Irish Green Party member says bill 'restricting freedom' is for 'the common good'

Human Events ^ | June 15, 2023 | C.G. Jones

[libertylover]

That’s always the excuse, is it not?

[dfwgator]

Exactly. Unfortunately technology and advances in transportation make it too easy for people to just get up and move away from their problems.

But eventually you’ll have 80% of the population living on 20% of the land, and that’s just not sustainable.

Ways must be found to distribute prosperity everywhere.

As Rush said, the problem is “an unequal distribution of capitalism”.

[gibsonguy]

Terrible and inevitable.

[Brian Griffin]

The bill states: “Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them. There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”

There’s “no place for” that bill “in our society.”

[BigFreakinToad]

and that shows one the true soul of the green party

[Bon of Babble]

Yeah, about those "Hate Speech" laws, etc.

[SaxxonWoods]

So when there’s no freedom things will be perfect?

[Seruzawa]

She could have given that speech at the Reichstag.

[Scrambler Bob]

My password itself is probably Hate Speech. EEK!

[Qwapisking]

how long now until you are told you must be executed for the common good? keep in mind that nearly every heinous thing we’ve been told for years could never happen IS happening. just fyi.

[JimRed]

Needed: A new, non-commie version of the IRA. The task: Hunt down and dispatch each and every politician who had a hand in creating this legislation or voted to approve it.

[Antoninus]

What kind of societies are the Western democracies that allow mentally damaged women to take away their freedoms? And this in Ireland, no less, that resisted the British boot for centuries. It’s sad to watch them crumble to a bunch of globalist ninnies.

[Antoninus]

There are constitutional exceptions to free speech in the US..incitement, slander etc. and I suppose they are for the “common good” as well.

Ironically, freedom of speech was meant to apply to any speech which might have even tangential political value. Types of "speech" which were never intended to be covered (photos and videos of gross sex acts, for example) are now freer than they've ever been. Meanwhile, political speech not approved of by the government is forbidden.

[Myrddin]

Tyranny always cloaks itself in virtue.

[KarlInOhio]

I may not agree with what you say, but shut up or I will beat you for it.