Thank God For 1776

31 month sentence..smh.

Why not just put her to death? Say, a firing squad or the gallows?

The Thought Police are center stage.
I pray that the world is taking notice.

Yes. The UK is channeling George III. There’s a reason why the American Revolution happened. When you take away the public’s means of expressing dissent, all you leave them with is violence. The only problem is that usually those imposing the suppression of speech rarely pay any price for doing so.

If they listen to anyone who says to them, “You must give up this, that and the other for the common good,” they will be cheated every time. This is what happened in Spain. The Communist Party propagandists said that the workers had no need to keep direct control on factories, transport etc., because they were adequately represented in the Government, which contained ministers representing the trade unions. Later, of course, when the arms had for the most part been got out of the workers’ hands and the Communist-Liberal clique was in a stronger position, the trade-union representatives were turned out of the Government and you now have a Government which does not contain one minister representing any working-class party. The only thing that could excuse this is military necessity, and of course this excuse has been used all along. But as a matter of fact the present Government (the Negrin Government, dating from May) has been much less successful in a military sense than the previous ones. It has worked itself into a position of absolute power and put most of its opponents in jail, but it is not winning the war. I doubt indeed whether the war can now be won unless France intervenes. To win a war you have either got to have a preponderance of arms, which the Government has not got and is not likely to have, or you have got to arouse enthusiasm among the people. But no one can get up much enthusiasm for a Government which puts you in jail if you open your mouth.

Excuse me always lecturing you about this. But what I saw in Spain has upset me so much that I talk about it to everybody. And the English papers have told such frightful lies about the whole business, the left-wing papers (News Chronicle and Daily Worker) almost worse than the right-wing ones. It is desperately necessary to get people to see through the humbug that is talked about “fighting against Fascism,” or the next thing we know we shall find ourselves fighting another imperialist war (against Germany) which will be dressed up as a war “against Fascism,” and then another ten million men will be dead before people grasp that Fascism and so-called democracy are Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

– George Orwell – From a Letter to Amy Charlesworth – 30 August 1937