Has anyone else noticed that if Democrats do not agree with something or someone, that they seem to do whatever they can to either file criminal charges in order to attempt to silence that person or they resort to ad hominem attacks to discredit the individual without actually debating the issue.
Lately I have been having increasing interest in RFK Jr. … what he says and what he believes, and I just watched part of the questioning of him in the 7/20 hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The Democrats sought to deplatform Mr. Kennedy both before and during the hearing. They tried to censor him, but thankfully it was Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said, “The hearing that we have this week is about censorship. I don’t think censoring somebody is actually the answer here.”
Several Democrats called on Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a letter to disinvite Mr. Kennedy. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) declined.
Still, Democrats on the panel continued their attacks on the witness from the start of the hearing, attempting several procedural motions to limit his time to speak or end the hearing altogether.
Setting the tone for the hearing, Ranking Member Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) opened her remarks with attacks on Mr. Kennedy, accusing him of “hateful, evidence-free rhetoric.”
In response to the issue of discussing more pertinent topics, Kennedy said, “We can’t do that without the First Amendment, without debate.”
To illustrate the point, he cited his removal from YouTube after his speech announcing his run for president, where he discussed all those issues, and was “deplatformed” five minutes into the speech.
“I didn’t talk about vaccines in that speech, I didn’t talk about anything that was a verboten subject,” he said, but emphasized that he was removed nonetheless.
Mr. Kennedy then referenced a copy of the letter signed by fellow Democrats calling for his appearance before Congress to be canceled.
“This itself is evidence of the problem this hearing was meant to address,” Mr. Kennedy said. “This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing.”
Mr. Kennedy decried the proliferation of a relatively new term, “malinformation,” which he said was “invented to censor people like me.”
Malinformation, according to a definition from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”
Mr. Kennedy gave an alternative rendering of the term as “information that is true but is inconvenient to the government.”
I do not agree with everything that RFK Jr. says, but I do agree that he should be allowed to say whatever he wishes. RFK Jr is a Democrat, and by doing whatever they could in order to shut him up, the Democrats attacked one of their own, … and that makes me like him even more!
californiacontrarian
7/21/23