Posted on 08/01/2021 4:42:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The "beginning of the end for freedom of expression" is not just a Hong Kong problem, but a D.C. problem, too.
For the last several months, secretary of state Antony Blinken and U.S. diplomats have been telling wobbly global allies that the struggle for control over the emerging new world order will pit "liberal democracies" against "authoritarian regimes." In order to protect free speech, freedom of religion, due process, rule of law, and democratic government, the story goes, Europe must join with America in keeping the power of China and Russia in check.
Take a gander at these two recent headlines, and tell me how well the "liberal" United States is distinguishing itself from "authoritarian" China:
Hong Kong Protester Found Guilty Of Terrorism In Trial Without Jury
vs.
The Jan. 6 Show Trials Threaten All of Us
In the first news story, the Daily Caller's Thomas Catenacci details the travails of Tong Ying-kit, a Hong Kong protester who was recently convicted of "inciting secession" and "acts of terrorism" for driving around on his motorcycle with a sign saying, "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" during last year's protests against Beijing's crackdown on what remained of the city's U.K.-inherited freedoms. Tong participated in demonstrations on July 1, 2020, to protest China's new national security law that drastically curtails Hong-kongers' rights to criticize the Chinese Communist Party by restricting their freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Communists are very similar in every country they pollute.
Excerpted - “ And the government concedes that Hodgkins is “not under the legal definition a domestic terrorist.” Wait a second, what? Oh, there’s more. Even though he cannot legally be considered a terrorist, the government believes his actions should nonetheless be seen “in the context of terrorism” for “imperiling democracy.” Just as Chinese authorities have convicted Tong Ying-kit for “inciting secession” by engaging in peaceful protest, American authorities have determined that Paul Hodgkins’s peaceful protesting should be seen as sedition, too.
Oh, shoot! Mr. Hodgkins made the unforgivable mistake of trespassing as a conservative protester instead of as a BLM-Antifa Marxist. When are these kids going to learn? If he had only been waving a BLM flag around in the Senate chamber, the Capitol Police would have let him loot and burn the whole place down. Heck, Secretary Blinken would have celebrated his fight for “social justice” by flying his flag outside American embassies around the world. Some political thought, after all, is more protected than the rest. “
Hard, dark times for the Republic.
Pray.
As an old coot, I generally pray that the young truly wake, before it is too late.
Tatt
Elections have consequences, even crooked ones, and that’s the way it happens when the media back up the corrupt Communists folks, say goodbye to the good old USA
“liberal democracies” against authoritarian regimes.”
If I was a betting man I know where I would put my money on the outcome of that fight and from what I’ve seen we’re getting really close to the Tipping Point. But that’s at the intended solution...to get past the Tipping Point
The United States of America Officially went bye-bye January 20,2021. It begin in 2009 and the plug was pulled on January 20,2021 with the Coup that installed Joe the Thief Biden and Willie Brown’s whore, Kamala Harris in the White House.
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