pull that license they’re sure Musk won’t decide he can play that game as well and retaliate with more power and more money than many of those countries possess..
Just as they’re equally sure there will be no blowback from their voters and there’s no way anyone can get access to Musks platform because they pull his license. Or blowback from Trump.
The first duty of the U.S. government is to defend our national security and our God-given, unalienable rights — not only for individual citizens, but for American businesses protected under the First Amendment.
Right now, the U.S. isn’t hesitating to strike narco-boats in the Caribbean and near Venezuela because those pipelines deliver fentanyl and other narcotics that kill Americans. When a foreign pipeline sends death into this country, we shut it down without apology.
What the EU is doing is morally the same kind of attack, even if the weapon is different. Instead of poison to the body, it is poison to liberty. They are threatening and fining an American company, X, specifically to coerce censorship of lawful speech by Americans. That is not ordinary regulation. It is foreign punishment aimed at a constitutionally protected right. It is an attack on American sovereignty.
Our response should be just as decisive as it is with the drug trade: harsh, immediate, and painful enough that it is never attempted again. If the EU can impose ruinous fines to force censorship, the U.S. must be willing to impose reciprocal economic consequences to defend free speech.
Now, if X were truly facilitating real criminal harm — trafficking, direct threats, organized violence — that is a legitimate law-enforcement issue. But if this is about political speech or “disinformation” that remains protected under the First Amendment, then there is no gray area here.
Drug traffickers kill bodies. Foreign censors kill republics.
Both deserve to be stopped.
Well said Olly!
The GOOD news everyone is missing is that American Freedom (and exceptionalism) is inspiring so many europeans so much that their governments felt they had to now, specifically, squash the idea, officially, with arrests, etc., that they are allowed free speech.
Creating the same sort of resentment that started the American revolution.
If europe doesn’t share our ideals about human freedom, how are they allies? The American revolution was about cutting ties with that.
American exceptionalism? As demonstrated by the fact that you have elected Trump, Biden, and Trump? An Administration numbering such dross as Hegseth, Noem, Bondi and all her fake DAs, and Mad Hatter Kennedy? That relies on dreck such as Holman and Borvino to terrorise whole cities?
No one in Europe is inspired by the USA right now.
Yes, the continent that elected Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin has a lot of reason to criticize Trump voters.
Stalin was not elected, and Russia has never really been part of Europe culturally, whether under the Tsars, the Bolsheviks, Stalin and his successors, or the monstrous Putin.
Hitler was elected, yes. Mussolini also enjoyed popular support domestically (bear in mind he was originally virulently opposed to Adolf). You left out Franco, but he was not elected by any means.
The point is that they all believed in domestic exceptionalism. Their populations were as slow as you are to recognise the creeping authoritarianism and dictatorship. (Except for Franco of course, where there was nothing “creeping” about his victory in the Civil War.)
It is not just Trump. Your system also elected Biden, and then seriously considered Harris as a possible President. HRC before that. None of these people are an argument for exceptionalism…
It is not just Trump.
I’ll even take a Biden over the Brit exceptionalism of allowing dozens of rape gangs to run free, protecting them – and then trying to make up for it by arresting and charging people for publicly speaking out in opposition.
And the other point is – you’re still at heart a police state fascist communist, no matter what label you demand you be called by as you attempt to strut, pose and flex.
HAHAHA Nice retort
Because Europe has been lost to freedom for like, forever and keeps playing around with communism and getting into world war after world war.
The inspiration comes when you embrace individual rights, but hey, go on with your screwing humans over there. How’s that working out for ya?
Bondi and all her fake DAs,
Well, here’s the deal: we’ll keep her and you keep your fake police and fake prosecutors that are hiding and protecting Muslim rape gangs.
But there’s communism for you: rape gangs raping young girls and murdering some of them don’t terrorize cities – it’s law enforcement arresting and deporting criminal Illegal Aliens that supposedly terrorizes cities.
If Europe needs a U.K. that protects and hides dozens of rape gangs to inspire it… I’m happy if your mutual love affair and circle jerk stays right over there.
In fact: just let us know and we’ll ship you all the criminal Illegal Aliens that you think are being terrorized to protect.
Look what’s going on it Italy. They are pushing back on the Islam rules.
Shocking.
*. What Jesus Christ said was prophecy. “If you think it you’ve done it” points to a time period as we are seeing people being punished for thought crimes.
” When lies become truth ” we are also seeing this in the contortions of twisting truth barely intelligible as to logic and reason. IMO
What an amazing psychological experience.
jjc says: This is another unfortunate example of European capitulation to Sharia Law. Europe’s large and growing Muslim population brings with it peculiar customs that often are at odds with those of the West. For example, insulting or disrespecting a prophet who died many centuries ago can cost one her head and often has. As in our own country, Muslim refugees do not arrive in Europe to assimilate but to inculcate into Europe their own beliefs. To succeed, they must do away with the infidel’s irreligious and evil customs, with free speech being one of the first of these to undo. Politicians are too eager to fall in line with this, reasoning that, well, when all is said and done, it’s what the people want. Really? Those who want it are loud and insistent, while those who do not want it are terrified of those who do and so they say nothing and acquiesce.
Not to worry, though. In all our internecine conflicts with our European forbears, we have always come away not only victorious but emulated for our sagacity and courage. Our wealth, our well-appointed marketplace, and, most of all, our well-honed post-feudal democracy are the envy of every European. If X decides to ignore the fine, what is the potential consequence? Will Europe adopt a China-like barrier on the service and, if so, will this be acceptable to the people?
The history of the 20th century, when all the books are written and archived, will show that, besides enormous strides in medicine, science and aviation, and space travel, the West opened the world, yes, the world, to instant communication and news via the Internet. The effect of the Internet has often been compared with that of Gutenberg’s printing press that, for the first time, enabled the printing of books that permitted people to share information with and educate others.
X, then, is not the problem but the solution to the problem. Like those in 15th-century Europe who tried to muzzle books in the name of protecting science, religion, and politics, the current slate of European leaders will fail in their efforts to control and muzzle the Internet. X, like the Internet itself, grows bigger and better with every passing day. It may take a little time, but, as the great American jurist Learned Hand said, reason eventually will surface. It always does.
Sharia Law? You are stark raving mad. This has nothing to do with Sharia Law, and in not one EU country does Sharia Law have any standing. One might better argue that some European states have, in anything, a certain Roman Catholic tendency in their attitudes towards restrictions on speech and publication – Ireland certainly did.
You are just a bigoted modern McCarthyite, looking for Moslems under the bed rather than dastardly Reds.
Anon: I accept your verbal frustration, but facts are facts. The London Express several months ago published a story headlined: “Sharia law made legally binding in EU country as fury erupts.” Check it out: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2099152/sharia-law-legally-binding-austria. You can hide your head in the sand and pretend it’s not happening or mau-mau those who try to warn you about it, but facts are stubborn things.
Quoting the Daily Express (there is no such thing as the “London Express”, just as there is no such thing as the “Times of London”) is like mistaking the National Enquirer as a newspaper of record. In the Austrian case, all that happened was that two Moslem men agreed to Sharia arbitration in a civil dispute, just as US courts welcome parties reaching an out of court settlement. Then the one who came of worse in the arbitration did not like the result, and attempted to wiggle out by going to court to argue that the arbitration to which he had freely agreed, now did not have any standing. The court told him not to be an arse. A thousand miles from “Sharia Law” being adopted by European countries. No different from a Christian minister attempting to help a divorcing couple from reaching an amicable settlement.
You are just a bigoted modern McCarthyite, looking for Moslems under the bed rather than dastardly Reds.
Pakistani Rape Gangs Exploited Children In 85 Authorities Across UK, British MP’s Probe Finds
https://www.news18.com/world/pakistani-rape-gangs-operated-across-uk-exploited-children-united-kingdom-rape-gang-inquiry-british-mp-rupert-lowe-ws-e-9533620.html
You pathetic pervert – how many Muslim rape gangs do you want living under your commie Red bed?
jjc
At this rate. Europe has set it’s own doom.
Some places like Italy are waking up to the Muslim nightmare.
But acn they push back at the EU?
“Politicians are too eager to fall in line with this . . .”
Tragically true.
Their appeasement is caused by their moral and cultural relativism.
Posssibly the checks from the died-in-the-wool commies helped too.
The ssign at the laundromat says, “Please don’t dye here.”
The powers are attempting to impose a different reality upon people. In doing so these powers are twisting truth to obliterate the past. Islam is a pawn because western civilization is built upon the Judeo-Christian heritage. It’s a strategy to erase.
Creepy isn’t it.
After the sacrifices this nation has had to endure in lives and treasure keeping all Europeans free our U.S. companies should tell the DSA to kiss their collective ass’s. There are more Americans who have given all from Normandy to Bastogne to Berlin for Europeans freedom. You’ll get no more, you cowardly B*+^#*#*.
Well said, Margot. I had an uncle in the 29th Infantry Division at Omaha Beach. How quickly they forget. Greg
Right on, Margot, I got your back!
US ground forces only reached Berlin after the end of the war. It was the Soviets who took the city, suffered huge casualties, and then raped every woman they could find.
The plural of ass is asses, by the way.
You’ll find American burial sites throughout Europe from the Great War to WWll, that includes Berlin. Try taking a trip there sometime to pay homage to these great Americans as I have. I see no where in Margot’s comment about who and who did not take Berlin. Once again she has taken residency in your head.
-The Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and includes burials of various nationalities, including some American service members
-The Heerstrasse Cemetery is another significant site for British and Commonwealth soldiers, with no specific U.S. section.
WRONG
With the death of FDR. Gen Eisenhower ordered the armies to stand at the Elbe river.
They were not allowed to push into Berlin.
Which was a huge mistake.
Exactly the point I made.
Try reading, try comprehending that which you read. As Dean Wormer once remarked, “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
What if they gave a Digital Services Act and nobody came? Is it possible through technology to move the internet out of the undersea cables and into orbit? No people, no hardware, no physical contacts in Europe? And broadcast from orbit to an “Internet Free Europe”? Brussels then says We fine you. Pay. We say, as said at different times and places, including Texas, “Come and take it”.
Those who can’t innovate will litigate. There will be a US response. Let’s see what happens
While I agree with the thrust of this article, the violations here seem technical and unrelated to censorship of user content. So I’m not sure what is actually going on in this instance.
The US has huge leverage over Europe if real censorship occurs. It could simply pull all its troops out and end other forms of military and intelligence support. It could also return to the trade war.
The section on Europe in the new national security strategy paper indicates that this administration has real doubts about Europe and believes it has to change in fundamental ways, including in the area of free speech.
Never let what appears to be technical confuse you about the sheep costume it comes in.
I understand, but I would still like to know what these claimed violations really involve.
“So I’m not sure what is actually going on in this instance.”
At least two things:
They want Musk to genuflect.
They want to loot him to pay for their welfare programs.
Elon needs to close X operations in the EU and tell them to go fiick themselves.
Let’s see the US pass laws compelling US companies to abide by the Bill of Rights and protecting them from alien interference when they do.
Next, exit NATO and start closing US bases in that beseiged part of the world.
If Europeans are going to give up on themselves we should give up on them.
“close X operations”… That would be a very bad idea. Give up a media foothold, loose millions, maybe billions of revenue, all because of a $140 M fine. Recall what happened in Brazil recently.
Taking away this and that is hardly a strategy, its the reaction of a petulant child. Maybe reciprocation is called for. Fine the BBC, Deutsche Welle etc… for not abidng (its a stretch) with American values.
Petulant? The EU is garbage, leave them to the muslims. The Seige of Vienna was for nought.
Yes, petulant. Geriatrics are always petulant.
Siege, dear boy, siege. I before E except after C. You cannot even blame that arse Noah Webster for that one.
Siege, dear boy, siege. I before E except after C. You cannot even blame that arse Noah Webster for that one.
Grammar Nazis… that subspecies that was the original Karens. Most persuasive force in nature.
It is a small step in the right way. Remove everything. No more energy. No more defense. Nothing. Let them burn to the ground under islam.
140M today, what about tomorrow.
“. . . its [sic] the reaction of a petulant child.”
Actually, it’s the reaction of a man with self-esteem, who refuses to be treated like a sacrificial animal.
Shut down everything. Let them battle Islam in the dark. No energy sales. No defense. No satellite or intel data. Let them see the real costs of their ways.
If Harris had been elected, she’d be right there with the EU with its “confiscation regime”. Trump thank God understands the reality and his tariff regime is one way of.assuring America isn’t run like much of Europe.
“The two most celebrated figures were Bill and Hillary Clinton, who also criticized the current Administration.”
Oh, the irony. When people oppose free speech, the first question to ask is, “Why?” The second question is, “What do they have to hide?” For the Clintons, that list likely includes the Clinton Slush Fund, especially since foreign donations dropped by upwards of 90% when HRC lost her bid for the Presidency. One also suspects that HRC’s unsuccessful attempt to undermine DJT’s bid for the Presidency by funding the Steele Dossier would (and eventually did) serve as an embarrassment. And then there is HRC’s mishandling of classified government information during her gig as Secretary of State, especially since she went to such great pains to destroy subpoenaed data and devices.
This surveillance is going global in 2026 as the EU is the testing grounds for this dystopian future they have planned!:
https://pressfortruth.ca/blueprint-for-global-digital-id-ai-driven-surveillance-life-long-vaccine-tracking-for-everyone/
The IMF banker told us in the 38 second video embedded in this link, that to enter the NWO ~ “New World Order” everyone will be required to have a smart phone, bank account, and upload their digital ID:
https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/digital-id-bank-account-smartphone-new-world-imf-spring-meetings/
Please do NOT upload your digital ID as that is you giving your mark to the beast to buy and sell:
sumofthyword.com/2022/05/18/the-mark-of-the-beast/
The EU really doesn’t matter much anymore, and it is getting less relevant by the day, economically and politically. The European so-called “World Wars” of the first half of the twentieth century exhausted Europe, financially and morally. Postwar “communism” reached its peak in the second half of the twentieth century as the do-gooder (buy self-interested) United States form of relatively fairly distributed capitalism wiped out the elitist socialism of the Russian dominated Soviet Union’s imperial ambitions. Now in the twenty-first century, a fat-at-the-very-top American capitalism is facing a resurgent form of (called for window dressing purposes’) Chinese communism with very capitalist characteristics.
The EU, bereft of resources, ruled by a crypto-aristocratic remnant of long eclipsed dominance, and economically destroyed by a foolish adherence to a non-religious cult of the end-times (climate change) is California writ-large, in this case a continent of welfare serfs with an impoverished center with no long-term plan at all. Radical Islam is again Europe’s immediate danger, as it was in 1474, but this time there is a hegemon, China, that doesn’t care about who pretends to rule in its outer area of power.
The United States no longer cares to nurture a clearly dead Europe. Instead, it is withdrawing its influence from there and repurposing it to maintaining its hegemony in the America’s, where China is battling it for raw materials and markets.
A resource rich Russia holds the EU in contempt, and knows that if it weans the USA from the EU it will have a free hand to replay the history of pre-World War One Czarist imperialism in Europe. Russia plays a dangerous game with China, its contemporary ally, but certainly not concerned with Russia’s interest other than as they support China’s.
The game’s afoot.
Well grounded thoughts, Jack.
Listen Turley, all democratic nations are free to choose how to protect their citizens. You in the US have chosen to put “free speech” ahead of basic protections, but the rest of us do not. After all, you in the US think the Second Amendment trumps the prevention of school shootings, the rest of us do not. “Free speech” is not a God given right, but one which US politicians chose to, belatedly, enshrine in your Constitution as an Amendment. US companies have no God given right to do business elsewhere in the world; if they choose to do so for reasons of profit, then they had best observe the laws of the countries where they choose to operate. Otherwise, they will rightly be fined. Simples!
Thank you anon. Your indoctrination has manifested itself such that you have no free will to think, say or do what we Americans believe to be a God given right. That’s right we believe in a God. Unlike you Europeans who know nothing of free will because your authoritarian masters have brainwashed you since birth into an existence of subservience. In a few more years your authoritarian masters will be Muslims. Good luck with that. From authoritarian to slavery in a lifetime.
Because it is not a God given right you fool. I happen to believe in the Christian God. Was there a First Amendment when Moses came down with the tablets? Did not Jesus tell the Pharisees to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, ie respect Government and secular law? I have no love of the European Union, but this continent has experienced authoritarian dictatorship and its manipulation of messaging; you Americans are only just beginning to experience authoritarian dictatorship and are sadly as yet too blind to see it. Your Constitution and all its little Amendments are offering you no protection from an Administration that thinks every utterance of a demented baboon trumps the law.
We should be very much not upset if Elon withdrew from the continent.
A Christian with TDS. This thing is not a European, his IP address shows NY.
Beware false Americans on this blog.
Are you aware of VPNs? Remailer services perhaps? The NSA?
NSA! Do you want a new tin-foil hat?
You should line a TDS lunatic. Very convincing.
The second amendment guarantees the first.
All that the Second Amendment guarantees is the right of disturbed teenagers to access the means by which to gun down their classmates. Name on occasion this past century where gun ownership has physically defended the First Amendment. Waco only counts if you are a nutter.
All that the Second Amendment guarantees is the right of disturbed teenagers to access the means by which to gun down their classmates.
There has to be a very perverse reason communists are so desperate to ignore the reality that 2 to 3 million Americans defend their lives with a firearm each year. For these commie nutters, in a country of 330 million, the exceptions that are mass murders with firearms proves the rule.
Now tell those commie UK nutters that their dozens of Muslim rape gangs prove the rule – they should get rid of Muslims because they’re also all the same… rapists and child murderers.
Just like firearms and their use are all the same in America.
Christian God Anon, please seek help, you’re incoherent. Maybe move to the EU where you’ll fit right in.
In fact that anon is very coherent. Laws come from man. Not your God.
It is a God-given right. That is the entire point of the Bill of Rights. These are not rights given to you by the government, they are the rights that they cannot take away from you.
Did God pass the Bill of Rights? Moron, politicians did. A bunch of sanctimonious slave-owning politicians. Any of your supposed rights can be taken away from you, such as the once cherished American right to own other human beings as chattels.
The only moron in this thread, is you. Read a book, take a civics class, get out of your basement. You are embarrassing yourself. The BOR is a statement of the rights that everyone naturally possesses, they are not given to anyone. They are the rights that the government cannot take away from you.
The Bill of Rights can state whatever it likes, but the fact remains that said statement is the opinion, nothing more, of a bunch of politicians sufficiently arrogant and sanctimonious to claim that their opinions were God-given. Sadly, unable to present any Archangelic visitations or Burning Bushes to back them up…
Idiot. As I said, they also thought they had the God-given right to own slaves until the government took that right away from them.
You might revisit the 10 Plagues of Egypt, the Ten Commandments and the 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights. That is not an accident.
Correct! And the reason these rights cannot be taken is because they are literally your defense against that very government’s possible tyranny.
That’s the ‘self-evident’ truth that is now modernly re-phrased as FAFO.
Most likely he was talking about taxes 😏.
Because it is not a God given right you fool.
Which specific Christian denomination agreed to make you their Spokes Retard?
Why not just do your usual babbling BBBBUUTTTT…. MUH TRUMPPPP!!!! MORE STARMER – MORE MUSLIM RAPE GANGS!!!!
Anon:Generally I skip your writings upon identifying which Anon you are. The open sentence did catch my attention. With the application of the DSA to control speech the EU is turning its governing authority into a weapon aimed at its own citizens under the pretext of protecting them. What they are doing is advancing authoritarianism to protect their own power. By turning the weapon against citizens outside the EU, they are assaulting the rights of American citizens. Allies don’t do that. This act doesn’t bode well for the NATO alliance. By writing this I expect that I would be considered in violation of the DSA. I’ve seen all of the EU i cared to see. My only concern is if Dems get control again, might I be extradited to face charges.
“By writing this I expect that I would be considered in violation of the DSA.”
Of course not. The reason that the EU is going after the autistic South African is because his Blue Check is fraudulently claiming to protect users, whilst in fact it is simply a side hustle to make more money without any meaningful verification of the “verified” accounts. Not that Turley would want you to understand that and derail his half-arsed polemics.
Oh, and no one will be extradited anywhere. Not even Elon. This is not a criminal matter. He might lose assets from a court order, of course.
You have no specific insight into the details of the complaints. Just regurgitating the leftist media.
Good little Orwellian servant.
How wrong could you be?
Ano
put “free speech” ahead of basic protections,
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If you have no free speech rights. What protections do you have?
Just look at the folks in England these days. They speak out at crimes by (Muslims) they have witness.
The police shuts them down.
Dustoff, really, two degrees and you can’t write a coherent sentence.
Still won’t answer the question
Figures.
What question? Apparently you don’t know your screed was rhetorical.
Poppycock.
Anon. Are you sure your handle isn’t Sieg Heil. Sure seems like it.
Well, God or not, somehow I have the right to call you a moron and there is nothing you can do about it. Sounds free to me.
And you have it backwards: Citizens are free to choose how to protect themselves, they are not at the mercy of their governments’ choices.
They always have been able to and always will be able to (see history, it’s that large section of the library with books).
NATURE made it that way.
And as far as the authority of ‘other countries’ laws upon free men, see above.
Authoritarians like yourself be warned. Respect others rights or yours will be taken.
“. . . nations are free to choose how to protect their citizens.”
That morally agnostic mindset is a direct path to “bath houses.”
You’re either a canadian or european POS! It’s the very FREE SPEECH that we hold dear that allows a POS like you to make this statement!!
After all, you in the US think the Second Amendment trumps the prevention of school shootings, the rest of us do not.
And you’re enraged that armed Americans use firearms in defense of their lives somewhere between 2 and 3 million times each year.
Because European communists and police state fascists feel morally superior when a woman is found raped and strangled with her bra, than her criminal Illegal Alien Guest Democrat Voter would-be rapist is found bleeding and dead from the gun in her hand.
Having an EU atheist commie demand he is empowered to say whether or not our rights are God given is… well, so persuasive coming from the country where it’s a government given right to have a Muslim rape gang.
Europeans didn’t fight Hitler because he was authoritarian. They fought Hitler because he was not “their” authoritarian. The drive towards authoritarianism is strong in Europe, and has been evident for hundreds of years. Today’s fascists reside in the halls of the EC. The leftwing BBC fits right in with those favoring fascist propaganda, and faces no pushback by the Commission. That speaks volumes.
Notice when people of London speak up about the rape of children from Muslims.
Who steps in to protect the Muslims? BBC.
The child grooming gangs were centred on Rotherham, nowhere near London; your “collage” education letting you down a tad there. The BBC had no involvement, other than reporting the cases once they emerged. Far from being protected, the whole scandal is now the subject of a public enquiry.
The child grooming gangs were centred on Rotherham, nowhere near London; your “collage” education letting you down a tad there.
Did you ever finish public school – or are you just a lower grade of commie liar?
Child grooming in London at ‘catastrophic’ levels
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8zew2egjvo
Levels of child grooming in London are “more catastrophic” than anywhere else in the country, a care sector activist and abuse survivor has said.
All 85+ child RAPE gangs were nowhere near London? Strangling on your bollocks? What’s it? 60 miles to the Muslim rape gangs in Canterbury?
They don’t teach geography in merry old England – or are you just another commie liar?
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1960222886737695063/photo/2
Pakistani Rape Gangs Exploited Children In 85 Authorities Across UK, British MP’s Probe Finds
news18.com/world/pakistani-rape-gangs-operated-across-uk-exploited-children-united-kingdom-rape-gang-inquiry-british-mp-rupert-lowe-ws-e-9533620.html
No one is above the law. Yeah, talking to you Musk.
Which country fool?
Oh oh dustoff is awake. You’re the guy with two “collage” degrees right?
Sure am.
Now answer the question. Mr I think I’m smart
What question, nothing you commented is a question.
BTW, It’s: I sure am. The rest is gibberish.