Geert Wilders: “All Over Europe, The Lights Are Slowly Going Out”
by Lisa Graas
Posted on February 8 2011 12:00 pm
Lisa Graas has covered politics and religion at her blog LisaGraas.com since 2008. She has served as a crisis pregnancy counselor, youth speaker, mental health advocate and legislative consultant.
The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom loving citizens who criticize Islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between Islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger.
The lights are going out all over Europe. Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think.
This trial is not about me. It is about something much greater. Freedom of speech is not the property of those who happen to belong to the elites of a country. It is an inalienable right, the birthright of our people. For centuries battles have been fought for it, and now it is being sacrificed to please a totalitarian ideology. Geert Wilders
The Economist was talking about this same issue. Politicians are too worried about standing out and the thought police busting commentators for words said off-air.
I think this is also happening in America.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
One day we'll be saying "remember when the US was strong and fearless?" It seems to me that our enemies and our banker are gaining strength while we continue to expand political correctness and open our collective arms to every backward crazy culture.