Why is Britain silent on the murder of Samuel Paty? | TheArticle
Why is Britain so silent on the beheading of a teacher in France at the hands of a foul, murdering hater of freedom of expression?
There was no mention at Prime Ministers questions, no condemnation by Dominic Raab or for that matter from Sir Keir Starmer or the shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy. The biggest teachers union, the NEU, has published no press release, and neither have the National Union of Journalists or Index on Censorship, the UK s self-proclaimed NGO, whose task is to defend freedom of expression.
The victim, Samuel Paty, 47, decided to teach his teenage pupils a class on freedom of expression. It is important to remember that the French school-teacher has a near mythic status in France. They are seen as the transmitters of the civic virtues of Republican France.
The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was approved by the National Assembly of France, on August 26, 1789. This foundational document makes plain what is at stake. Article XI states plainly that, The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
Evidently because the wokeness virus is so deeply entrenched in the UK. Whowouldathunk we’d be taking lessons in freedom from the French.