Join us for a conversation with Bishop E.W. Jackson.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023, at 12 PM (ET)
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It’s bad enough when social media sites such as Facebook (Meta) or Twitter restrict what we are allowed to post on their sites. It shouldn’t happen in a free society. Part of our heritage as a free people is the ability that we have to speak freely and to express our opinions on any subject we choose.
When “fact-checkers” are permitted to label what we say as “misinformation” or “disinformation,” and remove it from public discourse, we no longer have freedom of speech. But when government gets involved and puts pressure on these sites to restrict what should be a free exchange of ideas, we have gone beyond restriction of speech to outright control of the flow of ideas.
When the media was informed in October of 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” the more than 50 former senior intelligence officials who signed that letter, knowing that what they were saying was untrue, not only influenced a presidential election, but interfered with our ability to explore the contents of the laptop and our right to know what the Biden family was involved in.
The true account of the laptop was labeled “misinformation” and was banned from dissemination, while all the time they knew that the report about the laptop was true and they were actually the ones who were spreading “disinformation.” The pressure that the FBI and other government agencies put on social media platforms was nothing less than government censorship and a blatant violation of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, rights guaranteed to us in the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Of course, CNN and MSNBC and the other major media (NY Times and WAPO, et al) were willing accomplices to this censorship. Even when they had to admit that the laptop story was true, we still have not received so much as an apology for their “suppressing the truth.”
Then, of course, we have “hate speech.” It seems that cancel culture has determined that anything that anyone says that disagrees with the LGBTQ++ agenda is “hateful” and “violent.” It doesn’t seem to matter that it is the Left that shouts down conservative and Christian speakers and threatens them with bodily harm. We on the Right are the ones espousing hate and violence. It has caused a reluctance among many to speak truth to this culture and a fear that if we speak up, our families and communities will be harmed. This also is censorship.
Bishop E.W. Jackson is president of Staying True to America’s National Destiny (STAND) in Chesapeake, VA, head pastor at The Called Church, also in Chesapeake, and the host of this weekly national conference call.
A Marine Corps veteran and graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston and Harvard Law School, Bishop Jackson has authored several books and appeared as a commentator on national news networks such as C-SPAN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
He hosts a daily podcast, and directs the Awakening Hearts and Minds Project, an outreach to black, Hispanic, and other minority voters.
Bishop Jackson is also a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
E. W. and his wife Theodora have been married since 1970 and have 3 children, Earl Jr., Rebecca, and Jaquelyn, and one granddaughter.
Please join us for this stimulating, informative conversation.
