Democratic Socialists Continue to Attack the First Amendment

By

       M. Richard Maxson

     The FIRST AMENDMENT:

"CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

or abridging the freedom of speech,

or of the press;

or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,

and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

      An appalling undercurrent has sprung into the current political scene. It is as anti-American as the Socialist-Progressive-Communism from which it has sprung. We have seen it this week as roads are

blocked to deny fellow citizens their rights. We have seen it in political rallies where Leftists, bent on stopping free speech that they don't agree with, are disrupting these events in an attempt to affect the coming election. In the name of "tolerance" it is being allowed to unfold and patriotic Americans are powerless to stop it. The "IT" is the destruction of the First Amendments guarantee of Freedom of Speech. 

      We are watching the coming of age for a new generation. An anti-American generation of youth molded in closet Communism in our own schools and universities and led to believe that these ideals are fair and moral when nothing could be further from reality. They are becoming a generation of sound-bites, mis-information, and intolerance.  A generation schooled by Marxist ideology that will one day shutdown free speech completely. A generation that will purge dissenting viewpoints. A generation that will shutter our churches and burn our books. We are watching the generation that is destroying America.

      Free speech has never been, in the history of our Republic, more comprehensively, aggressively, and dangerously threatened than it is now.  University campuses are supposed to be a place for an open exchange of ideas, but liberals on many college campuses are no longer willing to hear both sides of the conversation. Student groups across the country have decided that a free exchange of ideas is no longer a welcome quality on college campuses—unless they agree with all the ideas being exchanged.  There is a belief that the First Amendment is a mistake and that the real right people have regarding speech is the right to avoid speech.  On our campuses there has never been more intellectual ingenuity devoted towards rationalizing the disappearance of the First Amendment. Its an attack on the theory of freedom of speech. It is an attack on the desirability of free speech.

      Our nation's public universities are now breeding grounds for anti-American and un-Constitutional beliefs as a new survey from the Pew Research Center reveals that a shocking number of Millennials support curbing free speech. According to their findings, 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 believe the government should be able to ban any speech that is offensive. The Leftist Progressive party has already attempted to legally dismantle this Constitutional right. Every single Democrat in the United States Senate voted to repeal the essential guarantee of freedom of speech by voting for Senate Joint Resolution 19, a constitutional amendment introduced by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.). Thank goodness it failed, but had it passed and been ratified as part of our Constitution, the words “Congress shall pass no law” would have been blotted out of the First Amendment!

      Many pundits have done a tremendous job documenting the methodical way in which our public institutions, our political parties, and our media have been turned against us and our Constitution. Those who do not agree with the rampaging mob of anti-free speech protesters have been threatened,  ridiculed, and minimized– their voices silenced. We, as all true Patriots and Americans, cannot and must not be silenced.