Transcript (includes speeches from ACT, Labour and Green MPs). With support from just ACT and National, the Education and Training (Freedom of Expression) Amendment Bill was defeated. https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/mp-simon-o-connor-a-fine-speech-about-free-speech National MP Simon O’Connor is dead right
As Lauren Southern points out in her book, Barbarians, the Long March through the Institutions is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a conspiracy fact. We know it for a fact because Marxist theorists in the late 60s told us what they were going to do, and how. They planned
One of the most powerful tools of the Communists was denunciation. Survivors describe the process as “terrifying”. Imagine: mobs of your neighbours, co-workers, even friends and family, screaming abuse, spitting on you, beating you. Many were killed by the unhinged mobs. Whole populations lived in terror of denunciation: in
Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ottawa University and the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University, and obtained his BS from Southeast Missouri State University. His research interest
In a key scene in Citizen Kane, an outraged financial adviser warns Kane that his recently-purchased newspaper lost a million dollars in the last year. Kane replies mirthfully that he expects to lose a million next year, too. “At the rate of a million a year we’ll have
The Looking Glass thelookingglass.co.nz This article was first published at The Looking Glass and is republished here with permission. Warning Long Read. 3307 words. ‘Dangerous speech’, especially speech from those opposed to or negatively affected by the Government’s covid response who protested at Parliament earlier this year,
Joseph Vazquez newsbusters.org Joseph is the MRC Assistant Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. In June 2019, he completed an exclusive fellowship with the Hertog Foundation, where he participated in
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When you live, as we do, in a Clown World, the line between satire and reality is hopelessly blurred. We need only read a Babylon Bee article, and watch it become actual news within the week, to know that. Just to drive the point home, “fact checkers” have felt it
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practising attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games and spending time with her cats. All eyes will be on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas now that the Texas
Jose Nino mises.org Jose Nino is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. Politicians thoroughly enjoy times of war. Periods of bellicosity are when the most power-hungry members of the political class indulge in their most depraved political fantasies. The Russo-Ukrainian War has been no exception to
John W. Whitehead Nisha Whitehead rutherford.org Constitutional attorney and author John W Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His books Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State are available at www.amazon.com. Warning Long
8wire 8wire.news Information Opinion The girls at femmo propaganda rag ‘Stuff’ have willingly signed up for the B Corp movement. B Corp is an organization that issues a wokeness certificate to any company wishing to leverage it as a marketing or virtue signalling tool. It measures things such as
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Any doubt that many progressives have abandoned their commitment to free speech was erased by the hysterical reaction to Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter and return the company to its roots as a free speech zone. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and “woke” neocon
Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly what is happening. In an interview on CNN’s State of The Union, anchor Dana Bash asked DHS [United States Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro
In the latest of her Please Explain cartoons, Pauline Hanson tackles the keyboard warriors. As the class tries to enter the room to hold a debate, they’re blocked by three keyboard warriors, who accuse them of hurting their feelings. Hanson ultimately shows the class that they can simply walk
