The left again shows it's true colors. If they disagree with your views they just shut you down.

https://www.france24.com/en/eu...nference-in-brussels

Keynote speakers at the "national conservatism" conference included the eurosceptic populist Nigel Farage and Britain's former interior minister Suella Braverman, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban scheduled to address the two-day gathering on Wednesday.

Farage's speech went ahead amid swirling rumours the event was about to be shut down, followed by Braverman, who took the stage despite police entering the venue to notify organisers of a ban.

France's far-right former presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was later barred by police from entering the venue to deliver an address on migration.

"I think it's absolutely monstrous," Farage told reporters after wrapping up his address.

"This is the complete old Communist style where if you don't agree with me, you've got to be banned, you've got to be shut down," said the Brexit figurehead.

Emir Kir, mayor of the Brussels district of Saint-Josse where the venue is located, said on Facebook he issued a ban in order to "ensure public security" -- with protesters vowing to target the venue.

He said the far-right -- which is predicted to surge in EU-wide elections taking place in June -- was "not welcome" in the city.

But Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo slammed the move as "unacceptable" and said the Belgian constitution guaranteed freedom of speech.

"Banning political meetings is unconstitutional. Full stop," the liberal leader wrote on X.




Several hundred people turned up to hear the event's speakers, including elected officials from across the EU, on themes such as "Why Should We Prefer Our Own Culture to Others?" or "Challenging Wokeism: An International Matter".

Despite the confusion, speakers on stage pressed on with speeches attacking traditional bogey issues for the right-wing from transgender rights to the EU "superstate" and multiculturalism.

The "NatCon" organisers had been scrambling for a place to host their event since Friday evening, when the Brussels reception room they initially booked abruptly pulled the plug, reportedly under political pressure.

The event was moved last-minute to a hotel in Brussels's European quarter -- but that too changed its mind on Monday night, apparently fearing disruption from the gathering.

Anti-fascist demonstrators had been planning to protest at the venue, with the Belgian League of Human Rights among the groups opposing the event.

"Freedom of speech may indeed apply to everyone, within the limits of the law, but that does not mean we have to open our home to the far-right," it said in a statement ahead of the gathering.

Farage spoke to reporters at length to complain about the ban and lambast the EU.

"If anything's convinced me that leaving the European Union ideology was the right thing to do it's the events of today," he said. "It's monstrous -- but I tell you what, it's done me a favour," he said of the ban.

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Just to keep things in perspective, the "far right" in Europe is about where the US Demons were twenty years ago, not equivalent to any true Conservatives. Their "left-center" parties are, in fact, Communist in orientation even if they don't admit it.

This is one of the things our left is pushing for, the skewing of political positions so that their most extreme policies are regarded as "mainstream," and any traditional conservative beliefs and positions marginalized. Moving the "center" to the left moves the whole field.

Coming soon to a country near you, especially if we don't fight as hard as we can against it!

You have hit the nail on the head!

Late Night ‘Emergency Ruling’: Conservatism Conference Can Go Ahead, Mayor Exceeded Authority by Sending Police to Shut Down Free Speech

https://www.breitbart.com/euro...-exceeded-authority/

A Brussels mayor who ordered police to shut down a conservative conference exceeded his authority and the event will go ahead unmolested today, a late-night court decision has ruled, citing the right to freedom to assembly in the national constitution.

The National Conservatism Conference in Brussels — the heart of the European Union — was shut down by police on Tuesday, who blocked the entrance and prevented speakers including a French Presidential Candidate and members of the European Parliament from getting inside. The bully-boy tactics by the municipal mayor, who boasted he was using public safety concerns to run conservatives out of the city, followed the conference having already been turned out of two previous venues in less than a week as other left-wing local mayors pressured them to cancel bookings.

But now an “emergency late-night ruling” from a top Belgian court says socialist Mayor Emir Kir acted unconstitutionally, a decision that campaigners and lawyers have hailed as a victory for freedom of speech. The court found if there was a risk of violence, it was caused by the counter-protesters, not the conference itself, making closing the conference down disproportionate.


Speakers including the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban and former German spy-chief turned conservative insurgent Hans-Georg Maaßen are addressing the conference today.

The Alliance Defending Freedom International, which provided legal assistance to the conference, confirmed overnight the meeting would be “free to meet” on Wednesday after “the Conseil d’État, the highest court in Belgium relating to issues of public administration” made its ruling. Reproducing the text of the judgement, the ADF revealed that the judge had found:

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That court seemed to act quickly and decisively

Nice to see that for a change

Echoing architect, it remains true that if you are conservative, you are “far right,” “right-wing,” and “fascist.”

“Orwellian” very well describes the Western world now, and there’s not enough pushback.

Popular culture, journalists and academia were at one time bulwarks against commie authoritarianism. Now those 3 pillars are the agents of it.