presidential election, Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard claims, and she's suing the search giant
for blocking her campaign ads from appearing after the first primary debate.
Google inexplicably, not really, suspended Gabbard's campaign advertising account For the crucial six hours following the first Democratic primary debate last month, a lawsuit filed by her campaign on Thursday alleges, and a period in which hers was the most searched name of all the candidates on the crowded stage.
Google didn't just violate her First Amendment rights by silencing her, the suit charges, it maliciously meddled with the democratic process, which is what it's there to do.
So is Facebook and Twitter and all these people.
YouTube owned by Google both of which are owned by this holding company or
parent company called Alphabet. Interestingly in America the FBI, the NSA,
the CIA etc are known as Alphabet agencies and how appropriate that Google
and YouTube and all the other things that they own are controlled by a parent
company called Alphabet. The search giant violated the Gabbard campaign's federal
and state rights to free speech as well as a handful of commercial
anti-discrimination laws by pulling the ads without explanation preventing her
from reaching millions of voters with her message.
Campaign organization Tulsi Now claims in the suit filed in the Central District of California.
They're seeking declaration Well, Google, Facebook, Twitter, all these people, Apple They are tyrannies, ultimately controlled by the same force, operating to the same agenda.
And you know, it's interesting.
They started off censoring people that are perceived to be on the right.
Staggeringly, I'm perceived to be on the political right, which is just the most incredible misrepresentation.
I reject all that.
Political left-right centre spectrum anyway.
But to associate me with the so-called right is way, way off the truth.
But the perceived right, which is what the alternative media is perceived to be, right.
And that started it.
And the left and the so-called progressives That have hijacked the traditional liberal left.
They were all cheering.
Oh yeah! Ban him!
Ban him! You know, ban Alex Jones!
Yeah! But of course, this is a ticking off operation.
You start with some, and then you go to others, and then you go to others, and eventually those that were cheering the earlier suppressant censorship of people now get targeted by the same censorship they were cheering.
And then of course they They start crying like a newborn.
But it's too late then.
It's gone too far.
So good on Tulsi Gabbard for taking Google on because it's a disgrace.
People like Paige and Bryn Larry Page and Sergey Brin, that supposedly own Google, and Mark Zuckerberg, who supposedly runs Facebook, etc. They are an absolute disgrace to freedom.
Absolute disgrace.
And yet, so many in the so-called progressive I think they're wonderful.
It just shows how progressive and liberal are not the same thing.
But there's another story I saw today about Tulsi Gabbard.
It's on the Electric Intifada, which is a website that Campaigns for Palestinian rights.
Tulsi Gabbard tries to defend anti-Palestinian vote.
Congress member Tulsi Gabbard is feeling the heat over her vote last week in favor of a resolution that misrepresents and harshly condemns the non-violent BDS, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, for Palestinian rights.
The BDS seeks to have a boycott of Israel in the same way that South Africa was boycotted to overcome apartheid and they want a boycott of Israel until the Palestinians are treated like human beings and not animals.
The Hawaii Democrat, a candidate for a party's presidential nomination, posted a video on Twitter on Saturday trying to spin her vote for HR 246 as a defense of free speech.
She acknowledges receiving messages via social media asking for more information about why she voted the way she did.
And she asserted that the resolution did not in any way limit or ender First Amendment rights.
Gabbard also pledges to continue opposing any legislation to restrict freedom of speech by imposing legal penalties against those who participate in the BDS movement.
She notes that she is co-sponsoring Representative Ilhan Omar's resolution H.R. 496, which backs the right to engage in political boycotts.
These are laudable positions, the Electric Intifada said, but they are undermined by Gabbard's vote for a resolution that is a stepping stone towards more state and federal anti-BDS laws.
Because what's happening is the Tremendous influence of the far-right government in Israel on American politics, both at the state as well as federal level, is having laws passed to create punishments for those that decide they want to boycott Israel because of its behavior against the Palatinians.
The electric indifada here is saying that this vote which Gabbard supported is a stepping stone, and I absolutely believe they're right, to further suppression and eventually banning of boycotting Israel, which for a country of 8 million people has the most stunning influence On American and in so many ways global affairs.
It controls America.
It controls American politics.
It's a beat about the bush.
It does. And this is an interesting point.
I mean, Gabbard...
Says so many things that I agree with.
And on this, I fundamentally don't agree with.
And it's funny, whether it's Tulsi Gabbard or Tucker Carlson, they will, on Fox News, they will push against the system, as Carlson does, more than any other television host in America, and ask the questions that Others will not ask.
Raise the points that others will not raise.
And yet when it comes to taking on Israel, doesn't want to know.
Doesn't want to know. And here's Tulsi Gabbard.
She's talking absolutely correctly about the abomination of these wars and manipulated so-called revolutions in the Middle East.
But she won't talk about the elephant in the living room directly, which is Israel and its far-right psychopathic government.
So the Electric Indifada says that Gabbard's reasoning that it's about protecting free speech falls apart further when she explains why she backed the resolution in the first place.
I voted for HR 246 because I support a two-state solution that provides for the rights of both Israel and Palestine to exist and for their people to live in peace and security.
I don't believe BDS is the way to accomplish that.
Well, short of violence, what other ways is there to accomplish that?
And if you are talking about a two-state solution, you're either kidding yourself or kidding the people you're talking about.
The two-state solution is over.
Too much land, occupied land, illegally occupied land by Israel, has been now built upon and taken over permanently, that there isn't the land for a two-state solution.
But it's like, oh, I believe in the two-state solution.
Now change the subject.
There isn't going to be a two-state solution because there's not the land there for two states.
Hello? And that was the plan all along.
keep building and keep building and building illegally on illegally occupied land until
there's no land left for a two-state solution because that's never what you wanted.
Gabbard, the article says, does not explain why a non-violent movement modeled on the one that
helped end apartheid in South Africa is harmful or what her approach is to ending decades of
Israeli military occupation and settler colonization of Palestinian land.
Does she propose to continue the decades-old US and international policy of doing nothing and even rewarding Israel as it commits these crimes?
Platitudes about a two-state solution that equate the military occupier with the occupied people can't hide the lack of principled position.
This is a kind of interesting point.
So often you find people will support a politician or they'll support a political party And they'll support them whatever.
Whatever they say, whatever they do, they'll make excuses.
And the opposition to those they support, they will oppose no matter what they say.
And this is childlike immaturity.
My approach to politics and the world in general is to take every statement that people say in and of itself.
Does this statement make sense?
Is it valid? Is it supportable?
Is it sensible? Is it just?
And so a politician on the left or a politician on the right can make a speech And I will agree with that line, disagree with that line, disagree with that line, agree with part of that line, and so on.
Whereas so many people, they'll take the whole speech and they'll agree with it, no matter how contradictory it might be, because the person they support said it.
So if you look, Trump's a classic.
The idea is you support Trump no matter what he says and you make excuses for what he does.
Or anything that Trump says you must oppose, not least by calling it racist.
When Trump says a lot of things that are nonsensical, a lot of things that Are just a megaphone for those that control him.
And here and there, he says some things that are demonstrably true.
So what mature people do is they'll challenge stuff they don't believe is valid.
And then they'll say, well, yeah, but that, yeah, I think I agree with him on that.
But that's not how you're supposed to...
To be. Or you're a turncoat.
Or a traitor. He says that something Trump says.
He agrees with.
Well he must be a fascist then.
And a racist. This is the mentality.
I will not even refer to it.
Really. As childlike.
Because it's an insult to children.
So. This Gabbard situation is a classic.
What she says on the Middle East is outstanding and very courageous in the circumstances she faces.
But what she's done on this is absolutely not valid, I would suggest.
So you say, I agree with that.
Actually, Tulsi, I don't agree with that.
So you take statements and you take the issues and you take different situations in and of themselves instead of All or nothing, which is what you see.
I mean, the progressive left...
Well, it's not left. The progressive tyranny is a classic.
You can't say anything good about Trump.
And you can't say anything bad about them.
That's the deal. And it's pathetic.
Now, the... Another thing, just very quickly before I change the subject.
Some people criticize me for posting clips of the Tucker Carlson Show interviews on davidlight.com.
And that's exactly what I'm talking about.
Fox News, it supports Trump.
OK, but MSNBC and CNN and NBC and all the rest of it, they continually lambast Trump 24-7.
Now, Fox News is a biased person.
Just like all the others are biased coming from a different direction.
But does that mean that nothing that's ever said on Fox News ever might be valid about the situation?
Well, of course not.
Name me one person in all human history that has never ever said something that is valid.
Doesn't matter how bad they are, how horrific they are, you will not find anyone who in their life, no matter how bad they may be in terms of their behavior, has never said anything that's actually valid.
So if you're walking along the street and you're with Adolf Hitler and it's a beautiful sunny day and Hitler says, oh, what a beautiful sunny day.
Do you have to claim that it's pouring with rain just because Hitler said it's a sunny day, even though it is?
This is ridiculous.
And so I take...
Carlson interviews where he's raising valid points that no one else in the mainstream media is raising and where he's asking questions that need asking that no one else in the mainstream media is asking.
And I put them on the website for people's interests because I believe they're valid questions and valid points.
Does that mean I agree with everything that Tucker Carlson says or stands for?
Of course not. But so what?
You take what feels right and you leave the rest.
No, no. It's got to be black.
It's got to be white. It's got to be white.
It's got to be black. It's pathetic.
It is beyond words pathetic.
And people say, you know, to me, you shouldn't be using anything by Tucker Carlson because he's on Fox News.
What are they visiting davidike.com for?
What are they wasting their time doing that for?
Because they're still so stuck in the system.
Don't tell me that you're challenging the conspiracy when you have this black and white attitude of Fox News bad, MSNBC good.
Neither is true.
And neither is it true that neither of them ever say anything that's valid.