by Dr. Ofellati » Wed 04 Nov 2009, 15:44:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dr. Ofellati', 'W')hen they put a man in jail for discussing history and his opinion of it, is that living and let living?
When I get discriminated against for being white, is that live and let living?
That's what you really mean.
That is something I have always wondered about... the Europeans govs and their "thought police".
Of all the atrocities attributed to Europeans be it imperialism, genocide, etc, the worst foisted on the world is probably their perfection of political correctness.
People seem to have real trouble with staying in the middle area of the pendulum swing.
On the other point, I like what Reverend William John Henry Boetcker (1873-1962) said in "Ten Carrots" to that:
* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
* You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
* You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Very true, each one. The thought police in the EU, and especially in the UK, is growing in power. People are worse sheep in the EU than in most places. They've been perfectly brainwashed to believe that every intrusion into every orifice is for the common good and to "prevent farmer Jones from coming back."
To put a man in jail for his words is among the most contemptible of crimes, and, if we ever do get to a stable and decent world, of which I hold out little hope, it seems to me inconceivable that they won't look back on the laws we have now criminalizing disagreeable speech as a severe retraction of basic human liberty that occurred at the end of the 2nd millennium, AD.