We are restricting freedom... for the common good.

DUBLIN, Ireland (PNN) - June 20, 2023 - The Irish Green Party followed many on the Left around the world, including the Fascist Police States of Amerika Democrat Party, this week and came out for censorship and speech controls. Indeed, the Party went full Orwellian as its chairman Pauline O’Reilly called for “restricting freedom” in order to protect it.

O’Reilly’s comments are part of the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offenses) Bill 2022.

The legislation that would criminalize “incitement to violence or hatred against” people with “protected characteristics,” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivializing genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.”

Limiting free speech has become an article of faith for many on the Left. It is distressing to watch the abandonment of free speech values by the Party. Political officials who think they have the power to give and take away the God-given right to free speech now uniformly call for censorship and speech regulations. Fascist pretender Joe Biden even charged that companies who refuse to censor opposing views on social media were “killing people”.  Others have denounced free speech as “a white man’s obsession”.

The anti-free speech movement has become openly Orwellian in claiming to protect freedom by limiting freedom.  It also employs using terms like disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation to obscure its effort to silence those with opposing views. Rather than use “censorship,” they refer to “content moderation”.

That effort was on full display this week in Ireland with this proposed anti-free speech legislation.

Speaking before the Irish Senate (Seanad) this week, Green Party chairman Pauline O’Reilly declared “when one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.” Ed. Note: Freedom is endowed to individuals by God, not any legislature.

It is the same message of New York Democrats calling for limiting speech as a way of proptecting democracy.  Indeed, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has declared free speech is “tyranny”.  Ed. Note: Amerika is a Republic, not a Democracy.

What is particularly chilling is how low the threshold has become for denying free speech, according to O’Reilly. It now appears that “deep discomfort” is enough.

“If a person’s views on other people’s identities makes his or her life unsafe and insecure, and causes him or her such deep discomfort that he or she cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good.”  Ed. Note: Hitler would be proud of O’Reilly.

What is interesting is that O’Reilly admits that there is nothing new about hateful views, but it is time to clear out such voices.  “Social media has fueled hatred, but it has also put on display for all of us the dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society.  That hatred has always existed.”   Of course, she and the majority will determine what views create “deep discomfort”, which is the definition of tyranny.  Ed. Note: In other words, O’Reilly supports tyranny over freedom.

The Irish legislation is likely to be replicated around the world if the free speech community cannot hold the line against the anti-free speech movement.  It is part of an unrelenting movement in Europe, particularly by the European Union, to rollback Western free speech values that define independence.