Dear Friends,
It seems to me, if you’re afraid to use your Constitutional Rights, you don’t really have Constitutional Rights, you have, at best, pacifying prose printed on friable paper. Think about it, do you feel as if you can say anything you want, short of yelling fire in a crowded theater? Do you self censor because you believe you would be chastised for having an opinion that isn’t sanctioned by the authority? Do you think other people do? I’ve been told to tone it down else the authorities could knock on my door. Have you? Do you take measures to keep some personal information away from the government? Do you lament their knowing everything about you despite your efforts? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you don’t have Constitutional Rights, you have pacifying prose printed on friable paper.
People self censor because of fear. Maybe the government has gone full 1984 and has literal thought police, that arrest you as some psychopath recites a poem, “Here comes a candle to light up your bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head…” or perhaps the faction that controls the government, stem, branch and root, has storm troops that beat you up for having the wrong opinion. Like the Bolsheviks did in the 1920s, the NAZIS did in the 1930s and the post modernists do now, with ANTIFA and BLM. Government sanctioned goons to intimidate and if needed, beat up a few people, to enforce self censorship. Ask Andy Ngo. He had the bad taste to record an ANTIFA riot and was beaten to a jelly, several times. ANTIFA admitted it and was found innocent in an act of jury nullification.
Then there is social media censorship at the government’s behest. Even as a judge ordered it stopped, it continues. The faction that runs it all, deems what can and what cannot be said, then have their minions in the social media monopolies make it happen. Underhanded, unconstitutional and effective, government has shut down debate on a myriad of subjects by this method. Thereby subverting our Constitution and the Rights promised in it under the Bill of Rights. From the origins of covid and the astonishing side effects of the vaccine that isn’t, to climate change and if boys can be girls, debate has been sidelined, so only the experts have a say. Anything said by a non expert is misinformation anyway. Even if it’s true. A Right must be usable, else it is not a Right, it’s something else.
The total undermining of our Constitutional Rights in court is another intimidation tactic. We know that at best, a criminal charge will bankrupt us, even if we win, but at worse, no matter how politically motivated, we go to prison. Meanwhile those perverting the law, exploiting their authority for personal gain and literally corroding our Constitution, face zero consequences for their actions. They are above the same law they use against their political foes. After seeing the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the astounding bias in our court system is obvious for anyone to see. History will record many important trials that have been denied, due to ripeness, latches, mootness and standing. They’ll be a source of ridicule. Then there are the indictments of Trump. All intended to scare us into self censoring.
Never in the history of the US has such a group of villains had control of our government, stem, root and branch. They’ve reduced our Constitution to placating prose printed on friable paper. Most are afraid to use their Constitutional Rights, and too afraid to be outraged, when someone’s Constitutional Rights are violated. The assault on our Constitution has been aggressive and illegal but effective. Since the administrative state decides who will be charged with a crime, they choose to charge only those they dislike. People who serve the faction in charge are above the law. We all know this, we all see that law has become a means to intimidate the citizen, yet we do nothing. Why? Because we’re scared. Cowering hasn’t worked, maybe try writing your representative, senator and speaker of the House?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
