Still Scrubbed From YouTube, Judge Napolitano Urgent Warning On Loss Of Rights Appears

“Government spying is rampant in the U.S., and the feds regularly engage in it as part of law enforcement's well-known antipathy to the Fourth Amendment."

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By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (8/17/24)

Popular podcaster Andrew Napolitano’s Judging Freedom show remains absent from YouTube. A quick search of corporate media this morning still finds no mention of the sudden disappearance of the popular podcast.

A report of a coming statement yesterday from Napolitano on X/Twitter has not, to my knowledge, appeared.

Judging Freedom features a group of highly qualified guests focused on foreign policy, especially the aggressive US/Nato war on Russia being staged in Ukraine, the US/Gaza genocide and the emergence of dominant control of deep state forces that are making citizen participation in ‘our’ (the) government moot.

The sudden, unexplained disappearance of Judging Freedom from YouTube several days ago comes at the same time as recent federal attacks on regular Judging Freedom commentator and former UN Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter.

In June, Ritter was detained by federal agents as he was about to board a flight to Russia for a conference presentation and reporting trip. Without explanation, his passport was confiscated and — two months later — has still has not been returned. Rittner is not even sure which agency snatched it or why. Napolitano was scheduled to fly out the same day to the same conference. Ritter called warning him not to go and Napolitano heeded the advice.

Then a week ago, a large number of FBI agents raided Ritter’s home with a search warrant for electronic devices and, even though they were not specified in the warrant, the feds also confiscated numerous boxes containing some 80,000 pages of unclassified UN documents from Ritter’s time as a UN weapons inspector. in Iraq. He has recently been working on a book based upon those records.

Connections?

Are the three events related? No one is saying a word, but it is a legitimate question of ponder.

In the midst of all this, Napolitano had an excellent article yesterday (8/16) in NewsMax entitled Does the FBI Visit, or Invade, a Suspect's Home?

In it, Napolitano details how the wall protecting Americans’ privacy has been dramatically weakened as protections against intrusive, illegal — I would add immoral — government surveillance have eroded. As a result, he observes, our rights are under active attack.

Napolitano notes:

“Government spying is rampant in the U.S., and the feds regularly engage in it as part of law enforcement's well-known antipathy to the Fourth Amendment. Last week, the FBI admitted as much when it raided the home of former Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter.”

The Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights was once a protection against illegal search and seizure without legal probable cause. As we have seen with recent brutal attacks on our First Amendment rights to protest and speak out freely against the US/Israel genocide in Gaza, the Fourth Amendment, along with all our other Constitutional rights, are under direct, sustained attack.

If and how the Ritter story figures into the sudden disappearance of Judging Freedom from YouTube is unknown.

Fortunately, you can — at least for now — access the podcast on the free speech platform Rumble, here.

You can also read or listen to Napolitano’s NewsMax column here.