Editor’s Note: A lot needs to be said about the Masonic error called, “Free Speech”, the political doctrine that in civil society every individual has the right to say anything regardless of the signification of what they are saying.

In the context of a civil society which has as its norm a political order which is not founded on truth, justice nor Christian morality, this concept of “free speech” has wide appeal, since it is the last refuge of freedom and the sine qua non of a body politic which has rejected in principle and juridically that there some standard against which truth is measured.

Now, if you do not understand where this concept of “free speech” comes from nor its function in a masonic political system, you can easily fall into the perception that “free speech” of this kind is an objective and positive right, which next to other such natural rights as the right of self defense, is a necessary foundation of a free and rational society.

However, if you actually think like a Christian, then you can stand on a higher mountain top and answer the more fundamental question, which has resounded throughout the ages in political discourse: “What is truth?” (John 18:38).

Now if you know more about politics than Scripture, then you might mistake the directional import of the most famous question uttered by any politician in any political order in any age in all world history.

But these words were uttered by Pontius Pilate, a Roman citizen from the town of Sutri, Italy, who was Procurator of Iudea, from 26/27 A. D. to 36/37 A. D.. His historical existence is known from nearly a dozen written sources from the period. But, most importantly, we must remember that these words of Pilate were NOT said by a philosopher or curious person seeking the truth, but by a political representative of an Emperor, who was a pagan, to deny the truth of the rights of Jesus of Nazareth not to be put to death on the false claims of the High Priest and Sanhedrin of the ancient Hebrew polity of Jerusalem.

A modern, without knowledge of history or who thinks of politics without any reference to Faith in Christ, might be tempted to say, that the Trial of Jesus Christ was first of all a trial of “free speech”, because Christ was not on trial to be put do death for doing anything wrong or for harming anyone, but for what He said and the implications of that, according to the false testimony of the Judean religious authorities.

But to understand what is going on in such a light, would be to strain a gnat and swallow a camel, because if you do not have a definition of what truth is, you in truth have no definition of what “free” means in the expression “free speech”.

And if you know of the Teaching and Miracles of Jesus Christ, and what He did and said and suffered, before He rose from the Dead, then the question, “What is truth?” becomes itself divorced from a sincere intention to personally know all truth.

Thus, in the above video by the Roman Catholic, Zach Costello, we are confronted with a torturous critique of the Zionist lobby’s attempt to shut down the speech of their opponents, which is based on this myoptic concept of “free speech”. Zach is trying to sustain a counter argument, without appealing to absolute notions of truth.

But for all the reasons, I have marshaled, it remains for us Catholics to be very cautious about accepting the notion of “free speech”, for though we are totally in favor of and are obliged by our Sacred Religion to hold that every individual has the right to know the truth and speak so as to arrive at the truth, we must never lose track of the fact based reality, that human speech of itself is not always the advocate of Truth and can be used to attack and condemn it to death, as Pontius  Pilate did, on that awful Day of Passover, in the 33rd year of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the realm of human rights, there is, thus a geography of sorts, for on one side is the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, offered to every man that he might know the Truth and become truly free. And on the other side, is the kingdom of Mendacity, whose lord is the father of lies, who, being a liar and a murderer from the beginning (cf. John 8:44), wants man to have the freedom to lie so that he can have the freedom to murder those who stand in truth, any truth or all the truth. And between those two realms there appears to be a no-man’s land of “free speech”, which is actually the border land of the realm of darkness and death, since so long as you insist remaining there, you have no real and lasting security in liberty, since such a position requires ignoring the answer to Pontius Pilate’s rhetorical question.

However, none of this means, that with truth defined, we cannot or ought not allow an open discussion — so long as we recognize that lying and incitement to acts of injustice are not inexcusable or incuplable moral acts, even though the civil authority cannot  or is incapable of criminalizing every moral deviation, simply because it is not God nor should it be given the divine prerogatives of omniscience and omnipotence.

For those who want to see how the intersection of “free speech” and justice are tortuously dealt with in U.S. Federal Law, just read, 18 U.S. Code §373, and then you will immediately understand why the Left does what it does in the way it does it, to avoid being arrested, which in a Catholic political order would never be possible or allowed or left uncriminalized.

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