Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
“We are used to Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World being held up as a mirror to our current predicament. But there is a third novel in Britain’s dystopian trilogy. In Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, a politician visits a jail to look for a subject for the Lodovico treatment which is designed to cure the offender of the impulse to violence. The reason the minister wants prisoners released safely back into society, and something of the sort is already happening in the UK, speaks to us: ‘Soon we may be needing all our prison space for political prisoners,’” like Julian Assange, Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, and “January 6 insurrectionists. https://www.unz.com/article/britains-worst-amendment-the-online-safety-bill/
The invention of “hate speech” was a slippery slope down which we have rapidly descended. Former British Ambassador and human rights activist Craig Murray has been detained under Britain’s counterterrorism laws for pointing out Palestine’s case in the conflict. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/10/18/uk-government-arrests-former-uk-ambassador-for-supporting-palestine/
In the UK just to say that there is another side is an offense, so the British arrest their own ambassador. This is “the free world” today. A very unhealthy place for liberty.
As Mark Gullick reports, Britain’s “Online Safety Bill” currently under debate in Parliament will effectively terminate free speech.
Whatever the intention of the bill, its effect will be to shut down white people who complain about immigrant-invaders, black crime, disagree with an official narrative, or take the unpopular side of an argument. The bill has “usable ambiguity,” which means that a person can complain that a view you expressed distresses them or makes them feel threatened and that they have suffered “psychological harm.” In other words the proof of your speech crime depends only on the perception of the distressed person.
One wonders if white ethnicities can use the bill to prevent being called racists or whether the treatment of “aversive racism” as a fact prevents white ethnicities coverage under the bill.
It seems certain that the bill would terminate debate. Debates can be very emotional, and to engage in one carries the risk of causing “emotional harm.” A government policing speech is likely to find many offenders.
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There is no such thing as hate speech there is only free speech.
But there are people that hate free speech.
Pending? People in the US and EU are already being put on trial and jailed for someone else’s interpretation of their thoughts and statements.
We used to joke how the Soviets and Chinese were so fucked that they couldn’t even say something without ending up in court or jail, and now it’s happening here.
Thoughtcrime has become reality in our lifetime.
Well, maybe the time has come to not use speech any more and use music, painting as vehicles of expression instead? A picture paints a thousand words, after all…..
They’ve already jailed a guy for making memes and reposting ‘offensive’ memes.
Imagine taking a paycheck to go knock on someone’s door to arrest them for something they said “online”. ? I don’t know how these soulless pawns do it. Thankfully Americans possess the means to repel tyrants even if it’s one or two at a time.
Tyranny always using safety and protection as a justification for their constant law making. Can’t wait to see mass non compliance. It will happen people are waking up faster and faster.
Have you over heard any college coeds conversations lately? Awake retards are still retards. America is f’d.
Someone sent me this the other day. He can be something else and it’s proppy in parts, but pretty good in others.
If you want to run a dictatorship, then free speech is a true enemy. What Britain actually is is a supine satrapy upwards (to Israel and the USA) and a bullying dictatorship downwards (toward the people it purports to serve).
We were the first western nation to embrace slavery, the first to abolish it too. We put free speech at the cornerstone of our cultural heritage 800 years ago, and now we are abolishing that too.
First movers and early adopters, the Brits. Rarely the dominant players at market maturity….
We must censor and silence you to protect free speech!