The First Amendment and The Rise Censorship in America

By

       George Sontag

 The left's assault on the First Amendment---from free speech to religious liberty---is total. Nothing is exempt from the tyrants of tolerance.”

                           - Gary Bauer - End of Day report (3/11/16)

      Four in 10 young Americans have no idea what America is. That's the conclusion of a new Pew Research poll showing that 40 percent of Americans aged 18-34 say that the government should be able to prevent people from making "statements that are offensive to minority groups." In a democracy, citizens must be able to criticize their leaders. It's a reason America's founders put free speech in the Bill of Rights.

      The Left uses “rights” agendas to wrap itself in the mantle of righteousness and seize the supposed moral high ground, tactically putting us on the defense in the process. They encourage censorship in the name of "tolerance,"but they couldn’t care less about the actual issue except in its ability to facilitate their path to power. They do this to force people to accept what they don’t agree with. It's a double standard on the part of liberals when it comes to this issue. “Free speech for me, but not for thee.”

      Perhaps the biggest censorship of all by liberals

comes in the form of political correctness which is a style of politics in which the more radical members of the left attempt to regulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate.” It is censorship before the fact. Censorship in speech not even yet given. Censorship of perceived thoughts. 

      Their attempts to destroy the first amendment can be seen on the college campuses today as......... 

• Leftists shout down unpopular ideas or simply forbid nonconforming views from being heard there in the first place. 
• Declared academic freedom an “outdated concept." 
• Declaring that freedom is oppressive and that they should not be expected to tolerate ideas that they do not share. 
• They have violently assaulted students studying in libraries and assaulted student journalists with whom they disagree. 
• They are demanding mandatory ideological indoctrination sessions for nonconforming students. 
• They have staged dozens of phony hate crimes and sexual assaults as a pretext for persecuting unpopular organizations and people....
• …...and the list goes on.

      For the past several decades, government public schools and nearly all colleges have touted socialism’s principles of redistribution, racialism and class envy while declining to make the connection between socialism and tyranny, which the lost lives of hundreds of thousands of souls in the twentieth century attest to. It’s no wonder that so many young people have a rosy view of Socialism when it’s depicted as the epitome of compassion and “fairness” instead of for the passive slavery which it imposes.

      If the First Amendment can be challenged this way; if a certain group’s “rights” can trump the U.S. Constitution, and if the Supreme Court can actually issue an edict making it so, then the entire Constitution has become meaningless. This is the Left’s true agenda and it always has been. The goal for them has always been destroying the country's identity in order to impose Democratic Socialism -- with them in charge, of course. In order to do that they have to strip America of its culture, its traditions, and most importantly, the most important law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.