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    „Demokratie ist ein Betrug“: Parteichef von Prolife Alberta wird als traditionell-katholischer Schriftsteller und Podcaster identifiziert

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    1. MTL_Dude666 on

      „Democracy is a fraud“ says someone who wouldn’t be allowed to say that if we weren’t living in a democracy.

      If Canada was not a democracy, the separatists in Alberta would all be in jail or worse (look at where dissidents end up in non-democractic countries). If Canada was not a democracy, Alberta would not be one of the richest province of the country.

      Essentially, people complaining about democracy exists mostly BECAUSE we live in a democracy. I don’t think they ever stop for a second to think about that.

    2. 33rdDivision on

      >A righteous Christian government has the obligation to protect its citizens from people promoting evil in the public square. The Church and the state need to work together for the suppression of speech promoting evil,” he wrote in a blog post titled “Freedom of Speech is Demonic.”

      This, of course, is followed by…

      >Prolife Alberta positions itself as a defender of free speech in the province, particularly in its opposition to “bubble zones” that restrict protesting near abortion clinics. “Free speech cannot be a privilege reserved for the powerful; it must be a right protected for every Albertan,” reads a page on the party’s website about bubble zones.

      Nearly every nativist, theocrat, and other far-right nutjob shares this one guiding principle in common. Namely – when I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because it is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because it is according to my principles.

      As a polity, we should recognize this constant, because it should put paid to the idea that any of these people are acting or speaking in good faith.

    3. Sad_Confection5902 on

      The people who hate Democracy always envision an alternate system where they get to be in the privileged class and are exploiting others.

    4. sokos on

      Our democracy certainly is a fraud, that’s something we can agree upon. Democracy in and of itself isn’t fraud. Where ours goes wrong is that democracy rests on the prevalence that people understand the things they’re making decisions around, however, the vast majority of us, do not understand the myriad of decisions being made on our behalf by the people we vote for. In addition, they count on that and all sides are relying on populism and riling up the voters to vote for them.

    5. ChimoEngr on

      > Ruhl wrote that there is no verse supporting freedom of speech in the Bible

      Because that is a matter of governance, not of faith.

      > Vladimir Putin’s use of increasingly repressive legislation targeting the LGBTQ2S+ community in Russia is one example Ruhl gave of how the denial of free expression permits governments to enforce religious values:

      Bull fucking shit! Has he forgotten the parable of the good Samaritan? Or the command to love your neighbour like yourself? I will never understand how people who profess so stridently to believe in the same faith as I do, can also be so sincerely anti-LGBT.

      Yes, I know Bible thumping has always more about riling people up than faith, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

    6. Troubled202 on

      Sadly I trust politicians more then religious leaders. The 2 must remain separate and hold your representatives to account.

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