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:
Yea, cause that’s never happened before
Muslims can say anything, threaten anyone and the people get arrested
Don’t believe it can’t happen because it is happening right here in our land of the free.
It’s coming folks, get your self ready.
“…all threats foreign and domestic…”
Getting closer
That’s where all of freedom is headed,if it’s not stopped.what a world children will have to grow up in.
Everybody should grab their soap boxes and preach everywhere about the government and how their not honoring the people their work a private agenda. But their elected to speak for us we the people when government becomes tyrannical time for us to arm and return government to the people
Rob Marz
SURE TRAMPLE OUR !st AMENDMENT RIGHTS , HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUE THE GOVERMENT AN HAVE THE PEOPLE THAT ORDERED HIS ARREST THROWN IN JAIL FOR TREASON!!