Not isolated. Not imagined. Not television or film fiction. Spreading throughout Western nations. Laws being enacted clear the way to arrest, incarcerate, and fine individuals based solely on what they might say that goes against the ruling regime’s acceptable speech.

In France, long time and highly successful football [soccer] coach of the Paris Saint-Germain club, Christophe Galtier, has been arrested and taken into custody and faces possible heavy fines and prison time for charges of racism and being Islamaphobic for speaking plainly with regard to Islam and the number of Islamist football players on a team he previously managed in Nice, France. And how the high number of Islamist footballers on the Nice team did not sit well with much of the population of Nice.

Think about that. What’s that? What’s happening in France and you don’t care?

In Colorado, now in Michigan, and spreading throughout America, some places very openly, others stealthily at work, laws are being written and enacted by state legislators that go directly against the U.S. first amendment. But evil doesn’t care about the foundations that have been established. Evil does what evil always has. Lie. Bring rot, discord, mayhem, and rebellion. Evil works tirelessly to snuff out any molecule of truth or things said and done that work against its agenda and reason for being. To keep people mired in darkness, outside of reality, believing it can dominate and prevail by its sheer blind will. To destroy the human spirit and soul and capture those spirits and souls to take them down to the pit of hell with it.

Speak or write the truth about Islam, homosexuality, transgenderism, and a growing number of truths that go against the Evil One’s efforts to remove and destroy all the foundations and cause increased chaos, confusion, rage, division and violence. All under the lie of tolerance, inclusion, love, rights, compassion, and on and on the twisted words march along to the point of being written into law and enacted.

Imagining it can imprison, fine, and put such fear into people to keep them quiet. To keep them from ever uttering a word of truth that goes against evil, against the darkness, against the tsunami of lies.

This is all but a taste, the intermezzo of what is to come in the main course, the main piece.

Don’t ever say the signs were never visible, heard, or able to be discerned.

Don’t ever say there were no warnings, no indicators, and ask, “How could this happen?”

It’s all happening right now right in front of everyone on earth. How many are paying attention? How many even care?

Better watch out what you say, because one day, sooner than later, speak a word, write a word that the powers of evil have determined is verboten and you may find yourself in a police vehicle, in a jail, in a courtroom right in the good ‘ol U.S. of A, that land that is touted as being the land of the free and the home of the brave, where the Founders knew full well the tyranny, the evil in the hearts of men and thought they made provision to protect free speech and a free press.

They underestimated the patience and the ability of evil, just as most always have, most always do, most mistaking evil for light, evil for good since evil knows the tone, the words to use to beguile, seduce, and gain for itself. And if that doesn’t work? Well, just write a law and throw those who don’t fall into lockstep into prison in an attempt to silence them, break them, while putting fear into others to keep silent and only say, only write, only think what is permissible by the ruling evil of the time.

An ironic tragedy as this nation is about to blindly, ignorantly celebrate another Independence Day, a day that is set aside to contemplate, and designate a nation coming into existence where rights, liberties, and freedoms were to be created, unlike any other nation ever on the face of the earth. Only to permit those rights, liberties, and freedoms to erode and be removed bit by bit, slowly over time to the degree that most people don’t even realize what has been taking place all this time.

And most don’t care in their blind, loud, ignorant revelry and drunkenness and selfish abuses.

They just better watch what they say, or write, because they just might find themselves in jail one day for merely speaking or writing the truth.

They, those serving evil, call it “hate speech” as they attempt to appear noble and so caring, when the truth is it’s called “hate speech” only because evil hates the speech of truth, of reality. Evil hates and despises freedom. And is adept at lying to make itself appear what is most free, what is most enlightened, and the path to take. This only leads to a precipice wherein the only way is down to destruction. Taking as many as it can with itself.

And millions hear evil’s tune and are following it as so many have following the Pied Piper of death and darkness. The father of lies leads so many on. Deluded. Hurtling into the Second Death.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Sunday, July 2nd, 2023

FOLLOW-UP: This related news appeared moments after writing the above and posting this on ACP; A disturbing ruling

Hate Speech Law In Michigan Would See Prison Time For Misgendering

New law: You’re a criminal if anyone ‘feels’ threatened by your speech

State moving to do exactly what Supreme Court said it couldn’t

June 28, 2023

By Bob Unruh

Reprinted from World News Daily & Prophecy News Watch

The state of Michigan is moving swiftly to make it a crime to say something, actually anything – if someone else then claims they “feel threatened” by the words.

It’s exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court said just this week the state cannot do.

At issue is a legislative proposal there to make it a felony if one person says something – and another person claims to feel “threatened” by the words.

The Daily Wire reports the plan has passed the House and was pending before the state Senate. Approval there would advance the speech-limiting program to the governor.

The plan, HB 4474, specifically would make it a hate crime to cause someone else to “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.”

It was created specifically to limit all discussion and comments about “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression.”

Penalties would be up to five years behind bars and a $10,000 fine.

The Daily Wire report explained, “Many conservatives have voiced concerns that the bill infringes on Americans’ First Amendment rights. Distinguished Professor Emeritus William Wagner, a former federal judge and legal counsel in the U.S. Senate, joined the chorus of politicians and lawyers warning against the bill.”

He said, “Make no mistake about it. Those advocating for this legislation will wield these policies as a weapon capable of destroying conservative expression or viewpoints grounded in the sacred. One merely needs to look at the scores of cases brought against schools, churches, businesses, and individuals around our country. Proponents use these laws to silence and financially cripple those who dare to adhere to a different viewpoint and oppose their agenda.”

Rep. Angela Rigas, a Republican in the House, explained to the Daily Wire exactly what was being done.

“The state of Michigan is now explicitly allowing the gender delusion issue to be used as a ‘protected class.’ This opens up numerous issues when it comes to the courts and the continued weaponization of the system against conservatives. We saw similar concerns when they wanted to pass blocks on ‘conversion’ therapy. It seems Dems want to be in the business of telling people how to think.”

One problem for the state, however, is this week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case against Colorado brought by a man convicted there of threatening speech.

The ruling, written by left-leaning Justice Elena Kagan, found, “The state must show that the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence.”

A statement submitted to the state from the Great Lakes Justice Center pointed out that the decision the court, 7-2, “once again explicitly affirmed the long-standing principle that statutes which punish pure speech violate the First Amendment.”

“It is improper to prosecute an individual based upon the effect of his words on the hearer. Rather, a speaker can only be prosecuted if the speaker threatens ‘unlawful violence.’ Pursuant to Counterman v. Colorado, if Michigan’s hate speech bill is passed as currently written, it will violate the First Amendment. To ‘frighten’ or ‘intimidate’ or ‘harass’ a person does not amount to ‘unlawful violence’ and is, therefore, protected speech,” the statement said.

“The prosecution of a speaker based upon the mental state of the listener is unconstitutional. Such an improper standard will cause ‘a speaker to swallow words that are in fact not true threats.’ This chilling effect on protected speech is not permissible. A prosecutor must show an awareness on the part of the speaker that his statements threatened unlawful violence.”

In its issue brief, it noted the high court found that a prosecution only was appropriate if “the [speaker] had some subjective understanding of the threatening nature of his statements … the state must show that the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening…”

The brief explained clearly:

What words can cause another person to feel intimidated? No one knows. It will be impossible to know ahead of time because the crime is based on the subjective feelings of the alleged victim. A person can give the same speech, word for word, to two different groups of people and it will result in two different outcomes. You can be prosecuted for the first speech and not prosecuted for the second speech, even though the speeches are identical. For example, if a speech is delivered to a group of transgender supporters affirming their beliefs, no criminal offense occurs because the hearers of the message agree with the speaker and no one is offended. However, if the identical speech is delivered to a group opposed to transgender issues, a criminal offense could be charged because the hearers of the message ‘feel’ frightened, threatened, or harassed by the speaker. A hate speech law permitting such arbitrary and inconsistent outcomes violates due process, as well as the First Amendment.

Colorado, a state that has moved so far left it is to the point that lawmakers declared the unborn never have any rights there – ever – and Christians can be forced to promote the LGBT ideology in violation of their faith, had convicted Billy Counterman of sending Facebook messages to a singer.

The conviction was overturned and the case returned to the lower courts. The justices said prosecutors were required to “make a finding about whether he intended his comments to be genuine threats. If such messages are not true threats, they are deemed protected speech under the Constitution’s First Amendment.”

Colorado had wanted the justices to decide the other direction, because it wants to “curb threatening conduct before it leads to violence,” which indicates a clear intent to pursue censorship.