If you’re old enough, you probably remember a movie from 1963. Called It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, it’s a fun film, memorable, but certainly not one of the great comedies of all time. It’s a silly and wild chase epic, concerning motorists trying to recover stolen loot. It’s best known for it’s ensemble of Hollywood stars and multiple cameo roles that include Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, The Three Stooges, Phil Silvers, Jack Benny, Zasu Pitts, Don Knotts, Jimmy Durante, Leo Gorcey, Andy Devine, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson (one of my favorites, along with Jack Benny) and many, many more.
However, it’s the title of the film, not the plot or stars, that intrigues me. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World strikes me as a fitting title for the world that socialist liberals like AOC and Bernie Sanders are proposing. They point to Nordic countries like Sweden, Finland, and Denmark that mix capitalism with a very strong dose of socialism, saying that it’s proof that socialism works. It’s called the Nordic model, and if you don’t mind the government running your life, you might even like it.
But what our American socialists candidates don’t tell you about the Nordic model is that you will lose many of your constitutional freedoms.
Do you think the Nordic countries value diversity of opinion, or your right to free speech? If you do, keep reading.
In the southern Swedish city of Skåne, the court system convicted and heavily fined a 91-year old man for “hate speech” after he made negative comments about Islam and Muslims on Facebook. An article in The Voice of Europe, quotes the elderly man as writing, ““You cannot, with the best will in the world, call these creatures humans. They seem to be inbred, the way they behave.”
In another case, Swedish journalist Katerina Janouch was banned from the Swedish version of Facebook for writing an introduction to an article in favor of British free-speech advocate Tommy Robinson. According to The Voice of Europe, this is the offensive statement that Katerina made: “Defending freedom of expression when you agree is a breeze, but if we are to have any freedom of speech worth mentioning, it must also be defended when it is challenged and not all agree. It may be your turn next.”
As another example, a 65 year-old woman was imprisoned for posting on Facebook, “Mass immigration will cause Sweden’s IQ to fall to goldfish levels.”
Sweden actually pays “snitches” who monitor the Swedish Internet so they can report anything that might be interpreted as hate speech, speech against migration or immigrants. Reportedly, there have already been about 150 convictions. To me, it sounds more like Nazi Germany or the old Soviet state where you couldn’t even trust your neighbors or family to speak freely for fear that they would turn you in.
If you think free speech is not at risk in the United States, consider this: last week, CNN Anchor Christiane Amanpour, in an interview with formed FBI Director James Comey, asked him if the FBI should have “shut down” Trump supporters at his political rallies when they chanted “lock her up,” which of course referred to Crooked Hillary. Amanpour called it “hate speech,” and seemed surprised when Comey defended free speech, rather than agreeing with her that Trump supporters should be dealt with by the FBI. Sending in the FBI into a Trump rally would be like resurrecting the SS stormtroopers of the 1930’s and 40’s. This is not fiction, folks. It’s what the liberals want.
I find many types of speech disagreeable, but I live in a country where you and I are, as of now, free to state our opinions, no matter how offensive they may be to others.
If you know someone who plans on voting for one of our socialist candidates, you might want to pass along this article. The socialist candidates won’t tell you what freedoms you will be losing; I will.
Not only is it “a mad mad mad mad world,” it also a scary one.
If the socialists ever win, I may well die in prison for writing this article and others like it. Guard the freedoms your have. They can be taken away if we’re not watching.
— Mr. Evil