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‘Ending Free Speech’

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Legal scholar Neil Richards on the First Amendment in the digital age.

This is a long essay by Kenin Spivak, but I post it here because it’s well worth reading and critically important.

Ending Free Speech

Currently, “the Biden Administration is asking whether we should have a First Amendment.” I mean, heck, it’s only the foundation of our free republic: that’s why they made it No. 1. Free speech, freedom of religion, our right to petition government for redress of grievances–if we don’t have this, we don’t have the United States of America.

But the government is fighting tooth and nail–and so far, thank Heaven, losing–against a federal judge’s ruling, in Missouri v. Biden, that bars government agencies and officials from censoring free speech on the Internet.

Without our First Amendment guarantees, our republic and our freedom are dead.

It will seem obvious to most of us that this administration has done everything in its power to restrict our free speech rights–at least, when those rights are exercised by anyone who disagrees with its policies.

[And now the tech team is here to assemble our new computer hutch, so I must step back for the time being. I hope you read the essay, and we’re eager to see what you think of it.]

‘A Promise: I Will Not Kneel’ (2020)

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My neighbors would think I was making fun of them if I bowed down and knelt to them. P.S.: The puppies protect us from the censors.

When I wrote this it looked like the end for sane and decent people. Thank God there has been some pushback since then.

A Promise: I Will Not Kneel

This is America, and nobody kneels to anybody else! If that’s what we wanted, we could’ve just stayed part of England.

This is a republic, and we will not give it up.

As John Paul Jones said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”

‘A Prayer for Our Country’ (2020)

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We need to keep praying for our country. What–did you think the wicked would take time off from trying to devour us?

A Prayer for Our Country

You know they’re looking for another “pandemic” or some other “emergency” to lay on us in time for the 2024 presidential election, so they can go back to mail-in voting and all their other tricks.

Will they get away with it again? You know they never stop.

‘Vanquish the Left’ (Deroy Murdock)

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I had never read Deroy Murdock; but today I came upon a column he wrote for jewishworldreview.com… and he is on target! And we need to listen to him.

https://jewishworldreview.com/0623/murdock061923.php

The Left is not only wrong, he asserts: it is evil. It has engineered “an alarming collapse of social cohesion that is propelled, by something bigger…” It is “America’s volcano of evil.”

I won’t try to imitate his eloquence. Read the column, it’ll be well worth your while.

There is no compromise possible; things have gone much too far for that. We are not up against reasonable people. No more Hubert Humphrey, no more Joe Leiberman–just a lot of out-to-lunch barbarians who will destroy our civilization if they can. There can be no meeting of the minds.

America must resolve to defeat the Left–utterly, thoroughly, root them out of power wherever they sit, take away their funding… and, as Churchill said, “Never, never, never, never give in.”

We Do Have a Calling

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Usually by Friday I’m pretty well used up. I’ll post one public education outrage, and an hour later there’ll be two new ones that are much worse than the one I’ve already posted. Parents object but nothing happens. Here and there, a “teacher” has to go on paid leave for some abomination or another. And that’s just “Education.”

There is a temptation to lose heart. I mean, the monster devouring our country is just so big and what can we do, we can’t even get a fair election? We are the plebs, the mob our betters laugh at. What can we do?

But God tells us in the Bible, “Despise not the day of small things” (Zech. 4: 9-10). And in I Corinthians 1: 27, “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty…”

Your part and my part may be small; but that doesn’t mean God doesn’t value them. We are here to do His will on earth. We are in America, with a calling, a mission, to save this country. Save it from the wicked. Save it from self-destructive folly.

When they’re all puffed up with pride and ambition, flexing their muscles at us, bragging about their sins… that’s when they’re weakest. Their fall will be a high and hard one, brought about by people and events which they deemed beneath their notice. Brought about by the God whose warnings they rejected.

So we do what we can; and the outcome is decided at a higher level.

More Revival… On More Campuses

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Revival scene at Texas A & M

Just to keep up–

Revival is spreading to more college campuses. Texas A & M has a big one going, with students getting baptized in public fountains and several healings reported.

It looks to me like most of the participants in the revival are young; and it looks to me like most of the bad guys who are trashing our country are… well, old. Is this a hopeful sign?

We need a nation-wide revival. Our media, our politics, our “entertainment” industry, and most of all our schools and colleges are up to their necks in sins that weren’t even thought of, years ago.

Pray for revival, speak up for it… and maybe, if God wills it, we will see something.

Revival: Next Stop… Where?

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Tonight’s supposed to be the last night for worship services at Asbury University, Wilmore, KY, the revival’s supposed to be over–

But there are still crowds of people here on campus, with more coming in all the time.

School officials say it can’t be helped, Wilmore simply doesn’t have the resources to accommodate so many people for any length of time. Well, maybe. And anyhow the whole point of a revival is that it should spread.

God knows we need a revival: if we ever needed one, we need it now! Our country is in danger of turning into a drag queen socialist hell-hole. The Democrats are this close to driving us under for good.

We have to see the revival spread out and move around the country. There are signs that this may happen soon.

We have to see the American people rise up against “woke” and completely and forever cast it out.

We are up to our necks in sins that hadn’t even been thought of a couple of generations ago. Please, merciful God–pull us out and clean us off!

Diocese of Des Moines Pushes Back on ‘Woke’

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Bishop William Joenson–thank you for your leadership!

The Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa–in charge of 80 churches, 17 Catholic schools, and four hospitals–has banned “preferred pronouns,” “transgender” bathrooms and locker rooms, and “gender blocker” drugs (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11642739/Activists-erupt-Diocese-Des-Moines-enacts-anti-woke-rules-churches-schools.html). The bans go into effect… now! Bishop William Joenson announced the new policies yesterday.

So it’s no more Woke nonsense at Des Moines Catholic schools and churches, and Far Left Crazy is wailing, rending its garments, and gnashing its teeth. Democrats (of course) went so far as to say the diocese is “un-Christian,” Jesus would never! condone pushing back against transgender madness. (“Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain” does not occur to them.)

What are they going to do to try to force the diocese back onto the bandwagon? At this point, they don’t know. What can they do? Government in America has no authority to tell the Church they’ve gotta be woke or they’ll be broke.

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve had a feeling that the whole woke enterprise could come crashing down in pieces sooner than we think. Very few people actually want the garbage that Woke is selling. “Let us use your children as guinea pigs in our insane sociological experiments” is not a persuasive pitch.

 

Is There a ‘Quiet Right Counterculture’?

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Writing for the City Journal, Christopher Rufo wonders whether a “quiet right counterculture” of sane and normal people is growing up right before our eyes (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4120803/posts).

The hippies and commies who were the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, and their offspring, are a counterculture no more: they are The Establishment. They are General Motors funding “transgender” commercials in the public elementary schools. They are Big Tech, they are censorship, they are “cancel everybody who isn’t us!”

But outside the doomed Blue cities, ordinary people are working to rebuild “families, schools, churches, neighborhoods… things that will last,” says Rufo. Homeschool families are leading the way, with more and more parents opting not to keep their kids in public schools for teachers’ union fanatics to groom and prey on.

Man, from your mouth to God’s ear!

Read the essay, it’s not long. What do you think? Has he got something there, or what?

Let’s Just Relax

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No, no, no! I am not going to write up any politics today, I am not going to write up any nooze–and wit you well (as Sir Thomas Malory would say), there’s plenty I could write about. I am going to go out and have a cigar, work a little on my book, come back in to watch “Godzilla vs. Megalon,” and then sit down to our Thanksgiving dinner.

Judah the Maccabee, fighting for the survival of his nation, insisted on resting on the Sabbath: he would not do battle on that day unless he were attacked.

We fight for America. Maybe for the whole Western civilization, what’s left of it. But this day at least we set aside for thanksgiving to God.