Attack on liberty

Although relatively right-winged in economic affairs (at least compared to the Left if that says anything), the Icelandic center-right government hasn't exactly been bursting with need to increase the liberty of the Icelandic public - especially not during the last few months. The latest act in that circus is a well-known phenomena in the West, or namely a law on restricted ownership on the media.

But the Icelandic version has it's uniqe aspects like often is. This time the prime-minister is out to get a father and son who got rich against his will, bought a newspaper and are now preaching "propaganda" and "biased news", or so the government says. So what? Is it not their freedom to do so? What does that have to do with media-laws? Well, now they are passing laws that are, at least when looked at, general laws which everyone should follow, but in reality only affect the buisnesses of the prior-named father and son. Ain't that a nice coincidence?

While all this is going on the Left is now trying to protest like it usually does. In this case however, many of the protests from the Left are against the government from the right! Now the Left is talking about freedom this and liberty that and the Right is trying to pass restrictive laws. All pretty weird I must say. Maybe I will bother to write more about it later.