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In explaining its actions against Stossel, lawyers for Meta stated - I'm guessing in very hushed tones - that the warning labels affixed by Facebook "are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion." Yes, you read that right. Facebook is legally entitled to its opinion when judging the opinion of its customers! In other words, these so-called fact-checkers are merely referring to their own political predilections i.e. opinions when casting judgment upon the opinions of Facebook users. So it's probably fair to say that the image of Facebook fact-checkers all hunched over and squinting at digital Almanacs and Britannica encyclopedias all day in Zuckerberg's sweatshops is an illusory one.See also:
The lawsuit, which was filed on Monday in US District Court in Washington, alleges that Pelosi and the investigative committee that she appointed are trying to suspend constitutional liberties "in coercive secret proceedings specifically designed to satiate a political witch hunt."See also:
The committee subpoenaed Jones in November, demanding documents related to his role in organizing an election-fraud protest that escalated into the Capitol riot, according to the lawsuit. The panel also ignored the radio host's constitutional objections, insisting that he testify in Washington on January 10, and it sought to obtain his phone records through AT&T.
"The select committee's members have made it abundantly clear that they are only interested in prosecuting political adversaries," the lawsuit said, adding that Jones was put in the "unconscionable position" of facing imprisonment if he exercises his constitutional rights.
Jones claimed that the committee is violating his 1st Amendment rights as a journalist, his 4th Amendment right of privacy in his papers, and his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. The lawsuit noted that committee chairman US Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) showed his disregard for those protections when he suggested in an MSNBC interview earlier this month that invoking the 5th Amendment may show that a witness is "part and parcel guilty to what occurred."
In a news conference Monday, the Democrat mayor asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to send in agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for six months to ramp up the number of gun investigations and gun seizures, according to Fox32 Chicago. She also asked for more federal prosecutors to handle the criminal cases those agents will investigate, as well as federal marshals to assist local law enforcement with tracking down thousands of suspects wanted on warrants, the station added.
"We need these additional resources well in advance of summer," Lightfoot reportedly said.
The plea comes as the number of shooting victims in Chicago this year -- as of this past Sunday -- was at 4,270, compared to 3,930 in 2020, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing police statistics.
Homicides have risen to 783, up from the 749 recorded during the same time period in 2020, the newspaper also said.
"Keeping you safe is my priority — not one of, but the first and primary priority," the Tribune quoted Lightfoot as saying. "I wake every morning with this as my first concern and I push myself and all involved to step up and do more and better because we cannot continue to endure the level of violence that we are now experiencing."
Federal law enforcement resources have been involved with the crime situation in Chicago in recent years.
Last summer, Fox News reported that then-President Donald Trump was sending in 100 federal agents to Chicago as part of Operation Legend.
Then in September 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr said the number of homicides in Chicago plunged 50% after the Trump administration's actions.
But Lightfoot, while noting the city was "grateful for the additional federal charges and prosecutions," according to the Chicago Tribune, pushed back against Barr's claims, suggesting the violence had begun to subside before federal law enforcement had arrived.
"For now we see through a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." - 1 Corinthians 13:12, The Epistles of Paul, the Holy BibleThe 'Smart City' will be reintroduced as the better option, in the present age of artificial supply-line disasters, manufactured 'cyber-terrorism', closing off access to banking, and critical infrastructure.
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