Canada doesn’t have the First Amendment which protects Americans’ speech, although its reach certainly has been curtailed by recent censorship schemes implemented by the Biden administration.
And it shows, as a new proposal being considered by lawmakers there could provide a life prison sentence for speech that someone else finds offensive.
The possibility has raised concerns for experts, including George Washington university law professor Jonathan Turley.
He’s not only testified before Congress on constitutional issues but has represented members in court. And he’s written the coming book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
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He writes now about the “steady criminalization of speech” in Canada, following the “unrelenting attacks by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”
“Now the Canadian parliament is moving toward a new change that would allow the imposition of life imprisonment on those who post views deemed supportive of genocide,” he explained.
“With a growing movement calling Israel’s war in Gaza ‘genocide,’ the potential scope of such a law is readily apparent. That appears to be its very draw for anti-free speech advocates in the country.”
It is the “Online Harms Act” that now is pending.
It not only includes a possible penalty of life in prison, he explained, “It also increases the penalty for the willful promotion of hatred (a dangerously ill-defined crime) from two years to five years.”
He warned, too, “There is also a chilling option for house arrest if a judge believes a defendant ‘will commit’ an offense. In other words, if a judge thinks that a citizen will be undeterred and try to speak freely again.”
Turley’s warning was stark: “Today the rationale is genocide. However, once the new penalties are in place, a host of other groups will demand similar treatment for those with opposing views on their own causes.”
WND SPECIAL REPORT – “IT’S TRUMP VS. SWAMP PSYCHOPATHS”: From the Biden administration’s enthusiastic support for amputating body parts of troubled children, to its obsession with bringing as many millions of illegal aliens, terrorists and Chinese soldiers as possible into America, it is increasingly clear that many of this nation’s current leaders are, to put it plainly, stark raving mad.
Indeed, psychiatric experts are finally documenting how the symptom profiles of scary conditions like “Borderline Personality Disorder” and “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” PERFECTLY MATCH today’s top leaders.
One groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published in 2023 documents how left-wing extremism is closely associated with “psychopathic tendencies.” Likewise, retired psychiatrist Brad Lyles, M.D., explains how “one way of understanding the increasingly outlandish beliefs and behaviors of the left is through the lens of Borderline Personality Disorder.” And one of America’s top forensic psychiatrists, Lyle Rossiter, M.D., described Barack Obama’s mental state as “Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”
Consider a typical description of sociopathy: “Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments.” Remind you of anyone?
From Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to their presidential Cabinet – including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra – all of these people “have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly.”
But it’s not just Democrat leaders. Multiple surveys now show how rank-and-file Democrats are TWICE as likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder as Republicans – from depression to bipolar disorder to schizophrenia to narcissistic personality disorder. All this and much more is stunningly laid out in the March edition of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, “IT’S TRUMP VS. SWAMP PSYCHOPATHS.” Don’t miss it – you will see the whole political-cultural-spiritual war raging in the U.S.A. in a whole new light.
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Related:
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- Left-Wing New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Calls For Censoring Online Speech, Says Internet Freedom A ‘Weapon Of War’ (Video)
- Canada’s State-Controlled Media Attacks The Word “Freedom,” Falsely Claims It’s A Tool Of The Far Right
- Justin ‘Blackface Hitler’ Trudeau Throws God, Christ Out Of Canada
- Left-Wing New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Calls For Censoring Online Speech, Says Internet Freedom A ‘Weapon Of War’ (Video)
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