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After Charlottesville, Will Free Speech & ‘Nationalist Speech’ Be Criminalized by Congress?

23-8-2017 < 21st Century Wire 80 243 words
 


By Mark Anderson
The TRUTH HOUND / Stop the Presses News & Commentary


Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is well-known for decrying the Obama administration’s efforts to use the tax code to financially discriminate against conservative non-profit groups, partly as a “free speech” issue. Lately, he seems to have careened into the ideological abyss.


Indeed, his outlook now mirrors that of Congressmen like Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other ultra-liberals who evidently believe that post-Charlottesville “free speech” suddenly belongs only to the left, but that street violence is the sole domain of the right—heavy evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.


On the basis of this unconstitutional and inaccurate outlook, Issa’s office, for one thing, has called for a Sept. 12 House Judiciary Committee hearing, at the full committee level, “to examine the attacks in Charlottesville, recent displays of white nationalism, and their impact on civil rights in America.”


California’s, Darryl Issa.


In calling for such action (a development that mainstream media have nearly buried, due to its incessant attacks on President Trump), Issa wrote a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).


In it, however, he added some things that exceed the “civil rights” aspect of the Aug. 12 tumult in Charlottesville…


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