AG orders FBI to investigate parents for ‘intimidation and harassment’ of school board members 

In response to a letter from the National School Boards Association to President Joe Biden complaining of the ‘intimidation, harassment, and threats of violence’ against school board members nationwide, Attorney General Merrick Garland has directed the FBI to investigate parents designated as potential “domestic terrorists”.  

Citizens for Free Speech (CFFS), a non-profit organization of First Amendment defenders, condemned the AG’s order in the strongest possible terms.

American First Amendment defenders turn eyes toward Orwellian ‘police-state’ in Australia

For most American citizens, the battle for free speech, assembly, worship, and all the protections afforded citizens in the First Amendment to the US constitution is the most important battle they will ever undertake. The right of the people to express themselves free of government restrictions—particularly when it’s the government upon which they are speaking—played a central role in the founding of this nation, and must play a similar role in its survival.

Citizens needed to target censorship, suppression, propaganda, manipulation of information

Mesa, AZ – With the liberties of American citizens continually being subjected to harsh restrictions by the federal government, in partnership with the administrators of the largest social media platforms in the world, Citizens for Free Speech (CFFS) is issuing an emergency call to action. All concerned citizens are encouraged to watch and participate in a National Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, September 23 at 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 PM Pacific time.

Ohio introduces legislation to ban vaccine mandates as largest state university issues order

More than 60,000 students, staff and faculty at one of the nation’s largest academic institutions will not be permitted on campus this fall unless they can provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, yet over 100,000 fans will be invited into the university’s massive football stadium each week under no such restrictions.

WH Spokesperson admitted to administration flagging Facebook posts opposing vaxx narrative

Mesa, AZ – The Biden administration on Thursday admitted to conspiring and colluding with social media giant Facebook to monitor, surveil, and when necessary suppress posts on the platform that the administration considers to be “disinformation” regarding the Wuhan Coronavirus, the rapidly spreading Delta variant, and the government’s attempt to coerce Americans into receiving the experimental Covid-19 vaccine.

Ohio congressman partners with Young America’s Foundation in battling censorship on campus

Mesa, AZ – Decades of censorship of dissenting voices on far-left college campuses have forced millions of students into silence on matters of political ideology and American culture, and one high-ranking member of Congress is doing something about it.

First Amendment defenders provide directory of businesses opposed to mask tyranny

Mesa, AZ – Citizens for Free Speech (CFFS), a national leader in opposing restrictive face-mask mandates since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, has launched a new initiative aimed at supporting local businesses across the country that have defied unconstitutional government orders to require face coverings for customers and employees. The First Amendment advocacy group would like patriots in every state to fill their new national directory with the names of businesses willing to be identified as “Face-Friendly”, and supportive of the rights of patrons to ditch their restrictive face masks and breathe the clean air of freedom.

Software, cryptocurrency companies among latest to limit ‘woke’ speech that limits productivity

Mesa, AZ – When Basecamp CEO Jason Fried announced to his company’s 60 employees on April 26 that political speech and debate would no longer be permitted on the company’s internal work communications system, he rightly expected some blowback. Modern technology companies are liberally staffed with progressive-minded millennials who have grown up believing in their inherent right to have their opinions recognized and respected, and Fried’s project management software company was no different. What he may not have expected, however, was a mass exodus of disillusioned employees who didn’t know how to process the fact that someone didn’t want to hear every political thought they had to say.

The true meaning of the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin regarding liberty and security has been debated since he put quill to paper in 1775.

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety,” the founding father wrote, “deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

While historians and scholars have rarely come to agreement as to whether Franklin was referring to the actual suspension of civil liberties in the interest of protecting against potential invasions, or simply to taxes levied in order to fund defense against French and Indian attacks, the quote has taken on a universally accepted meaning in modern times: Our Constitutional rights must never be surrendered in the interest of protecting against threats, real or imagined.

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WHEREAS we recognize the seriousness of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the need to take strong personal actions to combat its contagion and also the need for local communities to provide for adequate medical care for those who are infected,

WHEREAS Governors, mayors and county sheriffs across the nation are declaring states of emergency under the guise of protecting the public from the coronavirus,

WHEREAS these emergencies have been declared without respect to Civil Liberties contained in the First, Second and Fourth Amendments,

WHEREAS the right to peaceable assembly has been nullified by limiting to very small groups and in some cases declaring that violators will be fined and/or incarcerated,

WHEREAS churches are being forced to abandon physical assemblies in favor of online broadcasting that is not available to a vast number of smaller churches in America,

WHEREAS businesses are being forced out of business because of mandated closure for indefinite periods of time,

WHEREAS the Second Amendment is being violated when government executives, using unchecked power granted them to combat the spread of the Coronavirus, use that power to deny citizens their right to purchase arms and/or ammunition, 

WHEREAS the Fourth Amendment is being violated when citizens are not secure "in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures [that] shall not be violated",

WHEREAS all of these actions are preventing citizens from exercising their Unalienable Rights as guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence, including the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, 

WHEREAS all elected leaders take an oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States",