Posted on 04/02/2025 12:17:01 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Vance warned that shutting down speech destroys democracy. European leaders have apparently taken his statement as an instruction manual.
It’s been a banner week for authoritarians in Europe, and it’s only Wednesday.
On Monday, a French court banned Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing National Rally party and the frontrunner in the 2027 presidential election, from seeking public office for the next five years. The same day, The Telegraph reported that a toddler had been booted from a U.K. preschool for being insufficiently supportive of LGBT politics. Over the weekend, a British couple revealed they had been arrested based on complaints they expressed in a WhatsApp chat about their daughter’s public school.
This is exactly the kind of crackdown on free expression that Vice President J.D. Vance chastised complicit European leaders about in February, in an address at the Munich Security Conference. This week’s insanity further proves Vance’s dire warnings were right.
Vance called out the U.K., Germany, Sweden, and the European Union for censoring and criminalizing the free expression of their citizens, citing police raids against Germans for comments posted online and the prosecution of a British man who dared to pray in silence outside of an abortion facility.
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I’m old enough to remember the Nazis.
Looks like they’re in charge now in Europe without a shot fired.
The Fourth Reich is taking shape.
Free speech is usually the first thing to go, isn’t it?
Without Congressional action, which will not happen, muzzies will create a caliphate across the US as they are doing in Europe.
We don’t hate Congress enough for what this institution has done to America.
DJT, let Europe know clearly there will not be one cent or one drop of American blood spent to defend any country that is not free as we see freedom. Especailly convey that to Romania, Germany, France, Britain and Sweden.
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