More than two centuries after the Bill of Rights was ratified, many of the rights protected in it are under attack from the Democrat Party. But perhaps the one most obviously under attack is the right to free speech, enshrined in the First Amendment.
On Sept. 10, we witnessed one of the most shocking and terrifying attacks on free speech in American history — the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Tragically, however, years of Democrat censorship and Democrat rhetoric led up to that event. Even Google, the worst of the worst, the tech giant that had rigged elections, silenced millions, and propagandized an entire generation, admitted to biased, government-orchestrated censorship this week. But we have a long way to go to stop the assault on our rights.
Google promised the House Judiciary Committee that it would reform and reverse the Biden-era censorship complex. (Frankly, I don’t believe a thing that company says, but I suppose there is always hope.) The point, however, remains, that the biggest tech companies colluded for years with the American government and foreign governments, including the Chinese Communist Party and the UK government, to censor Americans’ speech. During Covid-19, especially, Democrats demanded excessively strict controls on where people could go, what they could say, what they could do, and where they could work.
Then there’s the fact that the Democrat politicians, leftist judges, and mainstream media stooges all defend the increasing domestic terrorism that seeks to bully us into silence. From the LGBTQ leftist Tyler Robinson, who shot Kirk, to transgender Robert “Robin” Westman, who killed Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren, to the Dallas shooter, who carved “ANTI ICE” on a bullet casing, to the ABC station anti-Trump shooter, to the New Hampshire country club shooter, who reportedly yelled “Free Palestine,” we are seeing a mass trend of leftist terrorism. It’s censorship by bullet instead of by algorithm, but it is all part of the same attack on constitutional rights.
Related: Would-Be Terrorist Arrested for Threatening Charlie Kirk Memorial
This is not what our Founders fought for. Teaching American History explains:
On September 25, 1789, the first Congress of the United States agreed on a set of twelve amendments to be submitted to the states for ratification. These proposed amendments grew out of a debate that arose during the closing days of the Constitutional Convention, two years prior… The Bill of Rights became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791, the same day that Virginia ratified ten of the amendments Congress had proposed. What about the other two amendments? They pertained to the structure of Congress—not, directly at least, to individual rights or states’ rights.
The one blocking a sitting Congress from voting itself a raise in salary would eventually become part of the Constitution. But the ten ratified by the states are our Bill of Rights, headed by the First Amendment, which protects freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly.
These rights were considered sacred by the Founders. America cannot remain a Republic if we do not survive this assault on our rights.
