Why is Joe Biden arming Putin’s enemies in Ukraine when he follows his lead here? Senator Rand Paul has some answers.

“[The Biden admin’s] censorship board is an abomination to the Constitution, anti-Constitutional, and it’s designed as a push back against @ElonMusk’s effort to bring free speech back onto Twitter,” @TomFitton. Watch more: https://t.co/upYTbpaJYN pic.twitter.com/G7o9MFTlug

— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) May 29, 2022

Paul: “1984” had its Ministry of Truth, the Soviets had their Gulag. Today’s Russians, like their kindred spirits among the American left, may be less overt in policing speech but don’t let a less visible barbarity fool anyone into believing that the goal is any less of an assault on free speech.

Current Russian law punishes speech or public engagement that questions Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or even protests that call it a war. As University of Massachusetts Amherst Associate Professor Lauren McCarthy puts it, “public activities aimed at discrediting the use of Russia’s military,” become “a criminal offense if committed twice in a year.”

Russian law also criminalizes “spreading ‘false information’ about the Russian military.” What qualifies as misinformation? Apparently, calling Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine by its more common name – war — qualifies as a crime.

In order to have a police force large enough to spy on an entire nation, Russia has ominously created “anonymous denunciation websites.” The Venetian Doges, who encouraged citizens to rat out other citizens by dropping anonymous notes in the mouth of the lion (Called: bocche dei leone) would be jealous of today’s technology.

In America, we have not yet granted government the police power to criminalize misinformation, but not for trying. The American Left believes that the public should be protected from anyone who questions COVID-19 orthodoxy.

If a scientist, or an elected official, questions evidence for forcing booster vaccines on teenagers, the speech police want those questions forbidden.

Recently, I went to the Senate floor to protest a policy that commands booster COVID vaccines for the pages, pointing out that there is no scientific evidence that a booster lessens hospitalization or death for teenagers and it certainly doesn’t prevent transmission.

WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan agrees with me and has stated: “There is no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters. No evidence at all.”

And yet, the Democrat and Republican overlords actually forced the pages to leave the Senate floor when I spoke, so that their young minds wouldn’t be tainted with what I presume they felt was disinformation. Only when I threatened to reveal the names of those involved in this ambush on Constitutional speech did they consent to allow a few pages back on the floor.

The Pandemic has caused an epidemic of efforts to police speech. The Biden Administration has, for now, shuttered the Disinformation Governance Board.

But don’t for a moment accept that the left’s infatuation with censorship is over. If fact, the left is quite peeved that everyone seems to have misinterpreted their noble goals…

I wish this authoritarian urge to censor speech would die along with the Disinformation Governance Board. But I fear the impulse to regulate human behavior via unlimited regulation of the economic sphere has simply found its way down the slippery slope to regulating speech.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on May 29, 2022. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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