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@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes
A miracle has happened. The NY Times ran an oped acknowledging not only that the covid virus likely originated in a lab, but that government officials and scientists conspired to keep the substantiating evidence secret. The lab leak theory was censored on social media because of "pressure from the administration ... we shouldn't have done it."
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes
This serves as a stark reminder that government uses censorship in order to hide its own misdeeds; free speech is necessary to hold the government accountable. That's one of the reasons the framers included the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
A few words about today's argument in the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri. Merely invoking the concept of "safety" does not justify government censorship. The last four years could not have illustrated that more clearly: eminent scientists were censored in the domains 1/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
of their expertise, often at the behest of the government, resulting in public debate about covid policies being smothered. Just today, the New York Times admitted school closures were pointless and harmful. 2/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
The scientists warning of this in 2020, including plaintiffs @DrJBhattacharya and @MartinKulldorff were censored, so the public was under the illusion that the scientific community concurred that lockdowns were necessary. 3/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
The First Amendment recognizes that no one--least of all gov't, which often is driven by power rather than truth--has a monopoly on "truth." That's why the Constitution protects supposedly false speech--Because it trusts that 4/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
Americans can evaluate the truth or falsity of speech for themselves. We don't need Rob Flaherty, Andy Slavitt, Renee DiResta or Joe Biden to tell us what we're allowed to think. I pray the Court has the courage and wisdom to uphold these fundamental principles. 5/5
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
So the covidian narrative is that the lockdowns saved lives even though 1.2 million people died and/or anyway there were no real lockdowns, you just maybe couldn’t go to the gym for a couple months, and civil liberties are a silly right wing concept.
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
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@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
It’s incredibly disturbing to me that the public has moved on from the covid era without any acknowledgment of just how egregious the civil liberties violations were; how damaging the restrictions were to children, the poor and working class, the elderly, the mentally ill 1/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
those who live alone, and those who have substance abuse problems; and the utter pointlessness of the suffering power hungry bureaucrats inflicted on us. But then I realized: maybe such reckonings don’t occur for a generation or so. 2/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
Maybe those who were responsible and those who remained silent simply can’t admit to themselves and those they wronged just how terribly they behaved or how cowardly they were, and that they let fear and prejudice subsume rationality. 3/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
After all, it took a long time for slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese Internment, and women’s subjugation to be widely recognized as the atrocities they indisputably were. The Iraq war is an exception, but perhaps it’s because most of those who suffered directly lived far away 4/
@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1)
So no one had to look their neighbor in the eye knowing they had participated in violating his civil liberties. Maybe it’s the children of the covid era who will unequivocally recognize how unnecessarily tragic this time was, and how monstrously so many behaved 5/5