{"id":94314,"date":"2023-07-11T21:33:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94314"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:33:57","slug":"94314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94314","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Feds Argue First Amendment Causes \u2018Irreparable Harm\u2019 in Bid to Save Censorship Regime<\/a>
\nIn seeking to stay the injunction against their speech policing in Missouri v. Biden, the government betrays its view that your right to speak is conditional, while its power to censor is absolute<\/em><\/p>\n

U.S. Government Says Inability to Censor You Causes It \u2018Irreparable Harm\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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The U.S. government betrayed its total and utter contempt for the First Amendment in a recent\u00a0filing<\/a>\u00a0in the landmark\u00a0Missouri v. Biden<\/em>\u00a0free speech case.<\/p>\n

The filing\u2014a motion responding to U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty\u2019s\u00a0bombshell Independence Day injunction<\/a>\u00a0freezing federal government-led speech policing\u2014calls for the judge to permit the federal government to continue its censorship activities while it fights the injunction.<\/p>\n

While Judge Doughty has now smacked the federal government down,\u00a0ruling against<\/a>\u00a0its motion for a stay, the feds\u2019 perverse position merits scrutiny, especially given it\u2019s likely to persist in it for as long as this case is litigated, and as high as it will reach, perhaps up to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The crux of the government\u2019s argument for staying the injunction was this: Prohibiting federal authorities from\u00a0abridging speech<\/a>, directly and by proxy, could lead to \u201cgrave harm to the American people and our democratic processes,\u201d thereby causing the government \u201cirreparable harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another way to read the government\u2019s argument is that if it can\u2019t\u00a0interfere in elections<\/a>\u00a0or engage in rampant viewpoint discrimination, that causes it \u201cirreparable harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still another way to read the government\u2019s argument is that your right to free speech causes it \u201cirreparable harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

I explain why in a new piece at the\u00a0Epoch Times<\/a><\/em>.
\nAs I conclude in part:<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s fight for the right to censor reveals a conception of free speech, and its own authority, that is totally backward.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The government operates as if speech is a privilege over which it holds total power, ceding to us only the ability to talk on heavily circumscribed terms\u2014rather than that we have a natural right to speak freely, and that the government\u2019s ability to regulate our speech is heavily circumscribed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Government derives its powers from us, and with our consent, not the other way around.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At stake, therefore, in Missouri v. Biden is more than free speech.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At stake\u2014and currently on display\u2014is the very nature of what remains of our republican system of government.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feds Argue First Amendment Causes \u2018Irreparable Harm\u2019 in Bid to Save Censorship Regime In seeking to stay the injunction against their speech policing in Missouri v. Biden, the government betrays its view that your right to speak is conditional, while its power to censor is absolute U.S. Government Says Inability to Censor You Causes It … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,50,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-goobermint","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94315,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94314\/revisions\/94315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}