Bob Bird: Attack on Eastman is a direct attack on freedom of speech – Must Read Alaska

By BOB BIRD

In the recent debate with former Alaska State Sen. John Coghill, a true gentleman if ever there was one, I could not broach all of the flaws that exist in our current state constitution. One of them is Article 1, Section 5:

Every person may freely speak, write, and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.

When one looks at the federal Bill of Rights and in most of our own in the Alaska constitution, they are worded with restrictions placed upongovernment, rather than granting permission tocitizens. The rights then are seen as pre-existing, given to us by Natural Law from the Almighty.

No law shall be made and No person shall be denied is how all of them should properly and justly read. It is easily understood that were it not this way, we would suffer under the rule, The Government giveth, and the Government taketh away.

But read Section 5 of Alaskas Constitution again. That is precisely what it does it grants us permission, with a finger-wagging warning that should we abuse it, we would pay a penalty. It goes without saying that abuse of the freedom of speech was already thoroughly ensconced in American statutes and Anglo-Saxon common law, and was not necessary to be included.

Even during the debates held in 1955, this was seen as a danger. None other than the last living convention survivor, and the Dean of Alaskan liberals Vic Fisher, understood that the wording was fraught with potential mischief. He was assured that Idahos state constitution had similar wording and had therefore been tested as if it could never be abused in the future.

The liberal Mr. Fisher was on to something important in 1955. I wonder what his thoughts are today regarding the abuse that is now ongoing in the state legislature with the heroic Rep. David Eastman.

But the template of our vaunted state Constitution of 1955 came out of a liberal think-tank associated with the Rockefeller created-and-funded University of Chicago, called the Public Administration Service, or PAS. Their various officers, who were Socialist New Deal retreads, were even invited to advise, observe, and speak at the 1955 confab in Fairbanks.

A word on the term holocaust, which Eastman used in reference to something other than the Jewish Holocaust. I hate to say it, but the term seems to have been patented by the liberals, and I am here to inform them that it is not.

The prolife movement has used it for nearly 50 years, and willneverstop using the term. If it doesnt actually parallel the Jewish holocaust, it is because the body count of aborted babies in the US alone now exceeds 10 times the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis.

But they dont count, you see. And why?

Because the liberals told us so.

The politically conservative Jews, such as Andrew Barr, the secretary of the UKsJews for Justice,are also warning us that we are going down a terrible path with cancel culture. If the witches brew that is the Democratic Party succeeds in ousting Rep. Eastman, the rest of us will be next in our workplace, schools and churches.

House Speaker Louise Stutes and House Majority Leader Chris Tuck are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Legislative bodies must extend courtesy to their confreres. If you want to pass bills, todays opponent is tomorrows ally. Throwing bean-balls at the head of conservative mavericks by inviting childish and bed-wetting witnesses, eager to throw mud through guilt by association is a threat to the other members, and is deliberately meant to be. It will result in an end to legislative comity. It might eventually lead to a modern version of Sen. Preston Brooks and the caning of Sen. Charles Sumner.

Aside from having to modify Article 1, Section 5 of the Alaska Constitution, it appears that the hellbent, dangerous, and evil witch hunters in the state legislature will have to be voted out ifwe can restore election integrity.

Should Eastman suffer some sort of legislative discipline, or expulsion, a bone-chilling nightmare will descend on us here in the Last Frontier.

To quote Donald Trumps speech: They werent really after me, they were afteryou. I was just in their way.

Bob Bird is chair of the Alaskan Independence Party and the host of a talk show, the Talk of the Kenai on KSRM radio, Kenai.

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