Speech-less

The European Union Attacks America's First Amendment: A New Kind of War

During pandemic I was cancelled by Facebook and Linked In for articles I wrote about the unintended tragic consequences of the COVID 19 shots.

In January 2022, in a piece called How the Pandemic Harmed Our Children, I told the story of Maddie de Garay, a happy 12-year-old child who volunteered for a clinical trial at Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital to test Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. Within 24 hours of taking the second shot, she was paralyzed from the waist down. Pfizer refused to list her case as a vaccine injury, claiming she had an underlying condition.

And in February 2022, I wrote a piece, Blood Clots & A Spike in Deaths, that featured embalmers reporting an unusually high occurrence of blood clots in the arteries and lungs of bodies of deceased patients who had been vaccinated. Richard Hirschman, with 20 years experience, said 65% of his deceased patients had these strange clots.

In those days I routinely posted my work on all the Social Media sites I frequented. In both cases, FB & LI refused to say how exactly — what paragraph — had offended community standards. I could either removed the posts or not, they had already assured my work would reach no one. I decided that I would no longer live on these sites of censorship. If they were free to cancel me, then I was free to abandon them.

I retreated into my MAGA cocoon, grateful for a censor-free Substack and, after Elon Musk bought twitter and liberated it, I used 𝕏 and TruthSocial — the site Donald J. Trump had started after his far more impactful cancellation — to share my work.

Now I wake to find that censorship is back — this time as the weapon of choice for a corrupt, dying regime of the European Union.

In February, Vice President Vance went to Munich to warn European leaders about the risks facing their culture, arguing that their greatest threat was “from within”—via censorship, suppression of populist voices and government restrictions on Social Media, saying: “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”

A few months later, in July, European Union President Ursula von der Leyen signed the EU’s “largest trade deal ever” with the US in a much-photographed session at the White House with President Trump. And the European leaders came back to the White House again in August, to try to sway him to keep the war in Ukraine going.

Maybe Europe thought they could win Trump’s good will with lucrative trade deals so they could destroy his America First Agenda. Good luck with that.

This weekend, the EU declared war on America’s First Amendment, slapping Elon Musk with a €140M fine for not censoring content — or blue-check users — on 𝕏. During the 2024 U.S. presidential race, the EU sent Musk a formal letter demanding 𝕏 censor or demote Trump’s content, citing risks of “illegal content” and disinformation. Musk refused, airing the letter publicly and framing it as an attack on U.S. sovereignty. “The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people,” he said.

Elon, who called for the elimination of the European Union, today canceled the EU’s ads. Meanwhile traffic has spiked in Europe — according to DogeDesigner, 𝕏 is now the #1 news app in UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Poland, Ireland, Hungary, Finland and Romania. Maybe France is outlier?

Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public News, said the EU’s euphemistically named Digital Services Act isn’t really about “transparency” — it’s the first large-scale use of what he calls “censorship by proxy” — governments funding selected researchers and NGOs to flag content, then threatening platforms with massive fines if they don’t remove it. The timing, he added, is not random. For the first time, Europeans are openly seeing and discussing the real-world impacts of certain policies (especially mass migration) on X — something heavily restricted on legacy platforms.

At a recent World Forum in Berlin, GWU professor Jonathan Turley said he was one of only two speakers to defend free speech. “This is just the first salvo in a war that some of us have warned is coming,” he wrote later. “We cannot be passive at this moment. American anti-free speech figures like Hillary Clinton are hoping that the EU can achieve from abroad what they have failed to accomplish in the United States.”

Still smarting from her loss to Donald J. Trump, Hillary apparently wants to silence those who disagree with her, or who don’t share her views on issues like transgendering children, men in women’s sports, or open borders.

And so do the increasingly irrelevant bureaucrats in Brussels.

Under the weight of its globalist agenda — mandated vaccines that injure, bio-engineered products that harm the food chain, green policies that discourage drilling for oil and unlimited immigration from dysfunctional countries — Europe is dying.

“I’m German,” wrote Ole Lehmann on X. “Europe is dying out. Birthrates are rapidly collapsing. Government incentives aren’t working. By 2100, Europe will have lost 117 million people.”

Europe’s decline is evident In the posts coming out of the continent, especially Britain. Most famously, a British man on vacation in Florida was photographed with a gun, so on his return to London he was arrested for violating British “public offense laws.” Pro-life protestors objecting to abortions are arrested for their thoughts. Teachers are arrested for failing to address students by their preferred pronouns. And Pakistani immigrants are raping little girls, with few arrests.

As George Orwell wrote in his satirical novel 1984, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” Maybe we need a Second American Revolution.

Which may be exactly what President Trump is planning.

In its newly released National Security Strategy document, the White House set out for the first time its approach to the geopolitical challenges facing the U.S. and the world. Launching a crusade to convert European politics to the cause of freedom, he is mobilizing the full force of American diplomacy to promote “patriotic” parties, end mass migration, destroy “censorship” and save “civilization” from decay.

The document said that Europe faces imminent total cultural dissipation in Europe. It notes Europe has economic problems, but says they are “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure” within a generation.

In other words, the Trump national security apparatus, is on board with making MAGA global. Maybe they’ll call it Make Europe Great Again.

No matter what they call it, I, for one, will be cheering when the EU — a covey of unelected bureaucrats dictating policy from Brussels, falls — and the valiant Elon emerges victorious, proxy for all of us who experienced the painful ax of censorship.