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Republican Lt. Gov.-elect Micah Beckwith announced Tuesday his intent to discard the freedom of the press guaranteed by the U.
S. Constitution and the Indiana Constitution once he and Gov.-elect Mike Braun swear oaths to uphold those documents Jan.
13. Beckwith was set off by a photo illustration in the Indiana Daily Student featuring a photo of Republican President-elect Donald Trump overlaid with quotations of former Trump administration officials declaring him unfit to hold office, while also noting, "He still won." In a posting to X/Twitter, Beckwith said : "This is from the Indiana Daily Student, the student newspaper at Indiana University after Trump won.
Your tax dollars at work. They called him a "moron," a "fascist," and a "threat to democracy" (even though we aren't a democracy, but I don't expect students at IU to know that.)" "This is WOKE propaganda at its finest and why most of America looks at higher education indoctrination centers like IU as a complete joke and waste of money.
This type of elitist leftist propaganda needs to stop or we will be happy to stop it for them." Beckwith seems not to have understood the negative statements about Trump included in the photo illustration came from those who once worked alongside Trump — not from the newspaper itself. He also apparently doesn't realize the Indiana Daily Student is editorially independent from Indiana University in Bloomington and is not a taxpayer-funded entity that will fall under the direct purview of the Braun/Beckwith administration.
Ironically, just six weeks ago, Beckwith retweeted an online article condemning Democratic President Joe Biden for seizing 32 websites linked to Russian government propaganda relating to the 2024 elections. At that time, Beckwith said on X/Twitter: "Tyranny thrives when free speech is silenced. The policing of narratives is nothing more than censorship in disguise.
It’s not about protecting people — it's about control." "We're witnessing a dangerous trend where dissenting opinions are labeled as 'misinformation,' and the truth becomes what those in power say it is. When debate is shut down, tyranny creeps in.
Let's defend the right to speak freely and challenge the status quo. If we lose that, we lose everything." Beckwith, a self-described Christian nationalist, previously led an initiative to relocate thousands of teen books at the Hamilton East Public Library to the adult section due to what Beckwith claimed were inappropriate references to drugs, alcohol, sex, profanity and violence.
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