VDC-TV Friday At Four

FAF: Parro’s and the First Amendment/ Guy’s encounter in the State House/ Clean Heat ‘repeal’ goes to Senate floor next week

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  2. Thank you, Guy, for printing “The Man in the Arena” piece. I can’t tell you how many times I have drawn courage from these words of TR. He certainly embodied those words, and that’s one of the reasons they are so inspiring.

  3. Interesting what Peter Welch had to say. Are the lessons he learned in law school starting to percolate again from the farthest regions of his brain?

    One final point of personal priviledge I hope will resonate with Vermonters: I wasn’t at the State House the day of the moonbat fiasco that shut down a public hearing. I, along with every Vermonter, was denied hearing or reading the information and testimony. Every speaker was denied their right to speak and offer information. By definition: that is censorship (perpetrated, in part, by Legislators) and it is a violation of our civil rights.

    Here is what the liberal ACLU says about censorship: “Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive,” happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional. In contrast, when private individuals or groups organize boycotts against stores that sell magazines of which they disapprove, their actions are protected by the First Amendment, although they can become dangerous in the extreme. Private pressure groups, not the government, promulgated and enforced the infamous Hollywood blacklists during the McCarthy period. But these private censorship campaigns are best countered by groups and individuals speaking out and organizing in defense of the threatened expression.”

    Yet, in this case, the private censorship campaign won because authorities failed to protect Free Speech and the government helped! Class action lawsuit? Billable hours? Deep pockets? Personal and professional liability? Any lawyer worth his/her salt could slam dunk this one – if they weren’t complicit and compromised.

  4. Censorship in Vermont is sadly accepted as reasonable, so much so that when people experience free speech they don’t know how to react. Front Porch Forum regularly censors. Facebook censored our entire political party, would not let us use any of their programs to push our information. VT Digger and True North Reports would not even allow our political party to publish our name, Green Mountain, both of them saying we will be automatically deleted. VT Digger has censored ad nauseum, to the point that they had to take down all the comments, because people were too good at bringing up counter arguments. Thanks for allowing comments freely and openly, one of the last bastions of free speech in Vermont.