Is a judicial bait-and-switch going on, making us think that a monumental ruling has been issued against the government’s First Amendment depredations, only to exempt most of the government from the ruling? From Jeffrey Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
We received some seemingly excellent news over the weekend. The appellate court of the 5th Circuit has reimposed the restrictions on the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FBI to stop bullying social media companies to censor content.
This has taken place ahead of the actual trial because two judges found that the practice was so egregious that it needed to be stopped right now before more damage is done to the First Amendment.
“The officials have engaged in a broad pressure campaign designed to coerce social-media companies into suppressing speakers, viewpoints, and content disfavored by the government,” a three-judge panel wrote in Missouri v. Biden.
“The harms that radiate from such conduct extend far beyond just the Plaintiffs; it impacts every social-media user.”
That’s all excellent news so far.
But there’s a fly in this ointment.
The lower court’s injunction included restrictions on a whole host of agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (and its sub-unit, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA), and the State Department and its relationships with other third-party agencies.
I was personally disappointed that the initial injunction didn’t name the CIA and all of its thousands of proxies, to say nothing of the other 400-plus agencies in the administrative state of the federal government.
Deeper than Atlantis which is where it needs to go.
Liberty and Deep State cannot coexist.
It would be one thing if we had some brilliant Sun Tzu or von Clausewitz types leading the show who are Patriots, these are rootless cosmopolitan grifters who will carpet bag on over to the next easy pickings after FUSA dries up and blows away.
Never mind the shadow government.