{"id":20719,"date":"2010-10-04T23:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2010-10-04T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T03:21:10","slug":"the-difference-between-american-freedom-and-european-freedom-or-lack-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20719","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between American Freedom and European Freedom (Or Lack Of It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2010\/10\/04\/mainstreaming_hate\">Geert Wilders<\/a> fan. His ideas to ban the Koran and to prevent the building of new Mosques in the Netherlands go against my beliefs in property rights and free speech. I also am bothered that many conservatives whom I respect are building connections with him and his movement in Europe. That is not a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am greatly disturbed by the fact that Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands for &#8220;hate speech&#8221; for expressing his views on Islam. The Dutch and the rest of Europe do not view free speech in the same way Americans do. Britain bans books and keeps a list of people who are prevented from entering the country based on the perception that they encourage hatred. Germany bans political parties, censors movies and video games, and arrests people who deny the Holocaust (most central European countries have laws like this in effect). France banned the burqa and the display of other religious\u00a0paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>When progressive talk up Europe and their social democracies, just remember these prohibitions are part of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a Geert Wilders fan. His ideas to ban the Koran and to prevent &hellip; <a title=\"The Difference Between American Freedom and European Freedom (Or Lack Of It)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20719\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Difference Between American Freedom and European Freedom (Or Lack Of It)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}