Pritzker Used His Political Weight to Silence Critics – IOTW Report

Pritzker Used His Political Weight to Silence Critics

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Should any powerful elected official in America use his influence to have an opposition newspaper canceled? Is it allowable for a president or governor to have such a paper literally taken out of print?

Well, it happened. In Illinois. At least temporarily.

This sad episode in the heartland speaks to a larger dangerous trend in America. Increasingly, the permanent political class and corporate elites cooperate to suppress our rights of free speech and a free press. More

22 Comments on Pritzker Used His Political Weight to Silence Critics

  1. Should a political party / operative be allowed to silence free speech in America? No.

    Is it happening? Yes. Until people wake up and take charge, the dems and the swamp will continue to force their views upon the country.

    I am working with candidates who support my views. Are you?

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  2. Erik the ne’er do well unmasked scumbag OCTOBER 1, 2022 AT 10:36 PM
    Better than Shitcago.
    Prefer Olive Branch when we hunted geese down there.

    Jethro OCTOBER 1, 2022 AT 10:23 PM

    Familiar with the fact that he’s so fat one of his legs broke under the pressure of it?

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  3. Good luck finding an alternative web press company. I was at a newspaper convention, probably 1991, where there was a discussion about finding web press companies to get small newspapers printed. We could pick from around 7 in our market. A guy from Chicago lamented that he only had one and it controlled all web press printing within 200 miles. He related the story of a web press operator in a rural Indiana town who had the gumption to market his services in the Chicago area. His facility mysteriously burned to the ground after giving the wrong answer to some heavies that had shown up to explain the rules. He thought he lived in a free country. What a rube.

    That was 31 years ago. I imagine things have tightened up significantly since then. I know things have consolidated in this market as well (mostly because of community newspapers going under). We got out of the newspaper business about a year later. Most press operators are hanging on these days doing mail inserts and other advertising, along with a school newspaper here and there.

    I’d wager that if these folks are able to go far enough afield to get their newspaper printed, getting it shipped into Illinois and distributed may be near impossible, especially if the unions line up against them.

    I do like their low-tech approach. Good to know enough people will still pick up a newspaper and read it that it can have an effect on an election.

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  4. Absolutely par for the course in Illinois. There hasn’t been freedom of the press since jimmy carter’s fed education was created. Rural schools were closed and kids bused and small town USA received a gut shot. The “newspaper” became propaganda rag, affording school districts the courtesy of printing only the news they wanted the public to know. Things went down and voices have been silenced for decades. Speaking the truth in Illinois is a dangerous thing, just ask Elijah Lovejoy. Mob rule on steroids. The most common way to lie is omission. Imagine doing anything differently if you wanted to collapse a free Country?

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  5. Until the good people of Illinois drag his fat porker ass down to Chicago’s Union Stockyard he’ll continue his un-American thug ways.

    We (Americans) tolerate much.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  6. Pritzgers running scared. News is out about his DANGEROUS SAFE-T ACT!
    Darren Bailey has cut his trailing numbers in HALF.
    Believe me when I say you see almost ZERO JB for GOV signs!
    I’m calling for Darren Bailey as a volunteer and telling voters about what the SAFE-T act is all about!
    NOBODY LIKES JB EXCEPT FOR UNION HACKS.
    GO DARREN BAILEY!

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  7. it doesn’t look like he is into that cricket eating thing
    he likes his steaks sub-prime, like his mortgages

    an opportunistic pig that delights, and profits, from the suffering of others
    “Hilton Hotels has allegedly inked a deal with Chinese Communist authorities to build a new property at the site of a Uyghur mosque bulldozed by the government — and the hotel chain is refusing to comment on reports of the plan.”
    https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/china-inks-deal-with-hilton-to-build-hotel-over-bulldozed-mosque/
    he’d sell his own grandmother if money was involved

  8. @RogerF October 1, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    > I am working with candidates who support my views. Are you?

    Men of wisdom and honor? Maybe one? Or the other?

    No. None available as candidates.

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