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:
Except christians moved on from the old testament you and your kind love to quote from. There is no new testament to the Koran. Muslims are no different than atheists. Unmoving in their narrow little worlds. And by the way, I’m not a christain
Yo Fredric, did Jefferson buy it from the state? Nope, he didn’t. Maybe you should get a refund from law school
Wow! I thought there is normally “more to it” in these stories. Nope. Absolutely no reason for the arrest that I could see.
If that was the case, why wasn’t he already under arrest? Makes absolutely no sense.
Then why not already arrested?
He wasn’t promoting squat. If he did prior, then why wait to arrest?
On some “conspiracy sites” they are saying that Santilli may be “chemically lobotomized” by the government!
Pete Santilli was arrested on federal felony charges of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats…..not for his conservative extremist b******t on You Tube….Instead of “Truth and Action”, this site should be called “Lies and Distraction”
He was the mouthpiece of these traitors and was in the damn house. If he was a journalist so was Tokyo Rose. I think we should let the Justice system decide don’t you r have you now become a lawyer and Judge
Nope I’ll leave the “judging” to you…