The withering of Free Speech


	The withering of Free Speech

Antara

10-12-2009 10:25 PM

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Ireland's ridiculous 'Blasphemy law' goes into effect this month

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6cc5730c-caf1-48bb-987d-3b2c3f1045ba/B4E37E2F-C056-421F-B476-72C053BB76C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html" style="font-size: 11px;">gatesofvienna.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html"><DIV>Mark Steyn’s brief essay yesterday on NRO <A href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmE0ZDMxZWNlYTczOTRiYjUxN2I0Y2JhZTA0MWQzYzQ=" target="_blank">concerns</A> the “withering of free speech”.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html"><DIV>That’s an accurate way to describe the slow motion death of freedom of expression. What is happening to our public talk and writing and art has a further consequence: the withering and eventual cessation of free <I>thought</I>. The zeitgeist has made it increasingly difficult to “go there” - choose your own forbidden zone - even in the privacy of one’s own heart.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html"><DIV>The purportedly well-intentioned establishment of such tribunals as Canada’s speech “commission” is an alarming signpost on the road to hell. Ordinary people begin to self-censor simply to avoid the enormously destructive consequences of simply speaking. Yet the persecutors prove to be even more corrupt than those they would silence.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html">Having read parts of the Lisbon Treaty, I fear for Europeans when it is finally in full force. Free speech will not “wither” then, it will be beaten into bloody silence by a soviet mentality</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-steyn-on-withering-of-free-speech.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vWgTw0h6jqY&hl=en&fs=1&" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B4E37E2F-C056-421F-B476-72C053BB76C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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