Here is an article about the lack of freedom of thought over on the continent. Apparently, as many have discovered, freedom of thought, and association hasn't quite caught on over there, never a good thing. You would think that whole, world war 2 and cold war thing would have been a lesson in the need for individual freedom from government control. Hmmm...maybe they will get it in the next century...
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2012...urtain-rising-dictatorships-on-the-continent/
Remember, the solution to speech you don't like is more speech that you do like, not prohibiting others from speaking their minds. That is just a little lesson from your younger cousins across the pond...
Here is the link to the article on the murder of people opposed to Italian unions...
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/labor-law-professors-defy-death-threats-in-italy/
I guess he should have looked a little harder for the union label...
Wow, that is just crazy thinking, no wonder they want to shoot him...
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2012...urtain-rising-dictatorships-on-the-continent/
You wouldn’t know it by looking at trends in Europe, where tyranny is on the rise. It’s not in the direct form of Soviet gulags, military parades or police beatings on the street. But it comes instead packaged in laws and intimidation by the left. There are some things you just shouldn’t say in Europe. And if you do? You might get prosecuted, or even murdered. Don’t believe me? Consider some developments in different corners of Europe.
In several European countries, as Bruce Bawer powerfully points out in the Wall Street Journal today (subscription required), it is against the law to raise questions about the teachings of Islam. He writes: ”Criticizing Islam is now a punishable offense in several European countries. In the past few months alone, a Danish court fined writer Lars Hedegaard for talking about Islam’s treatment of women in his own home, and activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was found guilty of lecturing about Muhammad’s marital history in what an Austrian court considered an inappropriate tone.” Bawer has a powerful new short book available on Kindle out on the subject. He appropriately titles it: “The New Quislings: How the International Left Used the Oslo Masssacre to Silence Debate About Islam” I urge you to get a copy.
In Italy, as Walter Olson writes at cato-at-liberty.org, Labor Professor Pietro Ichino, who challenges the power of Italian labor unions, fears for his life and has lived under armed escort for the past ten years. He drives around in an armored car and has two plainclothes policemen always nearby because people on the left want to murder him for his views. This is not paranoia: as Olson points out, two other labor law professors, Massimo D’Antona and Mario Biagi, who held the same views, have been murdered.
Remember, the solution to speech you don't like is more speech that you do like, not prohibiting others from speaking their minds. That is just a little lesson from your younger cousins across the pond...
Here is the link to the article on the murder of people opposed to Italian unions...
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/labor-law-professors-defy-death-threats-in-italy/
In 1999 and 2002 leftist gunmen associated with the Red Brigades murdered two other reformist labor law professors, Massimo D’Antona and Mario Biagi. (Details here.) Prof. Biagi, a well-known figure nationally, was shot as he arrived at his Bologna home and dismounted his bicycle.
I guess he should have looked a little harder for the union label...
Like his slain colleague Biagi, Ichino started out as a man of the Left — a Communist parliamentarian, in fact — who became convinced that the state-enforced equivalent of lifetime job security actually worked against the interests of ordinary young workers, who were increasingly frozen out from being offered jobs in the first place.
Wow, that is just crazy thinking, no wonder they want to shoot him...
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