Posted on 05/06/2018 7:56:27 PM PDT by boycott
On February 18, 2018, The Speakers Action Group presented Melanie Phillips at Holy Blossom Temple with her talk entitled “No Liberty, No Equality, No Fraternity: Dealing with the Failure of the West”. Melanie Phillips has never shied away from the battle of ideas. As someone who has lived as both a hero and villain of the social and political Left, her career as a journalist has been marked by controversy over the expression of some relatively uncontroversial ideas. Her fierce independence, and tenacious defense of civil liberties has lead her to becoming one of Britain’s leading voices on a variety of topics like Brexit, the increased threat of radicalization, and how the mainstream media treats Israel.
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The motto of the French Revolution.
Its increasingly endangered in the West. When it loses freedom, its already died.
And freedom is a rare aspiration in the history of mankind.
She is often featured in the British on line magazine Spectator. (Not to be confused with American Spectator) She is refreshing to read.
Her speech was an hour and then she answered questions for 30 minutes. Interesting the entire time. She ties it all together very well.
Meh. Motto invented by the now defunct Illuminati, who were radicals that had infiltrated the free masons. They were high class communists of the day.
Fraternity and Equality are actually shtty concepts
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Liberty and Equality are antonyms.
Free men are not equal, equal men are not free.
It was a pipe dream, doomed from the beginning.
Thanks. I will now read or listen to Melanie every chance I get.
She’s new to me but obviously she’s been fighting the good fight for a long time. She was like a lone voice in the wilderness. Too bad for Europe they weren’t listening because they will pay a horrible price.
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