By Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
If there is one take-away from reading Judge Terry Doughty\u2019s masterful 155 page Ruling on the Request for Preliminary Injunction<\/span><\/a>\u201c besides that it was always \u201cabout the Free Speech Clause in the First Amendment to the US Constitution,\u201d <\/i>it is that the Biden Administration has deliberately and with forethought crossed the Rubicon in creating a totalitarian society by proposing \u2018irreparable harm<\/i>\u201d to the US Constitution.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As the\u00a0 <\/span>Injunction articulated \u201cif the Plaintiff\u2019s allegations are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States\u2019 history,<\/i>\u201d one inescapable conclusion in the exhaustive ruling is that the Biden Administration has dismantled the Bill of Rights<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u2019<\/span> as a crown jewel, redefining the First Amendment<\/span><\/a> into its own Orwellian Ministry of Truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Designated almost 250 years ago, the First Amendment was clearly identified as the most essential, the most imperative of all amendments as the guarantee of a free people with divine liberties granted to the American Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n The Injunction was initiated by AG Jeff Landry of Louisiana and then AG Eric Schmitt of Missouri, now a US Senator and includes Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Jim Hoft of Gateway News, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Jill Hines as Plaintiffs \u2013 and we Americans are in their debt. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Appropriately issued on US Independence Day, the historic Preliminary Injunction prohibits the DHS, FBI, DOJ and other Federal government agencies from continuing a coordinated and widespread collusion with Big Tech as the Feds have used its considerable power to suppress opposing views for the purpose of singling out mostly conservative speech for censorship. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In what amounts to a restraining order despite certain exceptions allowing the government to function on questions of national security, <\/span>the Injunction implicates Federal agencies named as \u201cDefendants\u201d including the President and at least forty-nine unelected embedded federal officials known as the SES<\/span><\/a>, ten of whom are White House staff.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ruling reveals chilling details with multiple specifics of Biden Administration bullying and coercion involving as many as ten Social Media Platforms, revealing how easily the SMP\u2019s folded like a tent, all of which readily cooperated with policy directives from the Federal government. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Ruling shows that the White House (pgs. 9-27) wasted no time in launching a back-channel regime, presuming what it thought was authority to define mis\/disinformation and ban social media platforms from communicating any prohibited content, quashing every American\u2019s right to know the truth of free and unfettered speech.<\/span><\/p>\n Not waiting for a green light, three days after Biden\u2019s inauguration on January 23, the White House requested that Twitter remove an anti-Covid vaccine tweet from its arch-nemesis Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.\u00a0 <\/span>Less than two weeks later, on February 7<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> Twitter sent the White House a \u201cPartner Support Portal\u2019 to facilitate streamlining censorship requests and on February 8th, Facebook informed the White House of its expanded Covid 19 censorship policy to remove \u201cfalse claims<\/i>\u201d from FB and Instagram.\u00a0 <\/span>On February 9<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>, the White House accused FB of \u2018political violence<\/i>\u201d by failing to censor \u2018false<\/i>\u2019 Covid 19 claims despite FB responding that \u201cvaccine skeptical\u2019<\/i> content does not violate FB policy; FB voluntarily \u201creduced distribution\u2019<\/i> thereby limiting number of public hits.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n For ease of comprehension, the Ruling identified culpable entities as \u201cDefendant\u201d such as the Surgeon General (pgs. 28-38), CDC (38-49), NIAID (49-53),\u00a0 <\/span>FBI (58-67), CISA (68-77) and the State Dept including GEC (77-86), the Election Integrity Project (EIP 80-83) and the Virality Project (84-85).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As the alleged defender of the Constitution, the curiously incurious FBI Director Chris Wray\u2019s appearance during the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing revealed his disdain for the Injunction which identifies the FBI as a Defendant.\u00a0 <\/span>Wray publicly admitted he had not read, at minimum, the pages devoted to the FBI\u2019s vigorous\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>leadership which revealed the willful protection of the Hunter Biden laptop beyond the 2020 election while hosting the \u2018industry working group<\/i>\u201d meetings which began in 2018.\u00a0 <\/span>Wray gave no indication whether he would abide by the Injunction to cease collusion with the SMPs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Ruling reported that during deposition, FBI officials indicated they believed pressure from the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence \u201cresulted in more aggressive censorship policies<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In a July 11 letter<\/span><\/a> to House Appropriations Chair Kay Granger, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan requested\u00a0 <\/span>the elimination of public funds for the \u201cGlobal Engagement Center (GEC) and other governmental and non-governmental entities that are engaged in speech suppression<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some of those entities referred to include the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>(CISA) as part of\u00a0 <\/span>the Homeland Security Department in 2018 to reduce and eliminate threats to critical physical and cyber infrastructure while identifying \u2018disinformation<\/i>\u201d associated with election security<\/span><\/a> in the 2020 – 2022 elections. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Billed as America\u2019s Cyber Defense Agency, CISA is identified in the Injunction as a lead agency coordinating and in corroboration with other cyber related entities detailing a management coordination and logistic effort routing suppressed material to the SMP industry which began in 2018. \u00a0 <\/span>CISA also coordinates with the DHS and the CDC as the Agency plans to \u201cbeef up its dis\/mis teams in the wake of a diverse presidential election.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n By mid November 2020, CISA\u2019s Director\u00a0 <\/span>confirmed\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c<\/span>there is no evidence that any voting system\u2026 was in any way compromised.”<\/i>[1<\/sup><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n CISA\u2019s June, 2022 Draft Report <\/i>broadened its work to \u201cprotecting cognitive infrastructure<\/i>\u201d <\/i>from the spread of \u201cfalse and misleading information because it poses a significant risk to critical function, like elections, public health, financial services and emergency responses.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Other participants identified in the Injunction, not as State Department Defendants yet share a common interest in elections, \u2018disinformation\u2019 and suppressing First Amendment rights, all function in corroboration with CISA includes CIS<\/span><\/a>, a CISA-funded, non profit affiliate working on a \u201cportal\u201d for government officials to report election-related misinformation to social-media platforms\u201d <\/i>since September, 2022 <\/i>which continues today.<\/span><\/p>\n The elite Stanford Internet Observatory<\/span><\/a> also identified as a Cyber Policy Center founded the Election Integrity Partnership<\/span><\/a> in 2020 operational through the 2022 election and remains operational today as the Virality Project<\/span><\/a> was established soon after EIP in order to monitor Covid 19 anti-vaccine narratives.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In addition, while not named in the Injunction, the \u201cCenter for Countering Digital Hate\u201d(CCDH) stands out as influential as it defines \u201csocial media companies undermine human rights and civil liberties by allowing hate and lies to spread on their platform\u201d<\/i> s<\/span>pecializing in mis\/dis information on anti vax, climate, LGBTQ, election and state media issues.<\/span><\/p>\n *<\/span><\/p>\n Almost immediately, the Biden Administration filed a Notice of Appeal<\/span><\/a> on July 5<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>with the Fifth Circuit Court<\/span><\/a> of Appeals in New Orleans on behalf of all Defendants. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n On July 10, Judge Doughty denied<\/span><\/a> a DOJ request<\/span><\/a> to temporarily pause the Injunction filed on July 4<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> blocking Biden Administration and its Federal agencies from influencing SMPs. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOnce a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one place to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.<\/i> \u201c \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>President Harry S. Truman\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Renee Parsons\u00a0served on the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n More<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>State Dept Defendants (GEC)(78-79) EIP (pg. 80-83), Virality Project (84-85),\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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