Free speech being the hallmark of democracy, is a good thing even if it displays negative side effects from time to time. But like John Dewey put it, “the solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy.” However, that too is considered far from absolute because, like the saying goes: “You cannot shout fire in a crowded theater,” which would constitutes a flagrant abuse of the right to free speech.
So, the question to
ask is this: Has there been agreement as to how far speech can go before it
crosses the line into the realm of abuse? That would be abuse in the sense of a
speech being redundant, gratuitous and unnecessary. The answer to the question
is no, there has not been such agreement. And this gives every individual and
every institution the right to decide for themselves where to draw the line.
The French
Parliament long ago gave the speaker of the legislative assembly the right to
invoke “cloture,” which means end the debate on a given subject when he decides
that any addition to what has been said will be redundant, gratuitous and a
waste of time. Nothing has changed since that time, and the practice of free
speech remains a free for all exercise.
The situation in
America, and by extension the English speaking world, with regard to the
subject of free speech, has reached the boiling point. That’s because all of a
sudden, freedom of expression in all of its forms, has become a matter of
serious contention between the various parties, both in local politics and on
the international stage.
The conflation of
free speech and human rights, has given the group of countries calling
themselves, “free world,” a tool to intimidate the others, and a weapon to harm
them. The others did not respond as long as they were weak economically and
militarily. But when those among them, such as China and Russia, grew to become
superpowers, they started pushing back against America whom they viewed as a
bully.
Add to all this,
the influence which the Jews have on America’s domestic politics as well as its
conduct on the international stage, and you’ll begin to understand why America
is playing a losing game using swords of the double-edged kind.
Two articles,
published recently shed much light on what’s going on in that multi-sided duel.
One article came under the title: “ Evangelical Contempt for Jewish Life in
Israel Must Be Confronted,” written by Dexter Van Zile, and published on
December 20, 2021 in Algemeiner.
The other article
came under the title: “The Tyranny of the Woke,” and the subtitle: “’Thought
Police’ have cancelled speakers on campus. Students even cancel themselves over
fear of arousing the angry mob. And as is so often the case, the first victims
of this particular form of tyranny are the Jews.” It was written by Sarah N.
Stern, and published on December 23, 2021 in Jewish News Syndicate.
The Dexter Van Zile
article demonstrates how the control of the masses with the use of religion, is
a double-edged sword. It was the Republican Party cozying to the leaders of the
Evangelical movement that helped elect George W. Bush to the presidency of the
United States. Once the W stepped into the White House, he flashed his true
colors and came to be known, to the chagrin of his family and many others, as
the first Jewish President of America.
But then, look what
the research of Dexter Van Zile has unearthed. “Scholars,” says Van Zile, yes
scholars of the Evangelical movement were seized with a crisis of conscience
for the colossal error of judgment they committed when they encouraged armed
Jewish marauders from around the world to go to Palestine at the expense of
America’s taxpayers, and rob the indigenous Palestinians of the homeland that
had been theirs since the beginning of time. Never before had the two edges of
a sword been so sharp at slashing one side of the story then slashing the other
side of the same story.
The Evangelical
scholars were not the only ones to feel stabbed in the heart by the imposters
who claim to be Hebrew inheritors of Palestine because they chose to convert to
Judaism instead of Buddhism, for example, or any other religion … which they
could have just as dishonorably.
Horrified by what
the Jews have grabbed when first given a finger, the entire American population
seems to have gone up in arms as evidenced by what happens in the social media
and the campuses of higher learning. That’s where the Jewish organizations are
having a devil of a time trying to monopolize free speech while suppressing
that of others.
This is the part of
the story that’s told by Sarah Stern in her article. What follows is the most
pertinent part of her argument, shown here in condensed form:
“Today, campuses throughout the country are
proliferated by swastikas and where the freedom of speech and assembly of
students with a pro-Israel perspective are suppressed. Take, for example, what
happened recently at Duke University when the student group supporting Israel
was the one organization denied recognition by its student government. Its
attempts to educate other student groups were drowned out by the loud,
cacophonous voices of the woke”.
What this passage
shows is that despite what the fake polls are showing, the overwhelming
majority of the American people woke up to the reality that their political
leaders have been prostituting themselves and the country to a handful of
Jewish hypnotists who now fight to subdue academia, the last bastion of freedom
in America.
The non-Jewish
students who saw the Jews monopolize the lecturer’s platform for half a
century, are saying to the Jews: You’ve been here for too long already and so, it
is cloture time for you guys.