“This is the nature of our times. We are at war and those who warn of its dangers are being systematically silenced by our enemies who demand that nothing get in the way of our complacency with our own destruction.
“If journalists, intellectuals, social critics, authors and concerned citizens throughout the world do not rise up and demand that their governments protect their right to free expression and arrest and punish those who intimidate and trounce that right, one day, years from now, when students of history ask how it came to pass that the Free World willingly enabled its own destruction, they will have to look no further than the contrasting fortunes of Al-Jazeera and Dyab Abou Jahjah on the one hand and Le Figaro and Robert Redeker on the other.”
She’s tough on Tony Blair, whom I admire, but her article on freedom of speech is worth reading.
I agree with Caroline. We are slowwly but surely destroying ourselves. We have not proven ourselves worthy of those who have sacrificed before us to provide us with what we have. We are the child born into the rich family. We didn't earn a thing we have and have no chutzpa to keep it.
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