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:
Typical b******t from unTruth@inAction …
Santilli’s confession to having many registered and unregistered guns will pose a risk to law enforcement….. June 2015, Santilli unleashes a rant against the FBI. “I will die a free man, watch me,” Santilli said at one point in the video clip. Later he said, “They will not take me away.”
(another wannabe domestic terrorist talked himself into jail)
Santilli is better known as a conservative Internet host who has espoused conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks and repeatedly expressed a desire to shoot Hillary Clinton “right in the vajayjay.” (yep … a nut job)
Possibly true but if Pete would have just sat in his car at the roadblock he probably would have been fine. Instead he insisted on crossing the roadblock to have a few words with the guys with the guns. He never came back.3
For a background on this loser (and fraudster) with a Napoleon complex … https://susannahcole.wordpress.com/
‘Murica!!!
there is a difference between free speech and participating in an armed insurrection against the United States.
Journalist, Tom Brokaw is a journalist this guy is a fucking$#%&!@*who was up to his neck in conspiracy with bunch f other gun toting assholes.
How do you KNOW Ed….were YOU there…did YOU hear what was said…I doubt it…why are you so quick to judge ?YOU only know what mainstream lets YOU,and most others,know….correct ?
Obama stated he was going to “Fundamentally Change America”, and…here you have it….
Faith Kittredge Dwyer are you kidding? Exodus 22:18 kjv is one. If you would like I can list several more. You Christians are no different than Muslims, face it.