It appears that the United Kingdom as adopted a rather draconian system of government that will not tolerate free speech. A Scottish man was just jailed for 8 months for “words”, no more, no less, just words. I have to say, this terrifies me.
The fact is the writers of the Bible, the Holy Koran, any religious tome would today be jailed in the UK for their personal views. So what is next? Today its religious speech, Tomorrow it could be political speech. Imagine a conversation in the Pub, politics, religion, terrorism, anything really, someone takes offence and suddenly the Police come in and haul you off for “hate speech”. Did anyone get hurt? Or was it merely a few feelings that got scratched? Where does it end?
Too many countries are currently persecuting their citizens for not conforming, to the point of murder in some African nations. I guess we can add the UK to that list of nations that won’t tolerate freedom.
Next time you have an opinion and say “It’s a Free Country” you might want to think twice.
