Free Speech Has Died in Europe - Are we that far off?

[Jim]

 
Police Across Germany Raid Homes of People Who Posted Offensive Comments Online
 
It should be absolutely apparent that free speech is dead in Europe, if it ever existed at all. While a man in Scotland faces a year in prison for an offensive YouTube video and British police scour social media for xenophobic responses to terror attacks, things are not much better on the mainland.
 
 

Today, German police conducted nationwide raids on citizens who posted offensive comments or participated in online “hate groups.” This is the second annual day of action against “hate posting.”
 
Twenty-three police departments were deployed across 14 german states, to enter the homes of 36 suspected hate posters and confiscate their internet connected devices, according to a press release from the German ferderal police (BKA).
 
Police apparently focused on political hate speech, and moved against two leftwingers and one from the Reichsbürger movement, a group that believes the current German government is illegitimate.
 
According to Abendzeitung, police arrived at one man’s house in Munich at 6am and confiscated two of his cell phones. The 23-year-old was accused of commenting that gays should hang themselves underneath a Facebook photo of two men kissing.
 
In Berlin, police raided the homes of nine suspects, confiscating their laptops and cell phones.
 
Germans can receive up to 5 years in prison for “hate posting.”
 
 
https://heatst.com/world/police-raids-across-germany-for-people-who-posted-offensive-comments-online/
 

[stretch351c]

I doubt it. Those trying to shut down free speech here have forgotten who it was that founded this country.

[Truman62]

No, we are NOT PC anymore.

We can call the President a fat, slovenly, idiotic LIAR, if we want to.
Besides, it's all true. 

[bhsgrad1972]

And WE can refer to Nancy Pelosi as THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST COAST!!

THAT is true!!

[jst-the-fax]

So I can't say fuc* them muzzie heathens in Britain and Germany? Glad I don't live there!

[Truman62]

So I can say fuc* you Deplorables, since you are DESTROYING America with your lies and actions.

[darkflower]

That is a sad state of affairs. Condemning offensive speech is one thing, but it should never be punished or prohibited. A free society requires it be allowed.

[Jim]

So I can say fuc* you Deplorables, since you are DESTROYING America with your lies and actions.
 
Do you know the difference between wanting to "Fundamentally Change" that which you claim to love, and wanting to Make her Great again?
No - you don't. We know who tried destroying her.
 

[Truman62]

You Deplorables have already relinquished our leadership role.
YOU idiots put a lying, cheating idiot in charge.
You want to pollute America.
You want to make women second class citizens.
You want to bring back the Robber Barons.
After all the progress we made in science, you want to make us idiots.
You want to bring back the Religious fanaticism of the 1500's.
You want to make us an agricultural nation, probably with slavery.
You want to deny the poor and destitute charity, welfare and medical care.
You want to destroy America's public education system.
You will destroy America's middle class.
You will make America a Third World nation again.
Such a terrible, terrible waste.
 

[Truman62]

Even Bernie agrees with me!

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said the United States has been slipping toward
authoritarianism under President Trump and that citizens have an “enormous
obligation” to protect American freedom.

“Under President Trump, our country is moving in an authoritarian direction
and the very nature of American democracy is under attack,” Sanders said at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace headquarters in Washington,
D.C.

Everybody KNOWS that Bernie is a straight shooter, unlike Fat Frump who LIES
All the time!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-democracy-attack-sanders-urges-vigilance-trumps-authoritarianism-180536908.html

In Sanders’ assessment, no other president in U.S. history has told as many
“outrageous and blatant lies” as Donald Trump has — to delegitimize the
country’s electoral system.

[Dan]

Fat Fravik says PC is no more.  Has he not been to a college campus lately?  Has he not watched a television show?  Has he not listened to a newscast?

You Deplorables have already relinquished our leadership role.

You Snowflakes have already relinquished our leadership role.  We deplorables restored it.

YOU put a lying, cheating idiot in charge.

No, we did not put Obama in charge.  YOU did!

You want to pollute America.

LOL!  See people?  This is how delusional the libs have become.

You want to make women second class citizens.

Yeah, that's it.  You found us out.

You want to bring back the Robber Barons.

Do you even know what a "Robber Baron" was?  What do you think your liberal buddies, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Elon Musk are?

After all the progress we made in science, you want to make us idiots.

LOL!  No.  YOU depend on people being idiots so you can sell your destructive agenda.

You want to bring back the Religious fanaticism of the 1500's.

Who said that?

You want to make us an agricultural nation, probably with slavery.

Yeah, that's right.  I want to work out in the fields rather than in a climate controlled office.  And the new slaves won't be Africans.  They will be liberals.  Yeah, I like that idea!

You want to deny the poor and destitute charity, welfare and medical care.

What did they do to earn or deserve it?

You want to destroy America's public education system.

Yep.  That's what you do with garbage.

You will destroy America's middle class.

Yep.  We will turn them into rich people, like we did during the Reagan years.

You will make America a Third World nation again.

Too late.  Obama beat us to it.

Even Bernie agrees with me!

LOL!  It figures.  Bernie Sanders is a communist who hasn't worked a day in his life.  He doesn't have a clue how the world works.

[Truman62]

There goes poor deluded Dan.

Ignoring facts, so it can play with itself...  ENJOY

I backed up my claims, Dan.  All you had were your wrong-headed Opinions based on myths and legends.