Protect the First Amendment: Impeach Joe Biden! By Ron Paul
(2024-02-21 at 00:46:37 )

Protect the First Amendment: Impeach Joe Biden! By Ron Paul

Protecting democracy and the United States Constitution from Donald Trump and the "MAGA extremists" is a major theme of President Bidens reelection campaign. As is often the case in United States of American politics, President Biden is just as, if not more, guilty of posing an "existential threat" to the United States Constitution as those he smears as "extremists." For example, President Biden and members of his administration have waged a campaign to undermine the First Amendment by "encouraging" companies to suppress the expression of "unapproved" views online.

The latest example of the administration trying to get a private internet company to censor United States of Americans may be the most outrageous of all. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan recently released a series of emails between Biden administration officials and Amazon, the worlds largest online retailer. The government officials wanted Amazon to remove from its online catalog books containing "misinformation" regarding the safety and effectiveness of covid vaccines, meaning anything questioning the governments pro-vaccine propaganda.

While Amazon did try to push back some against the administration, it did remove at least one "anti-vaccine" book from its online catalog. Amazon also manipulated its search results to make sure books expressing skepticism of vaccines were buried under books touting the pro-vaccine line.

The company probably hoped that by "burying" these "dissident" books Amazon could make the administration happy without actually removing all books that question the covid vaccines. The company also promised the administration that it would expand use of a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warning for books promoting "anti-vaccine" narratives.

Some libertarians say that Amazon should not be criticized for its decisions. These libertarians point out that, as a private company, Amazon has the right to decide what books to sell and also has the right to decide to make it difficult to find books expressing viewpoints the company finds dangerous or distasteful.

This is true but ignores one important fact: Amazons decision to suppress books critical of covid vaccines was not done to attract consumers who would not shop at a site that sells "anti-vaccine propaganda" or "conspiracy theories." Instead, Amazon acted at the behest of government officials who were seeking to prohibit United States of Americans from accessing alternative views.

Amazon may have been eager to cooperate with the government to avoid being subjected to antitrust litigation. At the very time the administration was demanding Amazon suppress covid dissidents, President Biden was preparing to appoint Lina Khan, an advocate for antitrust litigation against Amazon, to lead the Federal Trade Commission.

It is clear that the United States government has been a major spreader of covid disinformation, while those challenging the governments pro-mask, pro-vax, and pro-lockdown propaganda have been the truth-tellers. Covid is an example of why protecting the First Amendment is vital to protecting not just liberty, but also our prosperity and health.

Congress should prioritize its investigation into the Biden administrations efforts to silence United States of Americans because of their views.

Congress should then impeach all high-level federal officials, including President Biden, who took action to violate United States of Americans First Amendment rights.

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