Posted on 02/28/2006 12:03:31 PM PST by Anne_Conn
Years ago, it used to take the Gestapo, the NKVD or the Kempitei and a lot of coercion, force and propaganda to insure that everybody expressed himself in the politically correct fashion. Midnight raids, informers, hero children and show trials were all trotted out to illustrate the proper path. Dissenters, Jehovah’s Witnesses, deviationists, the work-shy, wreckers, cosmopolitans, defeatists, and anybody else who failed to toe the line were rounded up, leaned on and dispatched to corrective labor camps or shot out of hand for their failure to get with the program--Hitler’s, Stalin’s or Tojo’s politically correct policy of communication.
Somewhere in the past 30 years or so, an equally perfidious set of rules governing free speech and disquisition in America--voluntarily accepted and often rigidly imposed, without any threat of force or violence--has become law, both unwritten and codified, in many of our institutions of higher learning, in much of government, in the pages of our leading newspapers, on our television screens and in our daily conversations.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Funny that this is published in Canada, where free speech is only an ancient memory.
Its easy to commit hate speech in Canada just by criticizing a politician and his supporting community in public, especially if that community is ethnic.
Maybe thet Canucks arew tryin' though. Good luck to 'em.
Intersting that the writer is living in the USA and preaching in Canada.
Keep up the good work John!
Yes, I noticed also that the author is American. Apparently, if you want to criticize the PC crowd that resides in America, it's best to do it in Canada, and vice versa.
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