One of the more depressing developments of my lifetime has been the increase in the number of politically motivated crimes – especially murders and violence against human beings – and the accompanying conviction that comes with such crimes that the real perpetrators of them are one’s political enemies.
For example, readers will be intimately familiar with what happens in Ireland every time some criminal lowlife decides to assault or otherwise criminally attack a migrant, or to set an asylum centre ablaze: In the absence of actual convicted perpetrators to blame, attention is turned to the words of the innocent. If you ever criticised Government immigration policy, or suggested that asylum numbers are too high, well then, you’ve as good as lit the match. That is the tone of the coverage and the conversation, which is usually and often appended with the recommendation that various rhetorical utterances should be banned, and social media “hate” cracked down upon.
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