Our own freedom on the line
ANYONE who values freedom needs to take notice of just how many of our freedoms are under attack.
And the most telling fact is that those pushing hardest for freedoms to be stripped away are from the leftside of the political spectrum.
Fascism is defined as “radical authoritarian nationalism, characterised by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce...”
Take out the “nationalism” part – because many of the left don’t seem to support overt displays of patriotism – and you can see the real people wanting to exert total control are not the Donald Trumps, Cory Bernardis and Pauline Hansons of the world, it’s those who most loudly profess their hatred of them.
Do you see people rioting in the streets to push conservative views?
Do gangs of conservative thugs threaten venues hosting left-wing speakers? Do right-wing rent-acrowds try to intimidate left-wingers and assault them?
Do meat-eaters gather at vegan restaurants to denounce veganism?
The answer to all these questions is a resounding “no”.
During the same-sex marriage plebiscite lead-up, public supporters of the “no” campaign endured physical attacks by “yes” supporters.
In America, Trump supporters were routinely assaulted by the antiTrump crowd.
In England last month, two foreigners were arrested, jailed and deported because they’d simply made comments online critical of mass importation of so-called refugees.
Another was denied entry because she’d posted a video of Muslims’ reaction to an “Allah is gay” sign.
Conservative American commentator Thomas Sowell is quoted as saying: “What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying they don’t like something to saying the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.”
The eternal outrage industry is so virulent that it will not stop until ideological opponents are cowed into submission by force of law.
In Australia we’ve had vegans ambush a steak restaurant in Melbourne.
We’ve had animal liberationists trespass on to pig and chicken farms, and blockade truckies hauling loads of cattle bound for abattoirs.
In Canada, vegans spent three whole months hounding a venison restaurant.
In the UK – fast overtaking Canada as a basket case of politically correct lunacy – animal activists made such serious physical threats against organisers of a town’s annual sheep races that the event has been scrapped after nearly 30 years.
Anti-coal protesters aren’t content with voicing disapproval, they’ll trespass and sabotage coal machinery.
They’ll threaten companies with boycotting campaigns to starve them of vital funds and customers.
This scurrilous pressure has resulted in banks and stockbrokers changing their whole business plans to appease these eco-terrorists.
We’ve also lost grid girls from Formula 1 and sporting bodies have caved in to bullying and allowed transgender men to play women’s sports.
Golliwog dolls are shameful, asking someone where they’re from is a “microaggression”, and the freedom to not support gay marriage is under threat from ideological stormtroopers intent on outlawing opposition.
Such stormtroopers even want climate-change sceptics jailed.
Instead of just not liking guns, there’s a concerted effort to ban them.
After Facebook this year changed its “algorithm”, conservative news sites reported stunning drops in traffic as their content simply disappeared from people’s newsfeeds. So who’s looking like fascists? Then we get to speech. When you even have journalists advocating limits on speech – as some do – you know the tentacles of left-wing totalitarianism are long, numerous and tireless.
Everyone who believes in freedom – with personal responsibility – has a duty to demand politicians show some backbone, to vote for politicians who do stand up to the stormtroopers (hint: not the Greens), to write letters to newspapers and to join groups of like-minded people.
Most people laugh at calls to ban things, but one day that thing does get banned and everyone wonders how.
It happens because people do nothing about it, but that can change.