This Is Where We Are Headed Towards
Our cousins the Brits are now living in a Nanny State, and a State in which Political Correctness has overcome the Freedom of Speech. And the people know it too.
This is not just scary, this is Orwellian scary. And what makes it the most frightening is, this is the direction our country is head towards. You can see the trend, Hate Speech laws in Congress, words like "family values" and "marriage" are considered discriminatory in Oakland, a Senator was crucified in the press for saying "manaca", a Florida State Representative was hounded for saying "Illegal Aliens", just look around you and you can find examples of our Freedom of Speech being vilified and even against the law. Unless the American people themselves do something about this totalitarian trend, we are going to end up like our British cousins, afraid to voice our opinions or say anything that may be construed as "Hate Speech".
Mr Minority
(CNSNews.com) - Only one-third of respondents in a new survey of British adults believe free speech exists in their country, and only one in five believe that they can safely voice their opinion on a sensitive issue.
"We supposedly live in a truly democratic society where freedom of speech is a fundamental right enjoyed by everyone," friction.tv Chief Marketing Officer Andy West said in a press release. "However these survey results have shown rather powerfully that most adults in the U.K. feel that this is not the case."
West added, "We live in such a politically correct society that people don't know what they can and can't say anymore and there is a constant fear that if you go against the grain, you'll be vilified by your peers."
Sally McNamara, a senior policy analyst in European Affairs for the Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, blamed recent British policy.
"The government's role in any free society is to ensure the safety of its citizenry and pursue policies that guarantee basic rights for all law-abiding people," she told Cybercast News Service on Monday. "This has been taken to the extreme; legislating against language, behavior, etc."
This is not just scary, this is Orwellian scary. And what makes it the most frightening is, this is the direction our country is head towards. You can see the trend, Hate Speech laws in Congress, words like "family values" and "marriage" are considered discriminatory in Oakland, a Senator was crucified in the press for saying "manaca", a Florida State Representative was hounded for saying "Illegal Aliens", just look around you and you can find examples of our Freedom of Speech being vilified and even against the law. Unless the American people themselves do something about this totalitarian trend, we are going to end up like our British cousins, afraid to voice our opinions or say anything that may be construed as "Hate Speech".
Mr Minority
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