Congresswoman Lauren Boebert introduced the Protecting Free Speech Act to permanently terminate and defund any efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to revamp the failed, unconstitutional Disinformation Governance Board.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-03) stated, “The Disinformation Governance Board was a terrible idea to begin with, and my Protecting Free Speech Act ensures that it stays where it belongs: the ash heap of history. I killed this Board with my public pressure campaign last year, and my bill will change the law to make sure it stays dead. Such an egregious attack on free speech should never again be proposed by the government of a free people.”
Background:
A year ago, Congresswoman Boebert introduced the Protecting Free Speech Act in the 117th Congress. Her bill started a movement of over 80 House Republicans fighting back against this terrible policy, and she sponsored a press conference attended by House leadership condemning the Board. As a result of Congresswoman Boebert’s pressure, the Board was put on ice and Nina Jankowicz resigned in shame. A few months later, DHS announced that the Board was permanently canceled. Congresswoman Boebert is now reintroducing the Protecting Free Speech Act to codify DHS’s decision to cancel the Board and ensure that this disastrous idea and anything that resembles it is never resurrected by leftwing radicals.
Cosponsors of Congresswoman Boebert’s Protecting Free Speech Act include Reps. Brian Babin (TX-36), Dan Bishop (NC-08), Paul Gosar (AZ-09), Diana Harshbarger (TN-01), Kevin Hern (OK-01), Clay Higgins (LA-03), Mike Kelly (PA-16), Tracey Mann (KS-01), Dan Meuser (PA-09), Mary Miller (IL-15), Alex Mooney (WV-02), Barry Moore (AL-02), Troy Nehls (TX-22), Ralph Norman (SC-05), Andy Ogles (TN-05), and Scott Perry (PA-10).
The full text of the Protecting Free Speech Act is available here.
What lays at the bottom of all this, is the 100% corrupted legal system that enforces all of these insane laws!! Let’s deal with the problem THERE, instead of dancing around, shouting and waving our arms in the air! Thoreau said that there are a thousand men hacking at the branches of evil, to one striking at the root! Truer words were hardly ever spoken. And the root of that tree of evil, IS the legal system. Prove me to be wrong, if you can! And how do we deal with the corruption in the legal system? All that we… Read more »
These Departments who are attempting to CONTROL what Legal Law Abiding American Citizens see or hear —- MUST not only be DEFUNDED but DISBANDED, REMOVED from OUR GOVERNMENT! EACH of these Bureaucrats who are attempting this CONTROL — MUST be held CRIMINALLY, PERSONALLY AND FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE!!!!
Liberty requires constant vigilance.
If the First Amendment automatically protected free speech, we would not have the censorship regime we now have. Representative Boebert is one of the few actively fighting to preserve liberty.
this seems like a rerun.
that being said, throughout history leftists/progs have been the ones that have or have attempted to censored free speech.
some groups are allowed to say what they want without repercussions. others, are targeted by government agencies for what they say, even if it does not rise to the level of a crime. this is “unequal” treatment under the law.
soon we will move into the realm of pre-crime “minority report”, with joe playing the job of the little m.i. guy. cruise, that’s his name.
It is just a big circle…..You don’t need a law or ‘act’ to reinforce ANYTHING in the bill of rights. It was already guaranteed in 1791! No need to protect it with anything…..After all it is the Constitution, ain’t it?