Posted on 03/18/2018 5:38:31 AM PDT by Nextrush
Is THIS a warning? In the past few days I have begun to sense a dangerous and dark new intolerance in the air, which I have never experiences before. An unbidden instinct tells me to be careful what I say or write, in case it ends badly for me. How badly? That is the trouble. I am genuinely unsure.
I have been to too many countries where free speech is dangerous. But I have always assumed that there was no real risk here.
Now, several nasty trends have come together. The treatment of Jeremy Corbyn, both by politicians and many in the media, for doing what he is paid for and leading the Opposition, seems to me to be downright shocking.
I disagree with Mr. Corbyn about many things....
But he has a better record on foreign policy than almost anyone in Parliament......
....our repeated rushes into foolish conflict in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. All have done us lasting damage.
Yet we pay for it, literally, every day. Along with our clinically insane covert intervention on the side of Al Qaeda in Syria, the Libyan adventure created the unending migration crisis across Europe which, in my view, threatens the stability of the whole continent....
I sense an even deeper and thoughtless frenzy over Russia, a country many seem to enjoy loathing because they know so little about it.
I have already been accused, on a public stage, of justifying Moscow's crime in Salisbury......
....the crude accusation, with its implication of treachery, frightened me. I expect, as time goes by, I will be accused of being an 'appeaser' and of being against 'British values'. And then what? An apparatus of thought policing is already in place in this country.
By foolishly accepting bans on Muslim 'extremists', we have licensed public.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Speak out anywhere on social media against the herd mentality of the left and one is subject to viscous unending attacks not just publicly, but in their job, their employer, their families, etc.. People in this country are destroyed for defending their Second Amendment rights online almost daily.
I hear so many ad hominem attacks against PDJT, America, the Second Amendment, speech that doesn't agree with the progressive left just in the place I work and make a living that I almost don't dare speak up.
It's stifling, and it's happening here too.
I am minded of the student walkout, and the student whose sign didn't match all the others.
Basically, it said "I support 2A" instead of "Roast the NRA" or "Give up your rights so we can be safe" like all the others. All legal opinions to have (on open threats of violence or profanity) yet the principal sent him home.
He sent the boy home because he was afraid there'd be a riot, of course. And what's right and wrong sometimes loses out over what's safe and comfortable.
Agreed, miss marmelstein; and I’m also no follower of Peter Hitchens, who is often snobbishly obtuse. The current “hate speech” policing of internet and public speech in the UK is appallingly craven and needs a well-deserved hiding from free speech advocates like Mrs. Katie Hopkins.
The crack-brained Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is a disgrace to his country and should never be allowed to become UK PM. Brexit forever!
Bump.
I follow Katie on Twitter. I don’t always agree with her, lol, and she’s got some mouth, but she’s a free woman. I wish Tucker would have her back on again. She’s great.
I’ve never been a P. Hitchens fan. He’s a typical British conservative which is almost always anti-American.
Did it bankrupt every hospital in NYC? It might have but since my brother is now undergoing tests for a very strange illness, I have been dragging around hospitals from Montefiore in the Bronx to New York University (with every hospital in between) in midtown and they all seem to be doing fine.
As I said, I’m not disputing.
In the early 1980s the city of New York City was on the verge of being bankrupt and a lot of the hospitals and Hospital systems with in New York City ended up having to take state and federal bailouts. But those bailouts are what you have today in the form of Medicare and Medicaid it federalized a lot of what used to be local control over the medical system
I do remember a friend of mine getting a free appendetomy in the 1970s! Saved her life.
Agreed, mm, Katie’s delightfully bitchy in confronting, better affronting, her censorious adversaries who are “concerned,” better whinging, about “hate speech” (i.e., ideas they don’t like). Cheers,
Kim Philby
Who was working for the Soviets who also supported and fostered Islamic terror around the globe, rather interesting.
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