Two cases crossed my desk in the last 24 hours, and another is ever present.
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff dared state in a private meeting that Mohammed, having married a 9 year old girl, "had a thing for little girls."
She was tried without jury and by a lone judge, who found her guilty of "denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion", and faces 60 days in prison.
Yup - y'know, those overcrowded taxpayer-funded holding centres need another inmate on account of her expressing accurate but "unacceptable" views.
Case #2 - I'm behind the times - but Miss California (Carrie Prejean) was directly asked on a public TV show what she thought of homosexual "marriage".
Taken by surprise by the unexpected question on a highly controversial topic, she answered with great grace and dignity :
we live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think that it should be between a man and a woman.Remember that in Marxist ideology, anything that advances "the cause" is moral; anything that hinders it is "immoral".
Accordingly, Miss California was targetted on public TV and in other media by high-profile media personalities and subjected to venomous hateful insults and accusations.
But remember - she's the one guilty of "hate speech".
Y'know, Perez Hilton calling her a "dumb bitch" and a "cunt" is not hate speech.
News anchor Giuliana Rancic called her "an ignorant disgrace" and said "she makes me sick to my stomach".
All for politely answering a loaded question by saying "you can believe whatever you want, but since you've asked my belief, I happen to believe xyz".
Clearly, to the Socialist clergy, "hate speech" is what they do - they hate speech.
They love propoganda.
But they hate speech.
Toe the "politically correct" line (i.e. the line that they made the politically correct line over decades - not any line that was politically correct say 100 years ago).
Or else you're a hateful bitch. Or bastard, doubtless, as the case may be.
Methinks, Hitlon, thou speakest of thyself.
Case #3 is of course the ever-present sea of pornography all around us.
We should embrace and celebrate it, apparently, because it represents "free speech".
Hmmm.
Last I knew, "speech" consisted of propositional communication.
I make a claim. You analyse it, and present flaws and/or counterclaims, ideally with evidence (although with Socialists, "what we believe is right" is sufficient evidence in most cases).
Much like what I'm doing here. Propositional communication.
My proposition is simple : Socialists hate speech. They hate it. They love propoganda - anything that enshrines their cause - but they hate speech.
And pornography is actually yet another example.
Supposedly we who oppose pornography in any significant way are blocking "freedom of speech".
That's as stupid as saying that if I get someone's permission to cut them into cubes with a chainsaw in full public view in Times Square, New York (taking said person from the land of the living to the land of the very dead) that to oppose me is to oppose "free speech".
"What a stupid example" I hear, because, after all, any claim and any story that doesn't toe the politically correct line is by definition "stupid" at best, and "hateful" if by any ridiculous stretch of the imagination one can deem it so.
But no, it is the stupid Socialists who are stupid. And the non-Socialists who fall in line who are even stupider - hence this article - let's awake from our stupour and unstupidify ourselves.
But enough stupid wordplay.
The point is, an act or display that is non-propositional, is not speech.
And so Socialists, championing pornography in the guise of "free speech", prove once again that they hate speech.
Or else I could justify any act of cruelty, violence, or even terrorism, in the name of "free speech".
Speech is propositional.
Socialism is propogandistic.
So they're not exactly best friends.
Sure, Socialism uses speech extensively. Because speech has power.
But try speaking against the Approved Beliefs. Not Halal.
Y'see, speech has power, but you must not use speech against Socialism. By Marxist definition, that would be immoral.
And in the meantime, we'll use "hate speech" laws to shut you up if you dare try.
Speech indeed is powerful.
Which is why little micro-speech sites like this shake the world. Y'know, "the pen is mightier than the sword", and all that jazz.
And which is precisely why those who hate speech, codify their hatred of speech in "hate speech" laws.
But Truth has a habit of remaining true, no matter how many people assert otherwise.
Which means by definition, Truth won't go away, no matter how many hate speech laws we create, and no matter how many Elisabeths and Carries we throw in prison or under the bus.
Your mission - nay, your responsibility, whether or not you choose to accept it, has always been the same : find Truth, live it, love it, and tell it.
If I don't see you in prison (or under the bus), it'll be because you spoke up and God had mercy, or else because you stayed silent and I went there without you.
But the nature of war is this : the battle will always come to you.
Always.
So you either step up and engage where the fighting's hot now.
Or it comes to you, and interferes with your "quiet life" some time from now.
Or if in God's mercy, it never gets that far, shame on those who slumbered whilst the battle raged.
Speak now.
Speak wisely.
Speak boldly.
Speak strategically.
Speak with love, gentleness, kindness, compassion, firmness, precision, bluntness, and even anger, mockery, scorn, ridicule and jest as befits the occasion.
Speak. Your enemies will not be silent.
Speak, 'til the tide is turned, and then some, 'til the tide is far retreated, and then some more, until civilisation is established where once there was sea.
Or speak until you are silenced, and not just with legal threats, confiscation, imprisonment, harrassment, threats, and physical harm, but until your tongue and your pen are silenced.
And then write with your foot.
And speak on and on whilst you have breath.
For speech is powerful. And those who hate speech want to silence it.
Love speech.
And use it.
