The Irish government has declared that they are planning to severely limit the freedom of all five million citizens “for the greater good of humanity.”
According to Green Party chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly, the government must crack down on free speech and censor users who view non-mainstream content online.
Her comments are part of the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. This new law criminalizes “incitement to violence or hatred against” people with “protected characteristics,” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”
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Zerohedge.com reports: 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.”
The anti-free speech movement has become openly Orwellian in claiming to protect freedom by limiting freedom. It also employs using terms like disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation to obscure their effort to silence those with opposing views. Rather than use “censorship,” they refer to “content moderation.”
That effort was on full display this week in Ireland with this anti-free speech legislation.
Speaking before the Irish Senate (Seanad) this week, Green Party chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly declared “when one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”
It is the same message of New York democrats calling for limiting speech as a way of protecting democracy. Indeed, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has declared free speech is “tyranny.”
O’Reilly assured citizens that giving up freedom was nothing new or threatening:“Throughout our Constitution one can see that while one has rights they are restricted for the common good. Everything needs to be balanced.”
What is particularly chilling is how low the threshold is for denying free speech, according to O’Reilly. It now appears that “deep discomfort” is enough:
“If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good.”
What is interesting is that O’Reilly admits that there is nothing new about hateful views but it is time to clear out such voices: “Social media has fuelled hatred but it has also put on display for all of us the dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society. That hatred has always existed.” Of course, she and the majority will determine what views create “deep discomfort.”
The Irish legislation is likely to be replicated around the world if the free speech community cannot hold the line against the anti-free speech movement. It is part of an unrelenting movement in Europe, particularly by the European Union, to rollback Western free speech values that once defined countries.
We have been discussing efforts by figures like Hillary Clinton to enlist European countries to force Twitter to restore censorship rules. Unable to rely on corporate censorship or convince users to embrace censorship, Clinton and others are resorting to good old-fashioned state censorship, even asking other countries to censor the speech of American citizens.
Ireland now stands on the precipice of freedom. The embrace of such laws by the Irish is crushingly ironic. Frank Ryan, who fought against the treaty, spoke for many radicals in declaring “as long as we have fists and boots, there will be no free speech for traitors.” Those anti-Treaty forces rejected the views of free speech that long defined Western nations. Now, Ireland is declaring “no free speech for haters” and assumes the authority to define who are haters and who are not.
Yes good old Saint Pats the birth place of education for Catholics.
Planted his rod and created a mighty tree.
England never managed to conquer that little norther corner The greatest empire the world has ever seen and they couldn’t conquer a corner deli. Very odd .
If bureaucrats are cracking down on people who “cause such deep discomfort that people cannot live in peace” THEY NEED TO START WITH THEMSELVES.
They need to start with “Anonymous”. LMAO!!!
Aren’t you such aittle suckhole. And you’ve been laughing your flapping arsehole off so much on sites all over the place for so long you must be totally full of it now.
Government creates the pandemics, government creates the violence with agencies like FBI , CIA, and Pentagon.
Government is treasonous. We need to arrest them and have trials for treason. These people work for Klaus Schwab and globalists.
No they don’t Government’s do what they’re told by their advisors who invariably are people who studied yo be priests in their youth or are members of secret societies as are their parents and grand parents etc. And people like Schwab and Soros are too you can bet
Women are insane and must be controlled. The middle east has this point absolutely correct!!
I agree 100% We have an epidemic of unhinged females worldwide. The 19th amendment should also be repealed. The female vote has done a lot of damage to the Republic.
Don’t be so stupid as usual. Women have ruled the world for centuries from Cleopatras(and there were 7) to Queen Elizabeth the second And she kept her mum on in official capacity as advisor actually the first Monarch ever to do so because she knew mummy really ran the show before her Coronation too.
Your un hinged. Your so ignorant you’d be more of a liabiry to the republic than any assert to anyone of any party
“Your so ignorant” says the imbecile who doesn’t knoooow the diffrence between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’….Deeeeeeeeeeeeerp
Once again you use the incorrect “your” instead of the correct “you’re” Learn what a contraction is you brain dead moron.
Your deceived. For a start in the middle East under Islam is where women first became legally empowered Women there could legally own property whilst Western Catholic women had to surrender any they had to their husband. Women seem to be oppressed in the mefia to you because nothing is what it seems. You don’t understand. You don’t need anything about the middle East except what msm tell you.
You don’t know I typed not need.
Dumbas usual Stupid school yard comment any normal person would expect from some brat school kid from a disfunctional home. Was your mummy a runaway drug addicted sex worker?
Who will be first to go to jail? Gemma O´Dgherty or Keith Woods?
When someone tells you taking away your rights, or forcing anything upon you is for your own good – RUN. In reality, it’s the worst thing for you & they’re lying to get people to conform & accept it. NEVER surrender your freedom/liberty & remember – no one has the right/authority to take away your God-given rights.
You only have those rights when your not an abomination in God’s eyes. And since most so called Christians have trusted the Church’s or Hollywood or TV or the Internet to tell them what God said they’re deceived totally and dont even know it. Eg read Corinthians around sections 7,8,9 and ask yourself how many “Christians” aren’t actually filthy fornicators in God’s eyes Remeber he says straight out in plain English, it’s best for man to never touch a woman . And revelations says the first fruits the first to be saved are male virgins because they have never been defiled by women.
No-one has ever been able to define just what “the common good” is. “Some are more equal than others”. Orwell was more far-sighted than Nostrodamus.
This is what rhe article isn’t telling you.
we are quite entitled to feel that we have been let down for generations by the Catholic Church, because we have been.”
That’s what she’s opposing.
She said “I think it’s important to point out, those who have been heckling others today, and those who have been defending the Catholic Church, and saying that the Catholic Church has a right to be involved in healthcare are anti-choice”.
So they showed her.Look even the British empire couldn’t conquer them
She said “The whole point of this is that the government is in a difficult position, and probably successive governments have been in a difficult position, because fundamentally our schools, our hospitals, they have been under religious control for so long that it is very much part of the legal basis upon which they are founded. “
Heres what she’s talking about Follow the link
“Senator Pauline O’Reilly Call’s on the Catholic Church to do the Decent Thing and Gift the Land to the State.”
That’s the freedom of speech she’s about and this article is totally misleading.
Once again we have a thread filled with the nonsensical ramblings of “Anonymous the pedophile. He continuously engages in name calling with poor grammar and spelling. I’ve been trying to block this clown for about a year now with no success.