Laurie Calhoon breaks down the attacks on free speech in her latest article.
"Now, there has always been government control of wartime narratives, said to be necessitated by national defense, or the safeguarding of democracy itself. During wartime, people who speak out in defiance of the government are typically denigrated as enemy sympathizers, if not traitors. Preposterously enough, profoundly undemocratic policies, such as the conscription of young men to don uniforms and fight against their will for causes which they do not regard as worthy of the sacrifice of their life, are sometimes championed by the leaders of otherwise democratic states during wartime. This self-contradiction arises because the government portrays every military conflict in which it engages as exceptional in the sense that the very existence of the state is allegedly at issue. The urgency and peril of the situation are claimed to necessitate extraordinary measures, above all, the restriction of citizens’ liberty in exchange for security."
On COVID:
Yeah, this hits me in the gut.
It's a good reminder that everyone has a little authoritarian inside them, just waiting for the right circumstances to come out. Even the supposedly free-thinking scientifically minded people, who I felt very betrayed by during COVID.
My mother-in-law recently launched into a whole thing about how unfairly maligned Fauci is. This outburst was a complete tangent to the conversation that had been going on.
Something broke these people's brains and I think some are just not going to recover.
Perhaps the jab broke their brains. It is breaking almost every other part of their bodies, so why not their brains. Their reasoning left them because of the mass media indoctrination. What can they do? They will not awaken when shaken.
It was TDS that broke her brain.
Ohhh............. we are seeing a lot of that lately on the internet!
It is hard to see how these people even survive in the wilderness of society! Protect 'our' democracy by muzzling everybody, except us. Stop the spread of speaking truth to power! The 'majority' gets to stampede over the 'minority' rights. Take away all responsibilities to guarantee freedom. How can they deceive themselves through such untrue nonsense? Only open and free speech can solve the problems by working out the differences.
Some even claim that we should destroy free speech in the name of “democracy.” We live under a police state regime that interferes in everything in people's lives