free speech

On this edition of The Realist Report, we’re joined by Dr. James Tracy, a former professor at Florida Atlantic University who was forced out of his position as a tenured professor of media studies in 2015 largely as a result of his personal blog and research into the alleged “shooting” at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dr. Tracy and I begin by discussing his professional background and academic experience before delving into his research into various “conspiracy theories”.

By Dr Stephen F Cohen
“Collusion,” “contacts,” selective prosecutions, coup plotting, and media taboos recall repressive Soviet practices.

In one of the more bizarre incidents to date, this week a transgender YouTuber who films “confrontations” with law enforcement and security guards was shot in the leg after trolling a private security guard at a Los Angeles synagogue.

UK: A mother was reportedly arrested in front of her four children, and locked up for seven hours, for calling a biological man a man on Twitter. She is accused of a 'campaign of targeted harassment'.

• AFP’s front-page article of Issue 7&8 covers the good news that the world’s premier “hate arbiter” is being challenged in court yet again. If you’re an AFP Online subscriber, log in here to read your paper now.

The bill gives state and local governments the ability to penalize companies that boycott Israel. Companies that oppose Israeli occupation of Palestine will go out of business when they lose government contracts. Both parties in 26 states have passed laws against companies participating in boycotts against Israel.

• Silicon Valley continues to target and harass politically incorrect political dissidents with no end in sight. Now Patreon has joined the other big boys in shutting down those with whom they disagree.

Conservative commentators and other political dissidents continued to feel the effects of an increasingly brazen censorship and de-platforming campaign led by some of the top technology companies in Silicon Valley as 2018 came to a close.

Alain Soral
Alain Soral, a right-wing French political dissident, was recently sentenced to one year in jail for “insulting a judge” and making “anti-Semitic” comments on his own personal website, underscoring once again the threat the organized Jewish community and their lackeys pose to the traditional Western concepts of free speech and thought.

Some critics have argued that the definitions of cyberbullying are not as clear cut as they may sound and that clever attorneys could interpret them in such a way as to violate the First Amendment or to imprison someone for merely hurting others' feelings.

Carlson chronicles the many assaults against free speech for conservatives - and they are shocking when considered all together. Beliefs conventionally described as conservative just five years ago now are described as 'terrorism.' Meanwhile, actual terror by the left goes unpunished.