[Wuli]

So, “official thought and speech”, as opposed to free speech, creeps gradually by “social” means into law.

The whole western culture is, by its “official” institutions” committing cultural suicide, which will inevitably be followed in time by political suicide.

A key pillar of modern western civilization is free speech, and its corallary - freedom of conscience - and that pillar was initiated into western thought with senitments like those from voltaire, which goes something like: I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

THAT thinking identifies a wall between government policy and its objectives and your right socially to think, and speak, differently in all your free associations.

As that pillar is torn down, the freedoms in western society become no longer free but only as free as long as they agree with official policies. Law in western society deterioriates into a bulwark of government against the individual instead of a bulwark of freedom against the government. The western political class becomes the new dictatorship in all but name.

[rockvillem]

So, “official thought and speech”, as opposed to free speech, creeps gradually by “social” means into law. The whole western culture is, by its “official” institutions” committing cultural suicide, which will inevitably be followed in time by political suicide. A key pillar of modern western civilization is free speech, and its corallary - freedom of conscience - and that pillar was initiated into western thought with senitments like those from voltaire, which goes something like: I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it. THAT thinking identifies a wall between government policy and its objectives and your right socially to think, and speak, differently in all your free associations. As that pillar is torn down, the freedoms in western society become no longer free but only as free as long as they agree with official policies. Law in western society deterioriates into a bulwark of government against the individual instead of a bulwark of freedom against the government. The western political class becomes the new dictatorship in all but name.

Very well put. +1

[ssfromla]

So, “official thought and speech”, as opposed to free speech, creeps gradually by “social” means into law.

Right here on this site we've been warning about the thought police for decades.

They're here and entrenched now.