I think you are right. In my country we brag about democracy and free speech. Reality is that we have no free speech and everyone knows that deep inside.
Pretty silly what happened to Lars Hedegaard, both the attempted assassination and the state prosecution.
-the assassination attempt would be very bad if it was done to stop his freedom of expression, something they themselves punished him for a couple years earlier, hypocritical.
He criticized stuff related to Islam, someone (Maybe ISIS) tried to assassinate him. The state prosecuted him for hate speech, the silly thing was that Denmark remarked that the crime-