Why people like ScoMo should never be elected to high office
‘Free speech doesn’t create one job, doesn’t open one business, doesn’t give anyone one extra hour. It doesn’t make housing more affordable or energy more affordable.’ — Scott Morrison, PM of Oz
Morrison: tough talk on Putin, feeble on freedom
When Scott Morrison was asked what he thought of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Mr Morrison responded: ‘I call him a thug.’
‘We continue to be extremely concerned with the terrible violence we have seen inflicted on the people of Ukraine by Russia, unwarranted, unprovoked,’ Morrison said, while adding, ‘We are now living in a world where authoritarian autocracies are seeking to have their way.’
The Prime Minister offered this further observation: ‘The world is starting to separate between those sort of authoritarian autocratic regimes who want to go and do whatever they want, wherever they want, and Western liberal democracies and others who want to support the rule of law.’
As Sir Humphrey Applebee would say, ‘Yes, Prime Minister.’
However, ‘charity begins at home’, as the old saying goes. Scott Morrison’s words, while they may afford him short-term political favour and plaudits, are in direct contrast to those he has made in relation to freedom and the rule of law in this country.
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The anti-free speech politicians of Australia
Free speech is not just another one of our freedoms, it is the foundation of freedom that all our other freedoms come from. If we can’t speak freely, then we can’t think freely.
Politicians are supposed to protect free speech at all costs, not tell people what to say.
