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NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Friday, March 26, 2021

Pat Condell: A Crisis of Free Speech



Today's Words of Wisdom
From Pat Condell
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The law cannot be trusted with freedom of speech. Police record thought crimes, even if no law has been broken.


Pat Condell is a writer, comedian and atheist Internet personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also a regular panelist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk".

As of 2021, Condell's YouTube channel has over 364,000 subscribers and nearly 80 million views.


A Crisis Of Free Speech

 

"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
 George Orwell
1984
Book 1, Chapter 1


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