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Link Posted: 2/23/2016 12:59:01 AM EDT
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As much as the Second Amendment protects the First Amendment, the First protects the Second - so they'll go after both simultaneously.

Look at the campaign finance regulations from the past which proposed a giant bureaucracy for each donation an advocacy organization received - that would cripple grassroots organizations that get most of their donations in $20 amounts; but wouldn't even slow down astro-turfed groups funded by a single billionaire.

They are already attacking the right of people to form together in groups and advocate for political causes.  Several speakers during "campaign finance reform" legislation have made it clear that the NRA was a major target.  Why?  Because us being able to get together and speak out against their gun grabs has been THE major obstacle to their plans.

Now we see this idea being promoted that the right to free speech means a right not to be offended - which is simply Orwellian reversal of the entire idea of free speech.  Free speech means having to put up with all kinds of offensive and divisive speech.
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Look at the colleges. It used to be that the 1st amendment was used as a weapon to destroy common decency and values. Now that colleges are liberal strongholds free speech is being squashed lest it challenge their beliefs.

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Link Posted: 2/23/2016 1:25:58 AM EDT
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Matt Drudge has gone on record of being told privately be a supreme court justice (he won't divulge which one) that this is in fact the case.
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Sonia Sotomayor has publicly stated that she believes "certain political speech" is not protected by the First Amendment.
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