The legendary rocker Joe Walsh once sang, “The Rocky Mountain way is better than the way we had.” But in Colorado, unfortunately, the Rocky Mountain way now more closely resembles censorship in Brazil than liberty in America.More than 100 international free speech advocates, including five former U.S. attorneys general, joined an open letter to the Brazilian Congress last month condemning Brazil’s severe censorship, which includes suspension of the social media platform X. While some may look on with mawkish curiosity at foreign intrigue they deem irrelevant to life in America, others may view Brazil’s authoritarian impulse through a lens of gratitude that it couldn’t happen here. Both are wrong. One need only look to the state of Colorado to find an American example of governing authorities who seek to silence speech with which they disagree and compel reiteration of their preferred message. More on that a bit later. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who owns X, has been engaged in a dispute with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that stems from de Moraes’ demands that Musk’s social media platform censor messages he disfavors. On Aug. 30, de Moraes officially suspended X nationwide in Brazil. He also froze the bank accounts of Starlink, a subsidiary of Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX that provides internet access via satellite.In his order, de Moraes said X presents a “real danger” of “negatively influencing the electorate in 2024, with massive misinformation, with the aim of unbalancing the electoral result, based on hate campaigns in the digital age, to favor extremist populist groups.” Besides the former attorneys general, signers of the Sept. 12 letter to Brazilian lawmakers include three members of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, The Daily Wire’s Megan Basham, bestselling author Rod Dreher, podcaster Tammy Peterson, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, X “Spaces” host Mario Nawfal, former Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and leading academics such as Princeton University’s Robert P. George. Sifting through de Moraes’ parade of red herrings reveals that he and others in power in Brazil fear that allowing access to certain speech on X might lead to an electoral result they wouldn’t like.As international pressure builds against Brazil’s scurrilous attacks on Musk, X, and the fundamental human right to free speech, many Americans are awakening to the rising global tide of censorship at home. Now, back to Colorado, where current state law invades the sanctity of the counselor-patient relationship. For patients who desire to live according to their true identity as image-bearers of God, created biologically male or female, the state has declared that any message other than so-called gender-affirming care will put a mental health care professional’s license at risk.Colorado’s “pro-choice” legislators, who frequently pontificate that the issue of abortion should be left to women and their doctors, also banned doctors from offering women progesterone to counter the effects of the abortion pill. Thankfully, legal challenges to this Colorado law are underway, but the chilling message from the Legislature is clear: The only state-approved choice once an abortion pill is taken is the one that results in the death of an unborn child. And that’s the only choice about which women can be trusted with information.Government as gatekeeper to information in Colorado isn’t limited to the state. Local school officials decided that parents didn’t need to know their daughter would be required to share a room on an overnight field trip with a male who identified as female. Apparently, the parents couldn’t be trusted to make the “right” decision for their child. Much better to leave it to the “experts,” of course.Colorado is also home to Lorie Smith and Jack Phillips. Smith, who witnessed the now decadelong persecution of Phillips, a Christian baker and self-described cake artist, at the hands of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Smith took that body to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she won the most significant victory for free speech in many years. Smith, a graphic artist, won for herself and other artists across the nation the Supreme Court’s recognition that coerced speech and censorship are two sides of the same unconstitutional coin. Phillips now waits to see if the Colorado Supreme Court will affirm this same principle for him.At the heart of the matter in Brazil and Colorado is the widening gulf between the governing and the governed. It is a tempestuous sea of mistrust. Government officials assume the role of arbiters of truth and the authority to decide what information the masses should have at their disposal. It is a story that has played out on the world stage many times and one that rarely has ended well for the common man or freedom.America, owing to its extraordinary constitutional protections for the God-given rights of the individual, has been an exception to the general rule of history for nearly two and half centuries. As Walsh would put it, “Life’s been good.” To remain so requires vigilance in defense of liberty at home as exemplary leadership for the world.We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. 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Is the Trump Boomerang Effect about to strike again? Hard? It is if this video is any indication…. Is the real reason that Diddy and all these other celebrities HATE(S) Trump is because he doesn’t have anything on him and can’t control him? Check this out… Back in 2020, Rapper and alleged criminal sex pervert Sean “Diddy” Combs said Donald Trump needed to be “banished”. Flash forward 4 years and Donald Trump is on his way to another landslide Presidential win, and “Diddy the Diddler” has been arrested and is sitting in prison. How perfectly poetic! But I think this is just the tip of the iceberg…. I have always felt like all the “Hate Trump” people in Hollywood had something deeper going on. Will it turn out that all of them hate Trump only because they know he will expose them and then prosecute them? WE WILL SEE! Take a look: FLASHBACK: RAPPER Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose homes were just raided over alleged sex trafficking, declaring in 2020, “white men like Trump need to be banished,” before endorsing Biden and warning, “We are on the verge of a race war.” WATCH pic.twitter.com/W6u6iXuNzf — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) March 25, 2024 Backup here: FLASHBACK: RAPPER Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose homes were just raided over alleged sex trafficking, declaring in 2020, “white men like Trump need to be banished,” before endorsing Biden and warning, “We are on the verge of a race war.” Oops! Trump about to win another Landslide… pic.twitter.com/RLykmxNR1m — DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) March 26, 2024 Here is news on the federal raids: BREAKING: Sean “P Diddy” Combs Raided By Feds (Federal Sex Trafficking Case) MORE: SHOCKING Press Conference: Diddy Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 25 Minors Including A 9-Year-Old In a shocking press conference, Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee, announced Sean "Diddy" Combs allegedly sexually assaulted 25 minors, including a 9-year-old. Buzbee announced on Tuesday he is representing nearly 120 individuals in a civil lawsuit against the disgraced music mogul. Buzbee stated, “I want to focus on the ages of these victims. When we talk about the ages of these victims when the conduct occurred, it’s shocking," “This individual, who was nine years old at the time, was taken to an audition in New York City with Bad Boy Records; other boys were there to audition as well," added Buzbee. Watch part of the press conference here: UPDATE: Diddy the Diddler 120 New Victims (60 men, 60 women) Come Forward to with Sexual Misconduct Allegations - The Youngest 9 Years old ? • victims span from 25 states, from 1991 to 2024 • 25 of the 120 victims were underage when the sexual misconduct took place, the… pic.twitter.com/a1SV3VcMBX — DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) October 1, 2024 WOW! PEDOPHILE! DIDDY (Sean Combs) SUED by 120 victims... 25 of them were minors as young as 9 YEARS OLD... Evidently, Diddy gave his victims horse tranquilizers before he abused them! WHOA! THIS is crazy! pic.twitter.com/FenAj0GvdZ — Mr. Cardinal Truth (@mrcardinaltruth) October 1, 2024 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexually assaulting 25 minors — including a 9-year-old — in horrifying press conference https://t.co/xrVJVWkAqP pic.twitter.com/QvJCYTCKhG — Page Six (@PageSix) October 1, 2024 Per Page Six: Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused of sexually assaulting 25 minors — including a 9-year-old — during a shocking press conference. Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee announced Tuesday that he is representing 120 individuals in civil lawsuits for the horrifying allegations spanning the last three decades. “I want to focus on the ages of these victims. When we talk about the ages of these victims when the conduct occurred, it’s shocking,” Buzbee warned. Buzbee said that Diddy’s youngest victim was just 9 years old when the disgraced rapper sexually assaulted them. “This individual who was 9 years old at the time was taken to an audition in New York City with Bad Boy Records, other boys were there to audition as well,” Buzbee told reporters. All of the kids were seeking TV or music careers with promises of “I’ll make you a star,” according to Buzbee. “This individual was sexually abused allegedly by Sean Combs and several other people at the studio with the promise to both his parents and himself of getting a record deal,” he continued. Sean Combs Accused of Sexually Abusing 120 People, Including 25 Minors Details: https://t.co/Wfw6nv75WQ pic.twitter.com/R7BQdgG7tE — Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 1, 2024 Per Huff Post: Attorneys announced on Tuesday that they intend to file at least 120 lawsuits on behalf of people who say they were sexually abused by Sean “Diddy” Combs and his associates. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee spoke next to sexual abuse victims advocates and co-counsel Andrew Van Arsdale, of AVA Law Group, at a press conference and added that many of the alleged victims have already spoken to law enforcement authorities, including the FBI. “They fear backlash in their communities, they fear backlash in their own families. They are afraid of retaliation from the perpetrators and their associates. They are rightly afraid for their own personal safety,” Buzbee said. “I expect that through this process, many powerful people will be exposed, many dirty secrets will be revealed.” The attorneys said more than 3,000 people reached out to them about possible abuse, and they now represent 120 accusers. The alleged victims come from more than 25 states with a majority of them living in California, New York, Georgia and Florida. They are evenly split between women and men, with about 62% of them identifying as African Americans, 30% identifying as white, and the remainder either Asian or Hispanic, he added.

What is WRONG with these people? We’ve been bringing you reports all week long of the Biden Regime telling people to STOP giving aid to Hurricane Helene victims. Stop driving in…. Stop giving aid…. Stop giving supplies…. And now this:  stop flying in your drones! This man is pure evil if you ask me: Drone pilots: Do not fly your drone near or around rescue and recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene. Interfering with emergency response operations impacts search and rescue operations on the ground. For more information on temporary flight restrictions follow: @FAADroneZone pic.twitter.com/muxHefL1sH — U.S. Department of Transportation (@USDOT) October 2, 2024 Meanwhile, all the top comments in response on Twitter are against Pete. ALL of them. These have not been edited in any way — these are the top comments and there is not one single positive comment to be found: The NY Post had more details on the stand-down order: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg ordered private drone flights suspended in North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene flood zone, sparking fierce outcry from those frustrated by the government’s lackluster response to the deadly crisis. “Drone pilots: Do not fly your drone near or around rescue and recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene,” the official DOT X account wrote Tuesday afternoon, nearly a week after the storm brought near-unprecedented flooding to the mountainous region. “Interfering with emergency response operations impacts search and rescue operations on the ground,” the announcement continued. North Carolina has suffered the brunt of the death toll from last week’s historic storm, the west of the state accounting for 94 of the more than 200 casualties confirmed by authorities so far, with hundreds more still unaccounted for. Despite these grim figures, many have expressed deep dissatisfaction or even anger with the tepid response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is on the verge of running out of funds after spending $640 million on the migrant crisis. Considering the maddeningly slow pace of the rescue effort, Buttigieg effectively ordered residents not to fend for themselves and instead put their trust in an agency many believe have already dropped the ball was adding insult to injury. “You would think more eyes in the sky would be a good thing when there are people that need to be rescued but what do i know,” one X user replied. “Your ‘help’ is worse than doing nothing,” seethed another. Others pointed out how private drones have been used to deliver items like insulin and baby formula to those in need, particularly those living in more remote terrain who have been largely cut off from the rest of the world since the storm. “Private citizen drones and helicopters have been saving lives for days, and still are. You should be ashamed,” said another user. Please share this!

Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) had her vehicle booted in Washington D.C. due to hundreds in unpaid fines. Wild, who represents Pennsylvania’s toss up 7th District, reportedly owes $775 for four separate violations. According to the New York Post, one of the fines included illegally parking in a handicap spot. Pennsylvania Dem Rep. Susan Wild’s car booted in DC after racking up $775 in fines, parking in handicap spot https://t.co/Im39RDPfuu pic.twitter.com/t7fwEaN57f — New York Post (@nypost) October 3, 2024 From the New York Post: To get the boot removed, she’ll have to pony up at least $475 of what she owes. That’s the cost of two tickets for tag and speeding violations she committed in December 2023 and May 2024, respectively. The two other tickets — which account for the remaining $300 Wild owes — are for separate tag and speeding violations she committed in May 2024 and July 2024, respectively. An older photo shows Wild’s vehicle, a white SUV with a Ukrainian flag and a handful of other bumper stickers slapped on its rear, parked illegally in a handicap space without the proper placard needed visible. This isn’t the first time we’re hearing about Wild’s wild driving habits. In 2022, a distracted-driving activist called her out for taking a Zoom call with constituents on camera, behind the wheel — as she drove erratically — slamming the rep for being “stupid as hell.” Susan Wild's Wild Ride: Rep's SUV Gets Booted for $775 in Unpaid Speeding, Other Traffic Tickets, Embattled Democrat Still Parks in Handicapped Spacehttps://t.co/oTm9WJC0gw — Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 2, 2024 Washington Free Beacon reports: While Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., do not disclose driver information from license plates for safety reasons, footage obtained by the Free Beacon shows the Democrat entering and exiting the vehicle. It’s the latest car-related woe for Wild, considered one of the most vulnerable House Democrats running for reelection. In 2022, she faced scrutiny for conducting a Zoom video call while driving in heavy traffic. The head of a group that works to combat distracted driving told the Free Beacon at the time that Wild’s behavior “sets a really bad example for our children.” Wild, who serves on the House Committee on Ethics, has engaged in other questionable vehicular activity that has not been cited by D.C. police. In one instance, Wild appears to have switched out bumper stickers on the vehicle over the years. The car now has a bumper sticker of a Ukrainian flag and a ribbon that states “Support Our Troops.” The Democratic incumbent faces Republican challenger Ryan Mackenzie, a state representative, in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.