My respect for Michael Berkman, my former state MP until I moved to Labor territory last year, has only grown.
“Where the fuck is free speech Pauline [Hanson] through all of this?”
As for the law itself, this tells you all you need to know…
The Crisafulli government said it consulted the Jewish community, the Queensland Police Service, the Crime and Corruption Committee and the Queensland Human Rights Commission about the proposed laws.
Muslim and Palestinian groups were not consulted.
From the river to the sea…
…Palestine will be free?
Even if you think it means to evict/kill all Jews in the land (which many people don’t mean when they say it), banning free speech threatens democracy itself, if people can be restricted from criticising unjust governments or policies.
Even if you think it means to evict/kill all Jews in the land (which many people don’t mean when they say it), banning free speech threatens democracy itself, if people can be restricted from criticising unjust governments or policies.
Banning genocide advocacy, like suggesting people in a place should be killed because they are Jewish, really does not threaten democracy. Nor do anti-racism laws in general (the problem is that hate laws are being abused to include states like the Zionist Regime).
And of course, as we both know, this is just a hypothetical: the chant obviously isn’t anti-Jewish.
Banning genocide advocacy … really does not threaten democracy
You’re absolutely right.
Unfortunately this law does the exact opposite. It bans advocacy against genocide.
Exactly
I will personally vouch for each of them simply singing along to John Farnham so the QLD case has no grounds
