Kamala Harris’s Threat to Liberty: Attacking the 1st Amendment

By Dmitriy @Adobe Stock

Don’t Say You Haven’t Been Warned

Here’s one for the books. Try to imagine this: a federal government so large and so contemptuous of constitutional liberty that Elizabeth Warren is the voice of restraint and the bulwark protecting individual rights?

An Assault on the 1^st Amendment

Well, it happened recently, verifies the WSJ: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described the context of a video clip in which Kamala Harris talks about silencing someone with whom she disagrees. Once you understand the accurate context, Kamala’s comment is every bit as appalling.

Mr. Kennedy’s mistake is in presenting the video as depicting our vice president describing why she thinks Elon Musk and his X media platform should be denied the right to free speech. In fact, it’s a clip from 2019 in which Ms. Harris was trying to silence President Donald Trump and trample on First Amendment rights across all social media platforms.

Freedom of Speech for Kamala; Not for the Rest of Us

In 209, when X was called Twitter, Kamala Harris told CNN about her campaign to pressure Twitter to turn off Mr. Trump’s account:

According to Harris, Trump should be taken down because he had lost his privileges:

And the bottom line is that you can’t say that you have one rule for Facebook and you have a different rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation, and that has to stop.

Citizens expect the government to regulate speech across all media platforms and dictate one set of rules for what people are permitted to say. This is a proposal, however, for a frontal assault on the First Amendment and a great reason for voters not to grant Ms. Harris the promotion she now seeks.

Why most media outlets have not regarded her authoritarian message as disqualifying for the presidency is a question for another day. But it’s important that Mr. Kennedy’s error not obscure the danger to liberty expressed by a candidate in her own words.

“Kamala Harris didn’t want Mr. Trump to be able to defend himself in the public square.” And that, notes Mr. Freeman, “should concern every American,” whether (he) supports Mr. Trump or not.