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I remember when Pres. Obama gave this speech to the UN following the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya that US Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered at. Everyone who was critical of the attack focused on how the Obama administration allowed it to happen, why the response wasn't more forceful given the significance of attacking and murdering a US diplomat. And the timing of it, just before the 2012 election, and on the anniversary of 9-11. These were all important and valid criticisms.
But as bad as all of that was, this speech by a US president to the world in the formal world body was a far worse assault on the US, our constitution, our most important right of all, the First Amendment, that protects all the freedoms and liberties we cherish. He blamed our First Amendment for the attack and deaths. He apologized for free speech to the world. A US president for the first time in our nation's history attacked the keystone of our freedom.
While he went on to give lip service to free speech being being protected by our constitution so there was nothing he could do about it. He used flowery rhetoric that supported the notion of free speech. But he fingered free speech as being responsible for the attack and therefore required the need for citizens to be more responsible and respectful in what they say, And that those who are irresponsible with free speech should be marginalized. As his DOJ imprisoned the filmmaker on trumped up charges. When words and actions diverge trust the actions not the words.
I knew that it marked at dangerous turning point in our nation, that our First Amendment was under direct attack by our nation's leaders. And the fact that nobody else in power, not even his Republican opponents raised the alarm at what Pres. Obama's speech signified informed me that they quietly consented to restricting free speech.
The focus on the Benghazi attack was a distraction to the far bigger threat to our constitutional liberties and freedoms that this UN speech the attack provoked signified. This was the moment that war was declared on our First Amendment by the establishment, by the system, by The Swamp for lack of a better descriptor. All of the censorship since flows from this moment.
I remember when Pres. Obama gave this speech to the UN following the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya that US Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered at. Everyone who was critical of the attack focused on how the Obama administration allowed it to happen, why the response wasn't more forceful given the significance of attacking and murdering a US diplomat. And the timing of it, just before the 2012 election, and on the anniversary of 9-11. These were all important and valid criticisms.
But as bad as all of that was, this speech by a US president to the world in the formal world body was a far worse assault on the US, our constitution, our most important right of all, the First Amendment, that protects all the freedoms and liberties we cherish. He blamed our First Amendment for the attack and deaths. He apologized for free speech to the world. A US president for the first time in our nation's history attacked the keystone of our freedom.
While he went on to give lip service to free speech being being protected by our constitution so there was nothing he could do about it. He used flowery rhetoric that supported the notion of free speech. But he fingered free speech as being responsible for the attack and therefore required the need for citizens to be more responsible and respectful in what they say, And that those who are irresponsible with free speech should be marginalized. As his DOJ imprisoned the filmmaker on trumped up charges. When words and actions diverge trust the actions not the words.
I knew that it marked at dangerous turning point in our nation, that our First Amendment was under direct attack by our nation's leaders. And the fact that nobody else in power, not even his Republican opponents raised the alarm at what Pres. Obama's speech signified informed me that they quietly consented to restricting free speech.
The focus on the Benghazi attack was a distraction to the far bigger threat to our constitutional liberties and freedoms that this UN speech the attack provoked signified. This was the moment that war was declared on our First Amendment by the establishment, by the system, by The Swamp for lack of a better descriptor. All of the censorship since flows from this moment.
Obama blames the video in his UN speech
September 25, 2012 (1:40 video clip)
https://youtu.be/BfiUQASpVdc
Righteous! Love it!