Imagine stepping off a plane in London, Paris, or Rio de Janeiro, excited for a vacation or business trip, only for it to devolve into handcuffs, detention, confiscated electronics and a prison sentence.

Your offense? You posted from your kitchen about U.K. immigration policies or maybe you called a German politician a name or just wrote something critical about a certain Brazilian Supreme Court Justice. This isn’t dystopian fiction or some far-off fever dream.

The UK government arrested over 12,000 people in 2022 and 2023 under two of the country’s speech policing laws. In February, Germany conducted 50 pre-dawn armed raids in one day over online speech. In at least one case, police officers confiscated a man’s devices because of a meme he posted on social media. Similar persecution has occurred in Romania, France and Finland.

And that’s just what these countries are doing to their own citizens. Make no mistake, many of America’s so-called allies have made it their mission to bring censorship and punishment to our shores.

Last year, U.K. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley

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