Maybe when
conservatives use the term, "take American back" they are talking
about taking it back to where we had no amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In
general it seems the only one they care about is the second amendment, while
the rest of them they seem to be continually attempting to pass laws against
them.
Two Republicans in
New York (Republicans Dean Murray and Thomas O’Mara) are trying to pass two
separate laws ( S.6779 and A.8688) that will ban people from anonymous online speech. As in,
preventing people from posting a anonymous comments, blog posts, articles, etc.
in direct violation of the first amendment, the freedom of speech. The U.S.
Supreme court has ruled multiple times that anonymous speech is allowed as per
the first amendment. For example in 1995 McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission,
the court wrote: " "Protections for anonymous speech are vital to
democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them
to express critical minority views … Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of
the majority … It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of
the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from
retaliation … at the hand of an intolerant society."
Do these New York
Republicans think that since the court is now mostly conservative, that they
will now rule in their favor? Or are they even aware of the courts rulings on
this issue in the past? Have they even read the U.S. Constitution?
I don't have answers
to these question, as I am always dumbfounded by people who vote for some of
these people in thinking they are for American, when they are attempting to
pass laws that go against our founding principles.