Throughout the West there is a remorseless assault on free speech through the agency of human rights commissions, political correctness and racial discrimination laws. It was a sad day for free sppech in Australia, when on 28th September 2011 Justice Bromberg in a long, rambling homily, found Andrew Bolt and the Herald & Weekly Times guilty of conduct that contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. In two columns, journalist Andrew Bolt, made some fairly innocuous comments about fair-skinned Aboriginals getting special benefits because of their claimed Aboriginality. (full story) As the ABC and its left-wing and Marxist cohorts in academia and the Fairfax Group are railing against loosening the restriction of free speech imposed by the notorious Racial Discrimination Act, it is worth reflecting on Mark Steyn’s essay in the National Review of August 29, 2011. GAGGING US SOFTLY To be honest, I didn’t really think much about “freedom…
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White “Aborigines” use Racial Discrimination Act to stifle criticism. Andrew Bolt’s show trial. What do these women have in common? Larissa Behrendt Bindi Cole Pat Eatock Anita Heiss Don’t laugh, but they all claim to be Australian Aboriginals. The above lovelies are part of a group of nine “Aboriginals” who hauled a journalist before the Australian Federal Court under the provisions of Australia’s notorious Racial Discrimination Act for daring to criticise them for claiming Aboriginality in order to receive some of the special benefits available to Aboriginals. The picture on the left is of a real Aboriginal. Do you see the resemblance? Aboriginals are Australia’s sacred cows. They are beyond criticism. No one dares criticise them for fear of being howled down as a racist. Years of political correctness and bleeding-heart paternalism has seen special laws passed to favour them and untold billions of taxpayers dollars…