“We are Restricting Freedom … for the Common Good”: Irish Green Party Calls For Limiting Free Speech
June 19th, 2023Via: Jonathan Turley:
The Irish Green Party followed many on the left around the world, including our own Democratic Party, this week and came out for censorship and speech controls. Indeed, the party went full Orwellian as its chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly called for “restricting freedom” to protect it.
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Limiting free speech has become an article of faith for many on the left. I have written about my distress (as someone who grew up in a liberal, politically active Democratic family in Chicago) in watching the abandonment of free speech values by the party. Democratic leaders now uniformly call for censorship and speech regulations. President Biden even charged that companies who refused to censor opposing views on social media were “killing people.” Others have denounced free speech as “a white man’s obsession.”
Will the Irish put up with this? I’m guessing that most of them will because they can’t see any way off the treadmill of their lives without losing a lot of what they are trudging along for, which they believe their lives would be too miserable without. (I’m speaking from experience.) I don’t think Ireland would be making this move now unless its mass surveillance systems indicated that resistance would be weak.
One major restraint on the population is the need for a place to keep their kids while the grown-ups are at work. Schools fill this need and give the bad guys their opportunity to manipulate the minds and hearts of entire generations. The bad guys need laws to turn us adults into slaves, but our kids accept the yoke unwittingly due to brainwashing 6 hrs/day in school and online before and after. Preventing the indoctrination of our kids and keeping them in safe, wholesome environments is crucial to recovering our freedom someday.
Parents must home school or organize a private group school, voluntarily staffing it themselves, at least at first, and with retired people. Even if a mature person was a poor student himself, he’ll know more of the 3 R’s and practical tasks and trades than today’s average school teachers do. He’ll also know right from wrong and insist on it if he’s assured that the parents will fully back him up.
Starting a school is complicated, time-consuming work and costs money, all because the bad guys want to discourage us from doing it. Starting one under the auspices of a church might be the easiest way because of the legal precedent for it. Is there a church whose doctrines aren’t anathema to you that has buildings not in use during weekdays? Some might allow teaching without preaching as long as their doctrines are not subjects for discussion. Or you might form your own church and have its school in an empty storefront or somebody’s barn or converted guest bedroom or living room. If pagans and satanists can have churches, we and other parents can find something mutually agreeable to ‘worship’, too, perhaps stated in terms with broad, vague definitions, like ‘spirit’, that we can define to meet the needs of our situation at the time.
As futurist authors have predicted, the day is coming when parents will be turned in by their own kids for hate speech. Will any of these kids be yours? If you leave them in the bad guys’ schools, yes.
Maybe they’ll get a field trip to see me hung for expressing the ideas I have included here.
Thank you for this comment. It is all on target. The Christian school in town near me is shutting down because of government regulations around… woke issues. They are refusing to comply.
I don’t know the govt rules for schools where you are — but I’m hoping there are ways around them. Is it really as straightforward as ‘teach what we say or shut down’? Or can a school just give up some govt benefits like funding and accreditation but still operate? Are there no clever non-woke lawyers or organizations to help find a way?
The horror of being forced to knowingly send your kids to a day prison to be permanently sexually and psychologically damaged is unbearable. Accepting it damages us adults, too.
It’s the government money.
They will have to go without any government money.
I live in the poorest part of NZ, so I don’t know what their plan is, or if there is a plan. They are definitely shutting down for now. I only heard about this last night.
Some number of families will homeschool, but most will not be able to do it due to work requirements.
There are extremely wealthy Christians reading this site. Maybe someone can do something. The school will close on 16 July.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.