The death of free speech in Europe

With the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the breakup of the Soviet Union a few years later, almost everyone thought freedom had won.

Nope, we just traded one group of ghastly dictators for another.  (As an experiment, ask your highschool kids what the "USSR" was.)

The new thugs are Europe's "wokie" pols, who have ordered their thug police to arrest conservatives for...saying things the wokiez don't like.  In some cases they've arrested people for simply standing silently across the street from an abortion clinic.  How standing silently can be a crime hasn't yet been explained.  One effort was "Oh, she might be 'praying in her head.' "

You very likely think all the above is a "scare story"--hyperbole to raise money for conservative causes.  That's because you don't live in Europe.  And even many Europeans support the wokie pols, cuz frankly, wokiez are really dumb.  (And as the Dunning-Kruger paper predicted, they're not smart enough to know they're dumb.)

Last week a young Dutch woman was arrested outside an abortion clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.  She had offered leaflets to two people.  Wokie cops arrived and arrested her on the utterly bullshit charge of "disturbing the peace."

See, there's no law against peacefully engaging in pro-life outreach outside an abortion facility, so the dictators have to use bullshit charges like "disturbing the peace."

Last year a woman was arrested outside a clinic in Utrecht before she had passed out a single leaflet.  The wokie cops told her that even though she hadn't (yet) done anything illegal, her mere presence constituted "disorder."

This shit is Orwellian--the stuff of North Korea.

Council of Europe chief Alain Berset opened "No hate speech week" in Europe by declaring
>>"Hate begins with words but does not end there. The Council of Europe has been clear: hate speech and hate crime are not separate problems--they exist on a continuum.">>

For those who don't speak Bafflegab, the translation is that speech the rulers don't like will be considered a crime, and prosecuted with prison time.

This bullshit is echoed in Europe's "Digital Services Act," which tells people and companies what they can't say or post on-line.  According to the DSA even interviewing a former president of the United States "could constitute hate speech." This was the conclusion last year of the then European Commissioner in charge of enforcing the DSA--a piece of shit named Thierry Breton.  

In the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections, Breton warned that Musk livestreaming an interview with Donald Trump on X could violate EU law on spreading "harmful content."

Now: you don't live in Europe, so why should this be of any interest to you, eh?

Because wokie thugs constantly take notes on what cunning attacks on free speech work in other countries, and it's only a matter of time before U.S. wokiez try the same thing here.

Democrats: "NOOooo, dat not possible, citizen!  Dat jus' a scare story!  Hate speech!  Yep yep yep!"

No law can make these sons of bitches stop this shit, because they never get charged--because they run the lower courts and half the appellate courts.  The only thing that will make 'em stop is unaliving 'em, and no one is willing to do that.

But I'm an "old guy" and don't have kids, so ain't my problem.   Of course those of you who have kids may have a different opinion.