The First Amendment is Too Radical For Some

Like many of her fellow Democrats, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) does not appreciate the Constitution that she took an oath to follow and protect. How else can one explain her willingness to limit speech? Labeling information that she disagrees with as “Disinformation” and preventing it from being expressed is tyranny. Using the power of government to define it, suppress it, and punish it’s creators is the hallmark of despots everywhere. As long as no lies are made, slander, obscenities, etc., there should be free expression for all.

By reading only her campaign website highlights, you’d think she was only talking about obvious falsehoods and deceptions. Digging deeper, you can see a pattern. She expresses dislike that current technology allows information (good and bad) to spread without “vetting”. Of course in her mind, it is government to the rescue, making sure those darn tech companies only allow good info through. If she was a colonial magistrate back in the 1770s, she would have tried to get veto power over any protest posters nailed to the biggest trees in the town.

Government as Partner With Big Tech

One of the desires of the Warren platform is to have information shared to identify “sources of disinformation”, with utmost respect for privacy, of course. By echoing fears of Russia-Russia-Russia, she intends to portray this policy as purely to prevent foreign interference in elections. The propaganda value to her points of view are conveniently unmentioned. One side-effect of such a policy that also goes unmentioned is that it requires full overview of everyone’s internet use. Sacrifices must be made for cyber-justice.

Another expressed wish is to heavily tax organized lobbying. While some lobbyists are crooked, many are just representing the interests of a large amount of average people on a particular issue. Taxing legitimate organized communication from the voters to their representatives is a tax on exercising first Amendment rights. Justice may be better served by investigating and punishing shady operators and crooked politicians, if not Congresses’ retirement options.

Warren Puts Forth “Disinformation” of Her Own

When it comes to education, Sen. Warren talks the talk of wanting quality public schools. She seems to think the answer is just more money. When asked if her children attended private schools, she partly lied and said they went to public schools, to better identify with her audience of minority parents at the time. Reality: her son went to private school after fifth grade. Someone at Reason investigated and discovered the truth.

Hypocrisy is not anything new to Warren. She claimed to have American Indian ancestry to get further in law school and the bar, but later it was determined to be no more than 1/1024th. Lately she has been claiming that rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (D*-VT) once told her that a woman would never win the presidency. In the spirit of #MeToo, we should believe all women, right? Or else we’d have to believe that all politicians lie nomatter what their gender.

* Bernie is really a Socialist, he has passed for Democrat and Independent.