By Mick Hume, European Conservative. (photo: Robert Anasch/Unsplash)
In the face of attempts to censor conservatives in Brussels, we need to stand unequivocally for free speech for all.
Recent attempts to censor conservative views in Brussels confirm that the militant threat to free speech today comes not from the ‘far right,’ but from the fake ‘anti-fascists’ of the left. And that these relatively few activists can only succeed because the mainstream and the authorities, who no longer believe in the European principle of free speech, give in to their demands for censorship.
It is now obvious that, even in the capital city of the supposedly civilised European Union, cancel culture has been normalised. And ‘Antifa’ is only the militant wing of a mainstream campaign to silence national conservative voices.
In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, 1984, the character O’Brien from the Big Brother regime’s Thought Police provides this grim vision of an authoritarian, unfree society: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
To update Orwell, and give a glimpse of anti-freedom in Europe today, we might instead say: “…imagine some eggs being thrown at a hotel door—for one minute.”
Because that was all it took for the wannabe Thought Police of Antifa to launch an attack on free speech in Brussels this week. A handful of idiots from the ‘Poulettes Antifascistes’ group (they are fake anti-fascists, but the ‘Young Chickens’ part of their name at least seems appropriate), turned up in the dark and threw a few boxes of eggs at the outside of a five-star hotel which was due to host an event for the MCC Brussels think tank.