by Roger I. Roots, Founder, Lysander Spooner University Over the past few years, I have become more interested in the topic of campaign finance laws, and how such laws interfere with freedom of speech. Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, there have been thousands of published proclamations that campaign speech freedom will bring …
Category: Free speech under siege
Dec 18
Saudi Arabia Prepares to Behead Teenager for Attending Protest
Every government that ever existed ultimately came for all freedom, al property, all money, and to kill all who resist. Saudi Arabia is preparing to behead a teenager who attended a protest rally at age 15. The teen says he didn’t even understand the nature of the protest at the time. See here. Like Joan …
Dec 10
Public High School Shuts Down “Conservative” Speech Because it “Crossed the Line”
America’s youth concentration camps , er . . . public schools, offer very little education, but provide a great deal of government-supremacist indoctrination. Facts about the relationship between capitalism and prosperity are deemed too radical to be presented to impressionable minds. Students are taught to seek all blessings from the state and its omnipotent ministers. …
Dec 09
France has become anti-Muslim police state
It is unfortunate that today’s Muslim societies are authoritarian strongholds where there is little due process of law (in the Anglo-American sense). It is even more unfortunate that France–one of the great fountains of liberty over the past 1000 years–appears to be embracing an almost-Islamic level of authoritarianism, ironically aimed at suppressing the French Muslim …
Dec 03
French Government Begins Closing Mosques
So much for freedom of religion in France. For that matter, so much for the relative freedom of the western world. In the wake of the Islamist-generated terrorist attacks at a Paris heavy metal concert two weeks ago, French SWAT teams are raiding and shuttering Muslim religious facilities across France. The mosques are being shut …
Nov 24
France: Warrantless Raids, Suspicionless Detentions, Limits on Free Speech and Assembly
Terrorist attacks in Paris last week have already taken their toll on French freedom. France is now a land of warrantless raids and arrests, paramilitary squads roaming the streets and Government limitations on freedom of speech and assembly. See here.
Nov 11
Pro-Government Professors Intimidate Reporters at University of Missouri
Every time one walks onto a typical government-supported college campus, he enters a world of less freedom, more intimidation, and higher costs. Parking is entirely free almost everywhere in Montana or Wyoming. Except on government college campuses. The entirety of government funding of higher education is based on a notion that such funding helps “the …
Nov 09
Yale University Erupts in Violent Screaming as Students Demand a Campus “Safe” from Intellectual Diversity
Not only are American colleges generally staffed with extreme trusters of the state. See here. The drive for “safety” from alternative ideas now predominates student discussions and drives out all principles of intellectual openness, freedom or diversity. Witness this video of students shouting down a Yale University officer for suggesting he has a duty to …
Nov 01
Another College “Disinvites” A Speaker for Presenting Governmentally-Incorrect Views
America’s colleges overwhelmingly promote–often with government funds taken by force from taxpayers–an extremist, pro-government, socialist and elitist doctrine. Now Williams College, a once-prestigious liberal arts college in Massachusetts–has banned a speaker from an event after inviting her to speak. See here. It is the greatest irony that Williams College had begun to recognize that its …
Nov 01
European Union Votes to Give Edward Snowden Asylum
There was a time–decades ago–when the United States were considered the freest soil on earth. Now the international community increasingly recognizes that the U.S. government is among the world’s most totalitarian states–especially with regard to the U.S. government’s vast surveillance and takeover of cyberspace, cell, and internet technology. This past week, the European Union voted …
