Monday, October 10, 2022

How is this legal



How is this legal?

Dan Bongino often mentions how the government is "deputizing" Big Tech to do things that they cannot legally do themselves. This would mean the cancel culture that has become an epidemic in America. As Bongino noted many times, this isn't legal. There are court cases that say that they cannot do this constitutionally. Yet they are doing the cancelling, and now this. This is just ratcheting it up a notch, which is akin to forfeiture. For this is a case in which involves judicial powers. Paypal has become a judicial power somehow, which can now "fine" people.

These are corporations, not courts of law. They have no authority to impose fines. None at all. In fact, if the Supreme Court didn't previously allow confiscation of property, they wouldn't have been able to do this under the rubric of forefeiture. No entity, not even the government, can take your property without due process. But here is Paypal threatening to "fine" people who use their platform for anything to which they do not agree with, or violates their policies.

This government has gone insane. Corporations are not government, but acting in that role now. It is as if nobody in the government respects the law at all, and have neglected their own duties, and have allowed corporations to take the law into their own hands. What's next? Corporations arresting people?

Do you see what is happening here? The Supreme Court starts it off with forfeiture, which itself is in violation of the Constitution. The executive powers are delegated to the police. Under separation of powers, the executive authority enforces the law, it doesn't make law. The judicial power decides upon the legality of actions of the state. So, the government abandons those duties, and shifts the executive and judicial functions of the state---to the "private" sphere. This is deputizing its own functions. Problem is, it isn't in accord with the Constitution, and it is a flagrant violation of our rights. Where is it said that the government can deputize all of its functions to the private sphere?

To put it simply, the corporations have been deputized to be judge, jury and executioner of poltical correctness. This is insane. There are no checks and balances, no rule of law, just them telling everybody what they can say, do, and think. They can take your money on a whim. There would be no appeal. Appeal to whom? The government has allowed this situation to develop through neglect. There's no damned way that Paypal should be able to do this, but here we are.

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