A year after Hebdo and European leaders ramp up their suppression of free speech

The only reason that we know about widespread assaults on women across Europe on New Year's Eve is because a multitude of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts revealed what the German police, political class and media wanted to suppress.

So now the suppression is being extended to cover social media as well.

The bizarre rationale used for this suppression was expressed by Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia: "What happens ... in chat rooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women".

Hopefully, citizens of Europe will soon ditch leaders with such distorted values.

Expanding government to encompass the common good commonly leads to nogood

China defends it's actions in terms of the common good for the people. Mao Zedong (and incidentally, the Aus Greens) took it one step further and used the common good of future unborn generations as a rationale for oppression of current citizens. The common good is an infinitely flexible concept.