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July 12, 2016 — xanthippaKlara Samkova in Czech Parliament: Should We Fear Islam?
May 25, 2016 — xanthippaIt is interesting that we don’t hear our politicians speak like this, is it not?
Aside: it took me two days to translate, because even though I had the text and two other translations to work from, she wanders off the script and the arguments were not in the pre-prepared official text. And the audio is terrible, especially when people are talking over each other.
I raise this point because I found it extremely interesting that after the Turkish Ambassador and some other notable guests had walked out in protest against what JuDr. Klara Samkova was saying, the moderator DID shut her down.
And he said that what she was saying is beyond ‘opinion’ and is, rather, ‘propaganda’.
Even though she has facts to back up everything she says…
Had it not been for the strong push-back from the audience, that brave lady standing up to the moderator and demanding to know who made him the authority to decide on what is or is not propaganda, she would not have been able to finish her speech.
She would also not have been permitted to finish had the other panelists convinced the moderator that if she were not permitted to deliver the rest of her speech, it would appear to be censorship and would be bad optics…
Even so, she was instructed to tone down her rhetoric before continuing – and, indeed, she did do that. Which is when she frequently deviated from the official text…
Valerie Price at the Essentials of Freedom conference in Edmonton, Canada, February 2016
March 22, 2016 — xanthippaAlexandra Belaire at the Essentials of Freedom conference in Edmonton, Canada, February 2016
March 22, 2016 — xanthippaGeert Wilders’ opening statement in court on thought and speech crimes charges
March 21, 2016 — xanthippa
Did you catch that bit? The one where the only judge who criticized publicly a former court decision in Geert’s favour is now one of the three judges he faces in this case?
And that does not even scratch the surface of the selective enforcement of the law when it comes to the prosecution…
The rule of law in Western Europe is done, gone, lost… Let’s hope not for ever, but I’m not holding my breath!
EDIT: CodeSlinger has made a most excellent comment which I would like to add into the text of this post in its entirety:
Xanthippa:
Geert Wilders deserves our utmost respect. He is a man of courage and integrity. He stands before a court that has the power to impose severe penalties on him, and he rebukes them:
“Freedom of speech is the only freedom I still have. And, forgive me, I will never give it up. So I stand here again. And I honestly think it is a disgrace that I have to stand here.”
And he is right. It is a disgrace.
However, the disgrace is not that the rule of law has broken down, but that it has become absolute.
The disgrace is that the law has broken free of all moral restraint and lost all contact with the ideas of right and wrong.
The disgrace is that the concept of crime has become divorced from the concept of sin.
Consequently, the law has become an instrument of oppression.
Ask a typical Westerner to define right and wrong, and you will get back definitions of legal and illegal. You will hear that rules of conduct are established by decree or consensus, and whatever is against the rules is wrong.
But this is exactly backwards. Right and wrong cannot be determined by decree or consensus.
Just as rights are inherent in our nature, so are wrongs.
A religious man would say these things are given by God.
But the crucial realisation is that these things are not given by man.
Once we lose sight of that truth, the perversion of the rule of law – as epitomized by the persecution of Geert Wilders – is inevitable.
But it is not limited to Europe. It is rampant everywhere in the West.
Indeed, CodeSlinger, indeed!
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