‘THE Abbott government has bowed out of a battle over plans to change racial discrimination laws.
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott dropped plans to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, saying the debate had complicated relations with ethnic groups.
The shelving of the plan was announced as Mr Abbott talked of new measures to combat terrorism.
“I want to work with the communities of our country as `Team Australia’ here,” Mr Abbott said of the need for a co-ordinated effort to tackle terrorism.
He said consultation with all groups, including the Muslim community, must not be jeopardised by the changes and they were therefore taken off the table…’
Of course, the frothing rabid imam of Lakemba mosque in Sydney will still be free to spew his primitive hatred of his host country–the people who criticise him for that will be liable to be prosecuted though….which is exactly what muslims worldwide are demanding.
This spineless government will deserve to lose the next election. And when the first bombs go off in Australia, we’ll see what “consultation” with muslims was really worth, because they certainly don’t view themselves as members of Abbott’s imaginary “Team Australia”.
It’s all so predictable KG that I’ve pretty much given up chronicling the decline of the West. Worse than the Prog pols who admit what they are, are the ones who pretend they’re not Progs and run for office on the pretext that they’ll save us from them.
Thus the pretenders are MISleaders, the last to be recognized as our enemy.
O/T (but related by extension) is this headline at Breitbart “President of Senegal: Ebola ‘Threat Against Humanity’…”
I’d like to say that the Prez of Senegal is a bit late, but he’s hardly alone in knowing the far worse truth: Long before ebola, the greatest threat to humanity has been and remains the Progs.
“Long before ebola, the greatest threat to humanity has been and remains the Progs.”
Damn right.
I am deeply shocked by this news. What utter cretins these wreckers think we must be. I wouldn’t mind so much if they afforded us some respect by being a little less obvious. I am with Remus now, no vote from me until we can vote for “none of the above”.
A good read on this issue in today’s Australian in a piece writen by James Allan
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/craven-cave-in-on-free-speech/story-e6frg6zo-1227014592940
“yesterday’s decision to leave in place our hate speech laws was a terrible and cowardly one made worse by the cynical political calculations that lay behind it.”
Damn right.
Text from above link below as it apparently comes up as paid content only-
SO now we know. When given the choice between trying to honour its pre-election commitment to free speech in this country, or caving in to the special pleading lobby groups opposed to free speech, the government opted for the latter. Never mind that Section 18C of the hate speech laws impose a wholly unjustified curtailment on what you and I and the Andrew Bolts of the world can say. Never mind that similar legislation was repealed in Canada last year, the most politically correct place on earth. Canadian Prime Minister Harper stared down the many lobby groups with a vested interest in this kind of hate speech legislation. Our Attorney-General, George Brandis, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott did not.
Apparently it was not worth the fight. Not enough votes in it, they must have reckoned. Of course that sort of calculation depends on the people who want this hate speech legislation kept in place voting for the Coalition because it succumbed to them. Good luck with that.
It depends too on there being a lot of MPs in electorates where there will be more votes for them in caving in than there would be for proceeding on principle. I’m sceptical. Heck, the government did not even put their repeal proposals to the Senate. I know the government is calculating that people like me will vote for the Coalition anyway, come the next election, that, like the government itself, we don’t really care about free speech. Otherwise it would at least have introduced its bill, passed it through the House and made the Senate block it. But some Coalition MPs obviously did not want to be in this position.
Yet, there are no hate speech laws of any sort in the US and the various Jewish, Islamic and other lobby groups that oppose repealing our hate speech laws do just fine there. Better than in almost every European country with hate speech laws. Apparently the government now implicitly agrees that you can’t trust your average Australian to see through the rantings of Neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers.
Yet, this is the same government that has yet to dump its paid parental leave scheme. And is going to take some set of proposals on amending our Constitution, to put in place Lord knows what, to recognise indigenous people, whatever ‘‘recognise’’ means. Any recognition of indigenous people, in the preamble or elsewhere, could well be used by our High Court to strike down and invalidate democratically enacted laws. It could turn into a tool that serves as a sort of proto-bill of rights.
In the last decade our High Court has, in my view, made up a limited right for prisoners to vote. The textual warrant for that was supposedly the one that says that our senators shall be “directly chosen by the people”. Shortly after that the High Court decided that it, not parliament, could decide when the electoral rolls could close. And the High Court struck down a democratically enacted law on no basis other than a couple of dozen references to the earlier prisoner voting case and the “directly chosen by the people” phrase.
Those back at Federation who argued about each word, comma and phrase would have been stunned at the results in both cases. So don’t tell me that inserting a few words about recognising indigenous people might not have serious ramifications. Neither Brandis nor Abbott will interpret these new words. It will be a committee of ex-lawyers.
At least, though, the constitutional referendum is motivated by good intentions, however much we might worry where they lead. By contrast, yesterday’s decision to leave in place our hate speech laws was a terrible and cowardly one made worse by the cynical political calculations that lay behind it.
James Allan is Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland and author of Democracy in Decline.
Abbott is going down the well trodden path of “conservative” leaders. They must surely know that by caving into special interest groups they do not get their vote, it just gives them (the group) a victory. They’ll still hate a conservative and just move to focusing on the next battle. It is just a lose, lose situation for Abbott and the Coalition.
Progs have never been fully above board about their goals. They have two wings. Those who tell us what they plan to do, and those who are not hindered in pretending to be opposition to their plans. All of this is made possible since they hold the keys to the media and academia.
Any revolt will have to come from non-aligned individuals who will never know who they can trust. The Prog hatred for humanity takes advantage of the fact that most of the rest of humanity (of which they are a part — spit) are not nearly so deliberately hateful as they.
Any success will only come with a great deal of blessings from Him. And I say that as an agnostic (meaning I await some solid proof until I declare as a witness).
Good stuff. Thanks, Redbaiter.
Fun stuff – well not for the goat.
Hopefully it hasn’t been removed by youtube yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku4oQRfxFBs
Pander? Hell most times they are flat out smarted by these people who fuck goats and wipe their ass with their hand.Says a lot about our supposed betters doesn’t it?
It surely does.
Lone voice in the wilderness-
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/214245-republican-accuses-dems-of-launching-war-on-whites-in-border
Another fool who will learn the hard way that all the talk of ‘team’, ‘can’t we all just get along’, ‘give placation a chance’ etc will only end with him being betrayed and knifed by the very snakes he reached out to.