Opinion: Censors have never been the good guys

Labor Day has generally been considered opening day for presidential campaigns.

That’s the day politicos of all persuasions begin to take a look at and pay attention to polling data. This year, prior to opening day, three events occurred that could have far-reaching results.

These were the Trump assassination attempt, the coronation of Kamala Harris as Democrat presidential candidate and the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsement of Donald J. Trump for president.

Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service are resisting efforts by congressional oversite committees to determine what happened in Butler, Pa., with their usual ploy of providing heavily redacted documents due to national security concerns.

As to Vice President Harris I have already described in some detail my thoughts on the confluence of events that resulted in her enthronement.

Kennedy’s speech, listing why he was endorsing Trump is enlightening. In it he lambasts Dems for choosing a candidate, “who has never done an interview or a debate during the entire election cycle.” Kennedy further noted that while Democrats used to be the party of labor and the working class, “It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, and Big Money.”

Kennedy explains that although he has differences with Trump, “we are aligned with each other on key issues like ending the Forever Wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, and getting the U.S. intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing, censoring, and surveilling Americans, as well as interfering in our elections.”

Kennedy correctly believes, and advocates to all who would listen, that there has been no time in history when the censors were the good guys and that the real danger to citizens is the government censoring your speech.

Shortly after Biden’s inauguration, U.S. government security agencies opened portholes into most social media networks. In fact, some platforms provided office space to the FBI and the CIA who had input into what would or would not be censored.

Not satisfied with eliminating disinformation and misinformation, government invented “mal-information,” which is factually true information, but embarrassing to the government.

Longtime readers of these pages may have found opinions similar to Kennedy’s here.

Rube Render is a former Clovis city commissioner and former chair of the Curry County Republican Party. Contact him:

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