Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

JM
5 min readMay 7, 2021

America — Land of the free, home of the brave. Guiding light to the rest of the world with it’s precious and lauded First Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment that, among other things, prevents the government from making laws that infringe on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. People are free to criticize the government and it’s leaders, free to write gossip and scandalous entertainment, free to basically say anything they please. Why then, does it feel like the media and it’s stories are actually meticulously controlled and puppeteered by a few rank individuals? Well, in all likelihood, it is.

I write about a very specific topic here. A very specific high profile celebrity divorce case with accusations of spousal abuse, lies, and libel, but there is actually a much broader context here that should make people think critically about all the media that they ingest.

Over the last weeks information emerged that suggests Amber Heard is being investigated for criminal perjury charges in Australia with the help of the FBI, investigated by the LAPD for perjury stemming from an allegedly false 911 call and statements made by Heard after the fact, body camera footage from police officers in 2016 that completely obliterates her claims of that evening finally saw the light of day, and that the ACLU collaborated with her to defame Johnny Depp in a 2018…

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