12 Items or Less??

 A couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held arguments in the Murthy v. Louisiana case. This was a case filed by the States of Louisiana and Missouri claiming that the federal government is censoring online speech by pressuring social media providers to remove content that the government finds objectionable. That is, anything that criticizes Biden and the Democratic Party.

The Democrats claim that the government is only using their "bully pulpit". The fly in that ointment is that they are using their "bully pulpit" to threaten social media companies with increased government regulation if they don't remove posts that the government dislikes. 

Earlier this year I saw Rep. Dan Goldman, or as we would call him here in North Carolina, the "Village Idiot", defend this practice by claiming that those posting items that the government doesn't like are "violating the terms of service".  WOW!!

Rep. Dan Goldman is the new standard for "stupid". If he weren't an heir to the Levi Straus fortune, he would be on a corner somewhere holding a "Please Help" sign. He's in Congress because he's rich and that's where the wealthy send their idiot children to play.

It has been reported that the FBI had eighty agents monitoring social media for posts questioning the "COVID crisis" or even worse, ridiculing Joe Biden. The nation's cities are awash in crimes and the FBI has eighty agents monitoring social media? Is this really the best use of our resources? Have we reached the point in our nation where we are paying law enforcement people to read social media posts looking for criticism of the biggest fraud ever perpetrated by the federal government? How many FBI agents were assigned to research the lies told by Biden, Fauci, the CDC and other alleged experts in the field? How about an investigation of doctors who have never actually practiced medicine, giving medical advice on how to deal with a disease, the development of which those same doctors actually funded? Surely, any of these violates the "Terms of Service."

The Supreme Court will probably allow this to continue as their questions indicate that they believe that the government has this right to force others to do something that the federal government does not have the power to do. This is in direct opposition to several other rulings, but they are trying to keep Democrats from expanding the court and destroying the American judicial system.

But, as usual, I think that we are over-complicating the whole issue. If federal law enforcement is being used to monitor social media for people who are violating the "terms of service", what other businesses could benefit from Federal law enforcement assistance? Can they post an FBI agent by the "Express Lane" at the Food Lion to keep people with more than 12 items from entering that lane?  If it's wrong to violate the "Terms of Service" on social media, then it must be just as wrong to violate the Express Lane item count at the grocery store.

Can we help hold down shoplifting by posting FBI agents at the dressing room doors in department stores to enforce the "No more than 5 items" rule?  

How many FBI agents are posted at the DMV to keep people applying for a new title out of the "Renewals Only" line? 

Can we get Elliot Ness to monitor the lines at restaurants that read "Dine-in" and "Carryout Only"? Or maybe the CIA should investigate whether the French Fries are actually from France. 

How about having the FBI investigate the "Terms of Service" at the Post Office? 

Has the FBI investigated the "Terms of Service' on who can buy Hunter Biden's alleged artworks? If you violate the terms, are you compelled to display the artwork on your wall?

How many government agencies are violating their own "Terms of Service"? Are any being investigated?

Is the Congress not passing the budget on time a violation of the "Terms of Service"?  Can we put Goldman in jail for this?

Maybe they will start charging illegal immigrants with violating the "terms of service" on entering the country?

To sum it up, other than social media networks, what businesses are having their "Terms of Service" enforced by the FBI? I am willing to wait for an answer. The Supreme Court needs to grow a pair and end this practice.