Freedom of Speech In Jeopardy

If Donald Trump is convicted, you can say goodbye to freedom of speech, and most likely every other freedom in the First Amendment, especially freedom of religion.  The take over of free speech – and the media – is a top priority of dictator style governments.  It will be the beginning of the dissolution of the Constitution of the United States.  As Senator Josh Hawley said “If the people in power can jail their political opponents, we don’t  have a republic anymore.”   If you don’t think it could happen in America, there are hundreds of Jan 6 prisoners in the D.C. jail who will disagree with you.

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Monday, August 7, 2023

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary Bauer, American Values

Silencing Trump

Late Friday night, Special Counsel Smith filed a motion in a Washington, D.C., federal court trying to gag Donald Trump. His motion had nothing to do with any alleged wrongdoing by Trump.

The motion was filed in response to a social media post by Trump, who wrote, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” A Trump spokesman said the post wasn’t about Smith, but was aimed at “dishonest special interest groups and Super PACs” that are attacking Trump. Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Trump’s attorneys to respond to the motion by 5:00 PM today.

This is simply another attempt to silence Donald Trump and, by extension, all conservatives. Smith is demanding that the judge issue a gag order preventing Trump from defending himself. Meanwhile, Smith and the Department of Justice are constantly leaking to the media and making a myriad of allegations without any proof.

First, the left attempted to silence Trump by kicking him off social media. So, he created his own social media company. Now they’re trying to silence him entirely, preventing you from hearing his side of the story, while Biden’s Justice Department leaks like a sieve.

By the way, it’s worth remembering that Judge Chutkan has previously recused herself from two cases involving Fusion GPS – the so-called “research firm” that helped produce the infamous fake Russian dossier. She should recuse herself from this case, too!

As we wrote last week, many constitutional law experts are warning that Trump’s prosecution is a direct assault on free speech. And the Supreme Court has already established a clear precedent from a similar case.

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to criminalize allegedly false statements by a politician for the obvious reason that doing so:

“. . . would give government a broad censorial power unprecedented . . . in our constitutional tradition. The mere potential for the exercise of that power casts a chill, a chill the First Amendment cannot permit if free speech, thought, and discourse are to remain a foundation of our freedom.”

I want to remind you again that the charges against Donald Trump have been brought by far-left prosecutors in liberal jurisdictions at the urging of our far-left president. If found guilty, Trump is likely to be put in jail until he dies.

And I couldn’t help but notice the irony that all this is happening as Vladimir Putin just used Russia’s legal system to put his leading political opponent in jail for 19 more years. The Biden Administration had the chutzpah to attack Putin for this obvious violation of the rule of law, while doing its best to duplicate such iron-fisted tactics here.