Temporary Peace Trumps Freedom of Speech
25th February 2009
Paul Weston discusses the current state of freedom in Britain.
Hint: It’s on its way out.
“We don’t have absolute freedom of speech in the United Kingdom, because I myself have voted on laws preventing people inciting racial hatred and violence.”
Mr Vaz, an immigrant of Yemeni/Portuguese extraction, is clearly proud of the part he has played in restricting the ancient and bloodstained freedoms of Britain. No doubt Vaz is pleased the dark days of 1990 are now behind him, when he wrote to the Guardian to claim “there is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech“ as he attempted to ban the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.
This is precisely the problem with unassimilated immigrants: They tend to bring their bad habits with them. We’re all familiar with the tendency of Mexican and other Latino immigrants bringing their “take it to the streets” political practices to places like Los Angeles. Britain, being a smaller country and surrounded by Cheese-Eating Surrender-Monkeys, has it a lot worse. Without eternal vigilance, it really could happen here.