D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman’s diatribe amounted to an assault on a Supreme Court decision that set the framework for modern defamation law.
Source: Federal judge pens dissent slamming decades-old press protections
Conservatives are being oppressed by overwhelmingly liberal news media, academia and technology companies. That has created “a frighteningly orthodox media culture,” he wrote.
“The increased power of the press is so dangerous today because we are very close to one-party control of these institutions,” the judge declared. “Although the bias against the Republican Party—not just controversial individuals—is rather shocking today, this is not new; it is a long-term, secular trend going back at least to the ’70s….One-party control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy.”
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His pinpointing of the degradation going back to 70’s correlates with the hijacking and defaulting on the dollar. It is not a mere coincident. We are dangerously close to where counter positions, whether conservative or liberal, any shade in between, or even outside those definitions, is considered heresy, ‘out of the spirit,’ against the orthodoxy, and will be punished with violence, or the threat of violence.
Right now these are using the soft power, of carrots dangled in front of the horse, of creating the perception of fear, threats, chaos. Unless you do all that you can for freedom of speech, freedom of choice, especially with your economic energy dispersed in the world you will reap what has been sowed.
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