The Winners of Three Copies Of Free Speech under Attack Are…

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December 1, 2021 . 8:15 AM

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Last Month we ran another fantastic giveaway for our members and today we are announcing the winners.

The prizes are three copies of Free Speech Under Attack by Peter Cresswell, Jeremy Fisher, David Round, Robert Stanmore and Tim Wikiriwhi.

Today we are giving away three copies to three lucky BFD members.

We used an online random number generator to select the winners from our membership base and we will contact the winners via e-mail as well as announcing their names here.

There is one book for Basic and Bronze members, one for Silver members and one for Gold and Platinum members.

Thanks for all your support, we couldn’t do what we do without our members.

The Basic /Bronze membership winner is joe-banana
The Silver Membership winner is hexfish
The Gold/ Platinum winner is charlie59

Summary

This book explains the struggle for free speech in England over several centuries and how it was an established right by the time that British law came to New Zealand in 1840.

In the 21st century new forces have arisen to try to limit free speech on the grounds that certain statements might offend minorities. In fact, offending people is one of the by-products of free speech and is no argument for restricting it.

The current moves to limit free speech on such spurious grounds as “religious hate speech” are the work of power elites whose eventual aim is to limit, if not altogether abolish, the right to criticise powerful minorities and indeed Authority itself.

In recent years there have already been too many encroachments on free speech by the misnamed Human Rights Act 1993 and the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 – all part of a step-by-step erosion of this ancient and necessary right. This book is a useful, informative and powerful exposition of this supremely important issue.