Dakota Beacon

Americans have unfortunately become accustomed to be treated like children - and not just any children but children in a Dickensian orphanage.  We are denied the right to communicate with each other via Twitter without Twitter’s niggardly approval.  This applies to the President of the United States, too, by the way.  We are watching the news, the President’s Press Secretary is conveying a message of vital importance to all Americans (not just Trump supporters), the host of the news program on which it is being presented suddenly cuts away and says he isn’t sure we should be allowed to hear this.  Well, aside from a few disgruntled conservatives who haven’t kept up and didn’t realize that Fox News sold out long ago, it didn’t matter.  Fox lost some viewers.  They figure they’ll be back, and they’re probably right.  

Today I read the headline in Breitbart that Target is removing a book from its shelves because some ass complained - on Twitter.  This was a message Twitter allowed to go through.  This book exposes the dangers of transgendering children.  We are not supposed to hear that message or evaluate it.  Not allowed.  Tsk, tsk, Target.  How did you let that get through your system?  

The next story is one in which we learn that a law firm heretofore representing the Trump campaign in the scandalous Pennsylvania election fraud has terminated its services “due to pressure”.  Well, imagine that.  So now we are denied process of law and legal representation because someone out there doesn’t think he’ll like the result.  Aside from the obvious - that anyone who doesn’t want to find out what went wrong and why there are problems with the voting and counting system in Pennsylvania is either in on it or trying to provide cover - why would there be “pressure”?  Surely, if there is no wrongdoing everyone should want to get at the truth. Any form or kind of interference with this clearly violates our established right to redress of grievances and access to the courts.  Why, we must ask ourselves, would someone want to interfere with this?  

We have become increasingly polarized - we are either on the bully team - of late largely Democrat activists - or the rest of us.  On the sidelines are those who are cheering on the bullies or standing by feeling all depressed because they know this isn’t right but don’t know what to do about it.  Well, I’d say, this.  If these drones who smile when someone they don’t like is being abused, just because of who it is, aren’t very careful, they may be the next fodder chewed up by the abuse machine.  (It’s already happening to Democrats who don’t think they want to let Black Lives Matter and Antifa take over their party, but the rank and file haven’t caught on yet.)  And those who stand by and act all helpless or just resign themselves to the idea that what they think doesn’t matter, they are also a part of the problem.  

Our First Amendment is being skirted by social media which simply shuts down our communication if they happen to notice us saying something they don’t agree with.  It doesn’t matter if it is something important or something innocuous, it only matters if the monitors of our conversation agree with it and like it.    I have said this here many times but it bears repeating:  Freedom of speech is really the right of the listener or the reader, not so much of the speaker or the writer.  The writer/speaker has information or an opinion or expertise he wishes to share with the reader/listener.  He has this.  He wants to make it available to the other party.  Who is being deprived here?  You can’t take knowledge away from the giver, he has it already and unless he becomes a victim of dementia, he will continue to have his information.  But the receiver of the information is being deprived.  That’s you.  That’s me.  Freedom of speech is the freedom to hear speech.  That’s what is meant by the First Amendment right.  

If we descend into thugdom - a place where someone’s naughty pictures in the wrong hands or someone’s perhaps creative bookkeeping is known to someone who would control him, or whatever the blackmail victim most fears, becomes the tool with which the fate of our system of law is destroyed, we just need to know what they are doing and stop it.  This is why character matters.  This is why we also can’t afford a “President Biden”.  There is hardly room in his closet for any more skeletons.  Just as these Philadelphia lawyers are being manipulated like marionettes by the Democrat corruption machine, so will Biden be manipulated by everyone who is a crook, whether in China, Ukraine, Russia, or any other shady corner of the earth.  

In the meantime, we could make these moral weaklings pay.  Boycott Target for starters, and let them know why.  They will be in need of any honest dollar they can find - they are reopening their MInneapolis store -  yeah, the one that was totaled by the rioters last summer.  They want to make amends for being trashed by offering more products that appeal to the black community, they say.  I wonder what those products might be?  As racist as Target is here, we might well wonder.  And while you’re at it, find an alternative to your Fox News.  There are plenty of them.  One America News, Newsmax, NTD, other independent sources will do you a lot more good than Fox.  And if they decide to sell out, find others.

Our right to our system of law is being denied, our right to hear what others have to say and to speak freely is being denied, people are afraid to say anything because they are likely to lose their jobs or worse - be targeted by arsonists and murderers.  Our country is in a very sorry state and it is bound to become worse if we don’t reverse this.  We need to get a handle on this.  Let the damn process work its way to the truth.  The TRUTH is what we should ALL desire to find.  If someone is put off by the search for truth, he is guilty of being found out.  It’s that simple.  Let people express their opinions freely without reprisals.  Stop the violence.  (It is a good thing, although long overdue, that Esper’s service in the Defense Department was terminated.)

For most of us, we should continue to speak out, continue to repost articles of importance, boycott those companies (such as Target, the New York Times and others).  Let them know why you aren’t shopping there or buying their products anymore.  There should be a cost to those who would subvert our constitutional rights.  I actually am taking AOC’s advice - I’m making my own list.  I hope it won’t get too long - I’d like to see a culture change where we go back to the America where people were not afraid to speak up if they saw something wrong or something right where they did not fear being put out of work and losing their career for exercising their rights, where lawyers were not so lacking in character that they were willing to sell out a client because of a threat of blackmail.  Hmm.  I wonder which one of those partners has the naughty pictures?

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