The GOP's ascension to the majority in the House of Representatives has unleashed a torrent of investigations and inquiries into the censorship regime at the Justice Department, Homeland Security and elsewhere in the federal government.
Today, the third stage of this basic battle for liberty is being engaged as the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Rand Paul and the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan have introduced wide-sweeping legislation designed to put the federal government censorship genie back in the bottle.
The aptly named Free Speech Protection Act is the most important bill introduced in Congress this year and perhaps in the past decade as it puts legal stop signs up against federal government civil rights abuses and creates a right of action against those who suffer under those abuses.
The original Bill of Rights had ten separate liberties identified by the founders as needing protection from the government created by the U.S. Constitution.
These key protections along with others contained within the legislation effectively end all prior laws, grants and other actions which have been used to implement and enforce a federal government censorship regime which seemed to grow up overnight, but whose seeds were planted in laws like the Patriot Act.
To protect individual liberties of all Americans against a federal government which has grown too powerful and arrogant in its use of the power.
Ranking Member Paul and Chairman Jordan's Free Speech Protection Act gets it right by ending the political weaponization of our federal government.
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