Recently I expressed some of my opinions which were published on this web site, in two articles titled: 'Father's Views on the Imperialist Realpolitik in Iraq', and the "Jehovah's Witnesses". My opinions were censored by an inappreciable number of zealous advocates of 'Political Correctness', for my alleged 'derogatory' comments of 'persons', 'country', and 'religious affiliations'.

The views, expressed in the article on the war in Iraq, were formed from information extrapolated from media reports, and the views on the ' Jehovah's Witnesses' were based, for the most part, upon quotations from their own publications; and passages from the Patristic literature. In both these situations the informations are on public record, privileged communication, and are, quite clearly, the bases for rational criticism of public figures, their activities and ideaologies in an acceptable, and ligitimate form of discourse.

WELLSPRING OF 'POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS'.

I believe that 'Political Correctness' is reminiscent of the intellectual inactivity of the Dark Ages in western European history (476-800). Since the middle of last century, there has been an increasing radical retrocession, of the western collective mindset, the genesis of which first became apparent during the rapid diminishing of western culture to mass mediocrity driven by commercial interests, in marketing goods and services, though the principal media organizations in New York and Los Angeles.

CULTURAL FRAGMENTATION.

During the decade of the second Indochina War (1965-1975) there arose the counter-culture, and the countermovements for nonconformity, and the separatists movements for 'black power', 'red power' and 'brown power', later to be followed by: women's "liberation", 'Movement for the Ordination of Women', and 'homosexual ("gay") liberation'. There also arose the cults and sects that had the effect of interpolating western culture with a variety of selected palatable elements from the exotic polytheistic cluster of Hinduism (Sanãtana Dharma) from the Indian subcontinent, and from some of the eastern ethical movements (Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism) from China, Tibet et al. And the re-emergence of pre-scientific, superstitious, or irrational, concepts and practises, v.g., shamanism, witchcraft, astrology et cetera. These and other equivocal assumptions and practises have been given the preferential and incautious treatment rather than the scientific orthodox western disciplines; e.g., Psychology, medicine, social science et cetera.

INCARCERATION
OF FREE SPEECH.

'Political Correctness' ( or the 'Frankfurter Schule' ) migrated from Germany to the United States in 1935, where it gradually gained mass public acceptance into the western mind-set without question. 'Political Correctness' is a surreptitious scheme of thought control which disallows open discussion under the ...