My father had his leg shot to pieces during WW2 fighting the Nazis. He used to tell my brother and me that he had been fighting for freedom of speech. He told us that freedom of speech is the main difference between a free country and a totalitarian one.
As with fascists everywhere, Hitler abhorred free speech. He believed in a strong government lording it over a weak population disenfranchised by having no freedom of speech and no right to debate all subjects openly, where dissidents are imprisoned, and where censorship restricts their access to information.
Who would ever have thought that would happen in Britain? Who would have thought British citizens would land in prison for expressing an option on social media? Who would have thought that in Britain there would arise groups of people who we are not allowed to criticise? Yet we now have all these nightmare conditions, right here in once free Britain. My father must be turning over in his grave.
Free speech was the most important right we had. We must get it back. We must ditch all censorship and so-called 'political correctness'.
Indeed Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".
Students need to be exposed to the fullest range of different opinions and they should be taught how to evaluate those opinions for themselves. They should be taught how to think, not what to think.
Yet most of our educational institutions have now been infiltrated by fascist globalists. They no longer offer our young people an unbiased education. Students are even encouraged to no-platform any speaker who might challenge their indoctrination.
We need more tolerance but tolerance absolutely IS NOT walking around on eggshells afraid of offending intolerant idiots. Tolerant people are not easily offended.
Before you can shine your light into the darkness you need to know where the darkness is. How can pointing that out to folk possibly be 'hate speech'?
I shine my light into many dark corners in my new book, Spread The Love and Change Your World.
The PDF version is free. A Kindle version is also available.
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