Patriot,

A few months ago, federal Judge Terry Doughty ruled the
government's ongoing campaign to censor so-called
"misinformation" demonstrated "the most massive attack against
free speech in United States' history."

That put him on the same page as the petitioners, who argued it
was "the most egregious violations of the First Amendment in the
history of the United States of America," and the Fifth Circuit,
who upheld the decision.

And yet only months ago, members of Congress were rushing to pass
something they called the "RESTRICT Act," which would have choked
all dissident speech on the Internet, until Campaign for Liberty
activists answered the call and disrupted the bill's smooth
sailing through Congress.

As I argue in my latest column, the suppression of free speech,
especially on the mass scale at which it occurs today, is a
terrible crime against the American people and our nation as a
whole. It is an impeachable offense.

Read the column below, and if you support Campaign for Liberty's
continued efforts to defend and restore the First Amendment,
please support Campaign for Liberty with a contribution.
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For Liberty,

Ron Paul

Protect the First Amendment: Impeach Joe Biden!

Protecting democracy and the Constitution from Donald Trump and
the "MAGA extremists" is a major theme of President Biden's
reelection campaign. As is often the case in American politics,
President Biden is just as, if not more, guilty of posing an
"existential threat" to the Constitution as those he smears as
"extremists." For example, President Biden and members of his
administration have waged a campaign to undermine the First
Amendment by "encouraging" companies to suppress the expression
of "unapproved" views online.

The latest example of the administration trying to get a private
internet company to censor Americans may be the most outrageous
of all. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan recently
released a series of emails between Biden administration
officials and Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.

The government officials wanted Amazon to remove from its online
catalog books containing "misinformation" regarding the safety
and effectiveness of covid vaccines, meaning anything questioning
the government's pro-vaccine propaganda.

While Amazon did try to push back some against the
administration, it did remove at least one "anti-vaccine" book
from its online catalog.

Amazon also manipulated its search results to make sure books
expressing skepticism of vaccines were buried under books touting
the pro-vaccine line. The company probably hoped that by
"burying" these "dissident" books Amazon could make the
administration happy without actually removing all books that
question the covid vaccines.

The company also promised the administration that it would expand
use of a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warning for books
promoting "anti-vaccine" narratives.

Some libertarians say that Amazon should not be criticized for
its decisions. These libertarians point out that, as a private
company, Amazon has the right to decide what books to sell and
also has the right to decide to make it difficult to find books
expressing viewpoints the company finds dangerous or distasteful.


This is true but ignores one important fact: Amazon's decision to
suppress books critical of covid vaccines was not done to attract
consumers who would not shop at a site that sells "anti-vaccine
propaganda" or "conspiracy theories." Instead, Amazon acted at
the behest of government officials who were seeking to prohibit
Americans from accessing alternative views.

Amazon may have been eager to cooperate with the government to
avoid being subjected to antitrust litigation. At the very time
the administration was demanding Amazon suppress covid
dissidents, President Biden was preparing to appoint Lina Khan,
an advocate for antitrust litigation against Amazon, to lead the
Federal Trade Commission.

It is clear that the U.S. government has been a major spreader of
covid disinformation, while those challenging the government's
pro-mask, pro-vax, and pro-lockdown propaganda have been the
truth-tellers. Covid is an example of why protecting the First
Amendment is vital to protecting not just liberty, but also our
prosperity and health.

Congress should prioritize its investigation into the Biden
administration's efforts to silence Americans because of their
views. Congress should then impeach all high-level federal
officials, including President Biden, who took action to violate
Americans' First Amendment rights.
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