By Media Defend Nazi-like Censorship; Claim Nazis Supported Free Speech
by Paul Dragu
Rebublished with permission from The New American.com
In a bizarre exchange with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a mainstream media anchor defended European censorship by saying the Nazis’ Jewish genocide was a result of free speech.
This sounds like something out of The Onion, but, unfortunately, it’s coming from media many Americans still take seriously.
CBS’s Face the Nation anchor Margaret Brennan interviewed Rubio on Sunday about Vice President J.D. Vance’s finger-wagging speech at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. Instead of the expected cheerleading for more warmongering under the pretense of saving Ukraine’s “democracy,” Vance opted to scold European leaders for turning into the type of tyrants their fathers and grandfathers died to defeat in World War II. Vance told Europe’s leaders the largest threat is from within, not from Russia or China. He then went through a list of examples of Soviet-style crackdowns happening in non-Russia Europe:
I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don’t go [according] to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too.… I look to Brussels, where EU Commission commissars warned citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest, the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be “hateful content”; or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of “combating misogyny” on the internet.… I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant — and I’m quoting — a “free pass” to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs.
