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The Blood of Martyrs Is the Price of Religious Freedom
Donald Trump mercatornet.com President Trump has issued an official proclamation for the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket The martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170 is a landmark in English history. During the Middle Ages, until it was destroyed by agents of Henry
The End of Western Democracy
Western democracy, on life support for quite some time, finally died this week when supporters of US President Donald Trump “stormed” the Capitol in Washington, DC. We know it is dead, not because of the actions of President Trump or his supporters, but because reaction against them has finally borne
Amazon Shuts off Parler’s Servers Midnight Sunday
John Matze Founder/CEO of Parler and iPhone developer. Interested in friendly discourse. Las Vegas | Dad The media tried to claim that “The Insurrection” was organized on Parler. There are quite a few problems with this. 1) Parler has no way to organize anything, Facebook groups were used heavily to
Will You Help Us Secure a Better Future?
With the latest developments in the U.S. and the willingness of Big Tech to silence conservative voices, we have been forced to have a good long look at the roadmap for the continued development of The BFD. Given Big Tech’s assault on freedom, I’ve selected a few
Advancing Time
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com When one of those so-called personal digital assistants started to babble the other day I cursed it and told it to “shut the f**k up.” That is when it happened, to my surprise the damn thing told me something to the effect, “I may
What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. Section 230 simply says that only internet users are responsible for what they write, not the private companies whose websites host the commenters. In 2020,
Big Tech Launches Massive Coordinated Cyber Attack on 74,000,000 Trump Voters — GOP Silent
Cassandra Fairbanks thegatewaypundit.com On Friday, Twitter permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters and prominent allies — before banning the president himself. Nearly every account that helped to promote the Stop the Steal rallies or challenge the election results were banned, including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike
NZ Police Launch Social Media Snitch Unit
‘Trust us, we know what we’re doing’ is, sadly, not a motto that sits comfortably in the perception of NZ Police by the general public; think more, ‘Heavy-handedness is our thing’. So when the NZ Herald announced front-page on the 29th of December that police had set up a
Moko-Woko Triggered by Too Much Inclusion
It should be quite apparent to anyone with a functioning brain that the whole point of political correctness and woke-ness is not to actually make any positive contribution to society, it’s to exercise power. The whole worldview of the post-Marxists is predicated on one key tenet: power. There is
The Dictator’s Temptation and the Tyrant’s Technique
Bruce Logan The Prime Minister, in the wake of the Royal Commission report on the Christchurch terror attack, would have us believe that hate speech legislation will protect Islam and other minorities from racial and religious disharmony. There is a worm at the root. Hate speech law must always have
Hate Speech Laws Are Attacks on Democracy, Free Speech
Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com It is clear from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch massacre that Brenton Tarrant had easy access to a firearms licence. The police failed abysmally in their duty to prevent semi-automatic weapons and ammunition from getting into the hands of a psychopath. In
“Catholics Are Right about Birth Control”
There was a piece of spray-painted graffiti I used to pass by regularly in Wellington, in the car park of a building on Tory St. It was a play on the words of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and proclaimed “We will never be free until the last politician is
Brand Activism Is Moving up the Supply Chain
Sommer Kapitan Jessica Vredenburg Auckland University of Technology Amanda Spry RMIT University Joya Kemper When New Zealand digital media giant Stuff stopped using Facebook as an advertising partner in July this year, it joined the ranks of other openly activist brands. But it also showed how brand activism is moving