{"id":49892,"date":"2019-11-30T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49892"},"modified":"2019-11-30T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:35:32","slug":"angela-merkel-says-freedom-of-speech-must-be-curtailed-to-keep-society-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49892","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel Says Freedom of Speech Must be Curtailed to Keep Society Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/11\/29\/angela-merkel-says-freedom-of-speech-must-be-curtailed-to-keep-society-free\/\">Angela Merkel Says Freedom of Speech Must be Curtailed to Keep Society Free<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wait, what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summit.news\/2019\/09\/160919merkel.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that freedom of expression must be curtailed in order to keep society free.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor all those who claim that they can no longer express their opinion, I say this to them; If you express a pronounced opinion, you must live with the fact that you will be contradicted,\u201d said Merkel during a speech to the German Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExpressing an opinion does not come at zero cost, but freedom of expression has limits,\u201d she added, as some in the Bundestag could be heard voicing their disagreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose limits begin where hatred is spread, they begin where the dignity of other people is violated. This house will and must oppose extreme speech otherwise our society will no longer be the free society that it was,\u201d said Merkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevant\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1006610110016258048\/TZBvAV0N_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevant\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevant\/status\/1200191002629345281\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch till the end. Angela Merkel says: we have to take away your freedom of speech, or else society won\u2019t be free.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, what \u201cviolates\u201d the \u201cdignity\u201d of other people is completely subjective and could include all manner of speech that most people would find perfectly acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The debate over free speech in Germany has intensified since the country accepted over a million migrants from the Middle East and North Africa from 2015 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Germans have found themselves hit with charges of hate speech for pointing out \u2018hate facts\u2019 like migrants being responsible for crimes and sexual assaults<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This happened despite the German government\u2019s own numbers showing violent crime in Germany rose by 10 per cent between 2015 and 2016 and that more than 90 per cent of the rise was attributable to young male \u201crefugees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Merkel Says Freedom of Speech Must be Curtailed to Keep Society Free Wait, what? German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that freedom of expression must be curtailed in order to keep society free. Yes, really. \u201cFor all those who claim that they can no longer express their opinion, I say this to them; If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1890,120,2703,13657,359,14572,26537],"class_list":["post-49892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-angela-merkel","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-germany","tag-paul-joseph-watson","tag-summit-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49893,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892\/revisions\/49893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}