by: Ethan Huff
(Natural News) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential campaign has actually hit the bottom running with the Democrat hopeful calling out his party for promoting censorship.
In an announcement this week, Kennedy, the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, blasted the Democrats for becoming champions of anti-free speech policies that supposedly aim to silence “misinformation.”
Chatting with Breitbart News host Joel Pollak, Kennedy highlighted the proven fact that “there isn’t any time in history where the people censoring speech were the nice guys,” regardless of how aggressively they touted their agenda as being positive.
As someone who has borne the brunt of censorship firsthand, Kennedy says that free speech and the First Amendment are vital to a healthy, well-functioning America.
“I’m wondering in case you could make a pitch to our audience about a standard cause that you just, running as a Democrat, could have with many conservatives who feel that they’ve been canceled or otherwise censored or marginalized in public discourse,” Pollak asked Kennedy.
“It’s greater than a private aggrievement,” Kennedy responded. “It’s really only a direct assault on our democracy.”
(Related: RFK Jr. spoke out this week against the Democratic National Committee’s [DNC] plan to not allow any debates within the upcoming presidential primaries – since the Left is all about censorship nowadays.)
To ensure that the remaining of the Structure to be upheld, you will need to have the First Amendment, Kennedy says
In Kennedy’s view, your complete Structure relies upon the First Amendment. This was the thought the founding fathers had once they crafted the Bill of Rights, he maintains.
They “put the correct to free expression within the First Amendment because all the opposite rights relied on it – because the federal government that has the facility to silence its critics has license for any type of atrocity,” Kennedy stated, vocalizing his support for this necessary foundational document.
“In addition they understood just theoretically that the entire basis for democracy was the free flow of data,” he continued, adding that one in all the nice advantages of our constitutional republic is that “through the free flow of data, the very best policies can triumph within the marketplace of ideas.”
“We’re now in this case where without free speech, democracy just withers and dies. Free speech is the fertilizer; it’s the daylight; it’s the water for democracy,” Kennedy added.
“There isn’t a time in history where the individuals who were censoring speech were the nice guys. They’re all the time the bad guys because, after all, that’s the first and last step of totalitarianism: silencing critics.”
Even when speech is seen as “misinformation” or “false” by one person doesn’t mean that one other person must be restricted from saying it, Kennedy argues. In other words, to ensure that speech to really be free, all of it have to be covered under the First Amendment (apart from the type that involves actual crimes, after all).
Kennedy says that hardly anyone trusts the media or the federal government anymore due to all of the censorship being pushed. This might change under a Kennedy administration.
“Twenty-two percent of Americans now trust the federal government, and about 22 percent trust media,” Kennedy explained. “That’s the bottom level in our history.”
“And the explanation they don’t – there’s a superb reason – is that the federal government and the media, the mainstream media, the corporate-owned media, they are actually lying just as a matter after all. And since of that, individuals are in search of other sources of data. And when those other sources challenge government orthodoxies, the federal government’s response is to censor them or to label them as misinformation and say that they’re dangerous.”
You’ll be able to take heed to the complete interview between Pollak and Kennedy on SoundCloud.
More related news coverage might be found at Censorship.news.
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