Tomorrow night’s episode of GrokTALK! features guest Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, author of Truth Was My Crime. She is a victim of the European war on free speech. We will discuss her book, her experience with governments destroying you for speaking truth, as well as what has and has not changed since Donald Trump won last November.
I welcome your thoughts as well. Yesterday, I wrote about the failures of New Hampshire’s Human Rights Commission and the need to disband it. We’ve covered the State’s efforts, through the Attorney General’s Office, to get a judicial ruling that would allow it to invoke civil rights crimes against people who say things it doesn’t like. Then there is the on-stop screetch and whine from the left about regulating speech as if we are all children incapable of fisking what we see and hear for truth or lies.
The United Kingdom is prepared to arrest Americans who set foot on its soil for hate speech and incitement. And the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) just censored an American for an opinion that happens also to be the truth.
Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust Director Anne Bayefsky submitted a video statement reminding UNHRC that Gazan terrorists strangled Jewish babies to death before bludgeoning them.
“The world now knows Palestinian savages murdered 9-month-old baby Kfir,” began Bayefsky, before the council’s president, Jürg Lauber immediately paused the video.
“Sorry, I have to interrupt,” he announced, calling her “language” describing the terrorists “disrespectful.”
“Everyone has the right to express their views, but this should remain in the appropriate framework and terminology,” he added, essentially meaning that right only extends to attendees defending the savages.
Lauber briefly let the video resume for a few more seconds.
“Palestinian barbarians mutilated (Kfir and Ariel Bibas’s) tiny bodies,” continued Bayefsky, before Lauber shut her off entirely.
“STOP THE MESSAGE PLEASE,” demanded Lauber, reiterating that her language “cannot be tolerated” because it apparently strips the “dignity” away from the savages and barbarians.
Given that there is no shortage of leftists unconstrained by the rules of appropriate framework and terminology, the insistence by EU elites that these expressions are intolerable seems…intolerable. And there’s the rub. The problem with the speech policers is that the words, clauses, and phrases they can’t stand to hear also happen to be the things everyone needs to hear. The truth, unvarnished and without filter, works like crime scene photos to paint a picture the observer is free to develop using whatever filters surround their worldview.
They don’t have to be anything but their own, free to take in whatever other inputs are out there to shape a worldview to which they are entiled as long as it doe not interfer with anyone elses identical right.
Hate speech, in other words, is nothing more than them saying they hate your speech, and that’s their right. What they are not entitled to is the power to silence you for it – but that old-school thinking has only recently been saved in America. The people stood up and pushed back against a great many injustices, one of which was the censorship industrial complex. The weaponization of government against opinion. The institutionalization of approved narratives. That is where Europe is despite its long history of living under censorship by kings and dictators.
Where the wrong word could get yo killed it might now just get you incacerated. Fined at the very least but alwasy made an object of public spectacle. An example to the others. Shut up or you’ll be next. Stop thinking it before you can say it.
Europe, even if it fails to succumb to Islamization and a complete loss of rights, especially for women, is already embracing an existence that Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff refers to as Totalitarian Democracy.
While Europe appears lost, America just dodged a bullet, but one shot does the war make. To paraphrase Kyle Reese from the movie Terminator, “It absolutely will not stop, ever, until free speech is dead.”
