Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Left hates freedom of speech; European Union preview edition

We've all heard the left extolling the European approach to "free speech" as well as European socialism and pretty much everything else European.

The recently leaked briefing from Google, entitled "Good Censorship", endorsing censorship saying that all the tech platforms have moved to the European model which “favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom.” .

Which means that if the left, i.e. Democrats, get power in November they will do everything they can to let Google, Facebook, Twitter et al get away with implementing European model censorship programs.

Even worse Democrats have shown a stunning disdain for free speech in general. Instead they seem to have bought into the belief that speech they don't like is "hate" speech and that "hate" speech is equivalent to physical violence and as such should be limited by the government.

Today we are blessed with a stunning example of what the Democrats want for America.  The European Court of Human Rights has declared that criticism Islam is not protected free speech.

The case involves a brave Austrian woman pointing out that according to Muslims Mohammad married a six year old girl but waited until she was nine years old to have sex with her.  That woman correctly said that that made Mohammad a child molester.

But the EU Human Rights Commission, which should really start looking for a new name like the EU  Peasants Obligation Commission, has declared that pointing out the truth about Muhammad "goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate".

That's right the EU Human Rights Commission said that Europeans don't have the right to speak the truth if that truth hurts someone's religious feelings.

Well perhaps not everyone's religious feelings.  For example it would be unwise to bet on when the same Commission will rule that saying that most Catholic priests molests children isn't free speech even though that claim is not true; only about 4% of the priests in America have been accused for example.

Catholics aren't calling for even non-true statements about our faith to be punishable in court but the European left, which American Democrats adore, is saying that telling the truth about Islam is verboten.

If Democrats get power you can be sure that they'll act on calls by leftists to criminalize disagreeing with the scientifically invalid claims of Global Warming...er Climate change.

They'll also do all they can to ensure that Christians are forced to provide services to gay "weddings", that Trump gets impeached for his tweets, and that anyone who says that men can't wish themselves into women will get jail time.

If you want to maintain the First Amendment you must vote against Democrats in the upcoming election.

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