https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/admiral-who-oversaw-bin-laden-raid-tells-trump-revoke-my-n901421

And now there’s the case of John Brennan, who’s used his freedom of speech to condemn Trump, and whose use of free speech Trump describes as “erratic conduct and behavior,” justifying the revocation of his security clearance. I’m waiting for the “conservative” first amendment outrage.

Oh, me too.

And stripping Brennan of his security clearance because he exercised his First Amendment Rights is a grotesque abuse of Executive power. One that could easily be seen as a further lurch toward tyranny.

Where oh where are the ‘Constitutionalists’ when the Constitution is under attack once again?

And now there’s the case of John Brennan, who’s used his freedom of speech to condemn Trump, and whose use of free speech Trump describes as “erratic conduct and behavior,” justifying the revocation of his security clearance. I’m waiting for the “conservative” first amendment outrage.

Truth. Yet also how sadly predictable.

Like an Alex Jones version of Lewis’s Law where the comments of online defenders of Alex Jones justify why he’s so deserving of criticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)

SteveP :

Well writ and spot on – except for the “caveman” personification. Pretty sure our earlier ancestors were (almost all?) more intelligent, honest and, in context better behaved than Alex Jones. They had to be to survive. Had someone behaved like Jones with so much deluded craziness back in the old days and misled their society so much then, i strongly suspect, they’d quickly come to a miserable end and probably be expelled from their group. Well that or lead it to their mutual destruction.

Saying Alex Jones behaves like a stereotype of a bad “primitive caveman” OTOH, would be pretty much 100% right.

/nitpicking -ironically apt for the context! Thinks chimps, bonobos and other species grooming.

“Alex Jones has not lost any of his free speech rights as far as I can see. ”

No, he hasn’t, nor has he been censored. He’s simply been told that if he wants to use the services used by a business he has to follow the rules put out by that business.

You’d think the “real patriots” would be able to understand that, but as the vocal right wingers here have demonstrated they fail even that low bar of an intelligence test.

Alex Jones , a person that I assess as being a child minded idiot, or a really sharp con man masquerading as a child minded idiot, or something in between, is still free to blather all over the country on any number of issues, at any number of websites, although at this point, his lawyers are probably urging him to show some restraint to prevent further law suites against his business.

So right wingers, please don’t try to play the victim card. Especially after you have made such a big issue about the act of claiming victim-hood. If a public or private company tells Alex Jones that he has violated the company’s rules of engagements, and he is kicked off, this is not a constitutional issue; especially if he has in fact violated the company’s rules of engagement.

If Alex Jones serves any benefit to society, it is, IME, only that he serves as a warning to others not to wreck yourself on the shoal of stupidity. It looks to me like we had better smarten up our culture before it is so out of whack with our written laws, and the laws of nature, that normal, reasonable exercise of free speech becomes pointless.

However, I was expecting a different ending, in which grandpa climbed atop the desk (thereby standing on the top side) to do his business.

You see readers, not a single rebuttal from the three
chief lefty trolls.

Learn to read, fuckwit.