The slide into illiberalism

German seeks to ban Scientology

You know what they really need to crack down on. All this free thought circulating around the internet and in coffee shops and in universities and churches and living rooms. Too much damned freedom to think and worship and speak as you please. It's about damned time that someone ridded the world of these obstructions to safety and a more secure order.

Will someone now, finally, admit that safety and freedom are at odds and that security and the rule of law trump freedom and the interests of liberalism every time?

Thank Allah, the State, and the Central Party that we have rulers like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, Wen Jiabao, Fidel Castro, Bashar Assad, Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez and other such bellwethers of security and progress.

Maybe now we can finally turn this world around.