Socialists in the home of the EU headquarters shut down conservative conference

Freedom is rarely lost all at once, but rather by a series of small nibbles.

Of course if you get all your "newz" from the Mainstream Media you think this is just nonsense.

I'm referring to how the leftist tyrants who rule Belgium essentially shut down a conference on Conservatism that took place in Brussels last week.

Americans think "Belgium?  Dat beez in Europe, so mean nuffin' to us, right?

Be it ever thus.  Democrats:  "Dis far away, nudder country, so haz nuffin to do wif' us here." Yeah, you bet, sparky.  

The first hint that the Left was going to shut down the conference was when the socialist mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, pressured the manager of the venue booked for the conference to cancel the booking just days before the event was scheduled.  

Of course there was a crappy, illogical excuse, as there always is.  Amazingly, the organizers were able to find another venue, the Sofitel Hotel.  But then just one day before the conference, the hotel canceled that booking too, claiming guests staying at the hotel had said they'd never stay there again if the conference was permitted.

So again amazingly, at the last moment organizers found a third venue, owned by a Belgian-Tunisian businessman.

The conference started at 9 a.m.  And before noon local police had surrounded the building, this time on the orders of another socialist, Emir Kir, mayor of the local "district."

If you're beginning to realize that socialists hate for opponents to be allowed free speech, you're right.  The police attempted to enter the building to drag the attendees out, but seeing many cameras trained on them they retreated.  The conference continued, but police prohibited anyone from entering.

For awhile the socialist regime's cops even blocked the caterers, apparently trying to shut the thing down by starving the participants.  The venue’s courageous owner and his wife received threats.

After a couple of hours Belgium’s prime minister, Alexander de Croo, made a statement in which he called the mayors’ action against the Conservative conference “unacceptable” and “unconstitutional.”  But de Croo’s statement didn’t change anything, as the cops continued to prevent people who wanted to join the conference from entering.

"Free speech?  Nah, nevah heard of it."

The cops argued—correctly—that regardless of what the prime minister said, it was just his personal opinion, NOT an "administrative decision."  So nothing changed.

Finally, hours after the conference ended, Belgium's "administrative court" ruled that the order to the cops to prevent anyone from entering was "invalid."   But of course by then it was too late--much like proving massive vote fraud in the 2020 election, eh?  "Sorry, too late."

This almost unnoticed incident illustrates how the Left is winning every confrontation in the West today, namely that no principle piously proclaimed by the Left as sacred is really sacred: Freedom of speech, freedom of  assembly, rights of private property--all the rules to which EU elites constantly pay lip service—are ignored when it comes to fighting conservatives.

Of course if a conservative government were to shut down a conference of liberals, socialists, environmentalists, LGBT activists, or other left-wing groups, protests would have undoubtedly exploded throughout Europe

For those of us who remember Soviet totalitarianism it was déjà vu. Three things in particular were familiar.  First, men with guns were ordered to shut down an event the ruling socialists didn't like.  Even though this was clearly illegal, the cops didn't care: they had their orders and obeyed them.  Arguing with them about freedom, or the illegality of their orders, was useless.

Some would-be participants described the sense of helplessness they felt when the cops refused to allow them to enter the building to attend the conference. They had naively believed this was impossible in "sophisticated" Europe!  Then suddenly the impossible happened.

The second type of déjà vu was seeing how the mainstream media reported events, describing the conference as “far right,” “fascist,” etc.  This shows how hard the media work to control how the populace views events.  People who believe the Media have no hope of avoiding their conditioning.

The third type of déjà vu had to do with how a totalitarian system--even though claiming to be all about freedom--instantly takes freedom away when it doesn't like something.

Now: as noted above, this happened in Belgium--headquarters of the vaunted EU--an organization the U.S. Left dearly loves.  And because the Mainstream Media love the EU, no negative publicity about that body is allowed.  So the average American never heard a word about the cops trying to shut down the conservative conference.

And if anyone did hear, the approved Dem bleat is "We not doze folks in duh EU so you shouldn't pay any attention to whut happens there!  See, dis could nevah happen here!"

Oh, absolutely, sparky.  You bet.  Ain't nuffin we kin learn from what happens over there, eh?  Rise of Hitler, rise of Stalin, appeasement.  Nah, nuffin ta see here, folks.

Source. 

https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-the-west-suppresses-dissent/