Soros Backed Group Published Letter Threatening To 'Shoot Republicans'
In a letter by Free Press obtained by FreeBeacon, a California member named David Lyons asked "Are we going to have to shoot Republican[s] to reclaim our democracy?". The letter that included the signatures and comments of 4,858 Free Press members was addressed to Federal Communications Commission and urged the FCC to investigate conservative news outlets.
The far-left group gets a large portion of their funding from the Center for American Progress and George Soros's Open Society Foundations and had no issue with publicly publishing Lyons threatening message.
The petition reads:
“Since a police officer murdered George Floyd last year, the ensuing racial reckoning that’s taken place in our country has forced
public and private institutions to acknowledge their history of racism.
Journalists of color have challenged several major media organizations to address the harm they’ve inflicted within their newsrooms
and in communities of color at large. But media institutions alone are not responsible for the anti-Black racism that exists in our media
system. Federal policies and the choices that lawmakers and regulators have made have also played a foundational role.
This is why we are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate its own history of racism and examine how its
policy choices and actions have harmed Black people and other communities of color.
We urge the FCC to conduct this investigation in the spirit of President Joseph Biden’s executive order on racial equity, which directs
government agencies to examine how “entrenched disparities in our laws and public policies, and in our public and private
institutions, have often denied that equal opportunity to individuals and communities.”
According to FreeBeacon, the letter isn't the first instance of politically charged rhetoric from Free Press, which counts the Center for American Progress, Tides Foundation, and George Soros's Open Society Foundations as major donors. Its CEO Jessica González has a long track record of demonizing political opponents, writing in 2018 that civility is "bullshit."
Free Press is a pro-net neutrality and anti-business media advocacy organization that pushed to have big government gain greater control over internet content and its users by petitioning the FCC over various causes.