"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
George Orwell
Democrats can only blame themselves if Roe v. Wade is overturned as it amounts to presenting yet another very substantial argument to the pro-life activist if one, as is the case with e.g. the City Council of New York January 2019, is so enthused about the state parliament passing The Reproductive Health Act which makes abortion an option for women till the 40th week of pregnancy, that it must be celebrated with pink illuminations on top of One World Trade Centre.
If you want to call yourself a champion of freedom of speech, you must defend free speech for all - not just the upper class and the part of the working class that is not too unaesthetic and vociferous. Free Speech Union does not.
As part of the efforts to live up to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) citizens of Rome and Bologna are now offered an app rewarding them for good behaviour. This, for a beginning, translates into sorting of garbage, use of public transport, reduced consumption of energy – and no fines!
Movements and activities of citizens is increasingly being registered and what starts out in good intension of supporting sustainable development risks to evolve into a social credit system as known from China.
2. part of the documentary ’Rape of Britain’ not only exposes decades of assaults on English girls ignored by the authorities. It discloses ever more precisely the reasons behind this: in England working-class people are not valued.
.Zelinsky and Trudeau have clowning as their common starting point, but where Trudeau really is a clown, Zelinsky has proven to be everything else.
It is striking that practicing Muslims who claim that it is possible to reconcile Islam and democracy are not required to make arguments for their claim. It is otherwise a basic premise of all democratic debate that one must argue for one's claims and be willing to debate them with others.
Lars Vilks was indomitable: he walked calmly through all his trials and tribulations with both his characteristic optimism and humor fully intact. He remained the same, and no one ever heard him complain about his fate or the lack of physical freedom he, under 24/7 police protection, had to endure in order to insist on freedom - not least freedom of speech.
(translated by Tania Groth)
If Mustafa Musse Sayegh, founder and chairman of the Association Apostate, speaks to believers, then leaving Islam requires almost superhuman strength. He has done it himself - but he is also one of a kind. Therefore, a realistic future scenario is further segregation and parallel societies as long as we have Muslims in our midst.
(translated by Tania Groth)
The indictment against Kim Møller adds to the series of lawsuits for violating section § 264 d of the Penal Code, which are now being carried out against a number of Islam-critical participants in the public debate, with blogger Steen Raaschou and debater Jaleh Tavakoli as the most spectacular cases to date.
(translated by Tania Groth)
Freedom of expression is under tremendous strain. Nationally and globally, writers, artists and politicians are threatened upon their lives and/or with their livelihoods, or sued in court for expressing particular views. Fear, self-censorship and oppressive anti-defamation laws are in the process of undermining our main liberty: Freedom of expression.
The Free Press Society’s freedom of expression prize, the Sappho Award, is awarded to a person who has shown uncompromising courage in the struggle for the free word.
