Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held that the U.S. Government cannot coerce private parties to violate citizens' constitutionally protected liberties. Under the guise of Covid responses, government officials defied this principle to strip Americans of their rights. Bureaucrats, federal officers, and elected officials colluded with Big Tech firms to accomplish unconstitutional aims.
Suppression, Censorship, and the First Amendment
- The Biden White House and the federal government seized that power under the shadow of Covid
- They coerced, colluded, and encouraged social media companies to suppress speech that deviated from their preferred messaging
- Publicly, officials launched a pressure campaign; privately, they conducted a direct censorship operation
- These initiatives stifled dissent by infringing on American citizens' speech; in doing so, they stripped millions of Americans of their First Amendment right to receive information
Surveillance
- The federal government’s COVID response usurped the protections of the Fourth Amendment in its partnership with Big Tech data brokers
- During COVID, the government used taxpayer funds to purchase Americans’ cell phone data from data broker SafeGraph
- This created a digital “general warrant” unshackled from Constitutional restraints
- Politicians and government agencies repeatedly and deliberately augmented their power by tracking their citizens and thus depriving them of their Fourth Amendment rights
How did it happen here?
- Most of these Constitutional violations will never have their day in court because the ruling class has insulated Covid's hegemonic forces from legal liability.
- Justice Antonin Scalia noted that the Bill of Rights cannot serve as a safeguard against tyranny on its own. "Every banana republic in the world has a bill of rights."
- The key to safeguarding liberty, according to Scalia, is the separation of powers.
https://brownstone.org/articles/government-big-tech-colluded-usurp-constitutional-rights/
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