Former FEC Chair and Obama appointee Ann Ravel has called for a “reinterpretation” of the 1st Amendment. This can only mean government restriction on speech with deadly consequences that can expected. The Daily Caller reports:
A “libertarian interpretation” of the First Amendment is responsible for more “violent hate crime” in the United States than terrorism, a former Federal Election Commission chair claimed Thursday.
“The libertarian interpretation of the 1st Amendment has permitted a huge spike in violent hate crimes in the US – many more than foreign attacks,” former FEC Chair Ann Ravel wrote on Twitter.
Critics: The feds need to up their game against domestic extremists https://t.co/LomEfdy4dU via @NBCNews
The libertarian interpretation of the 1st Amendment has permitted a huge spike in violent hate crimes in the US – many more than Foreign [email protected]— Ann Ravel (@AnnMRavel) May 23, 2019
Ravel linked to a story noting a statistic from the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, which found that 78% of the 50 U.S. murders related to extremism in 2018 were carried out by white supremacists. The story also noted the FBI has approximately 5,000 open terrorism investigations around the world, of which 850 are in the U.S.
The First Amendment is essential to keep an all powerful government away from private lives and consciences. The moment the First Amendment is breached because ideas are too radical, then you can only expect more to follow.
” Ravel linked to a story noting a statistic from the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, which found that 78% of the 50 U.S. murders related to extremism in 2018 were carried out by white supremacists.”
DEMOCRATS KILL PEOPLE
>> Maybe the ‘NRA’ should ban Democrats
>> In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound. In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States. In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States. In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant. In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office. In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office. In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s cafeteria. In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory. In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service. In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US. In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant. In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and in 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others. In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people. In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis. In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school. As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard. One could go on, but you get the point, even if the media does not. Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. Not one NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservatives were involved in these shootings and murders. SOLUTION: It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns. Best idea I’ve heard to date.
All liberals should be packed into cartons and sent to Kenya. Maybe they can find Odumbo’s relatives.
They are itching for a second revolution!
And I would guess that she or someone of her political philosophy would be in charge of determining which speech will be restricted. No thanks.
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This is a bunch of crap. Terrorism and the first amendment have nothing in common. Their real purpose is ti label anything they disagree with as hate speech. Never allow the first amendment to be touched. once you start messing with the constitution all parts of it can be attacked and this means the second amendment. If they can curb speech they can curb gun ownership.
Weaken the 1st…then attack the second….jail the seditionists.
The penalty for Sedition should be Crucifixion, followed by cremation!
Wow, you sure reject the Bill of Rights.
Amendment 1: 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 to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. This Ann Ravel’s is a stoned snowflake and a leftist of the highest order. The first 10 Amendments are our “Bill of Rights.” Ann Ravel’s has shown she is a bubble off or maybe a double bubble off.
Be that as it may, the Founders who wrote the 1st would never have expected that it should become so loose that obscene language would become the norm. It’s pretty bad when riding a bus or walking in the mall, a parent can do nothing about a barrage of obscenities flowing from the mouths of people around them. What we now call “hate speech” was once considered threats. The left, backed by the ACLU opened the floodgates to our children being assaulted every single day unless we keep them in the house 24/7. This is just another piece of the progressive agenda designed to change the meaning and intent of out rights. It’s the same as when they say that the 1st grants everyone Freedom FROM Religion instead of Freedom OF Religion, which is what the Founders wrote.
Over my dead body. I will never give up freedom of speech or any of the freedoms given
Hey, you can have all of the free speech you want as long as I approve of it. That’s very democratic isn’t it? LOL
The democrat party has nothing to do with democracy.
Our freedoms aren’t “given”. The Bill of Rights is an affirmation of intrinsic rights.
If this posture persists and is acted upon we WILL be headed for another civil war.
People like her don’t want free speech destroyed. They want OUR free speech destroyed.
Another Obama era Democratic pile of used oats!
What causes violent crimes are people like her in the United States wanting to see a violent destruction of Americans and see the country destroyed, people like her need to face a firing squad for using hate speech wanting to see the United Constitution burned and destroyed. People like her are trying to destroy the US any way possible. Next they will fight to destroy all peoples freedom, same thing that’s happened to other countries to large to be destroyed from without Destruction of the US from within is their goal.
When our Founders established our Constitution and Bill of Rights they knew that there would be an occasional price to pay but determined it to be a price worth paying because the alternative would be far worse. In the case of the First Amendment our Free Speech is protected as long as it doesn’t cause actual violent actions. What is the alternative? Arresting people for “politically incorrect” speech. and what is “politically incorrect” speech? Anything Big Brother doesn’t like. As in Orwell’s “1984” for example. So be careful what you wish for lest you get your wish.
RIGHT YOU ARE.
and is also the very REASON we the people have the 2ND AMENDMENT, to protect ALL OTHER AMENDMENTS AGAINST OUR DOMESTIC TYRANTS.