Pete Santilli is a new media journalist who broadcasts on YouTube and streaming internet radio. He is brash, controversial, rude, and he is completely within his rights to be so. He has a radio show titled “Telling the Truth… Whether You Like It or Not.” He goes against the grain of some, and the efforts by various groups to define certain types of speech as illegal is exactly what he is fighting against. Hate speech, bullying speech, intolerant speech, incendiary speech, anti-government speech, right-wing speech and more are all protected by our 1st amendment, yet they being challenged as being illegal. And in many cases the government is supporting that view and carving out areas where free speech will not be accepted. Of course limiting free speech to special “acceptable” areas is no free speech at all. But if these limitations are not challenged, the right of free speech could very well disappear.
Santilli exercised his right of free speech recently, and he is sitting in jail now for his efforts. He will no doubt be released as soon as a lawyer is found who will fight for Santilli’s basic right to express himself, but the damage will be done. The government will have made its point that they will limit your speech if they choose, and you will have to be willing to pay a price in order to exercise your rights. If they do this enough, people will no doubt give up because the government has unlimited resources and power to bully the public into silence, but individuals do not usually have the resources to fight back.
See what got Santilli thrown in jail on page 2:
Hold on now, freedom of speech does not extend to being an accessory during and after the fact involving a felony. For instance being part of a bank robbery and saying you were there to report the news is not going to fly. This is a tactic has been used before and failed.
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Larry Allen Bingo.
All the liberals have bull rings in there noses so they can be led down the path to Destruction and there to blind to see it they should read up on the commander and thief then they would see what he is really up to. Hang on conservatives the road is going to get rough 12 months to go before his muslim$#%&!@*is out of there
Por desir la verdad este senor trabaja en la radio..fue puesto en la carcel..y tenemos la livertad de exprecion verbal…
Shame…
Ah, good! 🙂
Yup! Fork em over! 🙂
he did nothing wrong
No, Santilli didn’t lose his freedom of speech. He can say whatever he wants but if he promotes this criminal conspiracy — which the feds say he did — then he deserves to be arrested.