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Aug. 6, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Freedom of Expression and First Amendment Paralysis

Torpor when frozen is called concretized. Capeesh?

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Hey Sparky, I don't know how to break this to you, but there's no freedom of expression in this country.
There's no First Amendment.
There's no freedom of speech.
It's a joke.
The only thing you're allowed to say is if you were to ape.
And recite the manifesto of this radical left, this anarchic, nihilistic, sock puppet media franchise brought to you by the shadow government cryptocracy.
Are you following me?
See, we talk a big game in this country.
Oh, freedom of speech!
Our veterans and our warriors fought to protect our freedom.
There's no freedom of speech!
Where the hell have you been?
Look around you!
You can't say whatever you want.
You can't opine on any kind of social media platform, which happens to be the town square.
The most important medium of interpersonal communication.
You can't say anything.
It's horrible.
It doesn't exist.
I'm telling you.
It's a joke.
And recently with Alex Jones, oh, well, I'm sure you've thought about it, but I've got a few ideas on that.
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Okay, now listen to me.
Freedom of speech is an illusion.
Do you remember, I don't know how old you are, I don't know, obviously don't know, but I remember when the internet, as they say, just started.
Oh, God, it was great.
Do you remember around, oh, I don't know, 2000, 2001?
Oh, my God, it was the Wild West, you could say anything!
You wanted YouTube was the greatest!
Oh my God!
And if you didn't like something, you didn't watch it!
You turned it off!
Imagine that!
It was great!
Oh my God!
The best content!
The best!
Some of the wildest, craziest, lunacy, and a lot of boring stuff too, but it didn't matter.
We actually could say It was beautiful.
Then the internet lured you in.
Come on!
Say something!
Have a seat.
Want to start a channel?
Go ahead.
Say whatever you want.
Go ahead.
Enjoy yourself.
Hey, that wasn't too bad.
A little warning on that.
Oh, be careful.
Watch that salty language.
It's great.
It's the most beautiful thing in the world.
Right around, well, 2001.
It kind of...
And it sort of got a little shaky after 9-11 because people started to say, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
It was alright.
It was alright.
It was okay.
Right around then, people who said they weren't necessarily thrilled or agreed 100% with the official narrative of 9-11 were called truthers.
And the errs are, you know, truther, birther.
Whatever the other errs are, deathers, poachers, jokers, whatever the hell they were.
It was alright.
And then, Trump.
That was the end.
That was it.
I always think to myself, if I could unearth somehow the founding fathers.
Let me tell you what you've missed.
See, we had this thing called social media, and social media was terrific.
It allowed people from all over the world to speak to each other simultaneously.
It was the backyard, the town square.
It was beautiful.
And then it got to be more powerful than you can imagine.
And then all of a sudden, really, I mean, it hit critical mass during Trump, but at some point around there, all of a sudden, Lo and behold, when things really got interesting, you're not going to believe this.
The government took these people, who, by the way, they were responsible for in terms of creating.
Oh, I know.
You heard all these stories about how Facebook was this kind of a nerdy kid.
College at Harvard and he wanted to come up with a way for people to talk to each other on Facebook.
It got real important.
And Twitter came along.
And then Bill Gates went to my garage and I made a little computer.
A computer that would end up in everybody's home and office.
A computer who, by the way, could have been stopped.
Dead in its tracks by the government.
A computer on the internet that DARPA created.
So these wonderful stories about these wonky, nerdy kids.
Private industry.
Private.
First Amendment doesn't apply to private industry.
Private enterprise.
Oh, no, no, no.
That merely prevents...
You, from having your speech encroached upon by the government, and clearly Mark Zuckerberg is not the government, no, not at all.
Google's not the government, no!
Uh-huh, okay, fine.
What we saw was the most incredible thing ever, because it was, in essence, not the government.
Don't say the government.
Don't ever call this the government.
This ain't the government.
It's the shadow government.
The cryptocracy.
The hidden government.
Because when Trump was the government, that didn't count.
That didn't count.
That was theoretical.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not the government.
See, this government thing is a joke.
This idea that somehow, oh, it's Washington.
It's not Washington.
You're still not getting this.
It's not Washington.
It's the shadow government.
A cryptocratic group of people who run everything.
Who are they?
Who run this beautiful world of ours?
Well, it's a huge slum gullion, a gumbo of all sorts of people.
And the usual set of Klaus Schwab and Soros, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But what they did was, they figured out how to get these people, first to get you real addicted to internet, Real addicted to social media, and then they shut you down and shut you up and cause you to self-censor, which is the worst thing, the worst possible, where you're not saying anything.
Maybe I shouldn't say that.
Anyway, they're getting you to do that, and they're shutting down your various platforms, but blaming Zuckerberg.
It's not us!
Right.
It's the destruction, the quashle.
Of the First Amendment of free expression by proxy!
And then this past week, here comes this Alex Jones guy.
Oh my God!
Did they hate this Alex Jones guy?
Or what?
Well, it also helps when you act like a damn fool, Al.
When you act in a way...
So self-destructive.
At least during the trial.
You know, I'm all for speaking your mind, but you might want to wait until the trial is over before you lambaste the judge.
What do you say?
What do you say, okay?
Just saying.
That's a weird case, too.
He goes in there on a default.
He defaulted?
Now, I don't want to ever discuss legal strategy and what other lawyers did.
I wasn't there.
I'm not familiar with the case.
I never read the complaint.
All I know is he goes in there on a default.
He didn't turn over a document.
Okay.
And then, during the course of this trial, which is fascinating to me, all of a sudden, basically privileged client information is sent in error and it's used.
But, I'm sure that's going to be litigated and talked about.
For a long time.
But you see, what scares me the most is that a lot of people who don't like Alex Jones, because he's this big, fat, bilious, sweating, evangelical, pompous, lunatic, screaming, conspiracy theorist, as though that's against the law.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
You know, you're making it sound like being a conspiracy theorist is against the law.
Well, it kind of really is, but in any event.
But there was a time when we said anything.
And I grew up.
I'm a child of the 60s, raised really mad at us in the 70s.
And we had the anarchist cookbook, and we had Supreme Court.
You've got to let that.
We had George Carlin in the Seven Dirty Words.
It was sacrosanct.
It was the First Amendment, baby.
If you don't like it, don't listen.
Don't watch it.
Don't pay attention.
Now, I'm not here in any way defending anything that Alex Jones said or didn't say, especially as it directly deals with the family members of a tragedy.
I'm not talking about that.
Again, I'm not conversing with the trial.
What I am talking about is how a lot of people are saying, good, maybe they'll just shut this guy up and shut him down because I don't like him.
I want you to understand something.
I will swear to you on my constitution, which is somewhere around here.
I will swear.
I normally have it.
Here we go.
I will swear.
I will swear on my constitution.
That I don't want to shut anybody down.
The people that I loathe and detest, abhor, the people whose opinions I think are meaningless, dangerous, awful, terrible, I swear they deserve the right to speak and I don't want to shut them down.
I just don't turn them off.
Then there are people who hurt me and bother me and they're awful and they're dangerous.
And how we came along with fact-checkers is the most brilliant thing I have ever seen.
Well, it's Wikipedia.
Oh, that's not right.
Well, it's Wikipedia.
Now, what's the first rule of Wikipedia?
This is not to be...
Do not use this as authority.
I'm paraphrasing incorrectly.
But they tell you, it's not an encyclopedia.
Yeah, but they're Snopes.
Snopes!
Oh, my God!
How did they pull that up?
Well, Snopes said.
Well, my little facsimile of Rocky, this pencil sharpener I bought in Philadelphia, it's a pencil sharpener, it says that I'm right!
Yeah, this thing, I'm hearing it.
And PolitiFax says, well, my cousin Jerome says that I'm right.
You've got your fact?
I've got mine.
...
Have you ever heard of anything?
You've got a fact checker?
You've got somebody...
You're telling me that what I'm saying is not...
And by the way, if it's not right, so what?
Hashtag, so what?
It's wrong.
According to you, so what?
Don't say that.
That's misinformation.
What?
Misinformation, disinformation, data information.
All of this information.
It's hate crime.
It's a hate crime, too?
Hold it.
It's wrong.
It's misinformation, disinformation, non-information.
Hate crime.
Well, that's transphobic.
That's Islamophobic.
That's misogynistic.
That's racist.
That's white separatist.
You've got an answer for everything, don't you?
Yes, you just won't let me talk.
Nope.
You can talk so long as what you say comports exactly with the script of the anarchic, nihilistic left.
This radical left bunch of poltroons who are deciding what you can and can't say.
The First Amendment freedom of speech is dead.
Don't let anybody fool you.
Don't let anybody tell you any other way.
Oh, you can say something so long as it's not important.
If it's boring, If it's anodyne, if it's saccharine, if it's bland, if it's unimportant, or if it's anti-Trump, or if it refutes the Republicans or the conservatives or whoever these people are, or if it's a naked recitation and replication and a separation of that from the left, then it's okay.
Other than that...
There is no such thing.
So stop telling me that there is.
And the next time we have Memorial Day or Veterans Day, don't tell me that our veterans died to protect our freedoms.
What freedoms?
What are you talking about?
Where are you living?
Our freedoms?
Are you serious?
Our freedoms?
Freedoms of speech?
Of expression?
What?
Well, we'll go through each of these individually, but stop with this hackneyed hokum, this patellar, reflexive, obeisant, these trite sayings.
This is just, it's a joke.
Freedom of speech in particular is dead.
And it's not going to be resuscitated.
It's not going to be revived.
It's dead.
It's necrotic.
We've buried it.
It's through.
Now, do you agree with me?
Be careful what you say.
Do you agree with what I say?
Does this make sense to you?
You know, I'd love to see your thoughts and comments.
I'd sure like for you to like this video too and pass it on to other people.
And what I'd really love for you to do is comment.
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