 Hello, hello to the audience of cctv.org here in Burlington, Vermont and across the nation. My name is Chris Erickson and I bring you good news for people who love freedom of speech. This is excellent news. Famous law professor emeritus, a Democrat, a famous Democrat, Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University has filed a document in favor of President Donald Trump having his freedom of speech. Now, this document was filed in the lawsuit in federal court in Miami, Florida where Donald Trump is suing Facebook for kicking him out. So famous Democrat, Harvard emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz has filed a document in favor of Donald Trump having his freedom of speech. So for anyone who's interested in freedom of speech, this is really important. I will read to you from the actual court document. You can see it at courtlistener.com which is a non-profit. They grab the court documents off of the dot gov site and move them over to their site so you can see them for free. And I'll start off by reading to you a little bit from harvard.edu so if you're not familiar with famous Democrat law professor Alan Dershowitz, I'll give you a little bit of information about him first and then I'll read from the court document. Alrighty, this is from harvard.edu and it's a little bit about professor Alan M. Dershowitz. He's a Brooklyn native. He's been called the nation's most parapetetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights. He's the best known criminal lawyer in the world. He's the top lawyer of last resort. He's America's most public Jewish defender and Israel's single most visible defender. The Jewish state's lead attorney in the court of public opinion. He is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School. Alan M. Dershowitz is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School and he joined a Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Basilon and Justice Arthur Goldberg and it goes on and on and on and on and on. He's very famous in 1983. The Anti-Defamation League of the Ben Eye Brith presented him with the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his compassionate, eloquent leadership and persistent advocacy in the struggle for civil and human rights. And presenting the award, Nobel laureate Ellie Weasel said, if there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different. So they go on and on and on about him. He's very famous. Okay, now I'm going to read from the actual court document in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Civil Action Number 1, 21-CV-22440-KMW. Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and a bunch of his friends, the plaintiffs versus Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg defendants, Declaration of Alan M. Dershowitz, entered on the Florida docket October 20, 2021, affidavit in support of motion for preliminary injunction. Before me, the undersigned personally came and appeared Alan M. Dershowitz, who being first duly sworn and deposed said, I am the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard University. I am a Democrat who has voted for every Democratic candidate for president since 1960. I have long supported freedom of speech without regard to partisanship. I served on the National Board of the ACLU and on Harvard Law School's Committee on Free Speech. I have received several awards for my defense of free speech and have argued numerous free speech cases in the courts, including the Supreme Court. I have written extensively about freedom of speech and the First Amendment. Two of my recent books, Cancel Culture and the Case Against the New Censorship, deal with the issue in this case. A copy of my current curriculum vitae is attached to Exhibit 1. I have previously been qualified to testify as an expert in public law. I have reviewed the complaints to be filed in this matter attached to Exhibit 2. And I have been asked to offer my opinion as to whether or not the request for preliminary injunctive relief sought herein satisfies the criteria of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 65. In the case of Winter vs. Natural Resources Defense Council 555 US 7 in the year of 2008, the Supreme Court described the balance test for whether a preliminary injunction is appropriate. A court needs to examine whether the plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits, whether the plaintiff is likely to suffer irreparable harm without the injunction, whether the balance of equities and hardships is in the plaintiff's favor and whether no injunction is in the public interest. My opinion is that the plaintiff's right to speak freely has been seriously compromised by Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, the rights of his audience to have access to his views have also been curtailed. The question of social media censorship under Section 230 is an issue of major legal importance and I believe the allegations of the complaints which I have reviewed raise serious substantial legal issues, some of which have not been heretofore litigated. A preliminary injunction is in the public interest. Censoring the 45th President of the United States, the leader of the Republican Party will have an adverse and unknowable effect on the 2022 elections. The number of people the former president reached through social media was staggering. The presidency demands a level playing field. Unless preliminary relief is granted, it is likely that the censorship imposed by Facebook and Twitter will impact the 2022 elections. The precise effect of continuing censorship is unpredictable, but it is likely to have a profound effect which will cause the plaintiff and the electorate irreparable harm. Alan M. Dershowitz. Well, all right, well thank you for listening. That was the statement of famous Democrat Harvard law professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz entered into the case of Donald Trump and his pals against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. And I thought you'd want to listen because it's nice to hear a Democrat say that freedom of speech is important and taking away someone's freedom of speech causes irreparable harm. So I hope you'll listen to this. I hope you'll share it with your friends. Tell your friends about cctv.org in Burlington, Vermont. They're doing a great job. Thank you very much. My name is Chris Erickson.