"It's a very odd situation in the year 2020 that we in Britain (and the West) are having to defend free-speech.
And it's not just the war on free-speech that is so strange - it's the fact that the Establishment is trying its hardest to replace free-speech with Soviet-style 'government-approved speech'. This is the most dangerous and pernicious political development of our lifetime, because a country without free-speech is on the road to serfdom. This is why we must resist" [comment at source].

Hearts of Oak

Hearts of Oak

"The UK political establishment narrows and controls the Overton window of political debate; imposes its 'progressive' values and intolerant left-liberal orthodoxy with the self-righteous fervour of 16th century Puritans; and silences and oppresses the population via state-enforced political correctness, hate speech, thought police, blasphemy laws, cancelling, deplatforming, censorship, shaming and other Orwellian techniques.  The Hearts of Oak aim is to initiate sustainable public and non-public activities towards the common goals of reversing the current restrictions on free speech through education and activism, both at grassroots and online..."

Hearts of Oak Twitter

Hearts of Oak YouTube Channel

YOUTUBE:  Alan Craig: Why We Need Hearts of Oak  (02 March 2020)

"Alan Craig's opening speech at Hearts of Oak explaining why this alliance was set up."

YOUTUBE:  Hearts of Oak: Wale Babatunde  (01 March 2020)

"Wale Babatundi on the Christian roots of British roots and values."

YOUTUBE:  Hearts of Oak: Catherine Blaiklock  (01 March 2020)

"Catherine Blaiklock on the immigration policy of Boris Johnson and what policy would actually have an impact."

YOUTUBE:  Hearts of Oak: Tommy Robinson  (01 March 2020)

Tommy Robinson speaks about the Transgender agenda in schools and elsewhere: "Stop Abusing Our Children!"

YOUTUBE:  Hearts of Oak: Carl Benjamin  (01 March 2020)

"Carl Benjamin's speech at the Hearts of Oak launch regarding freedom of speech in the United Kingdom."

YOUTUBE:  Hearts of Oak: Free Speech Award to Amy Mura  (01 March 2020)

"The 2020 Hearts of Oak free speech award was awarded to Amy Mura for political persecution by ex-MP Anna Soubry."

The Free Speech Union

The Free Speech Union

"The Free Speech Union is a non-partisan, mass-membership organisation that stands up for the speech rights of its members ... The FSU will also have a research arm that publishes papers analysing why free speech is in jeopardy and makes policy proposals about how to protect it ... The FSU is not just for those who make a living through the expression of ideas ... Anyone who feels their speech rights are under threat, or who cares about free speech as an issue, is welcome to join ... We will come to your defence if you find yourself under attack for exercising your legal right to free speech, whether by the courts or the police, by your employers, by colleagues or activists, or by outrage mobs on social media and elsewhere."

Other Articles on Freedom of Speech

Letter: What Is Free Speech?  (03 March 2020)

"Dear Sir, What is free speech? In Britain, unlike America, we do not seem quite sure because we do not have a Bill of Rights. Zoe Strimple, writing in [The Telegraph] yesterday, said 'The cause of free speech, newly prominent, now offers an easy way for thugs to try to get away with it.'  I think this approach to free speech is utterly wrong and misguided. Who defines what is thuggish or who is a thug? A thug cannot just be a working-class person with a Yorkshire accent or a middle-class person saying things that you disagree with. A non-violent 'thug' should have the same free speech rights as someone deemed by the establishment to be 'respectable'. Free speech cannot be defined by class; middle-class dinner party types being acceptable whilst everyone else is a 'gammon', or some equally derogatory word..."

Newspeak Dictionary: EU Parliament Warns Against Words Like 'Mankind', 'Manpower'  (30 December 2018)

"The EU Parliament has issued politically correct guidance against using words like 'mankind' and 'man-made' in order to infuse its everyday language with social justice ... 'Language powerfully reflects and influences attitudes, behaviour and perceptions' [the guidance states] - a view seemingly underpinned by the same philosophical outlook as the fictional Newspeak Dictionary in Goerge Orwell's seminal book 1984..."  /  Reader's comment:  "It is our duty to keep using words that are 'unapproved'. Chairman, workman, businessman, dinner lady, actress, Christian name, mother and father, manly, womanly, and so on and so forth. When pulled up on it at any point, it must be reinforced that you are not apologetic, not 'behind the times', but purposefully using the language ... Enough is enough."

Let's Make Free Speech the Great Cause of 2019  (26 December 2018)

"Who would have thought that in 2018 it would be deemed controversial to uphold the principle of free speech? Whatever else the events of this year have taught us, it is now clear that the fundamental human right to express oneself as one sees fit is under threat. With both major political parties supporting further hate-speech legislation and varying degrees of press regulation, and with Silicon Valley tech giants routinely censoring their users, the time is ripe seriously to consider how we might retaliate against the creeping authoritarianism of our age..."

Fight Back Against this Attack on Free Speech for Teachers  (29 May 2018)

It should never be a requirement that a person must agree with a particular law or idea in any circumstance. One of the fundamental purposes of freedom of speech is that all citizens are allowed to freely debate and discuss any laws, ideas, theories and literature. Freedom of speech should be allowed for teachers ... If it were a requirement to agree with any or all existing laws, Parliament would grind to a halt as MPs could not debate or amend any existing laws..."

The New Dark Age of Intolerance  (30 September 2017)

"The great French writer Voltaire famously said: 'I disapprove of what you say and would defend to the death your right to say it.'  In this way, he encapsulated what it meant to be an enlightened human being - someone prepared to consider all points of view. But in recent years the principle of freedom of speech, sacred since Voltaire's 18th century, has been lost, and this is surely one of the most sinister features of our times. It is as if we are entering a new Dark Age of Intolerance..."

Of Course Bahar Mustafa Should Have Been Arrested For Her #KillAllWhiteMen Antics  (06 October 2015)

"The rule of law is one of the most, if not the most fundamental, concept[s] in Western civilisation, and therefore in conservatism too. ... I do not believe that by acting 'magnanimously' towards the left over Bahar Mustafa's arrest for tweeting '#KillAllWhiteMen' we are going to win the debate, and win the day for free speech. The left simply does not have the intellectual capacity for that..."

Hypocrites!  (11 September 2015)

"There are times when I feel as if we - especially our esteemed metro-elites in politics and the media - are fiddling while Rome burns..."

Scottish Paper Sacks Two Columnists Over Criticism of Islam  (11 July 2015)

"A Scottish newspaper is embroiled in a freedom of speech row after sacking two columnists over comments on Islam..."

Belfast Pastor James McConnell vs Islam vs Freedom of Speech  (21 June 2015)

"We live in strange times. Once, freedom of speech was allowed and tolerated, no matter what was being said, or how despicable it was. Even in the dark days of WW2 when Britain was left fighting fascism alone, Lord Haw Haw regularly broadcast to the peoples of these islands. We didn't like his propaganda or his lies, but they were allowed..."

There Is Nothing Wrong With Wanting To Punch YAB in the Throat  (20 June 2014)

"Flamboyant, flaxen-haired Conservative backbench MP Mike Fabricant has got himself into trouble for something he said on Twitter. ... I've re-read the tweet about [a] dozen times now but I still can't work out what the problem is..."

Pregnant Situation in Afghanistan: You Couldn't Make It Up  (18 February 2014)

"Over 200 British soldiers have just been sent home from the Afghanistan frontline, and not because they were no longer needed for operational purposes..."

Liberty GB Radio Host Charged With 'Hate Crime' for Criticising Fiyaz Mughal  (01 January 2014)

"Jihadists, paedophile rapists and seditious preachers sleep easy in their beds in modern Britain, but we can take comfort from the fact that police forces are diligent in hunting down people who say hurtful things about members of that topmost protected species, the 'Muslim community'. Whilst their more extreme elements may gang-rape little English girls, batter women senseless or threaten to behead those who insult Islam, such petty misdemeanours rarely drag the rozzers away from their computers, where more pressing matters demand attention. Nothing can distract our doughty boys-in-blue as, hunched before flickering screens, they endlessly trawl Facebook and Twitter for the crime that really concerns their political masters: the unforgiveable crime of criticising Islam..."

The Age of Intolerance  (20 December 2013)

"Last week, following the public apology of an English comedian and the arrest of a fellow British subject both for making somewhat feeble Mandela gags, I noted that supposedly free societies were increasingly perilous places for those who make an infelicitous remark. So let's pick up where we left off:..."

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!  (12 April 2013)

"The BBC should allow the song Ding Dong the Witch is Dead to be played in its regular charts show if enough people vote to have it featured. This is a matter of freedom of speech, and freedom of speech is indivisible. You can't say that people should be allowed to express only those things of which you approve but that they must remain silent about what you dislike..."

The Real Hate Crime is Persecuting a Decent Man For His Beliefs  (19 October 2012)

"Adrian Smith is a kind and gentle man. Friends say the happily married father is a pillar of the community, a practising Christian and a tireless worker for charity. Yet this week Mr Smith was in court, defending accusations that he is a bigot whose personal views are so offensive and outrageous that they are incompatible with his work as a housing officer. His crime?..."

Anti-Fascists Are Killing Free Speech  (01 October 2012)

"Activists who call on the state to arrest and imprison 'fascists' for their speech crimes should look up irony in the dictionary. ... Are Britain's anti-fascist groups so blinkered, so convinced that the state is on their side and that they are the bearers of the Truth, that they can make statements celebrating the curbing of someone's free speech without even the slightest twinge of irony?..."

Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?  (20 September 2012)

"Now there are threats of violence directed against France for the publication of a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed in violation of Islamic law. This is simply the most recent manifestation of a worldwide effort to censor freedom of expression and make it conform to the most radical interpretation of Islamic tradition..." 

The Freedom to be Silenced  (17 September 2012)

"In March 1937, the State Department apologized on behalf of the United States to Adolf Hitler for comments made about him by the Mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia. ... 75 years later the great tradition of American diplomats apologizing to mass murderers for the American tradition of freedom of speech remains alive and well..."

U.S. on Wrong Side of Cairo Embassy Riot  (11 September 2012)

"As the restless, masked throngs gathered outside the walls yesterday, U.S. Embassy officials issued a statement surrendering America's unapologetic defense of free speech. ... You have to read it twice to believe it. Then you still cannot believe it. But, yes, your embassy, representing your government, funded by your tax dollars, just sided with the thieving rioters. Yes, your government just established the first limit on free speech we have ever known..."

Christian Blogger Plunged Into Free Speech Row  (15 May 2012)

"A Christian blogger is at the centre of a free speech row after posting an 'offensive' advert on behalf of a petition against plans to legalise gay marriage. Advertising watchdogs have demanded an explanation from the writer, known by the pen name Archbishop Cranmer, after they received 24 complaints..."

This Defamation Bill Is No Friend of Freedom  (11 May 2012)

"Bizarrely, free-speech activists are cheering a new bill that will entrench the state's right to decide what we can say..."

Europe's Auto-Immune Disease  (17 April 2012)

"In decadent Europe, freedom of speech is dying. Loudly trumpeted as a 'human right' for any attacks on America, Israel, Christians or any of the core values of the West, it is swiftly transformed into 'hate speech' and the shutters are slammed down on the speaker whenever Islam is in the frame..."

The Left's Orwellian Censorship Campaign  (05 April 2012)

"Liberal theologian William Ellery Channing once observed, 'The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. War has indeed been declared. Channing's contemporary liberal counterparts have declared a war for our culture..."

Jailings for Racism on Twitter? Britain's Forgotten Fight for Free Speech  (29 March 2012)

"In 1742, David Hume could write, 'Nothing is more apt to surprise a foreigner, than the extreme liberty, which we enjoy in this country, of communicating whatever we please to the public, and of openly censuring every measure, entered into by the king or his ministers.' Hume may have overstated his case somewhat, ... But ... To a foreigner fond of British culture, not least its tradition of liberty, Hume's words now evoke a mixture of sadness and bewilderment..."

Fireman Sam and the Day Freedom Went Up in Smoke  (03 March 2012)

"Here are some of the most sinister and hopeless words I have ever read: 'I was told that we now live in a different time and some things are not to be said.'  They should be carved on the tombstone of the Country Formerly Known as Great Britain..."

US, EU Spearhead Islamic Bid to Criminalize Free Speech  (06 January 2012)

"The European Union has offered to host the next meeting of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam..."

The Right to Protest Is Not Exclusive to the Left  (11 May 2011)

"A new left-wing group defending the right to protest needs to defend the right of those they disagree with, too..."

Gagging Us Softly  (29 April 2011)

"In this anniversary week, it's sobering to reflect that one of the more perverse consequences of 9/11 has been a remorseless assault on free speech throughout the west. I regret to say that, in my new book, I predict this trend will only accelerate in the years ahead. The essay below was written as last week's National Review cover story:..."

The Right to Offend  (05 April 2011)

"When I wrote over the weekend about the trial of Australia's most prominent columnist for expressing his opinions, I did not expect it to be quite so immediately relevant to the United States..."

Whatever Happened to Freedom of Speech?  (27 November 2010)

"We live in a democracy in which it is widely supposed that anything can be said and anything done ... Yet within politics, freedom of speech is more drastically constrained than ever before..."

Christian Pensioner Warned by Police About 'Hate Crime' for Complaining About Homosexual Pride Parade  (26 October 2009)

"A pensioner was questioned by the police after her local council decided that her complaint about a homosexual pride march amounted to a 'hate crime incident', despite the fact that she was verbally abused at the parade..."

Hate Crime Legislation - Back Door to Censorship  (10 May 2009)

"An extension of the Hate Crimes law recently passed the House of Representatives which will essentially codify into national law the 'speech codes' that are smothering academic freedom on college campuses today..."

The Suppression of Free Speech in Britain  (05 June 2008)

"In 1984 a British headmaster, Ray Honeyford, wrote an article for 'The Salisbury Review' where he questioned the values of multiculturalism, which he deemed to be segregationist rather than 'inclusive'..."

Excerpts from UNESCO's Declaration of Principles on Tolerance  (No Date)

"Perhaps you are wondering how this could be happening in [the West]. What happened to free speech? To religious freedom? To Kindness? Remember the paradigm shift. The new paradigm changed all the rules..."

Videos, YouTubes, Gab

YOUTUBE:  Free Speech Wars: Twitter's Political Purge  (23 February 2017)

"Sargon is suspended on Twitter. Again. And it's starting to ramp up now, isn't it? The digital purge appears to be accelerating; there isn't a day goes by that I don't see messages like this:..."

YOUTUBE:  Why Free Speech is All That Matters  (17 February 2017)

"Civilisation is a conversation, and moral progress is always the most shocking part of that conversation. Every great moral advance in human history has been met with shocked revulsion by significant existing power groups..."

The Frankfurt School

"The Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief - or even the hope of belief - that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution.

Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the 'oppressive' order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus - 'continuing the work of Western Marxists by other means' as one of their members noted.

To further the advance of their 'quiet' cultural revolution ... the [Frankfurt] School recommended (among other things):

(1) the creation of racism offences,
(2) continual change to create confusion,
(3) the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children,
(4) the undermining of schools' and teachers' authority,
(5) huge immigration to destroy identity,
(6) the promotion of excessive drinking,
(7) emptying of churches,
(8) an unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime,
(9) dependency on the state or state benefits,
(10) control and dumbing down of media,
(11) encouraging the breakdown of the family.

One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud's idea of 'pansexualism' - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:

(a) attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children,
(b) abolish differences in the education of boys and girls,
(c) abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces,
(d) declare women to be an 'oppressed class' and men as 'oppressors'."

Programmes of Treason

"There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state:

• Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people;

• Poverty - Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live;

• Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That wa6y you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty;

• Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state;

• Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income);

• Education - Take control of that people read and listen to - take control of what children learn in school;

• Religion - Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools;

• Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take from (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor" [source].

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
(Isaiah 5:20-21)

© Elizabeth McDonald     https://www.bayith.org     bayith@blueyonder.co.uk