By turning its back on Western values, Europe is on a fast track to suicide, to extinction, to rejecting all the values that have evolved over thousands of years to create Western civilization.
Freedom of speech stands as the cornerstone of any free society, allowing individuals to share their thoughts, beliefs, and ideas without fearing retaliation.
It then falls upon the audience to either accept or reject those views, offering their reasons accordingly.
However, this principle does not hold in the modern European Union. Earlier this month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen compared free speech to a virus.
“Research has shown that pre-bunking is much more successful than debunking,” she stated.
“If you consider information manipulation like a virus: rather than addressing an infection after it occurs — which is debunking — it’s more effective to vaccinate the body beforehand. Pre-bunking works the same way,” von der Leyen elaborated.
This framing portrays the right to free speech as a virus and censorship as the vaccine intended to block it.
Historically, open debate and free expression were fundamental at the dawn of Western civilization in ancient Greece and Rome, held as the most effective means to uncover truth.
Yet in von der Leyen’s perspective, people should depend on governments to dictate truth and falsehoods.
She has actively embodied this stance by imposing a 120 million euro fine on Elon Musk’s so-called “free speech” platform X (formerly Twitter) for supposedly not fulfilling transparency rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The day before this penalty was announced, Vice President JD Vance urged a reconsideration.
“Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship,” he commented. “The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”
They evidently ignored or dismissed his plea.
This trend away from freedom is not limited to Europe— the United Nations also exhibits similar tendencies, especially through U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
She consistently favors Hamas terrorists over Israel and disregards statements from the United States.
UN Watch documented in June multiple falsehoods she propagated, including claims that the United States is “a nation founded upon genocide,” accusations that “the CIA and Mossad carried out the Paris attack” by ISIS terrorists, and that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby.”
Over the weekend, she called on the United Nations to ostracize the United States.
“The international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the U.S. what it has been looking for — isolation,” she declared.
Hen Mazzig, a senior fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute, shared a video of Albanese’s appeal, adding, “I hope America answers.” One American voice responded — acclaimed conservative film actor James Woods.
“If Trump ever does anything in his life, let it be at this moment,” he declared.
“You want to ‘isolate’ the United States? Great. Goodbye. Take your out-stretched palms, get the hell out of our country, and GFY. We will happily turn the UN building into a homeless shelter.”
He concluded with “Good riddance.”
This idea has merit, though it would be even better to convert the UN headquarters into a refuge for homeless veterans rather than just a general homeless shelter.
Ronald Reagan once observed that he never abandoned the Democratic Party; instead, the party left him as it shifted too far to the extreme.
This sentiment echoes today with former Democrats such as Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The United Nations may follow a similar course: we won’t depart from them—they will abandon us. As James Woods bluntly puts it, “good riddance.”
Ultimately, Europe would be wise to reconsider its current trajectory to avoid collapsing similarly to the Democratic Party.
Such a reversal could pave the way for a world that is safer and more free.
Original article: www.newsmax.com
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