Free speech in jeopardy, part II

Phyllis Chesler, at her blog, has an interview with blogger Lionheart.

An Interview with "Lionheart," the British Blogger in Hiding

Islamist rule over the UK may, alarmingly, be on its way. Today, the British police want to question and/or arrest the British blogger known as Lionheart. His crime? Turning his life around as a young school dropout and petty drug dealer and emerging as a believing Christian who opposes the drug plague in his hometown of Luton and who views the Pakistani Islamist and al-Qaeda control of the drug trade in Luton as both criminally and politically dangerous. For this, Lionheart has been charged with “stirring up racial hatred”—which is a crime in the UK.
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He writes about the massive number of Pakistani Muslim drug dealers in his hometown of Luton who addict British youth and whose profits fuel expensive lifestyles, paramilitary organizations, suicide terrorism, and religious hate speech against Jews, Christians, and the West. Ironically, what is said in mosques and madrassas and on protest marches all over the UK is never considered to constitute a “racially” motivated hate crime. As George Orwell understood, not all pigs are equal.''

Over at Free Republic, some of the comments accused Lionheart of being a 'neo-Nazi' or a racist -- based not on anything he has said or written except that he has spoken favorably of the BNP. So that is enough, among these PC 'conservatives' to make someone a 'neo-Nazi' and thus unworthy of the right to free speech, presumably.

One of the commenters mentioned that LGF had named Lionheart as a neo-Nazi. This is more of the witchhunting attitude I spoke of, and it's appalling. We have the spectacle of people in the West, all of us the heirs of Christendom, turning on each other because of unpopular or dissenting political views. And please think about this: the only political party that is attempting to speak out for the British people is a considered beyond the pale and 'hateful', by the very people for whom that party advocates and speaks out. This is a disgrace, and it's nearly as bad here in the United States, as anyone who defends the old America and her people is branded as a 'racist', a 'xenophobe' or worse -- again, by our own people. We in the West are seeing our own people sold out by their brothers.

I've read many blog reactions to Lionheart's story, and some of the more obnoxiously leftist blogs think that it's just fine that Lionheart is to be arrested because he is a 'fundie' and the leftists truly hate and fear 'fundies' more than they fear Moslems, even after the terror attacks by Mohammedans. This is a mark of how deranged many leftists are: they can muster no anger or indignation against those who have killed their own countrymen and who express openly hostile intentions towards them -- but these people have overflowing hate towards fundamentalist Christians (or those they caricature as 'fundamentalists', which includes just about anybody who openly professes Christianity.) If and when the West falls to Islam and/or the others who have designs on our countries, it will be in no small part due to treason from within, from these sad and pathetic people who would sell out their own while appeasing and truckling to those that hate them.

And I blame, almost as much, the 'conservatives' who are so concerned with ideological purity and political correctness that they are willing to throw their own people to the wolves so as to prove their own lack of 'bigotry'.

In fact, I almost blame the politically correct 'conservative' establishment even more, because they have no excuse; they know better, or should know better. I hold conservatives to a higher standard than the liberal-leftists, who are non compos mentis.

So yes, they are worse than the leftists.

And what of free speech? It seems that more and more, Western countries, or the majority of unthinking people who make up those countries, are willing to approve free speech only if it conforms to 'respectable' opinion. Sadly there are too many who have not the foggiest understanding of freedom of speech, and this being the case, we may not be able to preserve it much longer. If those who express risky or dissenting opinions (patriotic or nationalistic ones in particular) are silenced, then our prospects will be dim indeed.

Meantime, we should stand in solidarity with anyone whose freedom of speech is being abridged, and we should be duly alarmed that Lionheart and others like him may lose their liberty because they spoke a politically incorrect truth.

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''That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.'' Learned Hand

''You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.'' Vaclav Havel