

Free Speech or NATO? Swedish Police Ban Quran Burnings
A Swedish police decision to ban Quran burnings is unlikely to stand legally, exposing contradictions between Turkish demands and Sweden’s rule of law.
A Swedish police decision to ban Quran burnings is unlikely to stand legally, exposing contradictions between Turkish demands and Sweden’s rule of law.
As national security trumps individual freedom, Sweden will curtail freedom of speech piecemeal, like death from a thousand cuts.
It was exactly one year ago, on a cold, dark winter evening in January 2022, when Paul Coleman arrived in Helsinki for the modern-day heresy trial of Finnish MP Dr. Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola.
The cartoons are featured in a special edition marking the anniversary of the deadly Islamist attack the publisher’s Paris office suffered on January 7th, 2015.
Failing to defend the right to speak freely helps to foster a culture in which people must self-censor, leading to a society that is radically changed for the worse.
Claiming that both his suspension by his employer and his imprisonment are unlawful, Enoch Burke states he will not leave prison until vindicated “by some higher court.”
Green Minister Sven Giegold said he wants the EU to intervene to regulate Musk’s “arbitrary” and “abrupt” decisions.
With another trial forthcoming and a life sentence hanging over his head, the 75-year-old Lai appears to have fallen victim to the Chinese Communist Party’s version of justice.
In light of Musk’s adherence to free speech absolutism and the EU’s worsening allergy to open debate on a variety of topics, the road to peaceful co-existence could be bumpy.
We have become, it appears, a people who simply accept arbitrary power as a satisfactory substitute for due process and the rule of law. If that is the case, then the looming tyranny under which we shall soon be toiling is one we entirely deserve.