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A vegan gets a 7-month suspended prison sentence for posting on social media that she is glad that a butcher got killed.  I was surprised and saddened to see people I know supporting this decision.   Note that she did not call for violence.  She simply voiced her opinion after the fact. https://www.theallineed.com/news/20180330/a-french-court-condemns-a-vegan-woman-who-celebrated-the-death-of-a-butcher-in-a-terrorist-attack/ Freedom of speech is dead and "thought-crimes" are taken seriously, and MOST PEOPLE ARE CHEERING.  Well, George Orwell tried to warn us.  His work 1984 got popular enough, but somehow it still failed in much of the "free" (ha!) world.  I still have some hope for the United States...one of the last bastions of free speech written in law, though corporations are doing their part to choke the life out of it on the ground. We now know that people can be banned from the UK or imprisoned in the UK for simply stating facts that run ...

PLEASE WATCH THIS.   Please remove any prejudices going in and listen to what is being said.  Listen to this story.  And see what is the United Kingdom is truly like.  China is a free country for those without disruptive opinions.  You can say anything you like in China...as long as the government approves.  What you will learn is that the UK is exactly the same in that respect.  In fact, freedom is much less common than you may think.  You may not feel it now.  But just cross those in power, and you will understand.  This is not to say that there will be problems if you are a returning ISIS fighter who has sex slaves in Syria and murdered civilians.  Obviously, the UK government is not threatened by such things.  It is threatened, however, when you talk about how this may be a problem.  I deeply thank all of those who watch this video, because stories like these touch on some of the most fundamental rights in the world...

I may still stand for the national anthem, but I do not believe in it.  The United States is not the "land of the free and the home of the brave".  Neither are most places.  But it is particularly sad for the United States, which claims this.  American are SO SCARED of everything...willing to see freedom be destroyed for any partisan gain.  We know companies like Google ARE "being evil", despite their ironic motto saying differently.  YouTube is positively destroying free speech on its platform.  On the other side of things, President Trump is blaming "violent video games" for gun violence.  Now that's a blast from the past.  Social Justice Warriors and the Religious Right may not like each other, but they have A  LOT in common, namely, they both hate freedom.  It is the horseshoe theory, and unfortunately, in this day and age, most people are bunched up in the areas where they agree: "Freedom Is Overrated". I just saw some list o...