Censorship of free speech has reached its finest moment in North American media. In the U.S.A. free speech is an endangered species. If you insult the King, or anyone or anything he likes, you are exiled because you probably “had very bad ratings.” and “a pure lack of TALENT.” The omnipotent, narcissistic, sociopathic musings of the King determine what is allowable speech and what is not.
Stephen Colbert was taken off the air for satirizing the King’s chaotic and ridiculous behaviour. Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air for commenting on the King and his Republican enablers using the murder of Charlie Kirk to fan the flames of their agenda.
I expected this censorship of free speech from the dictatorship south of our border. I did not expect it from our new Canadian Liberal government.
The decision to ban the Irish rap group Kneecap was based on their pro-Palestinian stance and alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Reporter Mariamne Everett wrote that the band was banned from entering Canada “over accusations that it was endorsing political violence and terrorism.” There is more than a little hypocrisy at play here, as the Canada goes to the UN to support the creation of a Palestinian State.
I am not an ardent follower of the trio called Kneecap, and I am not a huge fan of rap, but I would defend to the end their right to sing songs in defence of Palestine. The greatest perpetrators of political violence and terrorism right now in the middle east are the State of Israel, the Israeli Defence Force, and the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlers.
Wake up! There will be no Gaza, no Gaza City, no safe haven in the West Bank because Israel is completing its ethnic cleansing of Palestine while the world fiddles with its cell phones. And the U.S.A. is complicit in this horrifying slaughter and destruction by continuing to support Israel at the UN and vote against the endorsement of a Two State Solution.
If we are going to ban terrorists from entering our country, at least make sure we get the right ones. Colbert, Kimmel, and Kneecap aren’t the problem. They are our conscience, reminding us that the dictators and mass murderers are wearing no clothes.
The way I see it.