There Must Be No "Right to Lie" in a Free Society

If we imagine that democracy is a market place of ideas, then how can the ‘right to lie’ as established by the court in the satanic decision in Susan B Anthony list vs Dreighaus (Here) is absolute bullshit. The First Amendment exists because of the extreme value the press and political literature played in the revolution. The constitution was written at the time of the enlightenment but within a generation lies were created by Thomas Jefferson (yes THAT Thomas Jefferson) which led Adams to Pass the Alien and Sedition acts. From then on, it became the obsession of the left that any argument always favored the liberal if you allowed anything to be said. But this was before the discovery of psychology, propoganda or psyops with surgical computer assisted precision. Experiments conducted by Social Media with such specificity that the APA (American Psychology Association) actually protested it as UNREGULATED NONCONSENTING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH. So we’re entering Millgram experiment territory here. Moreover, thanks to the libertarian and republican infested government we possess, we have 45 percent of our population literally willing to believe anything a sociopathic traitor says. A democracy is a living fragile thing that requires much more breadth of society than merely a democratic government with checks and balances. It also requires strong non governmental institutions that can build a strong civil society that can build character and honor among its inhabitants who value diversity and freedom for all forms of individuals and fairness for all. This is why the Kock brothers have attacked schools, lawyers, unions and doctors; as well as creating toxic dirt rags like TMZ, to take away legitimacy and power in our society from any source but the rich and the foul lying mouthpieces that they control.

It is time we grew up. It is time that we understood that allowing a market place of ideas should follow the same rules of any other market place; let the market be a market but insider trading (or specifically allowing one person to have an advantage unfairly in a market) is simply not to be allowed. When you allow lying to go unpunished in the political sphere, you essentially set up an uneven market place which is a hazard to everyone. Lying is not a right, no matter what the conservative says. Indeed, why would a conservative not say it? Because it is in their nature to lie. The success of the conservative depends on the lie far more than the liberal, which is why people like Jefferson and every western liberal that has come after him has been such a staunch defender of an unlimited first amendment. Trump, Fox and Facebook show us where that road leads. Lying is the first step at reform in our society. It must stop. It must not be permitted, and while you can have unlimited political speech and unlimited artistic speech, if you are using those freedoms, just like invoking the 5th amendment you must clearly invoke it so all understand what you are doing. You must have a disclosure that says “I am a lying piece of filfh” if you are going to have Fox News. You can’t pretend to be real news and not in a ‘hide it deep in some obscure website way’ but wearing a scarlet L on your forehead.

You can have freedom or you can have lies, you cannot have both. Period.