It’s troubling how willingly some societies will forsake civil liberties in the name of a purportedly greater or more urgent cause.
Because there are very few, if any, really, in a liberal democracy which eclipse precious rights of freedom of speech, assembly and beliefs. Even what most of us might condemn as outrageous expression or heretical — hateful — ideologies.
Governments wade into the murky end of the suppressing pool at our peril. And they’re never more baleful than when cloaking themselves in virtue — by way of shielding us from what they’ve decreed to be harmful.
