Udo Ulfkotte, the German newspaper editor who was fired 2 years ago for reporting on the CIA’s control of most major world newspapers, has been found dead at 56. See here. Reportedly, Ulfkotte died of a heart attack. Ulfkotte exposed the CIA’s payments to most of the world’s top journalists, newspapers and TV news programs. …
Category: Free speech under siege
Dec 22
Chinese government arrests civil liberties activist for exposing “state secrets”
Every government ultimately comes for all property, all freedom, and to kill all who resist. For decades, Chinese governments chased, hunted, imprisoned and killed libertarian advocates or critics of the state. This repression eased slightly with market freedoms, and as Chinese society slowly became more prosperous. Now, however, The founder of one of China’s few …
Nov 19
Pro-government news sources decry the influence of “fake news”
Once again, there is a major push among government trusters to censor anti-government or alternative news. Pro-government forces who decry the election of Donald Trump two weeks ago are blaming the increasing influence of alternative news sources. They couldn’t force voters to view their tired, old, dying pro-government “news” sources. Now pro-government sources are launching …
Nov 05
Government university expels student for Facebook posts–and a federal appellate court upholds the expulsion!
America’s government universities are the least free places in the country. A nursing student at Central Lakes College was removed from the nursing degree program after a number of his Facebook posts were found to be ‘unprofessional’ by a government administrator. (Not threatening, defamatory or harassing.) And the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals–a typical …
Oct 27
“News” establishment begs critics to stop criticizing
The safest profession in the world is probably journalism in support of the state. Undoubtedly, the most dangerous profession in the world is journalism in opposition to the state. For years, America’s pro-government (“mainstream”) press has promoted an agenda of increasing government power and control. Political movements which threaten the dominance of established government have …
Oct 05
U.S. government spends 1.5 billion dollars ANNUALLY on public relations
Barack Obama became president of the United States in 2008 with the support of about $2 billion. (Because the presidential election is a two-year cycle, this means that the cost of promoting Obama to the Presidency was approximately $1 billion annually.) Campaign finance “reformers” routinely decry “money in politics” and push for government controls on …
Oct 04
U.S. Secretary of State discussed using a ‘drone strike’ to murder reporter Julian Assange
Every tyrant, king, president, czar or prime minister has always dreamed of having omnipotent power to snuff out criticism or critical journalism. Now there is a report that Hillary Clinton, as U.S. Secretary of State, thought seriously about killing Julian Assange (founder of the website Wikilieaks, which has exposed massive government corruption) by a drone …
Aug 14
Dr. Roger Roots to speak on campaign finance law in Kalispell, Montana on Sept. 11
Dr. Roger Roots will lecture on campaign finance law in Kalispell, Montana on Sunday night, September 11, 2016. The lecture will take place at 7:30 PM at PERKINS DINER (EVERGREEN) in Kalispell.
Aug 09
Vast Majority of Americans Dispute Government’s Claim that CO2-Caused Climate Change is “Settled”; Oppose Persecution of Doubters
Last Month the Democratic National Platform was changed to support government prosecution of those who doubt the government’s apocalyptic-global-warming-by-human-produced-carbon-dioxide theory. Now there is polling showing the VAST MAJORITY of voters–Republicans, Democrats and Independents–oppose such persecution. In fact, the VAST MAJORITY disagree that “the science is settled,” as government voices loudly decree. Only 25 percent of …
Aug 07
FIRST AMENDMENT LECTURE: Every Claim of Campaign Finance Reformers is Untrue
It is perhaps the biggest myth in American politics: that the private sector is “buying” elections through campaign spending. A version of this myth goes further and contends that capitalist billionaires are using political ads to move American government toward more free-market policies. One can find dozens of books (and hundreds of politicians) making these …
