Posted on 06/27/2013 5:49:10 PM PDT by neverdem
Three snapshots of western liberty:
1) A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Canadian police department’s diversity enforcer attempt to shut down a Pamela Geller speech by getting her bounced from a Toronto synagogue. In Britain, the shut-up-he-explained crowd cut to the chase: They went to the (supposedly Conservative) Home Secretary, the ghastly Theresa May, and got Miss Geller and Robert Spencer banned from the entire country on the grounds that their presence in the United Kingdom would not be “conducive to the public good“.
By contrast, the presence of, say, Anjem Choudary, philosophical mentor of the Woolwich head hackers and a man who calls for the murder of the Prime Minister, is so “conducive to the public good” that British taxpayers subsidize him generously and provide a half-million-dollar home for him to live on. Mrs May’s Home Office has just admitted to the UK Muhhamed al-Arefe who advocates wife-beating. Perhaps Mr May will try out Imam al-Arefe’s expert advice on the beneficial effects of “light beating” on Theresa this weekend – or is spousal abuse only “conducive to the public good” of Muslim women?
The reflexive illiberalism of Britain’s so-called liberals – the urge to ban the debate rather than win it – is now so deeply ingrained they will soon be hungry for new victories. Nearly four centuries after Milton’s Areopagitica, freedom of speech is dead in England. In denying her charges access to dissenting ideas, Mrs May is inviting them to find alternative means of expression. No good will come from this...
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The reflexive illiberalism of Britain’s so-called liberals – the urge to ban the debate rather than win it – is now so deeply ingrained they will soon be hungry for new victories. Nearly four centuries after Milton’s Areopagitica, freedom of speech is dead in England.
Would someone please remind me why we saved Europe from its own barbarity not once, but twice in the twentieth century? Europeans and the English in particular seem determined to return to the middle ages.
We are paces behind - stumblin’ an’ bumblin’.
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Thanks for the ping neverdem.
Thank you for the ping and post.
Labeling the minority justices “enemies of the human race” is a deplorable overstatement, and
Kennedy et al. on the SCOTUS should hang their heads in shame for such senseless hyperbole.
Congratulations for one step forward!
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
A “tipping point”. I like to refer to a moment when things go irreversibly bad as a “Karl Wallenda moment.”
“When peaceful protest becomes impossible, violent revolution revolent becomes inevitable.” —John F. Kennedy
BTTT
When even the Supreme Court is condemning American citizens and ascribing sinister motives for their use of free speech, you know we are in big trouble and heading over the cliff - and especially when the Court is on the side of Godless and appalling immorality!
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