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Happy New Year

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is under attack from the Socialist Marxist left wing of the political party currently in the majority in our national government.

Our current national government, along with the leftist controlled news media, Internet, etc. have joined together to virtually negate and eliminate the freedoms granted to you and I by the First Amendment.

Quoting verbatim from our U.S. Constitution, Amendment One states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Even before Biden was elected President, some bureaus of the U.S. government were infringing upon and violating the rights of a large percentage of citizens. Using the COVID scare leftist controlled states and metropolitan cities shut down the right of churchgoers and citizens in general to peaceably assemble. Their excuse was “science.” Any questioning of the basis of this so-called science was squelched. The liberal news media, being the lap dogs of the party, eagerly touted the message of fear to cause Americans to cower at home.

Churches were all but completely shut down violating our right of free exercise of religion and seriously infringing on the prohibition of making laws “respecting an establishment of religion.” We were further prohibited from our right to peaceably assemble, unless you were a liberal Dem and then you could riot, burn and loot, go to public dinners in large groups, etc.

Facts are finally coming forth that substantiates that many of the rules and mandates that were fabricated to control the spread of COVID, were in fact useless. On the other hand they were, and still are used to cause millions of formerly free American citizens to cower in fear and bow in servitude to the federal government (along with many Democrat ruled states). Many of the leftist controlled state leaders rejoiced as they were able to exert iron control over the citizens of their states. Not even in World War 2 were such strict controls over the general American population put into effect.

More troubling is the collusion of the super-large corporations that control vast portions of the Internet, print and TV media as they work hand-in-hand with the fear mongers to beat you and I into being blindly submissive.

In case you are too young to remember, the Internet was first established during WWII to facilitate the exchange of information between scientists, engineers and companies who were working with the government to design weapons and technology used to win the war.

It was continued in the following years as the communist threat replaced the previous threats of WWII. As time went on, our national and worldwide communication system grew and improved to the point that more and more private citizens of the world were able to connect to the Internet. I still remember America On Line and the really fast 12-kilobit modems!

Years went by and the soon to be mega-corporations gobbled up the smaller companies and now we have Google, Facebook and Co., and Yahoo as the 3 major corporations that control the internet. Guess what? They have the ability to control the information and conversations you are allowed.

Your freedom of speech is now greatly controlled by these mega-corporations that also support the current leftist, dare I say it, socialist leaning national government. Working hand-in-hand with the Biden administration they have successfully choked off most conservative viewpoints. Any post that they deem incorrect for any reason is instantly blocked and your access is pulled, even if it is proven true later on! Makes you wonder. What happened to the right of free speech?

Supposedly these corporate entities were to give us freedom of expression and freedom of access. Today they are doing exactly the opposite. The current federal government finds absolutely nothing wrong with this. I wonder why?

Do we have the freedoms spoken of in the First Amendment? I do not believe we do. What is to be done about it? Well folks, that is in your hands. You can roll over and play dead, or you can actively oppose this trend in government, etc.

Either way it won’t be easy or enjoyable, but the final outcome will define our nation’s future. It is time to choose. You can overcome fear with action – if you choose. In the New Year 2022 I hope and pray that we who treasure our God-given freedoms will find the strength of will to stand up and defend them from government interference and overreach. Otherwise the new year will be bleaker than the old.

 

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