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Free Speech Foundation
June 16, 2022
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2022 /Christian
Newswire/ -- Six months after America's Frontline Doctors' viral video of
their press conference on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Founder Dr.
Simone Gold traveled to a rally for health freedom in Washington, D.C., to speak
on January 6, 2021. In the months between the press conference in July 2020 and
January 6, 2021, Dr. Gold was asked to present on numerous occasions about
physician free speech and her experience of being fired for prescribing early
treatment to Covid-19 patients. By this time, she had also founded America's
Frontline Doctors, a division of the Free Speech Foundation.
On January 6th, Dr. Gold was scheduled to speak alongside about a dozen other
presenters after President Trump's appearance at the rally. Shortly before her
speech, Dr. Gold was advised all speeches were canceled. After hearing this, Dr.
Gold was amongst thousands swept into the Capitol building when the doors were
opened from the inside. While inside, Dr. Gold decided to deliver her remarks
there. When an officer asked her to leave, she did. The media coverage post
January 6 showed violent scenes but that was not Dr. Gold's observation of the
day. Subsequently, Dr. Gold was arrested and prosecuted for entry into the
Capitol on January 6, 2021. Dr. Gold reached a plea agreement for entering a
restricted building. Her sentencing is scheduled today, June 16, 2022. Dr. Gold
did express regret for entry into the Capitol building but is facing the
consequences of free speech in modern day America. Like most January 6
defendants, she is a victim of selective prosecution – the defining feature of
corrupted governments.
For comparison's sake, consider that there were hundreds of arrests for violent
protests in association with President Trump's Inauguration in 2017. The
government subsequently dropped all of those charges, including charges against
people who were actually disrupting Congress from inside the Congressional
gallery while Congress was in session. With the January 6 arrests, the
government has not only not dropped the charges of nonviolent persons in public
spaces, such as Dr. Gold, it has aggressively violated defendants' civil rights
at nearly every turn. There are innumerable well-documented instances of January
6 defendants not receiving due process noted in the book January 6 authored by
Julie Kelly. For example, some defendants have been held in prison for nearly 18
months pretrial. In Dr. Gold's case, she peacefully gave a speech on medical
freedom in the public Rotunda. This resulted in the government violently
arresting her by breaking down her door, sending 20 SWAT officers (including 12
of them with AR15 guns pointing at her from two feet away), loss of freedom,
loss of movement and loss of other Constitutionally protected civil rights. Such
inequitable treatment based upon political preference shows the collapse of the
rule of law. For people interested in learning the truth about January 6, please
watch Capitol Punishment.
In addition, the government has aggressively not arrested or prosecuted certain
highly visible individuals seen on videotape who waived people into the
building. The government and the January 6 Congressional Committee have
aggressively not shown 14,000 hours of closed-circuit security footage. The
government and the January 6 Congressional Committee have not disclosed how many
FBI agents and assets were in the crowd. And the media lied when it stated five
officers were killed – exactly no officers were killed, although five officers
ostensibly committed suicide or otherwise died in the months following January
6. The one person who was killed, Ashli Babbitt, a petite unarmed 35-year-old
female military veteran, was killed by a Capitol police officer, who was never
charged.
Dr. Gold remains committed to her activism for physicians' free speech. Dr.
Gold, quoting George Washington said: "If freedom of speech is taken away, then
dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." For over two years
now, We the People have been under attack. Our Constitutional rights have been
chipped away. The First Amendment has been annihilated. Before 2020, we could
have never imagined the government of our democracy stripping away our rights as
it has. We have watched the Orwellian scene unfold before our eyes.
A concerted effort has been undertaken to "cancel" physicians who do not follow
the mainstream narrative. Dr. Gold has been targeted by these attacks since the
White Coat Summit in July 2020 when she shared the news of lifesaving
medications alongside many esteemed colleagues, now numbering in the tens of
thousands. The California Medical Board subsequently threatened Dr. Gold's
license with an unfounded claim she was sharing "dangerous disinformation."
The attempted silencing of this one doctor was just a preamble for what is to
come throughout the nation. California Assembly Bill 2098, an official
government censorship bill, has just been passed through the House in
California. This outrageous bill puts a gag order on doctors in exchange for a
California medical license. Without a license, a doctor cannot practice
medicine. When a doctor has a license revoked in any state, it is incredibly
difficult, if not impossible, for that doctor to obtain a license in another
state. This is career-ending. Further, AB 2098 proposes to violate the privacy
of the doctor/patient relationship and create a brand new category of
"unprofessional conduct" against doctors who provide education and early
treatment for Covid-19. AFLDS has prepared a comprehensive Issue Brief on AB
2098.
Issue Briefs | America's Frontline Doctors (aflds.org)
As we consider the results of Dr. Gold's sentencing, one thing is clear. We are
still far away from the change that is needed. The First Amendment is crumbling
before us, and we must continue to stand for what is right. Never will we give
in to the threats of government. Dr. Gold risked her career when she stood
against the mainstream narrative to save lives. Now, she stands here boldly,
risking her freedom, to choose what is right over what is comfortable. We must
learn to be so bold and continue to stand together against the tyranny we face.
About AFLDS
America's Frontline Doctors is the nation's premier Civil Liberties
Organization. Our mission is to provide We The People with independent
information from the world's top experts in medicine and law so you can be
empowered with facts, protect your health, and exert your inalienable and
Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
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SOURCE Free Speech Foundation
CONTACT: Lisa Alexander, media@aflds.org