Via Paul Belien of the
Brussels Journal, an email from Gerard Batten of UKIP about the cancellation of a showing of
Fitna in the European Parliament:
Showing of the Film Fitna Banned by Order of the Conference of Presidents
It is with great regret that I have to announce the cancellation of the showing of the film Fitna at the meeting with Mr Geert Wilders MP today at 2pm.
I was informed of this decision today.
Nevertheless a press conference will take place at 2pm in room R 3.1 with Mr Wilders and myself.
The banning of this film is a direct attack on free speech. A parliament that constantly talks of freedom, democracy and tolerance has shown once again that these are empty words when it does not agree with what is being said.
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On the same day that the European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to the Chinese freedom campaigner Hu Jia the Conference of Presidents deny free speech to one of its own members.
The press conference is open to MEPs and their assistants as well as accredited members of the press.
Anyone who wishes to view Fitna before the meeting can do so by going to LiveLeak.
Yours sincerely,
Gerard Batten MEP
UK Independence Party
2 comments:
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
~ George Orwell
Maybe all this enforced silence should be likened to the prohibition period, when all forms of alcohol were banned, except that now instead what's illegal and only carried on in "speakeasies" is the truth...
...which in its own way can also be intoxicating and habit forming... and consumed by the wrong minds, dangerous.
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