O’Reilly’s comments are part of the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. We previously discussed this massive assault on free speech.
The legislation that would criminalize “incitement to violence or hatred against” people with “protected characteristics,” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”
Limiting free speech has become an article of faith for many on the left. I have written about my distress (as someone who grew up in a liberal, politically active Democratic family in Chicago) in watching the abandonment of free speech values by the party. Democratic leaders now uniformly call for censorship and speech regulations. President Biden even charged that companies who refused to censor opposing views on social media were “killing people.” Others have denounced free speech as “a white man’s obsession.”
The anti-free speech movement has become openly Orwellian in claiming to protect freedom by limiting freedom. It also employs using terms like disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation to obscure their effort to silence those with opposing views. Rather than use “censorship,” they refer to “content moderation.”
That effort was on full display this week in Ireland with this anti-free speech legislation.
Speaking before the Irish Senate (Seanad) this week, O’Reilly declared “when one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”
It is the same message of New York democrats calling for limiting speech as a way of protecting democracy. Indeed, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has declared free speech is “tyranny.”
O’Reilly assured citizens that giving up freedom was nothing new or threatening: “Throughout our Constitution one can see that while one has rights they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced.”
What is particularly chilling is how low the threshold is for denying free speech, according to O’Reilly. It now appears that “deep discomfort” is enough:
“If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for...
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Show me a liberal/progressive/Marxist/gerbil and I'll show you someone auditioning to man the gas chambers. Treat them with the consideration you'd show a cockroach or a snake.
I assume that the irish green party got it's start with funding from the KGB like many other green front groups.
Lets just start shooting them and get it over with.
Limiting free speech so that society can begin to be herded like cattle, then the guns, then the food chain is affected so that the government can starve the people to death. Hoping society has learned from the history of Russia, Germany to name the big ones that actually starved the population to death as well as bio-weapons using humans as test subjects. Covid is just the beginning as governments will try and use another form of testing to continue population control, lab grown meat is another way to kill the population as its all chemicals and questionable products along with DNA from maybe diseased animals that may be transfered to humans.
the saddest part of this story is that The Irish of all people are tolerating this...
For a long time I thought I was going crazy. I mean, this can't REALLY be happening, can it? I'm imagining things.
I talked about it to a friend of mine who is a shrink. I was getting worried. He said to make up a list of things, events, that would prove to you in a way, that it is, or isn't happening. Don't look at events as they are happening, and assign it as evidence of your fears (confirmation bias). Much of my fear is based on my knowledge and understanding of history - I believed I was seeing a pattern repeat itself.
Great! I said, this is easy, I can make a list of steps and milestones that prior revolutions have taken. Theres that funny meme out there, and I've studied history, I know the facts surrounding every communist/socialist revolution that has taken place!
So, the good news is I don't believe I am going crazy, and I don't wonder if we are actually experincing a communist revolution in our country!
Thats it for the good news.
Do you want me to tell you the bad, or, do you got that worked out?
The bad news is: violence and hardship are likely in our future.
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