Australia, wake up: without freedom of speech, nothing can be gained without violence!

We are governed by a criminal gang of lunatics with totalitarian ambitions:

If you thought JooLiar’s Minister of Censorship, the village idiot Stephen Conroy, was way out of his league for bragging about “unfettered legal powers”, you ain’t seen nothing yet:

The regime will provide a new weapon in the war on free speech by even including “political opinion” as a ground on which people can be discriminated against.

Their hands on your throat (Andrew Bolt)

Simon Breheny on the Gillard Government’s continuing war against free speech:

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon’s proposed changes massively expand the list of characteristics people can be offended by, expanding the jurisdiction into shops, workplaces and sporting clubs.

The regime will provide a new weapon in the war on free speech by even including “political opinion” as a ground on which people can be discriminated against.

This extraordinary change makes even innocuous political expressions subject to the law – a person need only be offended or insulted in order to make out a claim. Shop owners displaying signs in support of a political candidate may now be legally discriminating against employees who want the other guy to win…

Not only do the changes represent an extraordinary attack on freedom of speech, they also undermine fundamental legal principles derived from 800 years of common law. They would reverse the onus of proof, forcing employers to prove that they are innocent of discrimination.

Join the IPA’s fight to restore free speech.

UPDATE

Professor Bunyip holds a quiz of the kind I dare not answer.

NSW will block the Gillard government’s attempts to gag the media if it pushes ahead with a plan to strip newspapers of privacy protections unless they submit to government-imposed self regulators.

Bolt: On this issue alone, I would back Barry O’Farrell as Premier, so important is free speech – and so endangered is it under the Gillard Government: A Liberal leader stands for free speech. Hope Abbott makes it two

Quote of the Day:

Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice.” Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people.”

In other news:

The Press Council of India is already run by communist totalitarians:

“Irresponsible Journalism”– in India

Must “crush” press freedom if it doesn’t help poor, sez Press Council of India