Marco Rubio’s Free Speech Hypocrisy

[PAF]

Ron Paul Institute
Apr 21, 2025


In an editorial last week, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio was touting his effort to ensure the US government respects free speech. But, Rubio is also a leader in the ongoing US government program that deports people from America because they have exercised free speech in criticizing actions of the Israel government or support by the US government for those actions.

Jacob Sullum deftly called out the hypocrisy in his Friday Reason article that you can read here.

Marco Rubio’s Free Speech Hypocrisy - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

In an editorial last week, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio was touting his effort to ensure the US government respects free speech. But, Rubio is also a leader in the ongoing US government program that deports people from America because they have exercised free speech in...

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[snip from article]

Writing in The Federalist this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brags that he is protecting freedom of speech by ending his department's misbegotten crusade against "disinformation." Yet Rubio is simultaneously undermining freedom of speech by targeting anti-Israel activists for deportation because he deems their opinions harmful to U.S. foreign policy interests. More generally, Rubio's ringing defense of First Amendment rights is hard to take seriously given all the ways his boss has sought to punish people for speech that offends him, whether through deportation, regulation, litigation, criminal investigations, or executive decrees targeting disfavored lawyers and journalists.

 

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SOP

Typical Republican gas lighting/lying.

That's all they fucking do.

 

[Swordsmyth]

They can speak all they like, somewhere else.

 

[PAF]

They can speak all they like, somewhere else.

Next up is a rewrite of that lousy, annoying 1st Amendment, according to you. And the 4th. And the 5th.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Next up is a rewrite of that lousy, annoying 1st Amendment, according to you. And the 4th. And the 5th.

LOL

Nope, Americans have a right to be here along with their BoR rights.

You want to let foreigners destroy all of our rights.