You Have a Right to Silence – Use It
The sad fact is that citizens can no longer trust the police.
The sad fact is that citizens can no longer trust the police.
Critical Race Theory is an example of a left-wing movement that aims to take over institutions and use them to advance a left-wing agenda. (And Critical Race Theorists might make the very same argument in reverse.)
The lesson for all of us is that if we do not regularly but peacefully exercise our First Amendment guarantees we will definitely lose them, regardless of who is in power.
‘Your greatest ever prime minister proved more than equal to the task of defeating his political enemies through ‘more speech’ rather than ‘enforced silence’. Trump and the other leaders of insurgent, populist parties would do well to follow the same path.’
Censorship is narrow-minded. It’s shortsighted. Yes, it’s a natural impulse to ideas we find abhorrent. But it’s through calling them out that progress is made, not by cancelling them.
The AHRC wants censorship so they can save ‘free expression’.
Now, the primal roar of legacy media echoes throughout the left wing, co-opting the slogan of free expression...
At this very moment, politicians will be writing legislation that further empowers and emboldens police and the government to engage in state-sanctioned violence and further erode freedom of expression and civil liberties.
Whether or not speech is ‘hate’ speech is totally subjective. What is one man’s hate is another man’s sensible observation.
The conduct of Charlie Kirk before his assassination, and the likes of Israel and Maria Folau, give us a good idea of how we should respond to the increasing challenges in society.
If someone does not share these values, that is their right. But it is not their right to dictate how I live my beliefs, nor to threaten or intimidate me into silence.
Look, nobody’s stopping Sam Stubbs from yapping. He can rant about Kirk all day, every day. That’s the beauty of free speech in a free country like ours.
Is celebrating a political assassination is a breach of basic decency and in conflict with the aims of the union he is set to lead? What should the limits of free speech be in positions of responsibility and employment?
Let this tragedy not be in vain. Let it be the impetus for a better way forward.
Debate is inefficient, messy, and noisy – but replacing speech with political violence risks shredding the fabric of society, and suppressing truth itself.