Terrorism has struck its target once again; free speech is being violated. Worse, free speech is being assaulted not by terrorism itself. Instead, the assault is being carried out by the very body that’s supposed to protect freedom.
A new law that bans thoughts and speeches that might incite extremism has been introduced in the UK. Under the new rule, if a non-British citizen is convicted, then he or she will be subjected to deportation.
The new law has been out and about for a few weeks now. However, part of the detail pertaining the new deportation law has only been made known to the public as late as a few hours ago.
It must be stressed that the British authority is threading on a dangerous ground. There’s a fine line between freedom and security and they’re negotiating the two components at the expense of free speech.
Whenever free speech is sacrificed in the name of security, terrorism at large has won. There’s no need for any terrorist to set up another bomb in another major city to threaten free civil society. They need not to do anything anymore to shake the foundations of free civil society. The guardian has done that for the terrorists.
It’s a harrowing feeling to find out that a bastion of liberty is bowing to those that despise freedom. Britain doesn’t have to stoop as low as those religious fanatics that are intolerant of freedom. Britain doesn’t have to erode civil liberty in order to secure itself. But yet she does and ironically, Britain is limiting free speech so she might fight those that seek to vanquish freedom.
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four mentions of thought police. The deportation law might be an attempt to criminalize thought of which is no different from Orwell’s dystopia. For this very reason, freedom lovers should be wary of the new restriction, Brit or no Brit.
p/s – where one fails, others will rise up. Nine states in New England (reg. req.) are taking the next step to cut power plant emissions while the federal government has yet to concretely act on climate change.
pp/s – Ajax has qualified for the Champions League by beating Brøndby 3 – 1 in the second leg in Amsterdam. The aggregate is 5 – 3 in Ajax’s favor. It was almost a bad game – Ajax was in terrible shape in the first half but luckily, things changed for the better later with new wonder kid Babel scoring 1 and (super) substitute Sneijder scoring another two.
Enough talking. I’m going to watch the video at www.ajaxfans.de.
