It sounds ridiculous to say, but it is a fact:  the era of freedom in the West is over.  The false flag attack, 9/11, was used to launch the neoconseratives' wars in Israel's behalf in the Middle East.  More importantly, fear of "Muslim terrorists" was used to set aside constitutional protections such as habeas corpus and due process and to implement other inroads into  liberty such as the Patriot Act and the mass warrantless NSA spying on US citizens.  Today you can be arrested in Germany, France, and the UK for waving a Palestinian flag.  In the US the exercise of free speech gets you cancelled and fired.  Only approved opinions can be safely stated.  The facts simply do not matter.  Official narratives have triumphed over truth.

This destruction of liberty began a long time ago.  I published a book 23 years ago about the transformation of law from a shield of the people into a weapon in the hands of the government  which it clearly is as witnessed by the false charges against Trump and the imprisonment of 1,000 people who used their First Amendment right to protest the theft of the 2020 election from President Trump.  Hardly anyone believes the charges against Trump, not even the Democrat prosecutors, judges, Justice Department and members of Congress.  What is important to them is destroying their hate object.  The facts are of no concern.  The US is today experiencing Stalinist purge trials.  Stalin knew that the Bolsheviks were not capitalist spies and so did the Soviet court system, but Stalin nevertheless had the r Bolshevik leaders executed.

In the US it is not only Democrats calling for more censorship and suppression of the First Amendment.  Republicans are just as alienated from freedom as Democrats.  Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, even Ron DeSantis are calling for more censorship and curtailments of free speech as a way of suppressing the Palestinian side of the story.  The Democrat Left and Republican Right now agree that free speech needs to be reined in, that it can make people uncomfortable, feel threatened, and spread misinformation by departing from official explanations.  Left and Right differ on what they want suppressed, but they are both willing to suppress free speech in the interest of their agendas.