This post is about western democracies and the threat to
availability of what was once taken for granted. In this case, freedom of expression. Free speech, if you like.
It’s not just the right of citizens to free speech that is under threat
from the Gillard Government in Australia, loss of this fundamental right seems
to be going global.
I have the utmost respect for ex radio broadcaster now
brilliant blogger, Michael Smith. My respect for this man grows every
day. He has an uncanny knack of
bringing us all back to basics as he exposes the truth in an easily digestible
format. Michael Smith is an excellent
communicator and clings on by his fingernails to the right to express himself,
uncensored. He is one small spark amid
a rapidly decomposing mainstream media.
We rely on people like Michael to keep a steady hand on the tiller.
Please go
here to read a recent post from Michael.
It’s important.
This is an issue I will be following up with the Coalition
in the New Year.
The matter of our democratic right to free speech is very
close to my heart. I’ve had a gutful
with the way commentators such as Andrew Bolt have been treated – and silenced
due to ridiculous rulings via softcock Judges who feel they must pander to a
minority viewpoint. Stuff the majority
view! Their opinions don’t count a
tinker’s cuss when socialist moral values have to be the main game and pushed
accordingly. Political correctness
dominates. It’s truly disgusting.
Australia’s Courts need a good hard look at themselves! It’s long overdue.
I’ve had a gutful with the way the Canberra Press Gallery
and mainstream journalists prefer to remain mute rather than do some basic
research on stories that may lead to copy that might possibly stand the chance
of enraging the Red Queen, PM Julia Gillard or
her 457 Visa holder, media advisor, John McTernan. So we must accept without objection that
Australia has a castrated Press.
Unfettered press freedom is not alive and well within Australia’s
mainstream media. So, let’s assume
here and now that press truth, press
ethics and press freedom as it applies to most media arteries is buried in
several meters of solid concrete. An
appalling and embarrassing state of affairs for a country that has thrived on
democracy – until election of this current Socialist regime!
I’ve had a gutful of the way we bloggers must tread
ever-so-carefully in case we upset the sensitivities of Leftard fluffies and
risk having our Blogs shuttered – or worse, face an inquisition of some
sort. You know the type of
complainant, inner-urban dwellers with limited life experiences, influence in
high places, perceived or actual and more often than not, latched firmly onto
the public teat like a lamprey onto a shark. These are the people who tend to
clog our Courts and agencies governing media with nasty and in the main,
tedious cases or complaints filed under the wildly flapping banner of Political
Correctness. The lampreys need to make
a political statement, you see – no matter how frivolous, inane,
pointless. Remember, we are living
the Socialist sympathy dream right now.
A dream where only one school of thought is acceptable. There are mindsets who are completely unable
to comprehend there is a real, inhaling and exhaling world out there actually
experienced in life that happens to see things in a different light to the
fluffy little lampreys in their hand-knitted beanies and genuine sheepskin
moccasins or nice – made in China – trendsetter sandals. It’s the difference between a sheltered
political workshop environment compared to a bit of genuine dirt on your
hands. The leftards don’t get that,
however.
There are retreads who want some of us who dare think
outside the square dead, please remember that!
I ask you – why should my right to free speech – and yours -
be shackled? Why should Andrew Bolt’s
right to an opinion be dragged through the courts on spurious grounds, it has
been alleged? What civic/societal
qualification is some goody-two-shoes assessed – and by whom – that bestows an
authority to adjudicate over our current freedom to orally express or write an
opinion? Should any of us who are free thinkers sit back
quietly and watch our rights to express an opinion disappear? Even more worrying – who is ultimately in
charge of appointing these Thought Police?
Don’t tell me – I think I have already guessed the answer!
Australia heads for the Polls sometime during 2013. This is how it seems to me – and I hope I am
wrong.
We, the Australian people, will lose our right to free
expression, oral or written, should we re-elect the Socialist Gillard
Government
We, the Australian people, will forfeit our right to freely
publish our thoughts online, if we re-elect the Socialist Gillard Government
We, the people of Australia
will be subject to censorship should we re-elect the Socialist Gillard
government
The Australian people will be faced with a number of
important electoral issues, least of which is just how much value we place on
our right to freedom of expression; free speech. We must cast our vote carefully.
And before we march off to the Polls, we need to know how
seriously the Coalition regards our right to free speech, freedom of thought
and expression.
Michael has pointed out the Coalition’s apparent
spinelessness on this issue as has John Roskam from the Institute of Public
Affairs who has written a heartfelt letter to the Coalition on the subject.
Under the Gillard Government, this country has lost its
dignity.
One sure-fired way to control your people is to remove their
voice! That’s exactly what this vile
Socialist regime plans to do.
When Australians are being governed by people who apparently have the
moral turpitude equivalent to that held by the Mafia of old – or the current
Taliban, we really need to worry.
Tony Abbott et al – this is not good enough! You must do something now and be seen to be
doing something! This Gillard/ALP/Censorship rubbish legislation must be
challenged and discarded accordingly.
Most of the voting public possess a functioning brain. They will be watching how the Coalition
shapes up to the issue of of an overt attempt by the Gillard Government to
stifle free speech and impose censorship.
