Close your Eyes. Imagine if you will... A free world
Professional Bodies Regulating Political Speech discussed in LawyerLisa On Fire link below
Political Speech the Rarest of Commodities and it’s for Sale
When you think of a free country, what comes to mind? Close your eyes and just imagine it. Are you waving at your neighbours? And are they smiling at you? Or, are they furtively hiding behind their masks? Looking away because you aren't wearing the mask - or aids ribbon.
Are you dropping your kids off to school with a lunch you made, and can afford? Or are you worried about the curriculum they're getting and how far it is away from the three Rs, and how close it might, just might be, to communism?
Walking on Broken Glass
Do you feel confident offering your opinion online? Or will you be censored and even de-platformed? Are you repressing all these 'new normals' and trying to fit them into your version of a new concept, of 'free country'? Or has it just stopped 'feeling right' to you?
Medical March
Do you go get medical care when you feel ill? Or instead do you get calls from public health regardless of how you are feeling that it is 'time' to get your 'booster'. Do you want to know what's in it? Ask questions about why you need it if you've just had the disease and you'll likely get the disease anyways? But you also know asking these questions are the things you're now not allowed to do?
Have you heard about the doctors who lose their license for speaking up? And then do you ask yourself if you can expect your doctor to give you an answer if she faces the loss of her medical license?
Have you seen died suddenly trending on twitter but silence of the lambs everywhere else? But did you expect the area of free speech that would be protected would be political speech?
When you think of a free country. Did you think in a political democracy that getting to the right answer and the right solution involves debate? or silence? or even a 'correct' and 'accepted' view that you must adopt.? and who is supposed to silence you? Is it your professional body? If your professional body silences and censures you in the area of your free speech - political speech THEN THEN are you facing THIS CHOICE: The choice to support your family earn a living basically feed yourself; and have your voice heard in your democracy.
If criticizing your prime minister, and his choices for the direction he is taking the country in means you will lose the right to earn a living- that you will be censured by your professional body? or even medicated, or forced into classes for right think? Then open your eyes. Maybe you're not in Kansas anymore. And what gave them the authority to know your opinions, as certainly you have the right to express them. The time to WAKE UP might be exactly freaking now.
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