Donald Hank
A gulag of your own making
And now they're coming for you
By Donald Hank
Originally published at http://laiglesforum.com/a-gulag-of-your-own-making/2784.htm
Matt. 25:45 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
A few weeks ago, PayPal cut off service to Julio Severo because Julio says on his blog that he agrees with the New Testament on homosexual behavior. They did this at the behest of a homosexual activist group.
Effectively, PayPal, as the only service of its kind, unilaterally decided to try and ban Julio's blog, which has played a key role in stopping utterly totalitarian-style legislation in Brazil that would have banned speech perceived as offensive to homosexuals. Since PayPal is effectively a monopoly, they have threatened Julio's livelihood in objection to his faith, which they want to see banned everywhere in the world.
PayPal is therefore what I call a NGE, or Non-Governmental Enforcer, of an unconstitutional speech code, circumventing the law by using methods that would be politically impossible for government to use.
And yet you will note that government has been glaringly silent and will do nothing to help Julio barring a lawsuit. And it is far from clear whether our leftist-packed judiciary will do anything to intervene on behalf of freedom of speech.
Now, not much fuss was made over Julio's plight outside Christian activist circles, apparently because religious freedom is now being supplanted in Western minds by sexual freedom, a favorite platform of libertarians.
Yet, I have tried to warn that when you allow government (or its proxy) to tell Christians they may not speak out against what they perceive as evil, the totalitarian system will soon direct its fury against you, in what could be called the "Niemöller effect," even if the government per se is not directly involved in this assault. Because you see, the far left (as exemplified by the Fabian Society, which has lost no time in stealthily removing your freedom since the 1880s) has always used stealth tactics to enforce laws, even laws not yet on the books. They believe they are on the side of History, and I write that with a cap because for them history is God.
Now, the West has gradually accepted the mindset that religion is nothing but a throwback and has no place in public life. In fact, they portray Christianity as a sinister system designed to enslave people. Yet when large corporations in league with corrupt government (crony capitalism) overtly take steps to eradicate Christian speech in public, then those liberty-minded individuals who generally ignore the plight of Christians, also considering us to be knuckle dragging Neanderthals, are unwittingly cutting their own throats, because if groups of bullies can tell Christians to shut up with impunity, then they can tell you to shut up as well. It is only a matter of time.
A few scant weeks have passed since PayPal censored Christian blogger Julio Severo and now, those who sat silently by are seeing the censors moving into their own territory. For libertarians generally believe that any censorship is bad and cuts into liberty. Yet, as suggested above, they foolishly look away when Christians are censored, particularly Christians who flout the Ruling Class purportedly on the "side of history." What they fail to see is that the censorship of Christian speech is a harbinger of much bigger things to come. Because the Ruling Class despises Judeo-Christian values (as exemplified by their behavior in Europe where they import Christian-hating Muslims by the millions, and in the Muslim World, where each war they engage in invariably has the outcome of Christian persecution and decimation of the indigenous Christian populations).
This lack of compassion for Christian speech on the part of the "freedom minded," including numerous nominal Christians, is a classic example of the "Niemöller Syndrome" as expressed in the famous statement by Christian leader Martin Niemöller:
"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist."
And then he goes on to say they came for the social democrats, and then the trade unionists, the Jews and so on and he said nothing each time and then finally:
"When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
We are at that point now, my friend. You didn't speak out for Julio because you bought into the left's propaganda that only homosexuals can be victims, never Christians. The far left in league with the New World Order taught you that Christianity is the enemy of freedom and compassion, when in fact it represents the only real freedom and compassion one can ever hope to have.
Now we are here:
But loss of economic freedom is never alone. Loss of religious freedom and loss of political freedom are never far behind.
We are now officially in that latter phase when the right to freedom of speech has been abridged and soon will be completely abolished unless you and I have a change of heart.
Did Assange complain when Julio Severo was cruelly denied a living for his family, including 4 children?
I didn't hear his protests.
And I didn't hear yours either when WorldNetDaily alerted you to this outrage.
So don't protest when they muzzle you and take away your voice and your vote.
Welcome to Gulag America, a prison of your own making, through your silent complicity.
Relevant:
http://laiglesforum.com/will-you-help-this-borther/2693.htm
http://laiglesforum.com/did-paypal-aid-and-abett-child-porn-sellers/2721.htm
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=346825
© Donald Hank
October 26, 2011
Originally published at http://laiglesforum.com/a-gulag-of-your-own-making/2784.htm
Matt. 25:45 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
A few weeks ago, PayPal cut off service to Julio Severo because Julio says on his blog that he agrees with the New Testament on homosexual behavior. They did this at the behest of a homosexual activist group.
Effectively, PayPal, as the only service of its kind, unilaterally decided to try and ban Julio's blog, which has played a key role in stopping utterly totalitarian-style legislation in Brazil that would have banned speech perceived as offensive to homosexuals. Since PayPal is effectively a monopoly, they have threatened Julio's livelihood in objection to his faith, which they want to see banned everywhere in the world.
PayPal is therefore what I call a NGE, or Non-Governmental Enforcer, of an unconstitutional speech code, circumventing the law by using methods that would be politically impossible for government to use.
And yet you will note that government has been glaringly silent and will do nothing to help Julio barring a lawsuit. And it is far from clear whether our leftist-packed judiciary will do anything to intervene on behalf of freedom of speech.
Now, not much fuss was made over Julio's plight outside Christian activist circles, apparently because religious freedom is now being supplanted in Western minds by sexual freedom, a favorite platform of libertarians.
Yet, I have tried to warn that when you allow government (or its proxy) to tell Christians they may not speak out against what they perceive as evil, the totalitarian system will soon direct its fury against you, in what could be called the "Niemöller effect," even if the government per se is not directly involved in this assault. Because you see, the far left (as exemplified by the Fabian Society, which has lost no time in stealthily removing your freedom since the 1880s) has always used stealth tactics to enforce laws, even laws not yet on the books. They believe they are on the side of History, and I write that with a cap because for them history is God.
Now, the West has gradually accepted the mindset that religion is nothing but a throwback and has no place in public life. In fact, they portray Christianity as a sinister system designed to enslave people. Yet when large corporations in league with corrupt government (crony capitalism) overtly take steps to eradicate Christian speech in public, then those liberty-minded individuals who generally ignore the plight of Christians, also considering us to be knuckle dragging Neanderthals, are unwittingly cutting their own throats, because if groups of bullies can tell Christians to shut up with impunity, then they can tell you to shut up as well. It is only a matter of time.
A few scant weeks have passed since PayPal censored Christian blogger Julio Severo and now, those who sat silently by are seeing the censors moving into their own territory. For libertarians generally believe that any censorship is bad and cuts into liberty. Yet, as suggested above, they foolishly look away when Christians are censored, particularly Christians who flout the Ruling Class purportedly on the "side of history." What they fail to see is that the censorship of Christian speech is a harbinger of much bigger things to come. Because the Ruling Class despises Judeo-Christian values (as exemplified by their behavior in Europe where they import Christian-hating Muslims by the millions, and in the Muslim World, where each war they engage in invariably has the outcome of Christian persecution and decimation of the indigenous Christian populations).
This lack of compassion for Christian speech on the part of the "freedom minded," including numerous nominal Christians, is a classic example of the "Niemöller Syndrome" as expressed in the famous statement by Christian leader Martin Niemöller:
"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist."
And then he goes on to say they came for the social democrats, and then the trade unionists, the Jews and so on and he said nothing each time and then finally:
"When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
We are at that point now, my friend. You didn't speak out for Julio because you bought into the left's propaganda that only homosexuals can be victims, never Christians. The far left in league with the New World Order taught you that Christianity is the enemy of freedom and compassion, when in fact it represents the only real freedom and compassion one can ever hope to have.
Now we are here:
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/10/25/248252/Wikileaks-turns-to-fundraising-as-US-finance-companies-cut-off.htm
He [Assange] claims that since Wikileaks began publishing thousands of secret US government files and diplomatic cables online, an "arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade" has been imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.
But loss of economic freedom is never alone. Loss of religious freedom and loss of political freedom are never far behind.
We are now officially in that latter phase when the right to freedom of speech has been abridged and soon will be completely abolished unless you and I have a change of heart.
Did Assange complain when Julio Severo was cruelly denied a living for his family, including 4 children?
I didn't hear his protests.
And I didn't hear yours either when WorldNetDaily alerted you to this outrage.
So don't protest when they muzzle you and take away your voice and your vote.
Welcome to Gulag America, a prison of your own making, through your silent complicity.
Relevant:
http://laiglesforum.com/will-you-help-this-borther/2693.htm
http://laiglesforum.com/did-paypal-aid-and-abett-child-porn-sellers/2721.htm
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=346825
© Donald Hank
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