It’s helpful to look at countries where the secular left is more powerful, so you can see what they have done with their power. Germany is a good one. France, too. And Canada. And the UK. So, in this post, I have 3 terrifying stories from across the pond that will show you why you should never let the secular left take political power in America. If you do, you will not like the result.
First, here’s an article from the UK Daily Mail:
Figures obtained by the Daily Mail show that some forces are making arrests for ‘offensive’ social media posts at ‘extremely concerning’ rates.
[…]The crime of sending ‘grossly offensive’ messages or sharing content of an ‘indecent, obscene or menacing character’ on electronic communications networks is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment or an unlimited fine.
[…]Together, the 39 of 45 police forces that replied to the Mail’s freedom of information (FOI) requests arrested around 9,700 people last year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
However, the total arrest figures are likely to be higher, as six forces failed to respond to FOI requests or provided inadequate data, including Police Scotland, the second-largest force in the UK.
Keep in mind that this is the same country that refused to investigate “grooming gangs” (child sex-trafficking rings), because of their fear of appearing “racist”.
And of course, since they are busy intimidating taxpayers for sharing memes, they don’t have time for more serious crimes:
The outcry that the police are wasting their time has increased because official figures show that 90% of all crime went unsolved in 2023, up from 75% in 2015.
Here is an example:
Another alarming example of free speech under threat involved Hertfordshire Police officers arresting parents Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine in January.
Officers held them in a cell for eleven hours, on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications, after their child’s primary school objected to the volume of emails they sent and ‘disparaging’ comments made in a WhatsApp group.
No fewer than six uniformed cops showed up to arrest them for messages which could be deemed sarcastic, but were clearly far from ‘abusive or malicious’.
Under Winston Churchill, the UK won a war against German totalitarianism. Then, under Margaret Thatcher, the UK won a war against Russian totalitarianism. And now the UK is North Korea. You can’t say anything bad about the bad effects of the government’s policies, because the government doesn’t like that.
Second article, also from the UK Daily Mail:
The number of Britons emigrating has hit a new high, it was revealed on Tuesday – as the exodus under Labour gathers pace.
Last year the number of UK citizens going to live abroad was 257,000 – far more than the 77,000 previously estimated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
[…]Net emigration has also peaked since last year’s general election.
In the 12 months to September 2024, a net 116,000 Britons left the country. This is far higher than previously thought. By December, the net figure for the previous 12 months was 114,000. Net British emigration was just 81,000 in 2022.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: ‘Keir Starmer’s punishing tax rises are causing Britons to flee in record numbers.
‘The brightest and the best are leaving the UK for places like Dubai and Milan, leaving the rest of us to pay Labour’s higher taxes.
‘This is evidence that increasing tax too far makes people leave.’
So, every American understands that. We fought a far against the UK over taxation, because when the government taxes you, it diminishes your freedom to live your life how you want. If the government taxes you a lot, then your wife has to work. Then your one child goes into daycare and public schools. But if the government lets you keep what you earn, then your wife stays home and she homeschools your four children. Taxes are a big deal to people who have a plan about how they want to live. Money is the fuel to run a plan.
Here’s the third article, from ADF International:
75-year-old grandmother Rose Docherty has been arrested a second time and criminally charged for holding a sign within 200m of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, reading:
“Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”
In Scotland, “buffer zones” are enforced within 200m of every hospital, forbidding harassment, intimidation, and “influencing” of anyone seeking to access abortion services.
Despite only having stood silently offering consensual conversation and not having approached any individual, Docherty has been charged with breaching the “buffer zone.”
According to a recent article from Christian Today, it’s not just abortion clinics that have a no-disagreement-with-murder-by-government buffer zone. Soon it wil be expanded to areas around assisted suicide clinics, called “safe access zones”. The UK has found it more profitable to kill patients rather than treat them, so they don’t want any criticism of that policy, either.
