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:
But it ok for Louis Farrakhan to call for gathering 10,000 black men to kill white people????????????? No retribution?????
It’s time to buy more ammo!
Aided and abetted the dumb asses in Oregon. That’s not freedom of speech.
Mark L Kroon If you think for one minute we all worship the same God, you are the ignorant one. Educate yourself before you spew such ignorance. Show me ONE place in the Bible that doesn’t disavow the worship of any god aside from Jehovah? show me where the Bible even MENTIONS Mohammed. Show me where Christians are directed to kill infidels—-anyone who doesn’t believe as they do? You, sir, are an idiot.
Just the start people get ready
Freedom of Speech has been taken away already. Its allowed at times, but “Hate Speech” in and of its self is prime example, you have a Freedom of SPeech, not a Freedom to get your feeling hurt.
The people of America is allowing this tyrannical government get away with this mess!
Hate speech is so well accepted now that it has become a national Candidate for the facist$#%&!@*party—-disguised as Donald Trump
HE WASENT A MUSLIM OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OK !
Noticed that there is no mention of the actual charges.,…what a surprise. I’m going will bullcrap.