A Cry For Constitutional Justice

The day before yesterday, I went on the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper in Lubbock, Texas, where I signed up for lubbockonline.com with the moniker UnfetteredFury, after my original moniker largordo had been blocked (See Screenshot # 4), most probably because on Dr. Carr’s blog I said I hoped the moderator/censor’s hemorrhoids had hemorrhoids. I will never know for sure why the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal blocked my moniker, since I never received an e-mail from whomever at that newspaper to justify this brash action. (The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is owned by the Morrison Communication Company, as I understand it.)

When I complained to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on their Facebook page, I said they had infringed on my first amendment rights, and that the right was not theirs to trump. The newspaper said it did have that right and that most sites did this. (See Screenshots # 1 and # 2)

I would think that rights guaranteed me by the United States Constitution cannot be trumped by a newspaper or any other organization such as a corporation or a club. Even signing a contract to be a member of something, and the irony and gall of it of it all, a paying member, still does not trump my rights, since any document  that requires that I relinquish those rights could only be considered velvet coercion, but coercion nonetheless. When signing up for an account, it states that comments use is a privilege and not a right. (See Screenshot # 3). The bottom line is that free speech, no matter how much one might disagree with it, is a guaranteed right not to be revoked by anyone or anything.—and if this newspaper does have the right, God forbid,  then the American people must stand up to have it repealed. This is a major right infringed upon in a major way with endless implications. Your Congressmen and Congresswomen must be called about this, and these representatives and senators in Congress must be held accountable for getting this repealed, if, in fact, this is the law.

Personally, I suspect my legal sense is right and corporations, clubs, newspapers with online blogs do not have the right to trump anyone’s right of free speech, or any other right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. I have a gut feeling this has been the big bluff of at least a century in this country. 

Anyway, under the moniker UnfetteredFury I had not made more than three comments on Dr. Carr’s blog, which also included one comment on the Mr. Conservative blog, when WHAM! lubbockonline had blocked UnfetteredFury, as well. (See Screenshot # 5). Please note the three comments I had posted. Very vanilla comments with one to a blogger who is too conservative for my taste, telling him his argument was a broken record. (See Screenshots # 6, 7 and 8).

What I would like you, as people who want to defend your Constitutional rights, to do is go to the Avalanche-Journal page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Avalanche-Journal/95690719813 and leave them a message. Tell them what you think of first amendment rights. Let them know it if you think they have overstepped their authority, and demand my moniker of UnfetteredFury be unblocked. Let them know that We, the People of the United States of America will not tolerate this travesty. Make a screenshot of your message to them. (With the picture on your computer screen, click the Print/Screen button. Open the Paint application on your PC and click paste in the upper left hand corner. Save as jpeg with a name to your computer, to any file of your liking on your computer.) Thank you. Your participation will be heart-felt.

Darian Land