JD Vance goes after European allies in Munich Security Conference speech

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Stella

He speaks truth. Europeans are not pleased.

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14 Responses to JD Vance goes after European allies in Munich Security Conference speech

  1. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    February 14, 2025 at 1:21 pm

    US Vice President JD Vance has used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to criticize what he called the “retreat” of free speech across Europe. “The threat that I worry most about, vis-a-vis Europe, is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,” Vance said. “What I worry about is the threat from within: the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.”
    “Across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” he added. “Under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will defend your right to offer it in the public square — agree or disagree.”

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    • texan59's avatar texan59 says:
      February 14, 2025 at 2:33 pm

      I saw about two minutes of this and it was spectacular. Looks like JD is playing the bad cop right now in the good cop/bad cop play. It’s so refreshing to actually understand what one of our leaders is saying. We had none of this during the last four years. Whether you agreed with them or not, there was absolutely no depth to any public speech from that administration.

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  2. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    February 14, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    A great speech, and well delivered.

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  3. Re-Farmer's avatar Re-Farmer says:
    February 14, 2025 at 2:34 pm

    Then there’s Canada, where our Prime Dictator was pushing a bill that would allow people to be convicted of crimes not yet committed.

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    • texan59's avatar texan59 says:
      February 14, 2025 at 2:38 pm

      How does that even work?

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        • Re-Farmer's avatar Re-Farmer says:
          February 14, 2025 at 2:44 pm

          “Pre-emptive punishment for crimes not committed

          The Online Harms Act, if passed into law, will add section 810.012 to the Criminal Code, which will permit pre-emptive violations of personal liberty when no crime has been committed. This repudiates centuries of legal tradition that rightly reserved punishment for what a person had done, not for what a person might do. Under this new provision, a complainant can assert to a provincial court that they “fear” that someone will promote genocide, hate or antisemitism. If the judge believes that there are “reasonable grounds” to justify the fear, the court can violate the liberty interests of the accused citizen by requiring her or him to do any or all of the following:

          wear an ankle bracelet (electronic monitoring device)
          obey a curfew and stay at home, as determined by the judge
          abstain from alcohol, drugs, or both
          provide bodily substances (e.g. blood, urine) to confirm abstinence from drugs or alcohol
          not communicate with certain designated persons
          not go to certain places, as determined by the judge
          surrender her or his legally owned and legally acquired firearms
          In other words: a citizen who has not committed any crime can be subjected to one or more (or all) of the above conditions just because someone fears that that person might commit a speech crime in future. Further, if the person who has committed no crime fails to agree to these court-ordered violations of her or his personal liberty, she or he could be sentenced to up to two years in prison.”

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