Presumably you've all see this photograph. You know, the one where a select group of brave Western politicians lead a one million-strong march of freedom-loving democrats through the streets of Paris. Of course we now know that this was just - yet another - photo op facilitated by the supine mainstream media. Levels of distrust and cynicism are now so bad you could be forgiven for thinking that many of the leaders may have attended only in the digital senseAnd just like the editors at Charlie Hebdo the countries those leaders represent have the same approach to free speech. All for it as long as it adheres to our doctrines. I know it's like shooting fish in a barrel but consider the following examples from the freedom-loving West.
Canada seizes Ernst Zundel from the USA, jails him and then extradites him to Germany where he's jailed again for the same offence. And for good measure they threw his lawyer Sylvia Stoltz in jail as well. Their offence? Disagreeing with some aspects of the way the Holocau$t story was presented. Canada also heavily fined Christian pastors who quoted Biblical verses against homosexuality.
Australian authorities jailed Brendan O'Connell for three years for a video he made which was critical of Israeli actions against Palestinians and currently two Christians are under prosecution for articles critical of the Religion Of Peace. Note that neither O'Connell nor the Christians had promoted violence, let alone engaged in it. Sanctioned for exercising their imagined right to free speech.
Meanwhile Sweden increasingly resembles the post-Stalin Soviet Union. You speak your mind at your peril, anything running contrary to the Prescribed Narrative costing you your job or worse. For instance artist Dan Park incurred a six month prison sentence as he had 'depicted gypsies in a racist way'. Meanwhile in Britain Simon Shepherd has been jailed no fewer than four times. To assess his offence let's go to the ultra politically correct Wiki: 'His main website contains many articles about women, the multiracial society and Jews, stating that these have negative effects on Western society and White males in particular'. Meanwhile student Liam Stacey was jailed for unsympathetic tweets after a black footballer got a heart attack.
Still think my analogy to the Soviet Union is over-egged?
Look, I could keep reeling out more examples for another hundred pages. But suffice to say that under 'hate crime' legislation throughout the West you can and will face jail time for merely upsetting the delicate feelings of some 'protected' group. Crucially the only criterion is whether the snowflake in question has been offended. Which means that the 'offender' must be able to second-guess what will offend the 'offendee'. How crazy is that? Well actually it's not crazy at all because the whole purpose is to close down non-conformist views. And truth is no defence. At the end of the Zundel trial in Germany, having effectively proven their case, the judge told the defence team that - in effect - the truth didn't matter as it was against German law to deny any aspect of of the Holocau$t.
And one last thing: Access. All of us on this site know that it's virtually impossible to get anything onto the MSM that runs contrary to the Prescribed Narrative. Even a letter to the editor. Or to get a book published or a film produced. Just like in the USSR. Or Saudi Arabia. You know, the people who 'hate us for our freedoms'.
But there is one big difference between the West and countries like the USSR and Saudi Arabia. They know (or knew) that there was/is no freedom of expression, that the media are utterly biased and truth is revealed only by filtering and reconfiguring the propaganda dished out to you. But in the West the general public has widely bought into the fantasy of a free press and thus are a lot more vulnerable to manipulation.
Happily there are strong indications of this pathology's weakening. Thank you Internet. So may I suggest we all use everything at our disposal in using this medium to awaken the sleeping orcs before we've been bred out of existence.



