Tag: losing our liberty

UK Thought Police Swing Into Action

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“We heard you’ve been thinking wrong thoughts…”

Britain’s really going down the tubes in a hurry, isn’t it?

Two police officers, along with a National Health Service psychologist (!), “visited” a man at his home because “people”–unspecified, of course–“raised concerns about your views” (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thought-police-home-visit-uk-man-who-expressed-anger-online-about-sydney-bishop-being).

Uh-huh. A young Muslim nut-job stabbed a bishop in Sydney, Australia, and this man, thousands of miles away in England, posted on Facebook a message, “Christians must stand up.” Apparently you’re not allowed to express outrage over the nooze anymore.

Gee. Cheesed off because a terrorist stabbed a bishop who was giving a sermon at the time–wow, you must be crazy, to have that reaction! But don’t worry, the NHS is on the job! And the police have nothing better to do: they can’t be chasing robbers and murderers when people are saying Wrong Things on Facebook.

All over this fallen world, liberty is an endangered species.

‘When They Make You Say It’ (2018)

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In that corner of Hell where they hatch out leftids, imps and demons are taught to relish the experience of forcing some poor undefended mug to say things he knows to be false and believes to be evil.

So here’s a college where they make you write to your Congressman in support of Planned Parenthood, the abortion giants. For the professor, the zest comes into it when the student has to violate his conscience to get a passing grade.

When They Make You Say It

First they stop you from saying things that they don’t want to hear. Then they make you say things that you don’t want to say. It’s great for breaking down self-respect, for turning citizens into serfs. It appeals to all that’s worst in our sin nature.

Protect us by thy might, Great God our King.

‘Humanist Poison–and the Antidote’ (2017)

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Whatever they want to put in, whatever they want to take out…

Hey, how’s that little science project goin’? The one from a few years back–the “computer interface” that’ll allow criminals for whom no name has yet been invented to break into our minds and steal… us.

Humanist Poison–and the Antidote

Yowsah, yowsah! Once they Interface you, they can take stuff out and thrust stuff in just as they please… and you become a kind of sock puppet.

Pray hard, work hard, sing louder. There is intense evil running loose today. May the Lord Our God deliver us.

‘Harry Potter’ Creator Defies Scotland ‘Hate’ Law

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J.K. Rowling–will she become Scotland’s Public Enemy No. 1?

When I was a boy, the Iron Curtain cut off communist Eastern Europe from the rest of the world. It fell when the Soviet Union collapsed.

But now it’s being raised again–in Scotland.

And J.K. Rowling, who wrote the Harry Potter books, has successfully defied it (https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-government-backs-jk-rowling-scottish-hate-crime-law-challenge-2024-04-02/).

Openly daring Scottish police to arrest her for the new crime of “misgendering,” Rowling listed ten “trans-women” celebrities as men–which in fact they are.

And the police backed down.

Scottish police officials say they anticipate many complaints regarding social media posts; but meanwhile, they’re not coming after Rowling. Apparently the next Harry Potter story won’t have to be written in a prison cell.

Furthermore, Rowling has pledged her support for anyone who gets charged with a hate crime for stating a common-sense biological fact.

Is J.K. Rowling the last person in Scotland who supports free speech? The only one who refuses to say things which are not true, but only demanded politically? And what kind of country do you have, wherein everyone must pay lip service to a doctrine based on a lie?

What would William Wallace do?

When It’s Okay to Ignore the First Amendment

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I’m going to write this up for Newswithviews, but I think the subject is important enough to justify giving you a sneak preview here.

As we read this, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case in which the government argues that it’s okay to suspend the First Amendment if that’s what it takes to deal with an emergency–in this case, a “Once-in-a-lifetime Pandemic” (https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/18/federal-government-claims-once-in-a-lifetime-pandemic-excuses-first-amendment-violations/). Yowsah, yowsah, we gotta do what we gotta do!

Uh-huh… Until it becomes apparent that they’re all once-in-a-lifetime emergencies that must be tackled with whatever it takes. Suddenly election interference and Hunter Biden’s laptop furnish excuses for suspending that pesky First Amendment.

God help us if the Court lets them get away with this.

But I’m afraid He won’t help us. I mean, why should He?

Liberty: An Endangered Species

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Bowing to the Assyrian king and licking his boots: some things never change.

(All right–no nooze tips came in, but I’m back to work anyway.)

I can no longer fight off the conviction that everywhere in the world, what we know as freedom, as liberty, is under attack.

Canada. Germany. United Kingdom. It’s a long list–countries where “government” seems determined to wipe out basic freedoms. Like, let’s all go back to giving the state absolute power over us and our property. Free speech? Naah–people say the wrong things! Honest elections? Forsooth, no! Democrats would never win.

Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka… I can’t keep track.

And right here at home: Can’t beat the Republican candidate? Get him jailed! Conservatives on social media? The State has no authority to censor them–so they’ll get assorted cats’ paws to do it for ’em. “We can’t shut you up, but our friends and toadies in the corporate world can!”

Well, it never was going to be easy, was it? Rome had a republic–and they wrecked it. “Power” means power over others; and the human race is addicted to it. Every now and then something like the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights comes along and spoils their fun; but they’ll keep on attacking those principles until they wear them down.

Pray for freedom.

And work for it.

German Cops Bust Teen… For Posting Smurf Video (?!)

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Holy moly! Smurf Scandal!

German police recently marched into a high school and arrested a 16-year-old student–for posting a Smurf video (!) with a political message (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/german-police-go-full-gestapo-as-16-year/). Three cops had the girl pulled out of class and hauled off to the station. Yes, I said three.

What were they afraid of? What had this high school kid done to menace The State?

Well, she expressed her support for the AfD Party (“Alternative for Germany”), accused of “Euro-skepticism” (ooh!) and opposing immigration: which, in the state’s view–although it is not illegal to agree with the AfD, or to support its positions–equals “incitement of hatred” and  “anti-constitutionalism.” Oh–and “too much national pride.”

That slurping sound in the background is American Democrats licking their lips for envy.

The girl was not charged with any crime, possibly because she hadn’t committed one. No, said officials, this was just “a preventive measure.” Also known as intimidation. Other kids’ll think twice now before they post any Smurf videos! Or express sympathy for any political party that The State doesn’t like.

Coming soon to a country near you–“Preventive Measures.”

 

Washington’s New ‘Hate Crime’ Law

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Hey! If somebody says or writes or thinks anything you might find offensive, wouldn’t it be great if you could dial a state “bias incident” hot line and rat him out? As for how you prove the case–well, nobody’s talking about that, are they?

Washington’s state legislature has passed such a bill, creating such a hot line, and the governor is expected to sign it into law (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/democrat-governor-set-criminalize-free-speech-washington-state/). It goes into effect in 2027.

Yessir, they’re “combating hate crimes” and forbidding any “hostile expression of animus toward another person” belonging to any one of the usual assortment of protected groups who must not be criticized. If I list them all here, this post will be too long.

Will it be a crime, punishable by the state, if you call someone a lazy bum, a doofus, or an ill-informed motormouth, etc.? Is this a new kind of perpetual kindergarten? “If you can’t say anything nice, then just shut up already”? I don’t know how we’re supposed to live that way, with Big Brother always set to pounce.

Our country’s founders thought they’d given us a limited government. But that was before Blue states were invented.

‘College Just Gets Worse and Worse’ (2020)

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“Off with your head, blast your eyes!”

It’s increasingly difficult–well, all right, jolly impossible–to believe certain people in (LOL) “authority” are NOT purposely trying to destroy our country. What else would you call it, what “higher education” does?

College Just Gets Worse and Worse

Here we had a student punished by college fat-heads–er, “authorities”–for disputing a Muslim professor’s assertion, made in front of the class, that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was a hoax.

If he’d said Islam was a hoax, he almost certainly would have been murdered.

Look at ’em all lined up to knock us down: Democrat Party, Uniparty, Hollywood, nooze media, teachers’ unions, communist and Muslim “professors,” rioters recruited for the purpose–it’s kind of amazing we’re still here. Still standing.

But I don’t think our enemies listed above intend to leave us that way.

Canada’s New ‘Pre-Crime’ Bill

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Up in Canada they hate “hate” and mean to do something about it.

Do what? Bill C-63 contemplates subjecting to house arrest–with an “electric tag” to keep you honest!–individuals who might commit a “hate crime” (undefined!) sometime in the future… even if he hasn’t committed any crime as yet (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-justice-minister-defends-house-arrest-power-for-people-feared-to/).

Punishment first, criminal act later!

It’s part of an “online harms bill” being pushed by Canada’s (LOL) Justice Minister, Arif Virani, who is also the Attorney General. But don’t worry, he says. They won’t go overboard with this.

Honk if you believe it. [Cue in chirping crickets.]

Let’s just lock up anyone who might commit a crime someday! Here in America, it would be blatantly unconstitutional. But who knows? Another Democrat presidency, and we might see a few executive orders along these lines. Libs are always jealous of what their counterparts get away with in countries that are not America.