Data indicates that up to or even more than 30 Brits are being arrested every day for exercising free speech. It is a sobering fact that exactly 80 years after imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the Allied nations now possess elements of the tyranny they opposed during that great war.
Censorship, unjustified arrests, violent antisemitism, government overreach, racial discrimination, hatred of Christianity, aid to terrorists—no, I am not describing a World War II-era dictatorship, but rather current Western “democracies.”
New York Post highlighted the case of Bernadette Spofforth, arrested for a critique of mass migration that she had already deleted from X. She told the outlet, “We’re a year on now and I can honestly tell you that I don’t think I will ever recover.”
Her story is one repeated almost hourly in the UK, where data suggests over 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes, about 12,000 a year, under laws written well before the age of social media that make crimes of sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character.”
Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany killed many millions of innocent people. Japan was so determined to fight to the last man, woman, and child that not only did many military leaders not wish to surrender after the atom bombs were dropped, but there was an attempted coup against the emperor when he announced his intention of surrendering. Americans are justly proud of having defeated the Nazis, the Italian fascists, and the imperial Japanese because of their tyranny and crimes. But are we becoming the monsters we once fought?
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On Sept. 2, 1945, eight decades ago today, representatives of imperial Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri. We had taken down the evil empire. Obviously the war in the Pacific was largely won by Americans, but Britain, France, Russia, and China played their roles too.
And yet now, within living memory of that surrender, Russia is controlled by a former Soviet spy, China is ruled by a genocidal Communist government, and France and Britain are rapidly turning into sharia-worshipping, anti-freedom, anti-Judeo-Christian dictatorships bent on destroying their own Western heritage. Even America, which is in the most promising state, is overrun with unpatriotic Marxists.
When I visited France last month, not one cathedral we went into had not been desecrated with some pagan monstrosity—placed there by the schizophrenic government that glorifies transgenderism and Islam, and hates the Catholicism that made France great. The steps of the French Parliament were painted rainbow and Muslims predominated on the Champs-Élysées. When I visited England last year, Trafalgar Square was overrun with pro-Hamas protestors. In Edinburgh, woke Scots were holding an anti-Israel protest. These are the countries that contributed to winning WWII, and now they are self-destructing.
Americans are still censored on a regular basis on social media platforms, and our constitutional rights from guns to religion to property are under assault by Democrats. Truly, we face a test of whether we will carry on the legacy of the Greatest Generation and justify their sacrifices or lose the liberty they fought so hard to pass on to us.
