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Jefferey Epstein would be proud: P. Diddy's alleged abusive "parties" were an open secret in Hollywood for years.

"Astonishing Video Resurfaces Of Ex-Porn Star Telling Cops He Was Diddy's 'Sex Slave' As THOUSANDS Of Abuse Allegations Mount Against Rapper":radaronline.com/p/watch-video-…

Protecting kids has inexplicably become controversial.

In 2023, a Democrat-controlled California legislature stonewalled legislation that would have created felony charges for repeat *child* traffickers: calmatters.org/newsletters/wh…

Lawmakers in recent years have begun to side *openly* with criminals. Meanwhile, the public is apparently too stunned to mount an appropriate response.

At the federal level, 158 Democrats voted *against* deporting noncitizens who commit sex crimes: foxnews.com/politics/dems-…

The examples are so numerous that it is hardly an exaggeration to call what we are seeing a war on public safety:

Activists are begging the Biden-Harris Administration to resume DNA testing of migrant kids to reunite families and reduce human trafficking! nbcsandiego.com/news/local/act…

Violent crime has risen sharply since the pandemic and yet the criminalization of #speech is the new frontier in lawfare.

Would-be VP Tim Walz: "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy":
hoover.org/research/vp-ca…

Until about five minutes ago — in a country nearly 250 years old! — we did not criminalize our fellow Americans for being delusional, uninformed or misinformed.

Now daily efforts are made to normalize prison as an appropriate response to unpopular speech!

The nearly 100-year-old "counterspeech doctrine" holds that recipients of expression must be encouraged in within a marketplace of ideas to weigh competing ideas. In other words, the best answer to undesirable speech is not less speech — but more #speech:
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/counte…

After leveraging the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit to force a bankruptcy, Alex Jones alleges that George Soros intends to own (control) Jones' name by which to deprive him of a post-bankruptcy livelihood.

"InfoWars’ victims and enemies consider buying it":semafor.com/article/09/29/…

@ACLU declared a First Amendment victory in defense of Neo Nazis' right to march over the objections of holocaust survivors in Skokie, IL in 1977.

#AlexJones case is a watershed moment, much like Skokie.

But the #ACLU of today silences itself.

aclu.org/issues/free-sp…

The case against Alex Jones has generated #misinformation in its own right, to the point where the identity of the both the perpetrator and the victims has largely been overwritten by a legacy of lawfare.

"New Report: Adam Lanza 'Did Not Just ‘Snap'”:
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…

Do #SandyHookFamilies deserve an apology from Jones for claiming the government staged a false flag as a pretext to confiscate guns?

Absolutely!

But two wrongs do not make a right. Use of defamation to facilitate a secondary attack on the Constitution is an abuse of power.

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