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Yehuda Kaploun, Donald Trump’s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, plans to attack the First Amendment

In an article titled “Why Are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?”1 Paul Craig Roberts warns about a significant threat to the fundamental constitutional right of free speech by the Jewish lobby.

Yet for all its seriousness, there’s hardly any discussion about it in the mainstream press. No surprise there. Lying by commission, or in this case, omission, is the whole point of the mainstream press, liberal or conservative.

In his piece, Roberts writes,

President Trump’s alliance with Israel is giving us Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun as  Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.  The Special Envoy’s job is to suppress free speech if it involves criticism of any Israeli policy, including the ongoing genocide of Palestine and its remaining people. 

To give you some sense of the anti-American arrogance of this unbelieving rabbi, see this recent video2 where he comments about a man who dared protest him, saying that he “will be quite sorry shortly that he did that.” Kaploun made no allegations that the man did anything illegal. Simply the act of protesting him was enough to elicit this dark threat.

In his article “Christians and the Civil War,”3 John Robbins noted that the 1796 Tennessee Constitution “prevented ministers from holding legislative office. If the phrase ‘separation of church and state’ means anything, it must mean that the same person cannot hold office in both church and state.”

If Tennessee prohibited a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ from holding office, how much more is an unbelieving rabbi unfit to hold public office, all for the purpose of throttling Americans’ God-given, Constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.

The seriousness of the Zionist threat to American liberty was underscored by Professor John Mearsheimer. In an appearance on Judging Freedom on 3/13/2025, Mearsheimer said,

The truth is, Judge, that the single greatest threat to freedom of speech in the United States at this point in time is Israel and its supporters here in the United States. It’s truly amazing the extent to which Israel’s supporters are going to enormous lengths to shut down free speech, not only on university campuses but all across the country.4

If Americans are going to retain their most cherished rights, they must insist on the separation of synagogue and state.

  1. Why are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?” by Paul Craig Roberts ↩︎
  2. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s Israeli-born Chabadnik nominee for US Anti-Semitism Czar, says his being protested is an example of ‘anti-Semitism’ and says a man who protested him “will be quite sorry shortly that he did that.” Apparently, the Trump Administration wants Americans to be ruled by a modern-day Sanhedrin. ↩︎
  3. Christians and the Civil War” by John W. Robbins. ↩︎
  4. Judging Freedom with Andrew Napolitano, 3/13/2025 ↩︎

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Free speech is everywhere under attack. 

In August 2018, the great internet purge began with Alex Jones being booted from multiple internet platforms within 24 hours. 

The Covid scamdemic brought attacks on free speech to a new level. Anyone caught disagreeing with the official narrative demanding mandatory masking, lockdowns, and vaxing, anyone caught raising questions about the safety and efficacy of the Covid vax, anyone doubting the official story of the origin of the virus at a Chinese wet market, found himself deplatformed, debanked, and openly derided in the mainstream lying media as a conspiracy theorist or a misinformation spreader. 

From August 2018 until October 2022, when Elon Musk finalized the purchase of Twitter, many free speech advocates voicing their complaints about the increasingly anti-free speech internet were met with a snotty retort from defenders of the regime narratives: “Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc. is a private company. If you don’t like it, go start your own platform!”

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My Comments: Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University, a Democrat, and frequent guest on Fox News. He’s also one of the most consistent defenders of the First Amendment at a time when the principle of free speech has few defenders and a man who’s writings on the subject deserve the attention of all who love liberty.

In this post, he argues against the extreme views of some Democrats who want to destroy democracy in order to save it.

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Below is my column in the Hill on the Maine decision and how it is illustrative of Justice Louis Brandeis’ warning of the danger of zealots. Shenna Bellows has long embraced extreme political and historical viewpoints, including denouncing the electoral college as a “relic of white supremacy.”  Challengers knew that they “had her at hello”…
— Read on jonathanturley.org/2024/01/02/destroying-democracy-to-save-it-maine-shows-the-danger-of-zealots-in-our-legal-system/

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Once again, we find ourselves at the end of one year and the start of another.  As I write this post, the weather here in the Cincinnati area is slate gray skies, dry, and about 40 degrees.  In other words, it’s a typical winter’s day in southwest Ohio.   

I suppose most readers would find my description of the weather less than inspiring.  No blizzards and mountains of snow as in some places.  No palm trees swaying in the breeze as in others. 

But while it may sound odd for me to say this, I find this sort of weather oddly comforting.  While it isn’t beautiful or even interesting by most standards, it is familiar and comforting.  It’s the sort of weather I associate with Christmas much more so that the “white Christmases” we hear about in song or see in a Currier and Ives engraving. 

Familiar, comforting, and peaceful.  That’s how I’d describe today.   

I mention these things as I write this post on December 31, 2023, because if the prognosticators I read are even close to being accurate, there won’t be a lot that is familiar, comforting, or peaceful in the year to come.

There’s a friend of mine I meet every December for a Christmas lunch at Skyline Chili – if you’re not from the Cincinnati area, you probably aren’t familiar with Cincinnati-style chili, but it’s big here – to catch up on the past year.  During our lunch a couple of weeks back, he openly wondered what the world would be like in December 2024.  That’s a good question.  I don’t know and neither does anyone else.  We’ll find out when we get there. 

But with that said, we can see certain trends in place and make some reasonable conjectures as to what may transpire in 2024.  There’s value in considering what the future may hold.  The Scriptures commend those who exercise foresight when danger looms.  As Proverbs tells us, “A prudent man foresees trouble coming and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.” Notice that the prudent man not only foresees trouble coming, but in light of the trouble he foresees, he takes action to protect himself.  If he foresees trouble but takes no action, he isn’t a prudent man at all, but “simple” and ends up being punished.  One must both foresee and act to be prudent.      

So, what are some of the “troubles” Christians should foresee in 2024?  How ought they to respond?

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University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testifies during a House hearing on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

One can find many examples of high-ranking government officials and others in positions of influence complaining about threats to “our democracy.” 

In 2018 when the great internet purge of conservatives began with the unpersoning and deplatforming of Alex Jones, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said,

Infowars [Infowars is Alex Jones’s news organization] is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.  These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it[1]

More recently, Nancy Pelosi opined that the prospect of Donald Trump being re-elected as president would be a “nightmare scenario” and that “our democracy” is “at stake” in the 2024 presidential election.[2]

This is an odd statement.  Pelosi is asking readers to believe that if Donald Trump is re-elected by the voters as president, that somehow this is a threat to “our democracy.”  It seems to this author that this would be the very definition of democracy: the people getting the elected officials whom they choose. 

What Pelosi seems to mean is that if Donald Trump is re-elected, the voters made the wrong choice.  While there’s nothing wrong with disagreeing with the result of an election, it’s silly to deem it a threat to “our democracy.”   

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Mugshots of Donald Trump and associates from top left: Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Kenneth Cheseboro, Sidney Powell

Last week saw Donald Trump booked in the Fulton Country, GA jail along with 18 other individuals who are charged with what amounts to exercising their right to question the 2020 election results in the State of Georgia.

Whatever you may think of Donald Trump or the 2020 election, the fact that a former president can be charged with racketeering for questioning the official narrative that the “election was the most secure in American history” ought to be cause for alarm.  And it’s not just Donald Trump either.  Eighteen other individuals have been indicted in this case, including lawyers who assisted Trump, most notably Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York.

The Biden Regime, the Establishment, is sending the message to any future president or presidential candidate, don’t you dare even consider representing anyone but us.  If you try to represent the people, you are history. 

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Special Counsel John Durham Exonerates Donald Trump of ‘Russiagate‘” by Paul Craig Roberts, 5/16/2023

Durham Report Condemns the FBI’s Russia Probe – But Don’t Expect It to Make a Difference” by Johnathan Turley, 5/17/2023

Hunter Biden Faces no ‘Retribution After IRS Probe Team DisbandedSputnik, 5/18/2023

IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe, whistleblower claims retaliation: report” by Bradford Betz, 5/15/2023

Ron DeSantis Flies To Israel To Destroy Free Speech In Florida” Gab News, 4/27/2023

Ron DeSantis Flies To Israel To Destroy Free Speech In Florida” by Andrew Torba 5/27/2023

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