{"id":89818,"date":"2022-08-04T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=89818"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:16:33","slug":"scott-ritter-slams-chuck-schumers-war-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/blog\/2022\/08\/04\/scott-ritter-slams-chuck-schumers-war-on-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Ritter Slams “Chuck Schumer\u2019s War on Free Speech”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 Aug. 3 (EIRNS)–Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter hit New York Sen. Chuck Schumer\u2019s support for the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation extremely hard in a commentary published by Consortium News<\/em><\/a> today. In the process of doing so, Ritter prominently featured LaRouche candidate Diane Sare, Schumer\u2019s opponent in this November\u2019s election in New York and whose name is among those on the Kiev regime\u2019s hit list. Ritter is also named on the Kiev hit list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 At the outset, Ritter noted Schumer\u2019s attack on Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s effort to include a provision for inspector general oversight of the $40 billion that the U.S. Congress voted up for Ukraine in May. Schumer argued that Paul\u2019s actions served to “strengthen [Russian President Vladimir] Putin\u2019s hand.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “What Schumer didn\u2019t say,” Ritter noted, “was that an inspector general, mandated to oversee how U.S. taxpayer money authorized under the bill in question (the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022, which became Public Law 117-128 on May 21), would have exposed the role that U.S. funds played to exact political revenge on the man who tried to inject a modicum of accountability into how monies appropriated by Congress are spent, namely Rand Paul.” Rand Paul, Ritter reports, was labeled an “information terrorist” by acting director of the CCD Andriy Shapovalov, a Ukrainian civil servant whose salary was paid for by U.S. taxpayer monies, on July 14. The occasion of his July 14 remarks was a conference paid for by the U.S. Civil Research and Development Fund (CRDF Global Ukraine), “an ostensible nonprofit organization authorized by U.S. Congress to promote \u2018international scientific and technical collaboration,\u2019” Ritter wrote. “It is supported by the U.S. State Department, some of whose officials sat in attendance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “But there is more,” Ritter continued. That “more” is the successful petitioning campaign of Diane Sare\u2013who Ritter correctly identifies as a “LaRouche candidate”–to get on the ballot in New York to challenge Schumer\u2019s re-election. “Diane Sare was singled out by the Schumer-funded, State Department-supported Center for Countering Disinformation as an \u2018information terrorist\u2019 who should be prosecuted as a \u2018war criminal\u2019 because of her public stance challenging the narrative about the Ukraine conflict,” Ritter noted. “That\u2019s right \u2014 Chuck Schumer helped create the organizational structures which have attacked the reputation of a challenger for his Senate seat, threatening her with political violence and more for the `crime\u2019 of challenging Schumer on the issue of Ukraine.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “What Chuck Schumer has done in using U.S. taxpayer money to attack his political opponents is un-American. One can only hope that the New York voters see it the same way come November,” Ritter concluded. “It also appears to be illegal. As such, I hope that both Rand Paul and Diane Sare pursue whatever legal recourse is available to them to expose and shut down a Schumer-supported law that allows U.S. taxpayer money to underwrite a campaign targeting U.S. citizens, including serving senators and political challengers, with intimidation and more for the \u2018crime\u2019 of exercising their First Amendment right of free speech.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Aug. 3 (EIRNS)–Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter hit New York Sen. Chuck Schumer\u2019s support for the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation extremely hard in a commentary published by Consortium News today. In the process of doing so, Ritter prominently featured LaRouche candidate Diane Sare, Schumer\u2019s opponent in this November\u2019s election in New York and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":89819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,505,508,742,786,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-89818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-color-revolutions","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-sanctions","category-sare-for-senate-news","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89829,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89818\/revisions\/89829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}