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:
Send him before a firing squad. It was an armed insurrection against the United States of America. Better yet, send him to Guantanamo. See how he likes it there with fellow terrorists.
Brian Moses, This is a pretty even-handed discussion; it even includes the KrisAnne Hall clip you mention, with other links. The KrisAnne Hall view is pretty extreme, but very minority view (though there are some politicians who buy it), but not a view that has ever been supported by the courts: https://www.quora.com/Does-the-US-Constitution-prohibit-the-federal-government-from-owning-land-within-a-state-without-the-permission-of-that-states-legislature
That’s wrong.
Withdraw your consent brother Mark Isrow
Research Mulford Act and you will learn it’s not just Dems that want you unarmed!
Isn’t that the suspected fed insider?
This has everything to do with the NDAA where the POTUS signed into law that you will not have any rights to your right! And was given the power to arrest you without do process and put you in jail without the right to an attorney or a bail hearing, or a hearing at all! They can lock you up and label you a terrorist any time they want and there’s nothing you can do, NOTHING!
Be careful what you claim to be freedom of speech. If someone walks up to an event and starts screaming at the people there in protest. That’s asserting the “heckler’s law” by which there is no standing or jurist review making that legal. The reason, a man was making a speech and the heckler in the crowd created a frenzy, thus, creating a riot. The same goes when someone yells fire in a movie theater, however, that reason was based on old films being highly flammable.
Learn the first amendment through the legal findings, it isn’t that hard even the Westboro Baptist Church knows the 1st Amendment.
and thus goes the downward spiral of a country, created by an overbearing government….. mark my words, there will be bloodshed soon….
They need to arrest Louis Farrakhan then for blasting anti white hate messages to the masses. Saying “Kill All Whites” .