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Never justify losing freedom. This is a hashtag Go write
with Peter Boykin commentary brought to you with the article
who really owns Free Speech? After Charlie Kirk's death. You
can check out this article and more on go rightnews
dot com. Let's talk plainly about the First Amendment and
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what it really means, because too many people today only
seem to defend free speech when it benefits their side.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says, quote
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech?
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Are of the press? Are the right of people peacefully
to a symbol that is not fancy legal jargon. It
is a firewalk against tyranny. It means the government cannot
decide which voices get heard and which voices get silenced.
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It does not exist to protect the comfortable are the popular.
It exists to protect the uncomfortable, the offensive, the dissenting.
Because the second you let the government decide what counts
as a sceptible speech, you have already given away your freedom.
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And yet here we are, in the aftermath of Charlie
Kirk's death, watching people twist his name to justify censorship
and cancel culture the very things he stood against. Kirk
built his career on open debate. He believed all voices
should be heard, even when they clashed with his own.
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He rejected cancel culture on principle. He warned against government
overreach because he knew the powerful enough the silence the
other side will eventually silence everyone. So when I see
people standing with Kirk while calling for cancelations in his name,
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I have to say it. You are not honoring him.
You are betraying him. If you think counseling others and
Kirk's memory somehow protects his legacy, you are spitting on
what he lived and died for. Freedom is not tested
by how we treat the voices we love. Freedom is
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tested by how we defend the voices we despise. That
is the hard truth. I mean, like you say, I
might not agree with you what you say, but I
will defend your right to say. You do not to
get the cherry pick liberty. If you cheer when your
opponents are silenced, do not be surprised when the same
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blade is turned against you. The First Amendment is not suggestion.
It is a backbone of the constitutional republic. And once
we start excusing its erosion because quote they deserved it,
are because it feels convenient. We lose it for everyone.
Never justify losing freedom because once it's gone, it does
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not come back. So for more unfiltered truth, if you
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cash app at dollar sign go right News. Please check
out the full article, which is a deep dive into
the cancel culture paradox after Charlie Kirk's death, exposing how
his name is being misused to justify censorship and government coheresion,
with a spotlight on Jimmy Kirr Kimmel's hip hopocrisy, Disney
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selective punishments, and the wider dangers of cancel culture. God
bless everybody,