For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
The Biden administration and the European Union might do well to understand that revolutionary and authoritarian regimes such as the Islamic Republic — as we are seeing now with Vladimir Putin’s Russian invasion if Ukraine — do not alter their malign policies through appeasement and concessions. If anything –as there are no negative consequences for unneighborly behavior, and sometimes there are even rewards — they regard appeasement and concessions as green lights and double down, go twice as bad.
Dirty voter rolls, the mass use of mail-in ballots, and privately-funded drop boxes “combined together to create an easy pass lane for fraud,” as “mules” — or ballot traffickers — trafficked thousands of ballots, likely altering the outcome of the 2020 election, True the Vote president and founder Catherine Engelbrecht told Breitbart News
The lives of Wynn Bruce and David Buckel were separated by the distance between Boulder, Colo., and New York City, and the professional gulf between a photographer who worked at a natural foods store and a pioneering lawyer.
What they held in common was a conviction that climate change poses a grave threat to society, as well as an admiration for Buddhist tenets of full commitment to a cause. Both men died by self-immolation – Mr. Buckel in 2018 and Mr. Bruce last Friday, on Earth Day. They accomplished less in death than they could have in life, family and psychologists said.
“It was a terrible mistake David made,” Terry Kaelber, his husband, said in an interview this week. But “these are two people who cared immensely about sending a message.”
Go Incognito.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is swiftly evolving into a war between Russia and NATO. In one respect, this is good: It gives Ukraine a higher chance of repelling Moscow’s invasion and even winning. In another respect, it is risky: The wider the war spreads, and the more Russia seems to be losing, the more compelled Vladimir Putin may feel to lash out with extreme violence.
This shift in the West’s approach to the war was first signaled on Monday, when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the U.S. goals in the war were not only to protect Ukraine as a democratic, sovereign country but also to “weaken” Russia as a military power. This has been obvious for some time, but even some U.S. officials were surprised to hear Austin express the fact so explicitly.
I’ll start believing we’re in a real war when Justin volunteers the Ru Paul Field Make-Up and Heels Brigade to train Ukraine’s soldiers in camo runway modelling techniques.
One quarter of Canadians believe online conspiracy theories, expert tells MPs
A quarter of Canadians believe in online conspiracy theories, an expert on radicalization and terrorism told a parliamentary committee Thursday.
David Morin, a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, said a poll conducted for an upcoming report he is preparing for the Quebec government found that 9 to 10 per cent of Canadians strongly believe in conspiracy theories, while another 15 per cent moderately believe them.
Morin told members of the public safety and national security committee that some of those who believe conspiracy theories — “but not all” — have “a sympathy towards violence.”
The four members – who all grew up in west London – volunteered to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria and ended up guarding Western hostages.
US authorities say the group beheaded 27 hostages. Videos of the murders were sent around the world, causing outrage.
Hostages also recall the group torturing with electric shocks, waterboarding and mock executions.
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has revealed how terrified the elites are of freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is the ‘dread of tyrants’. That’s how Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist, statesman and former slave, put it in his seminal 1860 speech, ‘A Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston’ – taking aim at a racist mob who had shut down an abolitionist meeting and the authorities that had refused to protect it.
The battle lines in America’s free-speech wars are very different today, as of course are the stakes. ‘Slavery cannot tolerate free speech’, thundered Douglass. He saw open discussion as the means to liberation. Today, those who might consider themselves his heirs think you can censor your way to utopia. But one thing at least remains stubbornly the same: more than 160 years later, free speech still fills the American elites with dread.
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) may go to war — not in Ukraine, but against its own members who don’t conform to a new standard of theological intolerance.
This week, the minister of national defence released the report of the Minister’s Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism and Discrimination. The panel, set up in December 2020 by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was given the “clear mandate to seek out the policies, processes and practices that enable systemic racism and discrimination in the Department of National Defence (DND) and CAF.”
Get ready for Justin’s Tranny Brigade.
Toronto police say that they will have an enhanced presence downtown this weekend as more than a dozen protests take place, including a pro-Palestinian rally that has been the site of clashes between demonstrators in the past.
Police Chief James Ramer held a news conference on Friday morning to discuss the operational planning for this weekend’s protests.
He said that some members of the public have expressed concerns in recent days about an Al-Quds Day protest planned for Saturday afternoon in the downtown core, specifically regrading the “potential for hate speech, as well as the potential for confrontation between participants and those who are opposed to the event.”
Awww. I was planning to attend today’s hate-fest but with the Police announcing they’ll be on watch I decided to stay put.
Still it will be interesting to see what if anything comes under police scrutiny as possible “hate-speech.”
Russian troops have been forced to merge and redeploy units from their “failed advances” in Ukraine’s north-east, the UK Ministry of Defence has said, as both Kyiv and Moscow deal with serious losses on the frontline in the Donbas region.
“Russia hopes to rectify issues that have previously constrained its invasion by geographically concentrating combat power, shortening supply lines and simplifying command and control,” a British military intelligence report released early on Saturday said.
“It has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units from the failed advances in north-east Ukraine. Many of these units are likely suffering from weakened morale.”
#Ukraine: Artillery fire from TDF "Azov" forces landed near a Russian tank somewhere in the East, damaging it. pic.twitter.com/qbDsNcX1qz
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 30, 2022
The Trudeau government’s “just transition” for oil and gas sector workers who lose their jobs in the Liberals’ new “green” economy was always just so much horse hockey.
But now we have proof of how much rubbish it is.
Sure, the federal Liberals made it sound as if they understood the pain their eco-fantasies were going to impose on energy-sector workers.
A sense of unease is percolating in some pockets of Twitter over concerns that Elon Musk‘s pending takeover could amplify toxic elements on the platform and drown out marginalized voices.
Musk’s US$44-billion bid to buy Twitter has spurred speculation that the tech mogul’s promises to foster “free speech” on the social network could translate into a hands-off approach to harassment.
American intelligence agencies struggled with “inconsistencies” in their analysis and “a lack of consensus” on the nature of the threat in the weeks prior to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill, says an internal Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) report.
That July 2021 briefing note — obtained by CBC News through an access to information request — also says that as CSIS pursues the threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE) in Canada, it’s dealing with many of the same challenges its U.S. counterparts faced prior to the riot.
The July 2021 briefing note includes summaries drafted by CSIS officials of the U.S. Senate’s report on the attack on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021 and the U.S. national strategy for countering domestic terrorism.
