Ireland is battling it out with England and Sweden to be king of the woke castle. Apart from planning to kill of most of its cows, Ireland is also happy to kill off what remains of free speech. The Irish Green Party, just like other Leftist Green parties across the West, has championed the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. The legislation criminalises “incitement to violence or hatred against” people with “protected characteristics,” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.” This widens the ambit of former race hatred Acts, to include the latest big social justice thing, transgenderism.
Pauline O’Reilly of the Greens declared before the Irish Senate: “when one thinks about it, all law and all legislation is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.” That has always been the standard response of tyrants, seeking to restrict liberties; it will be for the common good, so trust us.