“Democracy without free speech is not democracy.”

20 Replies to ““Democracy without free speech is not democracy.””

1. It’s thoroughly enjoyable.

2. Nancy Pelosi’s address to the Oxford Union is an embarrassment to the American Senate. As a member of the US Senate she has exposed to the whole world the level of intelligence that is endemic to the US political system. Link her appearance and speech here to Lindsay Graham’s advocacy to bomb Iran with nuclear weapons and you have an incling of where the ‘elites’ are intending to take us. We are stuck with a conundrum that would test the wisdom of Solomon. Do we rise up and revolt against these ‘elitists’, or do we submit and stand back helpless as they burn the system down? A question for the ages.

   1. Pelosi is in the House, not the Senate.

      1. Well Pardon Me!, but glad I caught your attention.

   2. She’s actually a member of the House of Representatives, but yes she’s an embarrassment.

      1. See my reply above.

3. A thoroughly enjoyable … and accurate … oration. This Oxford Student is obviously at the TOP of his class. At the bottom of class sits an aged Nancy Pelosi … interrupting from the gallery. What a c()nt. She started the false narrative of a J6 “insurrection” … so she peddles it at Oxford too. She’s literally brain dead. She babbles on with the false narratives like a brain dead Biden.

   And the Democrats wonder why Americans are poised to CRUSH them in the 2024 election … to dispose of the Leftist Democrats like they’re yesterdays trash.

   1. Not necessarily false: she was in the position to ensure nothing bad happended by calling in more resources. But she chose to call in a camera crew instead.

      If it became an insurrection it was because Nancy wanted it to, or was too stupid to prevent it.

      (aside to Kate – God I love this site, an actual chance to debate the big things. Thanks again!)

      1. She carefully planned & fully expected it. That’s why her daughter’s camera crew was there to film it.

      2. “if it became an insurrection …..”.

         It didn’t start as an insurrection not did it become an insurrection. Period.
         Yield no ground to the evil coup partners; to the fascist propagandists.
         Considering BLM, antifa and the new jew-hating campers, it was not even a proper riot.

   2. The student, Winston Marshall:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Marshall

      1. and Winston Marshall in his previous role as banjo player (and guitarist) with Mumford and Sons

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGKfrgqWcv0

         1. I had no idea. But I did notice that a man wearing a hair bun isn’t usually articulating conservative principles. I should have known.

            His bio also notes he began playing music in church. Not surprising either.

            1. He had to leave Mumford and Sons because he didn’t fit in with the rest of the woke members of the band.

4. Very well said. I too have been struggling with the reason calling a movement populism is supposedly now an insult. It is instead what this ge tleman has described.

   1. Wait until you see what they’re going to do with ‘anti-Semite’ and have already done to ‘peaceful protest’ and ‘Russian collusion.’

      These linguistic gymnastics are the tactics of the most evil, manipulative and corrupt, and sadly reveal the gullibility of their target audience.

      Given the constant claims that MAGA Republicans are the greatest threat to Democracy, they’ve clearly refined that word as well. I’m guessing the new definition of ‘Democracy’ partly entails mindless compliance with every mandatory vaccination requirement.

5. It would be entertaining to view a series of photographs recording the migration of her eyebrows over the past decade. They’ll soon be in Alaska.

6. The ancient bag of dust and bone had to do her own interrupting, because there wasn’t an MSM moderator to do it for her.

7. When they say “Our Democracy” they mean rule by democrats or their fellow travellers.

8. Dan Smoot reminds us that the ideal of a Democracy is Universal Equality, while the ideal of a Republic is Individual Liberty and the US Constitution requires a Republican form of government for all states, while never mentioning the word Democracy. Neither do the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. The US Constitution safeguards the principles of Liberty, the ‘unalienable rights’ referred to in the Declaration of Independence do not include equality, but do include Liberty. Equality of all men, in the eyes of God and before the law, is a condition essential to freedom but no other kind of equality is possible and government efforts to achieve material equality will produce crushing tyranny but will not make people equal.