The US Constitution’s First Amendment guaranteed Freedom of Speech to all Americans. The restrictions on this liberty have been few. Treason, child pornography, and endangerment are considered beyond the frontiers of our inalienable rights. In truth we are free to say what we want as long as everyone else is saying the same thing. Governments despise any deviation from the norm.
The United Kingdom’s stand on Free Speech exacts rigid accordance with its strictures against abuse, threats, breaches of peace, hatred, incitement of violence, treason, regicide, obscenity, slander, and a broad range of offenses reinforced by the defendant’s need to prove their innocent.
Banned in Britain was a selling point for subversive literature in the last century.
in 1960 DH Lawrence’s LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER sold over two million copies for Penguin Press after the courts tried the publisher for violation of a 1859 law against obscenity.
Pornography has become the frontline of free speech everywhere, but neither the British nor Americans are free to speak their minds.
The BBC reported that a Liberal-Democratic member of Parliament stated at a Middlesex University lecture, “One day, the United States of America will get sick of giving £70bn a year to Israel to support what I call America’s aircraft carrier in the Middle East – that is Israel….One day, the American people are going to say to the Israel lobby in the USA: enough is enough. It will not go on for ever. It will not go on forever. Israel will lose support and then they will reap what they have sown.”
The leadership of her party distanced themselves from Baroness Tonge.
“No place in politics for those who question existence of the state of Israel.”
The lady in question resigned from the Lib-Dem without an apology for her comments.
“The comments I made were in protest at the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and the treatment of Israeli Arabs. I am disappointed the leadership of my party did not consult me before issuing a press release and seems always to abet the request of the pro-Israel lobby. Israel is acting against international law, the Geneva Conventions, and human rights. They do this with impunity and if our political parties will not take action then individuals must. I have been asked to apologise but refuse to do so and resign the whip of my party.”
These quotes come from the BBC Report.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17218291
Baroness Tonge seemingly is off the mark with how much aid is given to Israel by the USA.
The total comes to about $5 billion a year in comparison to zero in aid to the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, since Hamas’ condemnation of the Israeli state has earned it the status of a terrorist organization and the USA never deals with terrorists.
Hamas missile launch into Israel.
There is only one solution.
One-State.