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:
I bet you’re against black lives matter protesters though lol
lol what about Beyonce at the superbowl?
Frederic R. Pamp, I hope you aren’t referring to me? If so, you are one to talk to come online and resort to juvenile retorts. I will fight if ever the time arises, do not question that!
The Bundy’s pettitioned the government for an address of grievience and went through every legal avenue, filed all paper work and the government continued to ignored them. So they took possession of a building that was empty and no one was in it. A building that was way out away from the town of Malure. They were not disrupting anyone or any Malure resident. The Government agents are the ones who caused all the comotion and disruption in town. The government ised deadly force to end a peaceful protest. The protesters used no violence, all they wanted was for the government to address their grieviences, that’s all they wanted. And for that they were shot, murdered and thrown in prison.
only blacks have free speech
Once we lose our right to speak freely; our ability to disagree, then the one with the bull horn makes the rules and we have become subjects rather than citizens. ~ me
He broke the law, he went to jail. Nothing at all to do with freedom of speech. But he would be proud of you all for trying to twist it into an attack against freedom of speech. You people are mind numbing…
I wish i could remember the name of the woman who posted the video…but she said she was a constitutional lawyer and in fact said the exact thing that the meme states. I normally don’t check links, but if you could provide something to that, I would gladly read it Tom Connolly.
This asshat is not a journalist. He’s advocating the killing of federal agents.
What a b******t sniveling way out of getting arrested. No way he represented himself as a journalist. He got caught up in the hype, went to take part and when it went south he opts out that he is a journalist and hides under freedom of speech. Grow a pair!!