The Relationship Of Free Speech - Free Press Absolutism And The Rise Of American Fascism Is Directly Proportional Not Inversely Proportional

LAST NIGHT'S discussion on Chris Hayes' show of how FOX and the other American fascist media are getting people they have presented as anti-vaxx-anti-public-health heroes AND MORE AMERICANS A WEEK KILLED THAN ARE KILLED IN A YEAR BY MURDERERS brought things to a point of noting that the FOX anti-vaxx phenomenon is specific to Rupert Murdoch's holdings here and not in other countries.   The discussion noted that Murdoch's holdings in Britain and Australia are not making his media more effective at killing citizens of those countries at levels the most psychotic of Al Qaeda or ISIS terrorists could dream of.  In fact it noted that in Australia there have been legal and, so, financial consequences for some of the American Murdoch crap that has gotten through on the internet. 

The Murdoch family war on Americans is the most serious terrorist attack on the United States in our history,  getting huge numbers of us killed and it is a direct result of the privilege they are given to spew out the lies and propaganda which is the foremost reason that so many of us are dying EVEN AS FOX HERE ENFORCES VACCINE AND TESTING MANDATES FOR THEIR PROPERTIES AND THEIR ON-SCREEN ANTI-VAXXER TERRORISTS WHO ARE ALL VACCINATED AND ARE MANDATING BE PROTECTED FROM WHAT THEY PROMOTE. 

This is a direct consequence of the language of the First Amendment as read by the Warren and subsequent courts, of the ACLU and others in the civil liberties industry getting idiots on the Supreme and lower courts to allow them to carry out a lie campaign that is literally killing hundreds of thousands of Americans as it is deemed that nothing is to be done to stop it "because of the First Amendment."

This is not sustainable, what it is is an indictment of the entire theory of "free speech- free press" when the press is mass media and which we know will function with complete irresponsibility and malignity if they think they and their owners can gain power and get money through it. 

Jefferson's declaration that he would rather have newspapers than governments was one of the stupidest things he ever said, knowing full well that he would never have to live without a government.  It is a slogan of stunning dishonesty and stupidity because he could never imagine what the world he declared his preference for would be like AND BECAUSE HE COULD NEVER IMAGINE MASS MEDIA OF SUCH AMORAL MALIGNITY AS THAT WHICH THE 20TH CENTURY SAW RISE AND BECOME A REALITY UNCOVERED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT.  

We have learned nothing from this yet but I don't think we will be able to put off the lesson of this forever.  It has the very real and likely possibility of having even worse effects than the one we are seeing right now, every week.   In the United States, elsewhere, the electronic mass media is proving to be the fascists' best friend, their dependable tool, the thing that is destroying equality and democracy around the world.  Jefferson was wrong about that.  Our media will certainly not be the thing that admits to it, not even the most responsible of them.  But I will, I'm not a journalist, I'm not a lawyer but I can see what's happening right in front of us and has been steadily getting worse since 1964 because of that folly.