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Freedom of expression
Chapter 6: This chapter, in my opinion, is the most important chapter in the book. It details how we have got to where we are today, a deeply divided society, where one side, steeped in cultural Marxism and displaying a sense of moral superiority, hurls abuse at the other side, accusing it of racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy and a host of other evils.
Tommy Robinson arrested outside Leeds Crown Court while live streaming and jailed the same day without trial
The rule of law is fragile, and relies on the self-restraint of the majority. In a just society, the majority obey the law because they believe it represents universal values—moral absolutes. They obey the law not for fear of punishment, but for fear of the self-contempt that comes from doing wrong.
The arrest of Tommy Robinson is a hammer-blow to the fragile base of people’s respect for British law. The reality that he could be grabbed off the street and thrown into a dangerous jail—in a matter of hours—is deeply shocking.
I attended Milo Yiannopolous’s sold-out Perth show.
And what a night it was.
I arrived half an hour before the start time. Not a protester to be seen, either inside or outside the Perth Convention Centre. However, I was confronted with a massive queue that stretched the length of the centre.
When I finally entered the large auditorium it was rapidly filling up with an enthusiastic crowd. What struck me was the demographic of the crowd. I am used to going to meetings to hear conservative speakers, where the average age of the audience is around sixty. Tonight the crowd was predominately young. For once, my grey hair seemed out of place.
Police chief says “Let’s kill him”.
In his closing statement at his trial for alleged hate speech, prominent Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), Geert Wilders told the court that his trial for alleged hate speech is a “charade, a disgrace for the Netherlands, a mockery for our society”.
by Geert Wilders November 23, 2016 Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV). Mr. President, Members of the Court, When I decided to address you here today, by making a final statement in this trial against freedom of speech, many people reacted by telling me it is useless. That you, the court, have already written the sentencing verdict a while ago. That everything indicates that you have already convicted me. And perhaps that is true. Nevertheless, here I am. Because I never give up. And I have a message for you and the Netherlands. For centuries, the Netherlands are a symbol of freedom. When one says Netherlands, one says freedom. And that is also true, perhaps especially, for those who have a different opinion than the establishment, the opposition. And our most important freedom is freedom of speech. We, Dutch,…
Mark Steyn’s essay in the National Review August 29, 2011 GAGGING US SOFTLY To be honest, I didn’t really think much about “freedom of speech” until I found myself the subject of three “hate speech” complaints in Canada in 2007. I mean I was philosophically in favor of it, and I’d been consistently opposed to the Dominion’s ghastly “human rights” commissions and their equivalents elsewhere my entire adult life, and from time to time when an especially choice example of politically correct enforcement came up I’d whack it around for a column or two. But I don’t think I really understood how advanced the Left’s assault on this core Western liberty actually was. In 2008, shortly before my writing was put on trial for “flagrant Islamophobia” in British Columbia, several National Review readers e-mailed from the U.S. to query what the big deal was. C’mon, lighten up, what could some…
How the Left, here and abroad, is trying to shut down debate — from Islam and Israel to global warming and gay marriage These days, pretty much every story is really the same story: In Galway, at the National University of Ireland, a speaker who attempts to argue against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) programme against Israel is shouted down with cries of ‘Fucking Zionist, fucking pricks… Get the fuck off our campus.’ In California, Mozilla’s chief executive is forced to resign because he once made a political donation in support of the pre-revisionist definition of marriage. At Westminster, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee declares that the BBC should seek ‘special clearance’ before it interviews climate sceptics, such as fringe wacko extremists like former Chancellor Nigel Lawson. In Massachusetts, Brandeis University withdraws its offer of an honorary degree to a black feminist atheist human rights campaigner…
Thin-(and white)-skinned “Aborigines” use Racial Discrimination Act to stifle criticism Andrew Bolt’s show trial run by Jewish legal establishment, complete with holocaust accusations What do these people have in common? Larissa Behrendt Bindi Cole Pat Eatock Anita Heiss Don’t laugh, but they all claim to be Australian Aboriginals. The above lovelies are part of a group of nine “Aboriginals” who hauled a journalist before the Australian Federal Court under the provisions of Australia’s notorious Racial Discrimination Act for daring to criticise them for claiming Aboriginality in order to receive some of the special benefits available to Aboriginals. The picture on the left is of a real Aboriginal. Do you see the resemblance? Aboriginals are Australia’s sacred cows. They are beyond criticism. No one dares criticise them for fear of being howled down as a racist. Years of political correctness and bleeding-heart paternalism has seen special laws…