05/06/2014
Free Speech is under attack by the left here in America, and we can look to Europe to see how bad it can get. CBN journalist Dale Hurd does a lot of reporting from there and is not hopeful about the future of free expression on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly since universities have become socialist indoctrination factories turning out angry activists.
In Europe, leftists claim their actions are anti-racist, and that PC label masks a lot violence and intimidation.
Of course, Europe has Muslims by the millions, and the mix of leftholes with Allahâs gangsters produces a particularly noxious brew.
Free Speech Farce: Rise of American Fascism, By Dale Hurd, CBN News, April 30, 2014
COPENHAGEN, Denmark â America is facing a new fascism that does not tolerate any views it doesnât like â where âwrongâ speech is being hounded, demonized and shouted down.
The head of Mozilla, maker of Firefox web browser, was forced to step down because he gave money to a campaign several years ago that was against gay marriage.
Brandeis University recently withdrew an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an internationally acclaimed champion of womenâs rights and a victim of female genital mutilation and forced marriage, because her opposition to Islam was deemed offensive.
Across the Water
If you want a glimpse into how bad it could become in the future, Americans need not look any further than across the Atlantic to Western Europe.
Transplant American conservative values of âGod, country and traditional familyâ in Western Europe and, more likely than not, youâd be branded âextreme right,â âanti-woman,â âhomophobic,â and even âNazi.â
If youâre against radical Islam or immigration, you can be labelled a racist. Wave your nationâs flag too much and youâre a fascist.
And should you be brave enough to demonstrate publicly for a conservative cause or run for office on conservative principles, you could be physically attacked or, in Sweden, your home might be wrecked.
Danish Journalist Lars Hedegaard publishes the Scandinavian online newspaper Dispatch International.
âYou could get beaten up. We see that in Sweden. You have these so called âanti-fascistsâ coming to known right-wingersâ homes and wrecking their apartments,â Hedegaard said. âThey go destroy the furniture, tear up the books, and then they make a video of it and put it out on the web.â
Under the banner of âfighting racism,â left-wing radicals terrorize those who dare to speak out against the Leftâs experiment in multiculturalism.
âThey call them âanti-racistsâ or they fight for a âbetter environmentâ and a âmore humane society,â but their goal is to smash democracy as we know it. Theyâre revolutionary communists,â Kim Møller, a leading expert on the extreme, violent left groups in Denmark, said.
âIf you say you want revolution, people say youâre crazy, but if you say you want to fight racism, people support that,â Møller said.
Free Speech Farce
Throughout Western Europe, those who hold to American-style conservative values are the outsiders.
Freedom of speech â the right to say things the majority doesnât like â is gone in most of Europe, including Britain, George Igler, with Discourse Institute in London, says.
âNo, Britain is not a country that has free speech. Britain is not a country that has the rule of law,â Igler said.
âWe have populations who believe they have free speech and then they do something, maybe they tweet something a politician doesnât like, and a knock comes on the door and they realize they donât live in the same kind of democracy they thought they lived in,â he added.
Last week, Liberty Party candidate Paul Weston was arrested in Winchester for publicly repeating Winston Churchillâs criticism of Islam, in which Churchill wrote about the âcurses of Islam.â
Itâs a similar situation in France, where Libertarian publisher Jean Robin described how the government and the media seem to work in tandem to control information and what viewpoints people will see.
âYou canât really say itâs a democracy with free media. Itâs an oligarchy. Itâs not a democracy anymore,â Robin said.
Shut Up and Unlearn Liberty
Many conservative Europeans cope by simply not expressing their opinions publicly.
âAmericans who look at Europe idealistically just donât have a clue,â Christopher Doss, with the Leadership Institute near Washington, D.C., said.
Doss studied at the University of Oslo in Norway and still works in European politics. He said America risks going the way of Europe, especially because most of our universities are training young people to be intolerant.
âWeâre headed in the same direction as we unlearn liberty, as students go through four years or more of college indoctrination, they become inculcated with the notion that all speech shouldnât be allowed,â Doss said.
If this new fascism is not turned back, life for conservatives in America could become very unpleasant, as it already is for conservatives in Europe.