Posted on Feb 8, 2017
Conspiring to stifle free speech is a crime: Glenn Reynolds
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This is really interesting.... those who scream about free speech, are the very ones killing it. I believe what they really want is free speech if they agree with the message. That is not free speech.
Conspiring to stifle free speech is a crime: Glenn Reynolds
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Classic example but likely not from the side you expect, is Sen Warren being silenced in Senate yesterday. She wanted to read a letter from Coretta Scott King that had been read years ago during hearings for Sen. Sessions AG hearing. Sen. McConnell asked the Chair to order her to sit down because she was "impugning" a fellow Senator. She was ordered to sit down and remain silent for remainder of hearings. Reminds me of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men and his comment "you can't handle the truth". A new low for our adult leadership.
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I don't know because she was not allowed to speak and ordered to take her seat. She was trying to read a letter that had previously been read in the Senate over 30 years ago. I believe she was censured because she said she agreed with the contents of the letter and that was ruled as a violation of rule 19 against Senators impugning each other in open testimony. If she had just read it without adding her endorsement she may have been allowed to finish. Several Dem Senators read parts of the letter in blocks of testimony today without any disruption.
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