You seem to be missing an opportunity to make a less political and much more poignant case.
1. Isn’t this “recession” now decades old? Whether 9/11 and resulting legislation serve as accelerants I’ll leave to so called experts but the actions since then, by all US admins and European govts and agencies (including UK) is disturbingly palpable.
Concur with Chortl. I'm also am a free speech absolutist as Greg Lukianof would consider. Free speech is the bedrock upon which people build free and open societies, which in turn enables freedom of inquiry that generates knowledge and then the University provisioned institutional scaffolding for building knowledge generationally, the engine that propelled America from a backwater colony transformed into American today.
I recognize the peril other free and open societies around the world face, but none of them benefit from the American Constitutional Right as enshrined in the bedrock of American Law. And we have our hands full at home.
Our government response to Covid after imposing a nationwide emergency lockdown served stated initial purpose - stop or slow spread overwhelming our underprepared health care infrastructure - was deliberately managed into a year's long series of assaults our Constitutional Rights, Government censorship silenced dissenting voices often inflicting extradudicial punishment as well - a whole of government illegal exercise in wholesale use of force against American citizens.
The government also unlawfully wielded its economic force to deprive Americans of their ability to earn money - the tactics of destroying professional reputations to silence dissenting voices had the added benefits of rendering them unemployable in their fields so unable to earn a living and serving as an example to chill free speech of their peers and the economic coersion in largely shutting down the American economy deprived many Americans of their jobs, their livelihoods supporting them and their families. The government also experimented with debanking - directing banks to freeze the accounts of targeted Americans. Our courts long established under law that money is a form of political free speech - so there's a case to be made for depriving Americans of money or their ability to earn money constitutes violations of our rights to free speech.
Clearly free speech is under attack, I guess that literally everyone who regularly visits this site is already concerned if not alarmed as you are.
So I'll just have to wonder what inspired you to frame your article the way you did, the litany of examples you choose to site as examples, the others you choose to omit, and most critically what is to be done in defense of this existential threat to free societies?
You seem to be missing an opportunity to make a less political and much more poignant case.
1. Isn’t this “recession” now decades old? Whether 9/11 and resulting legislation serve as accelerants I’ll leave to so called experts but the actions since then, by all US admins and European govts and agencies (including UK) is disturbingly palpable.
2. And to reinforce #1 pls see reporting on this current (not good) event: A. https://www.public.news/p/exclusive-obama-linked-stanford-center?r=1tfpnw&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player B. https://www.public.news/p/house-judiciary-chairman-jim-jordan?r=1tfpnw&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player
Concur with Chortl. I'm also am a free speech absolutist as Greg Lukianof would consider. Free speech is the bedrock upon which people build free and open societies, which in turn enables freedom of inquiry that generates knowledge and then the University provisioned institutional scaffolding for building knowledge generationally, the engine that propelled America from a backwater colony transformed into American today.
I recognize the peril other free and open societies around the world face, but none of them benefit from the American Constitutional Right as enshrined in the bedrock of American Law. And we have our hands full at home.
Our government response to Covid after imposing a nationwide emergency lockdown served stated initial purpose - stop or slow spread overwhelming our underprepared health care infrastructure - was deliberately managed into a year's long series of assaults our Constitutional Rights, Government censorship silenced dissenting voices often inflicting extradudicial punishment as well - a whole of government illegal exercise in wholesale use of force against American citizens.
The government also unlawfully wielded its economic force to deprive Americans of their ability to earn money - the tactics of destroying professional reputations to silence dissenting voices had the added benefits of rendering them unemployable in their fields so unable to earn a living and serving as an example to chill free speech of their peers and the economic coersion in largely shutting down the American economy deprived many Americans of their jobs, their livelihoods supporting them and their families. The government also experimented with debanking - directing banks to freeze the accounts of targeted Americans. Our courts long established under law that money is a form of political free speech - so there's a case to be made for depriving Americans of money or their ability to earn money constitutes violations of our rights to free speech.
Clearly free speech is under attack, I guess that literally everyone who regularly visits this site is already concerned if not alarmed as you are.
So I'll just have to wonder what inspired you to frame your article the way you did, the litany of examples you choose to site as examples, the others you choose to omit, and most critically what is to be done in defense of this existential threat to free societies?