Showing posts with label Freedom of Speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom of Speech. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Before We Start the Upward Climb

Before We Start the Upward Climb

By Steve Beckow

Posted on March 25, 2025

 

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How many defamation suits have we seen lately against media personalities – Three major, multi-million-dollar suits?

In one suit evidence was allegedly presented showing that the media personality was being paid to defame her target.

And of course the legal cases all revolve around “freedom of speech.”

Because folks in the deep state shout “Free speech!” whenever they’re censored, I’m drawn to continue my comments on the subject. (1)

Accepting payment to defame a person crosses a line in our society because the communications that result from such an agreement cause harm – and are meant to do so.

In the most basic of terms, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that my right and yours to speak freely stops at the point (this is “the line”) where it invites harm on another (period. Full stop).

“Free speech” is not unlimited. To go around shouting “Free speech!” when it’s not an unlimited right – not on any plane of existence – (2) obscures the issue and has to be suspect when criminal behavior is involved.

In my opinion, a mature, democratic society accepts the responsibility of patiently making finer and finer legal distinctions in the area of free speech (or any other human right). They do so in order to retain social cohesion while not steam-rolling over individuals or minorities.

I sat for eight years interpreting refugee law in Canada and every day held the possibility of needing to make finer and finer legal distinctions. It’s humbling.

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We’re watching the swamp being drained in real time.  Now, those who took the human rights away from so many (as we’re finding out) are shouting loudly that they have rights. We’re being asked to honor the rights of those who violated the rights of others. And because we’re decent people, we will.

But I don’t think the defendants ever counted on being tried in military tribunals, where folks accused of serious human-rights abuses and/or treason are treated as enemy combatants – with no rights.

I don’t think they ever thought they’d face the death penalty.

I don’t think the big reveal will be who killed Kennedy. I think the big reveal will be how many folks have been executed at Gitmo, Guam, Tierra del Fuego, etc., and for what reason.

When we see the total picture, I believe our grief will be the same as losing all our family in a plane crash.

I won’t name names, but I was beyond saddened when I saw the execution lists. I think we’ll have to pass through that trial (and those trials) before we start the upward climb.

Footnotes

(1) See:

(2) On the astral planes of the afterlife, the same rule prevails. One has freedom of speech and action as long as one doesn’t hurt another. If one does, one is obliged to fall back a level. (See “Having to Fall Back to a Lower Plane” in New Maps of Heaven, at https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=The_Astral_Plane_%E2%80%93_Orientation#Having_to_Fall_Back_to_a_Lower_Plane.)

In dimensions or planes higher than the Fifth Dimension or Mental Plane, karma is not as onerous but it still applies.

Steve Beckow

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Monday, February 3, 2025

Freedom of Movement and Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Movement and Freedom of Speech

Thought Adjuster

Is The Teacher

Message received by Anyas

Posted on Frebruary 3, 2025


 

Oregon, USA, August 13, 2022

Thought Adjuster: “Whenever you express your desire to connect with Me on an ever-deepening level, you give Me increased freedom of movement and freedom of speech within you. It is what both of us are longing for. You have come to recognize the value of My input and the sense of well-being and wholeness it blesses you with.

Indeed, as you wish to hook up with Me, our partnership becomes a reality in your inner and outer life — because your outer life reflects your inner life. Sounds simple? Don’t you wish you would have understood it earlier? The where and when do not matter to Me, as I live in the eternal here and now. I am fully immersed in each present moment and rejoice when you come and spend time with Me, as it is when I can optimally feed your mind, fuel your positive emotions, and cater to your soul growth.

My freedom of movement depends on your free will decisions. Together, we can move mountains when you set Me free to work on manifesting the Father’s vision through you, with you, and out into the world, as nothing the Father does is self-serving. The larger the ripple effect, the more you contribute to the Great Plan.

My freedom of speech occurs right now in your receptive and docile mind. By not making objections, you do not interrupt the flow of My thoughts with the roadblocks of ‘buts.’ You let free course to the flow of My thoughts intent at enlightening your mind. I AM love; I AM light. It is what I do.”

 

© The 11:11 Progress Group.
No matter what the question is, the answer is always Love.

www.innersherpa.org 

 

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    Friday, December 29, 2023

    A Free and Open Internet Is a Threat to the Establishment

    A Free and Open Internet Is a Threat to the Establishment

    By Connor O’Keefe





    Last week, a video clip of Francis Fukuyama went viral. In the clip, the political scientist called freedom of speech and a marketplace of ideas “18th century notions that really have been belied (or shown to be false) by a lot of what’s happened in recent decades.”

    Fukuyama then reflects on how a censorship regime could be enacted in the United States.

    But the question then becomes, how do you actually regulate content that you think is noxious, harmful, and the like—and do it in a way that’s consistent with the First Amendment? Now, I think you can push the boundaries a bit because the First Amendment does not allow you to say anything you want. But among liberal democracies, our First Amendment law is among the most expansive of any developed democracy.

    And you could imagine a future world in which we kind of pull that back and we say no, we’re going to have a law closer to that of Germany where we can designate—the government can designate something as hate speech and then prevent the dissemination of that. But the question then is, politically, how are you going to get there?

    Putting aside the fact that the censorship regime Fukuyama is talking about is already here, it’s important to consider the admission behind his words.

    Francis Fukuyama is often associated with the neoconservative movement. And that’s for good reason. He was active in the neoconservative Project for a New American Century and helped lead the push for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But he later turned against the war and renounced neoconservatism, so he can perhaps better be understood as an intellectual proxy for the Washington establishment.

    Fukuyama is best known for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man. The book argues that liberal democracy represents the endpoint of humanity’s ideological evolution and the final form of government because of its defeat of fascism and socialism and its supposed lack of inner contradictions.

    If there was ever a time when this idea would resonate, it was 1992. The Soviet Union was gone, and the US government, fresh off its sound defeat of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, was the most powerful single entity in history.

    But at the same time, an entirely new medium for information was quickly emerging. In 1996, a software engineer named Dave Winer decided to host his newsletter on the World Wide Web. The result was the first web log, or blog. He called it DaveNet. As blogs began to catch on, writers could reach their readers directly without filters, editors, or space constraints.

    It is hard to understate the effect of this development. But it’s best explained by Martin Gurri in his 2014 book The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. Gurri posits that throughout human history “information has not grown incrementally… but has expanded in great pulses or waves which sweep over the human landscape and leave little untouched.”

    According to Gurri, the first information wave came with the invention of writing. The second was set off by the development of alphabets. These waves gave rise to governments and societies led by literate bureaucratic and priestly castes. The third wave came with the invention of the printing press. Suddenly, the ancien régime’s monopoly on information was shattered. The result was sweeping political change—most notably the Protestant Reformation and the American and French Revolutions.

    Central to Gurri’s thesis is the idea that these revolutions did not come about because of a sudden change in the public’s sentiments but because abrupt changes in the information space allowed sentiments that were already there to spread and develop outside of the ruling classes’ control.

    The fourth wave came with the adoption of broadcast media—radio and television—during the twentieth century. While this wave was certainly disruptive, the government’s early takeover of the airwaves made it easier for the political class to retain control over the information space.

    But the same could not be said of the fifth wave—the digital revolution. Only two years after the launch of DaveNet, another blog, the Drudge Report, would go around the establishment press and break the story that got Bill Clinton impeached.

    Ten years later, as yet another financial crisis gripped the country, the internet allowed true grassroots opposition movements to organize and spread—Occupy Wall Street on the left and the Tea Party on the right. It also allowed candidates like Ron Paul to run popular campaigns critical of the Washington establishment.

    The internet didn’t just allow people to see and hear dissenting views; it allowed them to see that those views were popular.

    And because of that, from the Arab Spring to the passage of Brexit, the weakening of political control over the information space began leading to real change across the world. But in the United States, after Donald Trump won the White House, the political class woke up to what was happening. And they decided to do something about it.

    At first it was Russian disinformation, then hateful domestic extremists, and later covid skeptics. The establishment has used whatever boogieman or strawman they thought could scare the public into accepting more political control over the online space. Which brings us back to Fukuyama.

    In a sense, he’s right. It was a lot easier for the Washington establishment to act as though they were supportive of freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas when they controlled the information space. But now that the internet has partially rolled back their control, these ideas have been “belied” in their eyes.

    For those like Fukuyama, who want the Washington establishment to keep up its ever-escalating interventionism at home and abroad—funded by unsustainable debt and inflation—the digital revolution is cause for concern. But for those of us who understand that our economic, geopolitical, and cultural issues require radical change, it’s a reason to have hope.

    Connor O’Keefe

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    Monday, July 24, 2023

    LewRockwell: July 24th, 2023

    LewRockwell: July 24th, 2023






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