WASHINGTON, D.C. (Heartland Newsfeed) — In a press release made available to the press Tuesday, the Libertarian Party called out the U.S. Department of Justice for a clear and blatant violation of the First Amendment by requiring Russian-funded news network Russia Today (RT) and its North American counterpart, RT America, to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which has been active since World War II. The foreign network has faced governmental threats if they didn’t comply, including arrests of network management and seizure of company accounts and assets, effective shutting down the network. Unfortunately, RT has registered because of those threats.

The release lays out the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, in unequivocal terms, that Congress cannot make laws limiting the freedoms of speech and of the press and that there are no exclusions or exceptions for expressions published or broadcast by foreign-owned media on American soil.
Jake Leonard, a broadcast media and journalism veteran, is the editor-in-chief of Heartland Newsfeed. Leonard is also GM and program director of Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network, wrestling editor and contributing writer for Ambush Sports, a contributing writer for My Sports Vote and Midwest Sports Network, and a former contributor to Bleacher Report and Overtime Heroics. He resides at home in Nokomis, Ill. with his dog Buster.
Discussion about this post