No Freedom to be Silent?

As Orwell made clear, the logical next step after silencing dissent is to require assent. Being silent soon becomes not enough. You will eventually be required to state your positive agreement with the official line. And in Mao Tse Tung's China it really happened that way.

And it seems to moving in that direction in Britain too. Even if you say nothing out of line, pity help you if you are suspected of deviant thoughts. As Sean Gabb reports, a drama teacher at a local theatre was quietly doing her job and doing it well. There was certainly no claim that she was preaching politics as part of it. But it was discovered that she was in her after-hours life active in the British National Party -- a party that opposes multiculturalism and wants all illegal immigrants sent back whence they came.

So a local newspaper and a local Member of Parliament are campaigning to have her sacked from her job not because of anything she has done or said while at work but because she is a "Fascist". The fact that the original Fascists were socialists does not bother anybody, of course.

So she will undoubtedly lose her job simply because she does not join in Hosannas to the official British "diversity" religion. Sean Gabb's article includes an email address for the newspaper concerned.

(For more postings from me, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.)

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