who needs freedom of speech?

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 I had supported the vaccine and even the shutdown during the height of the covid epidemic but I was not aware of the opposing opinions about the vaccines (including side effects: I had AZ and was aware of blood clots but was not aware of the mRNA problems).

However, as the wall of censorship crumbled it seems that the censorship goes on beyond tweets or medical journals that don't disclose the guy writing the paper saying the covid was not a lab leak was a guy funding gain of function research in that lab.

So now on many fronts, the censors are getting nastier even as the evidence and public opinion is turning against them.

Take Dr. Jordan Peterson: Despite the evidence from the UK that showed the fad of gender surgery and drugs for underage childrean and teens had no medical studies showing it helped, he is now told he has to take a reeducation course to keep his license to practice psychology. 

UPDATE RE CANADA SUPREME COURT

The court has rejected my appeal regarding the decision of the Ontario College of Psychologists to subject me to indefinite re-education@CPBAOntario

Primarily for publicly opposing the butchers and liars subjecting children to sterilization…

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) August 8, 2024

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then we have people in the UK pushing penalties for free speech. It seems to be a one sided response to the protests. But JFK once reminded us:

as I have written elsewhere, I am old enough to remember when JKF defended the Mother's march for peace, which back then was considered a communist front, and he explained that he needed alternative voices to counter the severe pressure he was under from the Pentagon and anti communist types in the government. This might have been a step too soon, because as I told Kuya, the USSR interpreted it as weakness and the result was the Cuban missile crisis, where the US and USSR almost got into nuclear war. But when you silence all voices, it allows the really crazies to take over the opposition. 

I see this in the mRNA vaccine side effects The US is still pushing the shots even though covid has evolved to be no worse than the flu, but people saw side effects, and since the official stories denied any problem, the result is that some folk stopped believing the official stories. As a result, some got so paranoid that they started refusing vaccines that have been routine for fifty or more years without any problems. (we saw a similar reaction after it was found the experimental Dengue vaccine had killed some kids)/

Sigh.

then there is the censorship in the UK anti immigration protests where some reports are that if you even tweet your opinion against immigrants you can be jailed...at a time when the MSM is not noting that  usual idiots are doing violent counter demonstrations. And given the recent threat against Taylor Swift, one wonders if these terrible murders were also terrorism... no reports on motive yet. Wonder why.

given the history of censorship of all aspects of the covid epidemic,  Dr. C compares this censorship as similar to the overblown censorship about covid.

but it doesn't stop there.

I just read that Tulsi Gabbard is being monitored by air marshalls when she flies because she is on a terrorist watch list.

Tulsi got more votes in the 2020 primaries than Kamala Harris, but as a veteran is a bit anti war, especially in the Ukraine. (wonder what she would do here in Luzon with China breathing down our throats).

But it does make you wonder who is running the show.

But hey, I live in a small town and only blog, so I am safe even if I complain. What could they do to me, right/

Uh Oh; gadfly/satirist Dilbert just got his credit cards cancelled. Guess the censors don't recognize that he often says over the top satire of the news, as a way to provoke his listeners to think about stuff that is ignored because folk are too polite to talk about.

Three separate credit card transactions with three different cards and three different vendors all declined today.

No reason. Cards are all good. Banks approved.

What’s going on?

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 8, 2024