Green Party in Ireland wants to restrict free speech “for the common good”

Pauline O’Reilly, chair of the Irish Green Party, which is similar to the Democrat Party in the United States, introduced a bill this week that would massively curtail free speech for the alleged betterment of society.

Criminal Justice Bill 2022, also known as the Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences bill, would, as its name suggests, criminalize “incitement to violence or hatred against” people with “protected characteristics.” This includes “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.”

Like many Democrats here in America believe, O’Reilly and other Irish Greens believe that “restricting freedom” in this manner is necessary in order to promote the “common good.” It is the same rhetoric coming from the Joe Biden White House, with the “big guy” himself having recently proclaimed that tech companies’ refusal to censor opposing viewpoints on social media is somehow “killing people.”

Other far-leftists cut from the same cloth as Biden and his ilk have made other bizarre proclamations, one of the weirder ones as of late being that free speech and the First Amendment are “a white man’s obsession” – the implication being that black and brown people could not care less about having a voice.

The left’s quest to destroy freedom also involves categorizing anything they do not like as “misinformation” or “disinformation.” By labeling free speech in this manner, the left hopes to silence those who spread it by claiming that doing so will protect others from being harmed by the allegedly false information.

(Related: Ireland is culling 200,000 cows for no reason other than to achieve its so-called “climate targets.”)

Claiming that erasing freedom will somehow free society is quintessential Orwellian thinking

O’Reilly pulled a page straight from this same playbook when she declared before the Seanad, also known as the Irish Senate, this week that erasing more freedoms is a good thing for the betterment of society as a whole.

“When one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom,” O’Reilly declared. “This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich said much the same with his recent call to abolish free speech, calling it “tyranny” to continue allowing people to have a voice. In order to protect “democracy,” Reich wants new limitations to be placed on the First Amendment, just like how Democrats want to upend the Second Amendment by imposing more gun control.

On both matters, leftists claim that erasing speech and access to guns will help to protect society from “dangerous” thinking and “assault” weapons. The tricky rhetoric that they use is how they convince the gullible that their motivations are honorable and simply aim to promote the, wait for it, common good.

“Throughout our Constitution one can see that while one has rights they are restricted for the common good,” O’Reilly further bellowed before the Irish Senate. “Everything needs to be balanced.”

As to what kinds of free speech must be muzzled, O’Reilly set the bar really low in stating that “deep discomfort” by someone is reason enough to silence the opinions of another.

“If a person’s views on other people’s identities make their lives unsafe and insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace, our job as legislators is to restrict those freedoms for the common good,” she explained, referring, of course, to transgenderism and other protected LGBT “gender identities.”

Whenever you hear the term “common good,” chances are what the person really means is communism. Learn more at Communism.news.

Sources for this article include:

JonathanTurley.org

Newstarget.com