FROM Novus Ordo Watch:

Now that a total of twelve people were killed — including two policemen — in Paris, France, at the editorial offices of the blasphemous and pornographic Charlie Hebdo cartoon newspaper, countless people across Europe are marching in favor of freedom of speech, holding signs that say “Je Suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”), thus expressing their solidarity with the victims of the massacre and their determination to support and enforce people’s rights to believe and express in public whatever they please, regardless of how much it may offend another.

People held demonstrations and candlelight vigils not only in Paris, where a total of 2.5 million was estimated on Sunday, Jan. 11, but also in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Lisbon (Spain), Cludj (Romania), Stuttgart (Germany), Salzburg (Austria), and Prague (Czech Republic). That is not to say that all those people agreed with the truly disgusting (and often severely anti-Catholic) cartoons printed by the Charlie Hebdo rag, but rather that, even though they might disagree, they clearly support everyone’s right to free speech. That’s always the official reasoning.

At first first sight, this may not seem unusual. After all, isn’t this what European society stands for? Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press?

Indeed, they do stand for this. But what’s remarkable is that although everyone always calls for “equal rights” and “freedom”, when it came to the case of the traditionalist quasi-Catholic Kreuz.Net web site a few years ago, everyone was dancing to a different tune (Kreuz, pronounced “croyts”, is German for “cross”). The popular and influential German-language web site, whose perhaps biggest claim to fame was its relentless denunciation of the vice of sodomy and its promoters in politics and society, was hosted on offsite servers in an undisclosed foreign nation. Often using inflammatory rhetoric to proclaim the Gospel truth regarding the sinfulness of and eternal consequences to perverted sexual practices, gender mainstreaming, feminism, heresy and apostasy, and various other social ills, Kreuz.Net was persecuted not only by Germany’s law enforcement but also its otherwise oh-so-tolerant society at large.

Here is the irony: When Kreuz.Net was under fire, there were no marches in the streets. No demonstrations of solidarity. No candlelight vigils. No “I may not agree with what you say but I will fight for your right to say it.” No “Ich Bin Kreuz.Net” (“I am Kreuz.Net”) banners.

All of a sudden, “free speech” was no longer in vogue. German law enforcement, including the secret service, tried feverishly to locate the Kreuz.Net web servers, to no avail. On the internet, petitions were circulated as part of a public “Stoppt Kreuz.Net” campaign to galvanize the masses against the site, various hackers attempted — unsuccessfully — to force the site offline, police reports were filed all over the country, and people suspected of being involved with the site were confronted by journalists. Many other high-profile groups joined in the chorus against the supposed “hate site” as well: Politicians, celebrities, pornographers, the media at large, the sodomite lobby, and — of course — the nation’s Novus Ordo bishops. Somehow everyone seemed to be in agreement: Kreuz.Net had to go.

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