Darrell Castle talks about the destruction of Irish Catholicism and the faith of the Irish people caused by the abuse of Irish children.

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THE DEATH OF IRISH CATHOLICISM

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, March 15, 2019, and since this coming Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day, I will be talking about Ireland, with the goal of uncovering what is going on there. What is happening on the Emerald Isle with regard to the Catholic faith and what has caused it to happen.

St. Patrick’s Day brings back a lot of memories to me, especially of the friends I knew during my military service who were of Irish descent. We were all young, around 22 or 23 years old, and while I was stationed at Quantico near Washington D.C. we used to take the Eastern Shuttle up to New York or Boston for St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Those Irish guys were always a lot of fun but a word of caution is in order.

My advice is to be very cautious about going out on St. Patrick’s Day to have a couple of glasses of Guinness with a few guys named Casey, Quinn, and so forth, because it will not end well I can promise you that.  For me though, Winston Churchill’s quote about whiskey is true for Guinness,  and that is that I have taken a lot more from Guinness than Guinness has taken from me.

What about today? What’s going on in Ireland today? The Irish are an angry and deeply troubled people right now, so let’s look at what may have caused the sudden changes in that nation over the last few years. Ireland has traditionally been the most conservative and most Catholic country in Europe and, perhaps, in the world. Despite their reputation for drinking and fighting the Irish have always been devoutly Catholic people, until recently, that is.

For example, Pope John Paul ll visited Ireland from September 29 to October 1, 1979, so three days including travel. John Paul was the first Pope in history to visit Ireland. He made his visit a call for peace and an end to the sectarian violence there. When he left his plane he was greeted by the President of Ireland, then flew by helicopter to his first mass where 1.2 million people came out to hear him. That number was one-third of the entire population of the country. In the three days he was there, 2.5 million people heard him live and that was two-thirds of the entire population. He passed along the streets in his bulletproof, glass-enclosed “pope mobile”, and 750,000 people lined the streets just to see him pass by.

Why would almost the entire population of the country receive any man with such joy and excitement? This particular man was loved in a special way and he was also the Vicar of Christ, as they saw it.  He sat in Peter’s seat and he was the earthly embodiment of their faith which meant everything to them. The Irish have suffered so much over the centuries from sectarian violence, starvation, and many other things, that the Catholic Church was the one thing they had, the only thing, that was a stable fixture in their lives. It was the place of refuge for their souls and the one place they could trust with their children.

By the way, I’m not Catholic so if I get Catholic protocol a little off, forgive me. I can assure you that I have the utmost respect for members of the Catholic faith and for what the Catholic Church has meant and should still mean in America. However, Catholicism is a centralized top down faith and that makes the problems, accusations, and charges harder to defend.  I just examine the facts that have been discovered and somehow try to make sense of something that makes no sense.

In the United States, certain private organizations run some child care facilities under government supervision, but for the most part the care of children without parents, poor indigent children, has been taken over by the government. Here in America being “in the system” means child protective services or some such govern...

Darrell Castle talks about tech tyrants such as Amazon, Facebook and Twitter and their efforts to silence opposing views by banning books and thoughts.

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TECH TYRANTS

When I was in law school in the mid to late 1970’s, we had a course called Antitrust and one of our most respected law professors taught that subject. He used to tell us stories of how he spent 20 years working for the government on the case of U.S. v. DuPont and how that case eventually forced DuPont to break apart.

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday March 8, 2019 and on this Report I will be talking about the continuing efforts of the Tech Tyrants as they use their information monopolies to censor anyone and everyone they happen to disagree with. This Report deals with a subject that reminds me of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451 which was set in a future where books were outlawed and firemen would burn any they found. The number 451 was the temperature at which books would burst into flame. In 1966 the book was made into a fairly successful movie. Today it isn’t necessary to burn books since they can be digitally banned, but the effect is the same.

Antitrust is not my field but the premise behind it is that no company should control the entire market because it stifles competition and hurts the consumer. Fast forward to today and you will see that Amazon not only controls virtually all of its own market, but it is threatening other markets in its product chain. Amazon trucks now roam the streets in competition with Fed Ex and UPS. I have even seen reports that Amazon would like to buy Fed Ex.

For purposes of our discussion, Amazon controls the market for online book sales to the extent that virtually every brick and mortar bookseller in the country is bankrupt and out of business. The result is that, if you write a book or have a book to sell, you will sell it on Amazon or you won’t sell it. Now that Amazon has developed market control to the extent that it has almost 100 percent of the market, Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, and his board, have apparently decided that they can now ban any book or opinion that they disagree with.

Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, and reportedly the world’s richest man at $140 billion dollars, is also one of the world’s most powerful men because he decides which opinions are worthy to be heard and which are not. He also owns the Washington Post so he always gets his opinions published, just not those he disagrees with. Now that Amazon has bought Whole Foods, it is in the grocery business as well, but that is not enough for Mr. Bezos. He also wants to develop his own chain of grocery stores to compete with every other store in America and perhaps the world thus controlling the food supply of all of us.

I wonder if it scares anyone in government, anyone in the Justice Department, that one company, and in effect one man, will soon control every opinion we are able to publicly state, as well as almost everything we eat. Perhaps I’ve hit on something here and the actual reason this company wants to gobble up the entire world is power, not money. I mean, what’s another billion to a man like Bezos. But power, that addictive drug, is so alluring. What could be more ego satisfying to a power junkie than the power to control which thoughts can be expressed and which cannot.

Goliath takes us down the road to totalitarian thought control, and I suppose that when Mr. Bezos is able to ban all bad thoughts, the only thoughts left will be pure like his. It seems that Amazon has been on course to digitally burn all those books the company disagrees with. Remember that if you don’t sell on Amazon you don’t sell. Many authors of many books have been taken down and are no longer available in any format.

Unfortunately Amazon is not alone in its efforts at thought control. Financial institutions, such as PayPal,

Darrell Castle talks about the lies and distortions that have made this a bad year for the mass media along with the failure of our political leadership to defend our civilization.

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 EMPIRE OF LIES

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, March 1, 2019, and on today’s Report I will be talking about some of the lies and distortions that have so far made this a bad year for the mass media. The media may be having a bad year because it publishes lies and distortions, but this society often rewards liars and punishes truth tellers.

 Let’s start with the story of a 7 year old black girl from Houston Texas who was murdered earlier this year. Initially the reports were that she was murdered by two white racists in a red pickup truck. The usual stereotypes of what a white racist is supposed to look like and be like were all there and the media just bought it hook, line, and sinker probably because it fit and advanced their own pre-conceived political narrative.

The media, whether TV or print, often reports a story as presented, just as if it were true all before any investigation is completed. They want us to assume it to be true because, I suppose, they want it to be true so badly. This little girl’s murder was front page news around the world and presented as evidence of the terrible race problems we have here in America, but when the murderers turned out to be two black gangbangers, it suddenly disappeared as a story. The prevailing sensationalist political agenda often is not advanced by the truth, therefore the truth is of little value to them. 

Then along came the story that I have talked about for a few weeks and that is the Covington kids and Native American Nathan Phillips. The media will not report these stories after their initial version is proven to be false, but I don’t want the real version to die, so I keep talking about them as long as possible. The Covington kids’ story should not die for a long time because of Nick Sandmann’s defamation suit against various publications, including the Washington Post.

We would be well served to remember the masthead of the Washington Post, which it has adopted as its official slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. That seems appropriate now that we the people can no longer believe anything the paper prints and all stories must be investigated by real journalists, such as simple bloggers and others in the alternative media. The New York Times, the Post, and others should pay attention to their own advertising.

The opportunity for the President to call attention to false stories of hate and hoaxes staged as hate crimes was there with the Covington kids but he passed on the opportunity. He originally said he might have them to the White House but changed his mind, I suppose because of advice that it would not be a wise political move. That seems to be the standard for right and wrong now—is it a right or wrong political move.

For example, when he was about to sign his emergency declaration for the wall, the Angel Moms, which is a group of mothers who have had children killed by illegal aliens, were in town to oppose the new spending bill. The President said he would like to invite them to the White House but reportedly his Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, and advisor Kelly Ann Conway, vetoed it because of political considerations. Ms. Conway then lectured the Angel Moms to stop their protest because it might endanger the spending bill, which she said the President desperately needed.

So if this story is true, and it apparently is, the President was very much in favor of the spending bill and didn’t just sign it because he wanted to get on with his declaration of emergency. The spending bill effectively ends resistance to illegal immigration in America. It is worse than blanket amnesty because it invites those who would have come illegally to come legally.

Darrell Castle talks about fake hate crimes, how the media often reports them as true, as well as how this affects our country and each of us individually.

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VICTIMS

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, February 22, 2019, and on today’s Report I will be talking about what it means to be a victim and the fact that being a victim is apparently so desirable and advantageous that hardly a day goes by that we don’t have another victim on the national scene.

In the Oxford English Dictionary the word victim is defined as “ A person killed or tortured by another; a person subjected to cruelty, oppression, or other harsh or unfair treatment or suffering death, injury, ruin, etc., as a result of an event, circumstance, or oppressive or adverse impersonal agency; a person who is taken advantage of; a dupe.”

That’s a pretty terrible definition isn’t it? One wonders then, why so many people pursue victimhood with such vigor. Sometimes people even seek to become part of a group, to which they do not belong, but which is traditionally and historically thought of as oppressed or victimized. I suppose the reason could be to gain sympathy for their cause or to confirm a false narrative which they want desperately to be true, and having no real examples, they must invent one.

Recently a group of Catholic school kids from Covington, Kentucky, in Washington D.C. for a pro-life rally, were accused of making a victim out of a Native American named Nathan Phillips but just a simple review of available video proved conclusively they were the victims instead of Mr. Phillips. Every news service in the United States had continual coverage when the story of Native American as victim fit their political narrative but, when it no longer did, they dropped the story like a hot potato.

Nick Sandmann, the young man most commonly identified by the media as the villain in the Catholic school kids’ story has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the New York Times and other media defendants for defamation. The defendants may have trouble defending the lawsuit because Mr. Sandmann is not a public figure that they are free to defame without regard to how much damage they may cause. If he were a public figure he would have to prove the story was false and that the Times knew it was false and they published it with the malicious intent to defame. He is not a public figure, however, just a teenage kid so proof of malice is unnecessary. I hope he prevails in his lawsuit since that would send a message that perhaps they should at least look at the video before they defame someone.

It’s almost as if we have the hate hoax du jour, and today’s story is still the Jussie Smollett fake noose, fake racist attack story. It seems that Mr. Smollett, a gay black star on Fox TV’s show Empire, alleged that he was going out for a Subway sandwich at two in the morning during a Polar Vortex in Chicago, in sub zero temperatures when he was attacked by horrible racists shouting “this is MAGA country.” These racists recognized him, you see, for although they are horrible, homophobic racists they do watch a black TV show and recognize its stars at two in the morning in sub-zero Chicago temperature. Such people seem to congregate in upscale black areas of Chicago, especially at 2 AM.

These racists threw bleach on him, knocked him down, screamed homophobic and racist slurs at him and put a noose around his neck. It turns out that Mr. Smollett concocted the story with the aid of two Nigerian men, one of whom is on his show, and the other is his personal trainer.  According to the Chicago police department Mr. Smollett apparently paid the two men $3500.00 and a promise of $500.00 more, to help him stage the attack, and it would probably have worked if he hadn’t picked a surveillance video camera that was pointed the wrong way.

Once again, every news service in the country,

Darrell Castle presents the essence of socialism and its current vehicle, the Green New Deal.

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SOCIALISM—THEFT BY MAJORITY VOTE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, February 15, 2019, and in the time I have with you today I will be talking about socialism and its new vehicle, the Green New Deal (GND).

Socialism is an economic system whereby the government owns the means of production and eliminates private property in most cases. Rather than a company having stockholders with a board of directors who answer to them it has the government with its central planning mechanism directing what is produced and what is not, and more importantly government bureaucracy directs where that produced material will go. The objective is virtually impossible to make sustainable over time without disastrous results for the entire society. Why would anyone think that some central planning mechanism could determine how much paint, lumber, concrete, steel, etc., is needed in each state, county, and town in America? It has been tried in many places in the world for many years as it is always appealing to leftists the world over, and it has destroyed nation after nation wherever people allow themselves to be seduced by its false promises.

In reality, socialism is a form of slavery, as is pure democracy, and that is why this country was founded as a Constitutional Republic. Socialism tells us that it is always acting for the common good and not for the good of greedy capitalists but in a multicultural society such as this one, the common good is very difficult to ascertain if it exists at all.. There is no common universal good to work for in multicultural societies only a multitude of diverse groups all working to achieve power and with it control over the system and over peoples’ lives.

Would be socialists usually need allies in their struggle to gain power and dominance over the whole of soiety. In the case of today’s American Socialists, they ally with big media to aid their efforts and cover their misdeeds and mistakes, and deny critical information to their victims. Pure democracy is pure majority rule. It sounds so noble and grand to say we don’t need the Electoral College anymore because we are now sophisticated enough at this point in history to simply vote and let the majority prevail. People who put forward that majority rule argument are usually associated with groups who think they are, or soon will be, the majority. Socialists usually demand majority rule over individual rights as soon as they have, or think they have, a majority, so they are constantly proselytizing to gain numbers.

We sometimes forget that individual rights are important, and in fact, are most important to a free people. I remind people from time to time that a lynch mob is a majority and has only one dissenting vote. The law prevails and protects individuals from abuse by the majority, at least that’s what the law is supposed to do and when properly respected that’s what it does.

The slavery aspect of socialism manifests itself when a group of benevolent socialists gains control of the political and economic systems and disposes of individual rights. Once individual rights are no longer respected there is nothing to prevent all the benevolent socialists from robbing you and stealing your labor, thus you become their slave. In other words, the fruits of your labor are taken from you by force for the common good, as they define it.

When our new socialists, who in our scenario have power, decide to levy confiscatory taxes; say they propose to tax certain incomes at 70% or even higher, many people think that’s great because it doesn’t include them and they seem to have no problem with enslaving and robbing others at gunpoint. That is just class envy and greed, coupled with ignorance of how the income tax started originally and expanded continually over about 100 ye...

Darrell Castle talks about President Trump's State of the Union Message as well as the Democrat response to it.

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THE STATE OF THE UNION—A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, February 8, 2019, and on today’s Report I will be talking about the President’s State of the Union Message delivered before Congress and the American people. I say that it was a tough act to follow because the Democrats did not follow it very well and did not rebut it at all. They even tried to downplay their own polls because they clearly show overwhelming support by the American people who watched the speech.

This SOTU message was a good one, as these things usually go; maybe it was even a great one. The speech was remarkable in many ways. He seemed to be having a conversation with us rather than saying what he thought we wanted to hear. He was in full command of the issues and of the room. The Democrats weren’t ready for him, especially his call for unity, and it caught them on camera shaking their heads and just looking confused and whiny. I’m guessing now, but my guess is that many people were left wondering why Democrats hate him so much.

I’m not going to summarize the speech for you because you probably saw it and heard it. I will instead give you my view of a few highlights from it and then some of the Democrat responses including the official response given by Stacey Abrams who narrowly lost the election for Governor of Georgia last fall. The Democrat Party obviously thinks she is an up and comer or the future of the Party otherwise they would not have chosen her for such an important speech.

The President opened with talk of unity and bipartisanship which the Democrats were not prepared for. They reacted with disrespect toward the President of the United States which I take as an indication that the animosity between them is personal, more than just a matter of policy disagreement. I don’t remember seeing all the paper shuffling and bored looks at the camera in a Presidential speech before. He tried to give us a glimpse of what he means by Make America Great Again by using the speech to celebrate heroism that is ordinary in America---the kind of heroism that is exhibited every day by ordinary Americans and that did get some positive reaction.

The Democrats obviously hate this man like they hate no other, and in my view, they hate those he represents as well. The hero bit embarrassed them a little but just a little bit I suspect. In other words, they don’t even have the decency to pretend to show respect to those parts of America that most of us love and grew up loving and believing were America. Invisible traits such as courage, integrity, and honor are probably lost on Democrats. The Democrats are starting to give up on pretense and finally show their true colors.

His announcement of new lows, all time lows, in unemployment for African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans was met with sullen silence. Why? Well, that question is an easy one to answer. They don’t want to see Republicans or anyone else improve the lives of minorities, economically or otherwise because they want minorities to need them and be dependent on them. They have to keep minorities down and deny them the real opportunity to achieve independence. To do otherwise would deny their power base and spoil their entire political plan for ruling in the future. They have to give their constituency something so they will vote, but not the keys which open the storehouse door.

He made his case for border security, immigration enforcement and a border wall. Border security provided him with what was perhaps his money quote of the evening: “No issue better illustrates the divide between America’s working-class and America’s political class than illegal immigration. Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders,

Darrell Castle talks about Nick Sandmann and the other teenagers from Catholic High School, in Covington, Kentucky, and explains how they are casualties in a Cultural Revolution being waged against the normal and decent by Big Media and its shock troops.

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ENTER SANDMANN

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday February 1, 2019 and on today’s Report I will be talking about Nick Sandmann and his heroic non-confrontation with some racist protestors who called themselves Black Hebrews, Black Israelites or some such thing and also one who said he is a Native American and is apparently also a Marine Corps veteran.

I refer to Nick Sandmann’s non- confrontation with the protestors as heroic simply because he didn’t do anything but smile despite extreme provocation from them, and more importantly, he refused to apologize for what he did not do in an effort to appease those who hate him. I didn’t intend to talk about this story because I know you must be tired of it,  but the vicious nature of the way Nick and the other teenagers with him were treated warrants some discussion.

Most of what has been popularized by President Trump’s tweets as “Fake News” has at least a kernel of truth to it. The media, acting without regard to truth and integrity, twists the story into one of their own in order to advance their political agenda. The interesting thing about this story and the thing that made me want to talk about it is that this time there isn’t even a kernel of truth to the story. Everything the media reported about this non-incident is a total and complete lie without any truth whatsoever.  The media used to spin stories to fit their political agenda but now apparently they just make them up or read from a script handed to them by their owners.

Could I be exaggerating and the misreporting just a series of mistakes? Perhaps the media saw the story and some reporter saw a chance to gain points with his Democrat boss and he jumped the gun and reported it incorrectly. No, in this case that is not what happened and it is not conceivable that it happened that way.

The media, the reporters, the TV talking heads, the networks, the liberal blog sites, all had access to all the information that I have now from the beginning. There were actual, real time videos actually taken by the racist protesters, at least an hour’s worth, of the entire event available from the beginning so it was not a mistake but a deliberate lie and an effort to destroy a bunch of totally innocent teenagers in order to advance their vile and wicked political agenda.

Nick Sandmann , the 16 year old catholic kid from Covington Kentucky Catholic High School ,that is seen in all the pictures and videos smiling or as the media reports it, smirking, in the face of the Native American, wrote a public statement giving his version of the event. In his letter Nick talks about coming to Washington to attend a pro life rally with other kids from his Catholic High School in Covington Kentucky. The kids were to gather at the Lincoln Memorial to catch the busses that would take them home. While there they were confronted by some African American protestors who called these kids “racists”, “bigots”, “white crackers”, “faggots”, and “incest kids” and that is just the milder things they shouted at these kids. If you doubt me just watch the video and you will see and hear.

Because they were being attacked and taunted the kids asked their adult teachers for permission to sing their school song and permission was given. There were no racist overtones to the song at all. Nick said that he believed that if he remained motionless and calm it would diffuse the situation. Unfortunately for Nick and the other kids his actions were reported differently by the media which now seems incapable of anything other than lies?

He said “I never understood why either of the two groups of protestors were engaging with u...

Darrell Castle draws a comparison between China today and America today.

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CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES—A COMPARISON

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday January 25, 2019 and on today’s Report I will be attempting to make a comparison between China and the course it is charting for itself in the world today and America and the course it is on.

 For much of America’s historic years of friendship with China, that country was an impoverished third world backwater looking for allies in its struggles, but the two countries once stood together against common foes. When the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii was attacked on December 7, 1941 the Chinese had already been fighting the Japanese Empire for 10 years. The two nations faced a common foe together.

After World War ll China changed from a primitive third world country to a primitive, communist third world country. Mao’s Cultural Revolution brought with it the death of millions of China’s intellectuals and peasants who were suspect or somehow did not fit the communist ideal. Instead of its historic friendship with America, China had the collectivist idea of communism and that ideology dictates that all communist nations work together for the defeat of the West and the triumph of international communism. That’s why the communists used to constantly refer to each other as comrade since the idea of individualism was hateful to communists.

President Nixon and Henry Kissinger changed much of that with their trip to china in the early 1970’s and with Mao’s death in 1976 the Cultural Revolution also died. China started to change as its potential and its failures became more and more obvious. The new China was more likely to act individually in its own best interest and as a competitor in trade with other countries of the world whether communist or not. In about 43 years since Mao’s death China has made itself into a powerful economy capable of challenging the United States on many levels.

Most of the progress and the results of that progress are obvious for anyone to see if they look at it. China is close to the United States in super computers and in other areas of science such as genetic engineering and genomics. Unfortunately China does not have a history of the significance of the individual Chinese that America once had of the individual American and as a result the genetic engineering efforts have led it into cloning and other forms of genetic manipulation of humanity. The more rapidly it advances in science and computing the more the speed of advance increases so progress is exponential.

The economic system of China has developed in at least a partial free market way. By that I mean that it seems to me that the Chinese government has said to its people, look you let us run the government as we see fit and play our international games and we will let you work, build businesses, have jobs and otherwise get as rich as you are able. We will guarantee that you will have a job even if we have to create the jobs by building ghost cities that no one lives in. As a result the Chinese government is left alone to do what it wants and there aren’t one billion peasants threatening to descend on Beijing with pitchforks.

To get a clearer picture of what I mean let’s compare some things between China and America today. The United States is now about 22 trillion in debt on the books with an unknown but astronomical debt that is usually called unfunded future liabilities. The debt makes the United States vulnerable to the policies of the Federal Reserve especially higher interest rates. In addition to the debt the United States runs huge trade deficits each year especially with China which means much more money flows out than in.

China, on the other hand, runs a large economic surplus which allows it to invest heavily in infrastructure for modernization purposes and to keep close to fu...

Darrell Castle talks about government and private efforts to deny our right to speak freely and to profit from our own lawful businesses.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN AN AGE OF LIES AND HYSTERIA

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday January 18, 2019 and on this Report I will be talking to you about the importance of the freedom to speak freely and how that freedom is under threat as never before in America.

The first amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

So Congress,  is prohibited from denying our right to speak freely, and later amendments apply that prohibition to the states as well. The people who founded this government, who drafted the constitution, and ratified it, understood how important freedom of speech really is. George Washington said, “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.” I suppose then that we are on our way like sheep to the slaughter because the freedom to speak freely is routinely denied in America.

The term “freedom of speech” has been the subject of constitutional litigation for most of my lifetime but it is simpler than some make it. One could sum it up by just saying that it is the right to publicly state what others, especially those in power, would rather not hear.

The problem today is determining whether the censorship of speech is coming from a government or private source. The wholesale denial of our right to speak has had a chilling effect on those who value freedom but unfortunately many in both the public and private worlds do not value freedom at all. It is getting harder and harder to tell the private corporations, especially those in Silicon Valley, from the government.

It is unfortunately not just private companies such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Google that de-platform individuals denying them the ability to speak and thus to earn a living. It has only been a few years since people in America would have been shocked to learn that your ability to speak could depend on your politics.

Today, our way of life, in America, at least the one we have always known, is under attack. Those who would deny us the right to express our opinion and to profit from our own intellectual property and labor apparently want to replace the American system with something of their own choosing, something they find acceptable.

Is the issue of freedom of speech connected to the government’s abuse of power, violation of law and due process with regard to government efforts censor lawful businesses that do not fit within its desired political perspective. I am saying they are connected so let me explain what I mean.

We know now that this censorship and denial of the right to express our opinions and to earn a living is not being conducted by only private corporations. That alone would be bad, but it’s actually a lot worse. Beginning with the Obama administration around 2013 the United States Justice Department implemented a program labeled “Operation Chokepoint.”

Apparently that administration could not attain its political goals through legitimate legislation passed by congress because the will of the people would not permit it, but the all knowing government decides what is best for us. I suppose they think we are like children without the maturity to understand what is in our own best interest and what is not.

In any event Operation Chokepoint targeted businesses the government found “unsavory” by cutting off their access to banks and credit cards. Some of these businesses included gun stores, ammunition shops, fireworks stores, small dollar lenders,

Darrell Castle was recently a guest on the Home Front program hosted by Cynthia Davis. Darrell and Cynthia discuss tariffs, immigration, Donald Trump and more.