Free Speech: More Powerful Than We Realize!

Free Speech: More Powerful Than We Realize!

We often, in the US, take free speech for granted, and don't realize its power. Actually, the major media is in the hands of a few very wealthy people, and ordinary people have only limited access to free speeech rights in the US, but let's look away from that for now.

DOMESTICALLY:

Before he got around to attacking environmental protection and health care for millions...Trump's first demand was to silence the media's criticism of him. He's still trying tricks to stifle criticism, beginning with the firing of the FBI director.

ABROAD:

Currently there's a major conflict brewing involving Qatar. It's a complex situation, but the first demand made the gulf oil sheikhdoms is that Qatar PUT AN END TO AL JAZEERAH.

That demand is as important as purely military and economic demands. Al Jazzerah is the ONY news medium in the region that is even partially independent of the monarchies and dictators that dominate it. And many in the Western countries look to its reporting to balance the zionist propaganda which the wealthy elite I mentioned above in the US largely identifies with, since most of the top echelon in all the major news networks are Jewish zionists.

So many people here also rely on al Jazeerah for much of their information and a basis for their free speech opinions. But the region's kings, emirs, and dictators are united in demanding an end to it as one of their key demands on the Qatari regime, which set up al Jazeerah.

PERSONAL:

As a sometime political activist, I also face media lies and dirty tricks, deliberately false slanders, and at times threats of violence, all aimed at silencing my opinions and writings. People incite violence against me with their witch hunts lies about me, quite deliberately.

All of us depend on our free speech rights, whether we make use of them right now or not...

Free Speech: More Powerful Than We Realize!
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