by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Democrats have warned that when they regain power they intend to launch a lawfare campaign targeting tens of thousands of MAGA supporters.
A narrative is building among Democrat politicians and NGO activists alike which is essentially calling for a political purge of conservatives if progressive leaders return to government power in the next few years. Multiple blue city mayors, governors and police administrators have already threatened to “arrest ICE agents” for carrying out deportations within sanctuary city jurisdictions.
Where have we heard this before?
The cumulative effect of foreign censorship regimes and global platform compliance is most visible in the United States, where formal free speech protections remain intact but informational power is profoundly asymmetric. Certain narratives saturate the public square, while others struggle to survive algorithmically, regardless of audience demand.
Britain, a country which practically invented the tenets of free speech, is now the most repressive, backward country of the West which is ridiculed on a daily basis by the very same countries that it regaled for its human rights record. There are just too many cases to rattle off which have at least made the news – social media, at least – but the mother who had police officers come into her house while she was in the bath to arrest her for calling an ex-boyfriend a ‘faggot’ has shocked many, given that the boyfriend in question beat her up and the message was not even sent to him. Elizabeth Kinney escaped jail but received a sentence involving community service and a considerable fine. Kinney was just one of around 12,000 people each year in the UK who are arrested and charged for giving their views about a given subject which the state deems could hurt someone, or in the case of politics, if it simply challenges a narrative. This farce would appear to have gotten out of hand when the long arm of the law even arrested and questioned right-wing hack Katie Holmes, who, during a stand-up comedy routine called herself a “spazza” and was subsequently detained for hours by UK police for the “offence”.