Ireland’s Green Party has renewed its call for hate speech and hate crime legislation in its newly-released European election manifesto which was launched today, adding that their aim is to “keep the extreme-right from any position of influence.”
The party says it is seeking to “work toward a renewed LGBTQIA+ Equality Strategy that would ensure that trans, intersex, and non-binary people are also protected under the EU legal framework, closing legislative gaps in the areas of non-discrimination and hate crime.”
They also call for “an EU-wide ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ and forced sterilisation of transgender people.”
“HATE SPEECH” AND “DISINFORMATION”
They go on to say that they will “ensure that the EU Action Plan Against Racism is implemented”, adding: “…National Action Plans must be mandatory for all member states.”
Notably, the EU Action Plan Against Racism says that “the effective implementation” of “the Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law” is a “key” part of “ensuring that hate speech and hate crimes receive an effective criminal response.”
The document adds:
The Green Party says that they will “ensure” that this plan is implemented if elected.
They further go on to add that the EU’s Race Equality Directive should be updated “to explicitly cover policing and institutional violence.”
The party also warns of “the increasing threat of disinformation and interference in sovereign democracies”, saying that this is a matter of “particular concern” that “must be met by robust cybersecurity efforts.”
CREATE “PAN-EUROPEAN MEDIA” TO DISPEL “EU-RELATE MYTHS”
The party says that one of their goals is also to support the emergence of “pan-European media outlets”, arguing that these are “essential to help inform and empower European citizenship, and foster a European identity, while dispelling EU-related myths.”
The manifesto features calls to “recognise the need for an EU framework to prevent media concentration and enable journalists to work freely.”
PUSHING FOR “A FEMINIST EUROPE” BY “ENDING THE GENDER PAY GAP”
On the topic of gender equality, the party says it will promote “a feminist Europe” that will “guarantee policies that ensure financial independence for women”, including by “ending the gender pay gap via binding measures for companies and public authorities.”
They also say they will “defend a gender balance in EU decision-making, including for the top jobs.”
“The EU Commission and the Council need specific portfolios for women’s rights and gender equality,” the document reads.
It also says that abortion is “a fundamental right”.
LOOKING INTO UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME SCHEMES
The Greens are also saying that Universal Basic Income (UBI) schemes should be “researched and studied”.
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a social welfare system in which all citizens receive a regular, unconditional sum of money from the government regardless of employment status or income.
“[We] argue that Universal basic income should be researched and studied, and advocate for national basic income pilots.”
Notably, Green Party Arts Minister Catherine Martin has already rolled out a Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme, which, according to CitizensInformation.ie, “aims to support the arts and creative practice by giving a payment of €325 a week to artists and creative arts workers.”
“HARD RIGHT” THREATENS “THE VERY PURPOSE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION”
The party also emphasised the need to fight “the extreme right” electorally.
“When elected, Greens will seek to build a progressive coalition in the European Parliament – to defend the Green Deal, the principles of a democratic EU and to keep the extreme-right from any position of influence,” the party said.
“…As Greens we will recognise that this election is one of the most crucial the European Parliament has faced since the first popular elections in 1979. The governing majority of centre left, centre and centre right looks likely to lose its majority for the first time. The rightward shift of the European People’s Party offers a prospect of the involvement of the hard right via the European Conservative and Reformists.
“Greens must work with those of the left and centre to ensure this does not happen, including building a progressive majority to protect the Green Deal and to exclude those that would destroy the very purpose of the European Union.”
The full manifesto can be read here.
We have to make sure these tools don’t get back into government
True Baz. They have inflicted so much daily cost on every Irish individual in pursuit of their pipe dreams. They are anti-human, anti-Irish, anti-business, and will shut down the over burdened economy kamikaze style. All the while who will pay for all the immigrants? These parties know only how to tax us to oblivion. Look at the cost of electricity / gas and diesel/ petrol. All we need now is another bank failure and we may close the curtains and turn out the lights!
We must make sure that Martin and Fianna Fail don’t get back into government because they brought the idiot Greens into power. Their policies were rejected by the people in the last election
She even looks like a soul-less evil entity!
One of the main conditions of accepting the Immigration Pact is that Hate-Speech laws have to be passed to make them work! It Stinks to almighty heaven!
When I say she looks like that, looks are always just my subjective view of the World. It may be just a terrible photo! But, my view of her is also influenced by the fact that she wants to ban my free speech! Which is totally disgraceful and deserves a prosecution in my eyes! She wants to damage to my life and also kill our democracy, as democracy depends primarily on free speech… the ability to give an opinion, good or bad, is an integral part of free speech, and not to just say how good the weather is… but how long before she will ban comments on the weather, out of her imaginary climate problems!
Sadly, Elon Musk wants UBI
He is one of them at the end of the day. He has already taken steps to censor the reach on ‘X’ of many users, who talk about certain subjects. He has given in the von der Leyen and her hyenas!
Take notice… the Greens want to follow the globalists and reduce ‘Carbons’ in the World! What they don’t tell you is that ‘We are the ‘Carbons’ they want to reduce. Everything they do is based on 1. taking away all rights to react and fight back and 2. To get rid of us using various means. Sorry crazies… but I am more than carbon! …but for me, you are!
“Forced sterilization of ‘trans’ people”. These people are profoundly obtuse. [Apologies for the shouting] THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT TRANS’ING DOES YOU ASTONISHINGLY STUPID PEOPLE!
Which “puberty blocker do you prefer? Lupron or Treptoreline? The first one; Lupron is an end of life prostate cancer drug that will cause suicide Ideation, fuse internal organs and sterilize you. Treptoreline on the onther hand is a variation on the drug they gave to Alan Turing to sterilize him.
Everything and I mean EVERYTHING is an inversion of reality with these Trans rights people, they take the truth, turn in 180 degrees and demand we all follow. Is it any wonder everyone hates the idiots in the Greens so much now…
I thought I was seeing things when I seen that line : forced sterilisation of transgender people.” Absolute twisted bunch of weasels. By the very ones who were cheering this on. Did they think no one has been paying attention to the abuse. Or are they pretending that they were ill informed.
And yet, they will be our next government. The tail wags the ff/fg puppy
I hope that aontu put enough candidates in for the next general election, i know peadar Tobian is talking about immigration in a way most would prefer not to hear, however unlike our present government (3 party’s) who are not listening to the electorate, i believe aontu have this country’s culture, heritage, rights, and beliefs to protect and they will give it priority. And the floods of people dotting our shores will be controlled by them. They will listen to us. Unlike the present bunch of criminals, I will say no more about the weasels. Only I hate them all. They have failed school, hospitals, prisons systems, the guards by ignoring their no confidence vote, ect ect
A vote for the greens is a vote for communism. They are the purveyors of hate speech and crimes as evidenced by their own manifesto.
They are a crazed Marxist party and a warning to anyone contemplating a vegan diet.
The Green Party is an interesting study on misrepresentation.
It is a green-washed Communist Party.
I personally would love to see the back of them.
They have punished the ordinary punter too much with their wacky ideas. Hard to think they want to push such transanity, censorship and willingly hand more power to the centralised, undemocratic institutions in the EU.
I would encourage all to not vote for the Greens, in the local or European elections.
It’s an important election time for Ireland, both local and European. Time to cast a vote for radical change. No to transanity, no to censorship, no to more EU dictatorship.
Totally off the wall now. A shower of nobodies.
Far too many Greens in government disproportionate to the numbers elected. Boot them all out hard, never to be seen again, at the Council, European and Dáil elections. End of.
The Far Left Strikes Again… Vote them OUT before they shut us out. Not one of their policies ever benefited any indigenous Irish person. If it were up to them, all of Palestine, Africa, & the Middle East would replace us here on this small Island.
I think that to understand what is behind hate speech proposals, there needs to be an understanding of what is a power imbalance.
Proposals for hate speech laws are made by people who want to divide society into three levels.
The proposers are generally those who regard themselves as the State.
They define the rest of society into two classes, the lesser class who fall within the umbrella of those who have been determined to possess protected characteristics.
Those in the middle are those not possessing a protected characteristic, or part of the State apparatus.
Who has the power within these three levels?
The State apparatus would have those designated as possessing a protected characteristic believe that those who don’t possess a protected characteristic have some type of amorphous “privilege”, and are using it to oppress those with a protected characteristic, and are persuaded by the State apparatus that Hate Speech laws will protect them from this oppression.
But who has the power within this hierarchy?
Those who identify as the State are the the only people who can initiate and pass Hate Speech legislation.
Quite a powerful position.
They direct the internal security services of the State, the Gardai, and also the Defence forces of the State.
They have control over the Judicial branch of the State.
Again quite a power.
They control the regulatory bodies of the State, and as has been apparent over the last few years, they control the national media.
All in all, the power imbalance within the three designated levels falls heavily on the State apparatus.
So for those other two levels, those in possession of a protected characteristic and those without, what power do they have?
Physical power rests with the State, ownership of firearms is strictly regulated for the general population.
Regulatory power rests with the State, the citizen must abide by them or face consequences.
Power around information dissemination and the media, rests exclusively with the State.
So what power do the two levels of society identified above, possess.
It is their constitutionally protected power of speech.
Their voice.
And somehow the State trying to say that it is bringing forward the hate speech laws ostensibly to protect those who possess protected characteristics from those who don’t.
Whereas in general, those who don’t possess a protected characteristic have no interest in oppressing those who do, and when they are asked to give support and backing to those who possess a protected characteristic they have been more than willing to step up and fight their cause with them.
One thing those with a protected characteristic and those without have in common is their constitutional right to free speech, even if it is something they disagree about.
And one thing they happens to both if the hate speech laws are passed, is that the constitutional right both have to free speech is restricted.
It is restricted to what the State says is permissable.
Because the State has all the power, and the only power that those with a protected characteristic and those without have in common is the ability to speak freely, and that is what the State wants to crush by setting them against one another.
And if it is successful who wins?
The State.
Because if it is brought in, the State will have achieved its objective because it will be above criticism.
In case you missed it, the State is a protected characteristic as well.
I tell you, you have a great mind, profoundly analytical. Thanks for this. It is so 1984 its unreal. I’d actually love to hear George Orwell’s input into what’s goin’ on now.
If there are ‘Hate-Speech laws’, then they can fix the elections and any talk against it and it will land people in prison! In the USA, They even have a case against Trump for this federally and another ongoing one with Big-Fanny Willes in Georgia! The term ‘Hate’ is non-defined and can be used anywhere and anytime to stop democratic voices!
The use of Police from other non-English speaking countries:
It was rumoured that during Farmer protests in Amsterdam, Polish riot-police were imported to crack the heads of the protesting farmers. This was then not discussed! In NewtownMountKennedy, we saw PSNI from NI imported to rough up the protesters. But the real proof was in the Eurovision in Malmo, we saw groups of police from various other EU countries there. These police do not know the laws, or even the language of the country and are there only to ‘crack skulls’. How many Spanish police could speak Swedish in Malmo?
They are trying to normalise this Schwab policy and they need to be stopped!
Ideas straight out of the “Communist Manifesto” – but adapted to modern circumstances – and – in fairness to Karl Marx – what ever “bit of skirt” he went chasing after (for the bearded one’s lasciviousness was well known), he only ever set his eyes on biological females !
Don’t trans people sterilise themselves by removing their own genitals?
Actually a lot of the “transwomen” for some reason want to hang on to their cock and balls but yet claim to be women just as much as your mother.
Hate speech legislation is censorship pure and simple. And the proponents are the ones always on about far right and nazis. Oh the irony.
And others after getting it done go back to the doctor…
“Doc remember you cut off my cock and balls…….well……do you still have them?”
Dear Greenparty here’s a little quote from a vile man’s book, “The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed. -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf”
Any attempt to tell your child, against the advice of activist teachers etc, that they are not, and in fact never can be, the opposite sex will be met with accusations of transphobia, ultimate criminalisation and removal of the child to state care.
But, itt seems that as many as 80% of trans presenting teenagers are gay: transing these kids is the ULTIMATE conversion therapy.
Similar proportions of “trans kids” are also on the autism spectrum: it could be very reasonably argued that to cross-sex hormone dose, mutilate and thereby steralise these kids represents the most egregious of eugenics, worthy of the Nazi regime.
Yet the Green Party will shamelessly push these agendas, along with those of criminalising opinions (“We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”) and the forceful plantation of unidentifiable foreigners in Irish communities, the mindless attacks on farming (and by extension our food security), private transport, etc, etc… abbsurdly all predicated on the massive lie that atmospheric CO2 content is influencecs significantly by human activity and that this in turn will alter the global climate.
The Green Party are, in my view, the sickest, most perverted, pernicious, most anti-human and just plain evil political party in Ireland and across Europe.
Vote these demented demons into oblivion on 7th June.
You are absolutely correct .There is nothing Green about them . When I buy my organic food, I expect tha
contaminated products will not be grown les than 150 metres away . I would like to do that to these
dangerously insane ,who areat the forefront of pushing all these perverse fantasies onto the unwary
by presenting themselves as Green,therefore pure and healthy , when in fact their
purpose is to destroy all of that .
So, anyone who supports them, is supporting destruction of Gods ,Natural and Good laws of Nature,
which whenused properly bring about life ,beauty , plenty , appreciation of the Creator of all of this,
and continuity . The irony is that Greens will destroy everything, if they are not stopped .
Take a look at her — she’s someone who could never build or even maintain a nation, a civilization — but she and people like her are more than capable of destroying all of the above.
What a beautiful grimace
https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/star-trek-picard-borg-queen.jpg
Very close resemblance.
[When she descended and the vertebrae clicked into place within that sleak black body suit, I don’t know, if I was honest, something stirred, we’re only flesh and bone son…. that dominance, the smooth if slightly oily skull skin…..and then to meld into the collective…. to lose oneself….in the vast void…
Snaps to……..,’you ain’t never gonna assimilate me bitch’ ]
These nightmares are ramping up.
😂
Lol Watch as all your greens colli… oh wait, join FF
i find this borg queen highly attractive. Confession of the month, LOL…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPeCMZpvAhY&t=11s
I think this has gone off track saving the country…I blame myself….and the misogyny, after all she’s still a woman…even if a destroyer of worlds…….cancelled !
One of the comments….
Data had a borgasm, 😆
Yes..i’m sure they would also introduce a new tax to offset hate speech.
I wouldn’t worry about the ‘greens’ this time around.
Don’t forget a Tzar to oversee it…and about 200 staff…etc. you know the routine.
What’s the difference between Green Party and a Latrine/Potty ?? …….. I don’t know either !!
A latrine\potty is useful
The bucket?
Both are full of sh*t?
All this talk about “the gender pay gap” is very old hat, isn’t it? There are, as far as I’m aware, 78 genders. Consequently there are potentially 3,003 gender pay gaps. We’re gonna need a few more billion euro for our indispensable NGO’s to sort that mess out.
She looks like a corpse!
‘Thank you’ to Ben for an excellent, informative, article.
All in all, the Greens’ above-mentioned election manifesto seems to be designed to appeal to those who are ‘green’ in the sense of being “immature, inexperienced or easily deceived” (which is one of the definitions of the term ‘green’ in my dictionary).
Regarding the so-called ‘gender pay gap’, any reasonably well-informed person, man or woman, will know that this is very largely due, not to discrimination against women in terms of pay but to different freely-chosen lifestyle choices and career choices on the part of men and women respectively. It’s difficult not to suspect that the Greens know this perfectly well but are hoping to gain politically, in the form of getting votes from women, by deliberately giving women the false impression that they are being discriminated against in terms of pay.
As for the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), in which all citizens receive a regular, unconditional sum of money from the government regardless of employment status or income, “dosser’s charter” might be a more accurate term for this idea. Obviously the money for such a scheme would have to come from higher taxes, not that there would be much worth taxing in a Green-run economy.
As for the rest of the Greens’ manifesto, e.g. a LGBT-plus Equality Strategy, anti-hate speech laws, etc., etc., all this stuff is entirely predictable, given the Greens’ general ideological views.
I’ve one question that’s been playing in my head for 25 years. How can extreme feminism be so willing to be so subservient to Islam?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38956212
I can’t get my head around this riddle…
Actually, I can, but it just goes to show how ludicrous it all is.
She reminds me of the commercial with the ferret or whatever it is “Simples” ..In other words she looks insane
Vote anti immigration candidates, it’s the only choice
No Más.
What is a hate crime in New Zealand?
WATCH: Bob McCoskrie examines the hypocrisy of NZ Police treating painting over rainbow crossings as a “hate crime”, when three other recent examples of vandalism were treated as run-of-the-mill protests.
https://twitter.com/TheZeitgeistNZ/status/1775279179317268723
Green Party Manifesto 2024, ‘the longest PoliticaL Suicide Note in History’.
I am loving their Kamikazi ‘Banzi’ message just before wipe out and destruction.
How did such braindead numpties ever get into Govt and be handed the reins of Power to destroy the Nation with their lunatic ideology on gender, climate and immigration.
Very Very Dangerous Individuals
Can anyone ask those green Cultists to actually point out the far right.?
In Ireland actual far right?
Not smearing locals who aren’t given any input into hundreds of undocumented immigrants being forced into their communities.
Malicious well to do Faux Marxists.
Who takes the mental deranged people seriously
There’s a sense of deja vu about all of this. I seem to recall the nation vowing before that the Greens would never get into Government again. Yet here we are again and worse than ever. The electorate needs to put its money where it’s mouth is and file this under long-term memory.
Do they really think that this is what will get them voted back in? Besides the arrogance of these current ruling parties, they seem to have some sort of a death wish with these unpopular proposals. I’m sure we can make a galant effort in helping them get removed from office. Just a little nudge.
“The extreme right” meaning the average citizen of this country with their reasonable opinions. These people are the extremists. If they didn’t want a culture war, why did they start one?
This is from the German flavour or green lying and malicious bollox.
It will be coming our way too!
https://www.eugyppius.com/
Green is the warmest colour …