Giorgos Katidis

Human nature being what it is, the left sees fascism rising everywhere, whereas people such as the poor little Greek boy feel Stalinist governments are threatening freedom of expression. Although speech that urges terrorist violence should be punished, with the ultimate penalty inflicted on those whose words inspire mass murder, there is a big difference between the former and a salute by a 20-year-old cretin who most likely thinks Beethoven is a large Alsatian dog. Here we have a situation where the bankers and the EU have ruined peoples’ lives, with their savings gone and their businesses bankrupted. The bankers have not gone to jail. The EU autocrats are still enjoying the outriders, the free limos, the private planes and large penthouse hotel suites, all on our euro. The NHS chief still holds his job while more than a thousand oldies have bitten the dust.

So what do the Brits do? They’ve put a system in place for government censorship. In the meantime the EU insists that one size fits all and to hell with what happens to the people.

The thought-crime business is thriving. The real threat to democracy is the EU, not the Greek police and Golden Dawn as the Guardianistas insist. The perma-tanned Christine Lagarde, the helmet-haired José Manuel Barroso, and the ludicrous Herman Van Rompuy are the real dangers to freedom. And anyone who disagrees to the coup d’etat to take over Europe is deemed a threat to democracy. Uncle Joe Stalin must be laughing his head off down in that sauna-like place where he resides. In America, where freedom is much more appreciated, censorship is practiced in the written word, on television, and in the movies.

Seth MacFarlane, who hosted this year’s Oscars, once made an ugly joke about Sarah Palin’s Down syndrome child. The Spectator‘s own sainted ex-editor, Dominic Lawson, has a wonderful daughter with Down syndrome. He is Jewish. I wonder what would have hurt him more—an idiot’s Hitler salute, or that ghastly crack?

As Johnny Cash and many others sang, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” Many in Europe have nothing left to lose, so they choose freedom of expression. There you have it in a nutshell.