In support of free speech - NOT
...not, in Boston.
"The person who controls the public discourse controls the society."
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"If you don't ask the questions, you won't know the answers."
- Dr Anne Aly MP – Parliament of Australia
....and/but, if you are not permitted to
OPENLY ask/pose ['political' or 'offensive'] questions, then what sort 'political environment' would those circumstances, both engender, and, reinforce ?
Not good ones, i would opine.
QUESTION;What 'right' [in law] does
the right to freedom speech actually give, to the individual citizen,
if not the right to openly ask 'offensive' questions ?
QUESTION;And should the right to 'freedom of speech' entitle me to openly ask questions, or to assert opinions, in the 'public space', being questions, or opinions, which others persons may choose to
'characterise' as 'offensive' ?
QUESTION;How could any individual seek to stop or to curb corrupt practices, in a society of men,
if individuals in that society of men are not going to be permitted, to ask 'offensive' questions ?
e.g.If i ask, in an open 'public space' why a particular group of moslem individuals are being permitted to 'groom' and to ply underage school girls with drugs, and to then sexually abuse those underage school girls,
....is my question going to be deemed to be 'offensive', because i am a 'racist', because i am asking that question about a group of individuals
who happen to be moslems ?
[this particular incidence of 'self-censure'-ship by the msm, and members of the police service, DID OCCUR, in the UK]
Our forefathers fought in wars,
and sacrificed their lives, for our freedoms and our liberty.
QUESTION;Are we, today, i.e. this generation, going to 'brush aside' or 'set aside' those freedoms and liberty, because we are too 'terrified' to offend some person or some group [of persons], which is seeking to seize the
AUTHORITY to censure 'public discourse' ?
2017-Aug-20 Sun
In Boston,
at a rally in support of freedom of speech, it seems that supporters of Antifa have mounted a 'counter-protest' [at the same event], and, it seems, that
supporters of Antifa have successfully brought into question, the right to freedom of speech, of the citizens in the USA. !!
In Boston supporters of Antifa have demonstrated [in a public place!]
that [may-be] they [Antifa] have the 'political authority', in the USA,
to censure [i.e. prohibit] freedom of speech, in the USA. !!
Of course, supporters of Antifa will claim that in attending that event, their supporters were merely exercising
THEIR RIGHTto openly protest against what is 'offensive' to their supporters. i.e.
'hate speech'i.e.
What has emerged in Boston, and in the 'political landscape' [in the 'West'] today, is that some 'political' activist groups in society [i.e. in the 'West'] are asserting their [political!] 'right' to establish the new 'normal', about what type of debate is acceptable in the 'public space' [within western nations].
Antifa and their allies appear, to be seeking to [actually] enforce the new 'normal' in the 'public space',
the new 'normal', that citizens in western nations will no longer, to be permitted to openly pose 'political' or 'offensive' questions, in the 'public space', within western nations.
And if someone is so foolish to attempt to do so, there will be 'consequences'!