I attended the Brigham City Council meeting on 7-18-2024 to hand out the Box Elder Committee of Liberty’s Petition for Redress of Grievances and two copies of the booklets explaining in greater detail the unconstitutional “visioning process.” Remember, nowhere in the founding documents is there authority for any level of government to design and dictate the structure or character of a community.
I handed a Redress of Grievance to Council member Matthew Jensen and he immediately threw it in the garbage. He did not like it when I called him out for violating my first amendment right to freedom of speech in my editorial. He also said I was full of s**t. No, just full of both Constitutions. He was not the only one to say no because I was not allowed to speak, he was just the first one I noticed to say, “no.” It is important to speak during the public meeting so that you are publicly recorded. Emails, phone calls, text messages can be easily ignored, erased or blocked.
The Box Elder County Attorney and Commissioners just implemented a free speech zone at the Box Elder County Fair. Free speech does not need a zone, this is tyrannical. Our Committee opposed this decision on 8-14-2024.
“This sacred Privilege (freedom of speech) is so essential to free governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scare call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Public Traytors.” Benjamin Franklin 1722 Cato Letter 15, 1721.
The previous commissioners, Summers, Hadfield and Scott shut down the public comment period for six years (2017-2023) this was also a tyrannical decision. Grateful that Commissioners Bingham and Perry restored the public comment period, however, Commissioner Bingham recently said he did not have to listen to me. My reply was, “yes you do, you are my representative, what am I paying you for?” It is troubling that those who are with socialist, fascist, marxists programs are listened to but citizens who are standing against these Republic destroying programs are not listened to.
Each citizens help is needed in protecting our First Amendment to Freedom of Speech in our US Constitution and our Utah Constitution, Article 1, Section 15 (Freedom of speech and of the press) which states, “no law shall be passed to abridge or restrain the freedom of speech or of the press.”
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