Hello, everybody. This is Gerald Celente, and it’s Wednesday, February 7, 2024. And once again, we are very honored to have with us someone, a man of men, who really knows what in the world is going on when it comes to the constitution, the bill of rights, two things that have been shredded and the government cares nothing about. It’s Judge Andrew Napolitano. Judge, thank you for being here. Oh, it’s always a pleasure.

It wouldn’t be Wednesday without you, Gerald. For me, thank you. I suspect, for your viewers as well. Yeah, no, it’s so wonderful what you’re doing, how brave you are to speak the truth, which isn’t allowed anymore. And you have an article coming out tomorrow that people have to read, and it’s called taking free speech seriously. I want to begin this read by what you wrote here. Can big tech censor political and cultural voices on their platform? Can the government regulate these platforms to compel speech? The government wants to hear and to prevent speech it believes may harm innocence.

If you believe, as I do, in natural rights, minimal government and the owners of private property can use it as they see fit. The short answers to both questions is no. These questions arise from a vicious Senate inquisition last week during which a senator who never met a war he didn’t want someone else to fight accused Facebook and others of having blood on their hands because they permitted speech on their platforms that the senator believes led to teen suicides.

I want to ask you, first of all, who is this? Were you know him well? Because you were on live television, on Fox News when you were blocked so that he could come. Oh, that arrogant little boy who you were like, loves every war, never could fight in one. Correct. Lindsay, the loser Graham. Correct. For him to say to Zuckerberg, you have blood on your hands, where there isn’t a human in the senate at the moment who has more blood on his hands than Senator Graham was just an outrageous abuse of government power.

The government has no right to drag people before it and say, why did you say this and why did you not say that? And why did you permit this speech and why didn’t you stop that speech? The whole purpose of the first amendment is to keep the government out of the business of speech. Zuckerberg turned around, shaking. I don’t know if it was real or exaggerated. Almost in tears.

I don’t know if it was real or exaggerated. Looked in the faces of parents, parents whose children killed themselves, killed themselves because the parents couldn’t control the kids. And now these parents want the feds to do it for them and said, I’m sorry, it won’t happen again. It was a disgraceful assault on the first Amendment. And yet Lindsey Graham was lauded, and sympathy pours out for the parents.

Of course I have sympathy for any parent whose child dies. But this is an issue for parental control, not for the government. The last thing in the world you want is for the feds to decide what people can see and hear on their mobile devices. This article is very important because I’ll tell you the notes that I wrote as I’m reading it. You say the freedoms of thought, speech, and expression are natural rights, just as one can naturally think as one wishes one could say what one thinks and publish what one says.

Speaking and publishing are constitutional rights, since the first Amendment expressively protects them from government infringement. A natural right comes from our humanity, not from the government. Judge, you’re 100% wrong. It comes from the government. We have no right to be who we are. Think of the way we want. We have no right to be free. Again, you look at the COVID of this week’s trends journal. Here it is.

That’s coming up. How stupid and gutless can you be to obediently follow your ignorant, arrogant political leaders? A minute. Who are these people to tell us what to do and what to think? They have right to do this. They have no right to do it. But their colleagues in the media make them look like heroes. The senator Graham’s comment about blood on your hands had a media life of about 48 hours, which is long in the media business, and he was lauded for saying that.

I don’t know if Zuckerberg planned to turn around and apologize to those parents or if he was moved by what Senator Graham and the others said. It’s not just Senator Graham. The reason I pick on him is because of this comment about blood on the hands, which is so bitterly ironic because we all know that Senator Graham was always agitating for war. Last week, he said that Joe Biden bombed Tehran.

I guess he wants to start World War II. He doesn’t care about iranian blood or the blood of innocent Iranians on his hands or on Joe Biden’s hands. But other senators, Senator Josh Holy comes to mind, were just as aggressive in grilling big tech. Look, big tech. I don’t know if they’ve censured you. They probably have. They’ve censured me. It’s a pain in the neck when this happens.

It is irritating. But they own the bulletin board. They can do what they want with that bulletin board. It is none of the government’s business, and I respect that. Not only is it none of the government’s business, the government is expressly prohibited from getting involved in the business of speech. But if they can pander for votes, if they can trash the constitution, if they can use these poor parents whose kids killed themselves allegedly because of what they saw on facebook, then the news media will cover it and the Lindsey Grahams and Josh Hawley’s for 48 hours will look like heroes trying to slay big tech.

Meantime, the government is absolutely, utterly in bed with big tech. Big tech is in bed with the government. There’s a case before the Supreme Court right now where the government in the Trump administration and in the Biden administration used the carrot and the stick to say to big tech, you got to suppress these voices or we’ll send a swarm of regulators to you. And if you do suppress these voices, we’ll be very easy on you.

That’s basically what happened. That is the government doing indirectly what it can’t do directly. It cannot interfere with free speech, but it’s trying to get third parties, in this case, big tech, to do so. Four federal judges, one federal trial judge, three federal appellate judges put a stop to it. The Supreme Court lifted the stop until the Supreme Court decides that we should get a decision from the Supreme Court in April.

People don’t remember with young people when the whole Internet revolution began back in the early 90s, it was all about being free to do anything you want, put out all the information you want. And that was the wonderful thing about the Internet revolution, right? People forget this and the morons and know I used to be on when USA Today was a big newspaper, I used to be on there almost every day.

It was almost embarrassing for me. They were quoting me so much. Then all of a sudden, the stupidity of the newspapers and the mainstream media, they started putting up all their information on the Internet for free, because that was what the Internet was all about, freedom. And now the exact opposite. And by the way, that was the beginning of the end of journalism. Because if you’re getting it for free, why should I buy it? I couldn’t believe how stupid they were putting this stuff up there.

And now there’s no more journalism again. Do you know that they fired over 2000 media people just in January? According to challenger, Gray and Christmas, the company that follows employment of 2000 just in January. So now, going back to the Internet revolution, it was all about freedom of speech. And now the bigs control everything. And how about what they don’t mention here? If you don’t believe in everything.

We’re telling you how to fight the COVID war. You believe in misinformation. So, judge, stand 6ft apart from everybody you see putting circles on the floor because the wind blows directly in straight lines and 6ft. And when you’re in an airplane, you better put that mask on. But when you’re eating and drinking, you take it off even though you’re sitting around everybody because Covid knows when you’re eating and drinking and isn’t going to bother you.

And if you don’t believe that, you believe in know. I thought of you this morning when I heard the local news that an appellate court in New Jersey, this is the court system of which I was a part for eight years, ruled against people at a board of education meeting during COVID who stood up to challenge the board’s regulations of sending the kids home and forcing them to wear masks and insisted on taking their masks off so that they could be heard at the board of education meeting.

And the board of education said, no, you have to speak to us through the mask. And these people said, well, I can’t be heard through the mask. The mask is an expression of opinion and I’m not expressing the opinion of being pro mask, I’m anti mask and I have the right to stand here and tell you that they threw these people out. The people sued, the trial judge threw the lawsuit out and the appellate court upheld throwing it out, saying you were told to wear the mask, you had no right not to.

Now, this is two years after the fact because cases get online and there are other cases ahead of it. But I just shook my head that judges could do something like this at the quintessential place for free speech, a town meeting, a board of education meeting. Don’t you dare speak to me without your mask on. I thought of you immediately when I heard this on the news. The only facts I know, the ones that I just related to you.

But this continues. This big government nonsense continues, Gerald, even two years after the so called pandemic is over. Here’s the box with the masks, judge, you ready? These masks do not eliminate exposure to the risk of any disease or infection. Right on the box right here for everybody to look at these stupid little masks that everybody was wearing and yet they forced us to wear them. People were challenged and they lost.

And you remember your friend over there? I forgot his name. That judge, Ratcliffe or Ratchet Jed Raycroft. Yeah. Telling the guy that he’s not going to be pardoned until he can’t leave the court unless he gets a vaccination. Correct. He did do that. It’s just terrible. Now, of course, we learned from Fauci, but you never know whether to believe him or not. But in a candid moment after he left office, when they asked him what was the scientific basis for the 6ft apart, there was none.

They made it up. Made it up. People went to jail because of this. Religious and political gatherings protected by the first amendment were disrupted by police acting like they were Nazis in Germany in the mid 30s because of this six foot apart regulation. And then we learn afterwards, it was made up out of thin air. Yeah. And the majority of the people swallowed it. There was a lot of people that didn’t.

You were here. We had freedom rallies. How hated I was for having a freedom rally. Oh, by the way, we all died from having that rally. Everybody there, we were all dead again. Did you hear from a single person who claimed to get sick because we took our masks off? No. In fact, as I recall it, it was an eruption of human freedom that we were all there talking about.

Freedom with no masks on. On your private property, in your beautiful garden. Private property. And the police were protecting us rather than interfering with. Yeah. Oh, they’re great police up here in Kingston. They don’t bust your chops a little crap. Mostly local guys, and they’re terrific. But what you did is the exception rather than the rule in most places in America. In that era, the police would have broken it up because people were not wearing masks and we were closer to each other than 6ft.

You had four or 500 people there listening to Geraldi Ritter, you, me. I’m trying to remember who else was there and loving every minute of it. There was food, there was drink, there was music, there was happiness. It was an oasis. An oasis from the tyranny of the government for one happy afternoon in a beautiful garden in Kingston, New York. And the police were enjoying it as much as we were.

But if you came down here to New Jersey, that would never have happened. No. Well, again, I said to little Andy Cuomo, come down. Come over here, little boy, and you try to stop me. Don’t send your cops. You come over here and try to stop me. A little nothing again to show you the damage that’s been done. This is from just yesterday. Ready? Carjackings, homicides and robberies are stealing a sense of security across Washington DC.

This is from CNN, the cartoon news Network. Homicides, carjackings and robberies across Washington DC have affected prominent politicians. That’s the language they use. They’re prominent. What prominent? Some little crap head that sucks off the public tit. What prominence? How about you’re a public servant and we’re in charge? But anyway, the language. Politicians and regular residents alike. Regular residents. We’re just plantation workers of slave landia. Leaving many in the nation’s capital fearful of the rising crime.

Ready? The nation’s capital suffered a 39% increase last year. 39% increase in crime. Not a word. Not a word here about why it went up. Because of the COVID war that we warned about in the trends journal. I said, when people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it. Here’s another one. Rising crime risks turning Oakland, California into a ghost town. This again. CNN yesterday.

Newsom is sending in reinforcements. Newsom, the little arrogant boy. A little daddy’s boy. My daddy was a lawyer for the Getty gang. Oh, yeah, that Newsom. The Newsom when he told everybody to stay home, lock down kids can’t go out and play. He’s up at the laundry, french laundry, like it’s $400 a plate having a party. That Newsom? Yes, that Newsom. Yeah. And he was the first one to close down.

And then little Andy Cuomo followed. And now the country is destroyed. An article in this week’s trench journal. Generation X. Judge, they go to bed early and they sleep 9 hours. They’re not going out of play. When I was a young guy. We’re going out at night. We’re going to rock all night. No more. No more. Finished. Finito. The streets are dead. 09:00 at night 09:00 at night dead.

This Covid war. But again, look at all the people that got blacklisted. Dr. Joseph Mercola, one after another, taken off. You know, and I want to mention this. This is extremely important. I always ask you, judge, what can we do about it? And in your article, you say that we can do something about it. And that is very important. The freedoms of thought, speech and expression are natural rights, just as one can naturally think, as one wishes.

And you go on to say what we can do that how? We have to get together and make this change. And this is so important that the people unite and do something. What can we do about this? We can use the tools of a free market and the first Amendment. We can loudly leave the censoring venues and not patronize their advertisers. We can build and support other venues.

We can preach the values of an informed public and the virtues of parental responsibility and the primacy of personal liberty. We can foster widespread opinions that censorship is repellent and censors should be shunned and parents, not government, should control their children. That’s what you say. Maybe that’s a fantasy land of mine, but that’s what you can do. I mean, think about it. If nobody patronized Facebook’s advertisers, they’d go down.

And if we built it, would take a lot of money, would take a Charles Coke or somebody like that. Facebook is humongous. And I’m not just picking on Facebook because they’re all there, but we could build a venue that truly was free. Like Rumble is truly free. I don’t think they censor anybody. Say whatever the hell you want there. That’s really what we need more of in the country.

I have no relationship with Rumble. That just comes to mind as one that, as I understand it from you, from Alex Jones, from others, Roger Stone, who’ve been beaten up by big tech, go to rumble where you can be welcome or where anybody can access it. It’s so sad. Judge, what’s again? You know, yesterday there was, I looked at the headline stories of what was going on and these were the major stories on BBC King Charles seen for first time since cancer diagnosis.

Not a word about the Israel war. Top story on CNN, mom of school shooter found guilty in unprecedented case. Not a word about the genocide being committed. Drudge. This is the front page. It shows the COVID of six major newspapers in the UK. And it’s all about King Charles getting cancer. Now, nobody else, by the way, ever gets prostate cancer. We don’t know anybody that’s ever died of cancer.

Your mother, father, sister, brother, loved one, friends die of cancer. It doesn’t make a bit of difference. But hey, the king got cancer. I’m mentioning this because it really relates to what you wrote about your article. It’s only the politicians, it’s only his Majesty that count. The rest of us don’t count for anything. They could tell us anything they want and we must obey. So now this is going to raise your blood pressure.

I don’t know if you remember about two years ago when a lot of Texas in the middle of the winter had no electricity and no water, there was some big problem with the grid. And Senator Ted Cruz took a trip to Cancun, Mexico, and he was just eviscerated for it. Well, apparently whenever he travels from Texas to Washington, in the airports, people taunt him and say, are you on your way to Mexico? On your way to Mexico? And guess what his response is.

Introduce legislation to provide armed guards for members of Congress when they’re in mean, you can’t make this stuff up. I don’t think the legislation is going to go anywhere. But this is the mentality of people in the government. You’re a public servant. The public is taunting you for a dumb thing that you did, and you want an armed guard to keep the public from you at the public’s expense.

And again, look at that little boy of nothing. Look at that little jerk. A little piece of scum. And nothing. One after another. One after another. Look at them. Hey, let me play the role of little Chucky Schumer. Let me wear my glasses like this all the time. I’m a little warmongering freak that couldn’t fight my way out of a paper bag. There he is, right. I’m not making his crap up.

And that’s why you have the COVID of this week’s Tread’s journal. Makes it perfectly clear how stupid and gutless can you be to obediently follow your ignorant, arrogant political leaders. So, judge, thank you so much for being on. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do. The recommendations you have here are very important. And everyone listening, don’t forget, go to see the judge. He has great, great podcasts judging freedom.

The people he has on are terrific. You’re going to hear things you don’t hear anywhere else. Judge, thanks for being on, and we’ll see you next week. I’ll see you soon. Thank you, Gerald. .

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