The Free Speech Enigma

January 11, 2024 By Huck Davenport

“Free speech is the bedrock of democracy.” We know this because Elon Musk told us exactly that on at least 4 occasions, and that’s as reliable a source as you can have today. Extending Musk’s principle, it can equally be claimed that democracy itself is the bedrock of Western Civilization. Not in the simplistic notion of majority rule—a proposition anathema to our Founders—but in the tradition of a limited representative government that exists primarily to safeguard individual rights. Today, that bedrock has been corrupted into a treacherous quicksand that threatens to consume the last vestiges of Western Civilization. So, what went wrong?....................

Well, how’s that working out? Where was the resounding chorus of dissent to challenge diversity, multiculturalism, and climate change as these ideologies permeated the societal zeitgeist from the 1960s to Obama? Nowhere. Leftists, paradoxically, hijacked Western Civilization’s “bedrock” principle of free speech and employed it to destroy society..............

As early as 1973, federal contractors were mandated to implement affirmative action plans. More than half of research grants going to universities originate with the federal government, giving bureaucrats immense control over what is and what isn’t researched.

John Hopkins, for instance, received a staggering $830M in a single year from the NIH alone, making it no surprise it didn’t object to forced lockdowns, masking, and vaccination. Over two-thirds of the population receives some form of government check, with more than 20% directly employed by the government—meaning neither group is likely to speak out against its benefactor...................To Read More....