The Australian Police State vs. free speech

Australia is now a Police State, thanks to the various laws against free speech passed by the Labor and Liberal parties, acting in unison as they so often do (which is why they have earned the collective nickname of “the Uniparty”).

Australians have a moral right to freedom of speech, and we should always be allowed to present our views in public on any political, social, ideological, historical, religious, or moral topic.

The arrests of various Leftist demonstrators in Queensland and New South Wales for using the slogan “From the River to the Sea” has demonstrated to many people the evil nature of the Uniparty.

The pro-Palestine people should be able to say “Palestine: from the river to the sea”, and pro-Israel people should be able to say “Israel: from the river to the sea”. There is a geo-political concept of a Greater Palestine, and there is a geo-political concept of a Greater Israel, and people of either side should be able to advocate for whichever one they want (or any permutation thereof) without fear of government laws being used to silence them, and without fear of being arrested or attacked by government-paid thugs in police uniforms.

The concept of protecting freedom of speech isn’t designed to protect speech that we like, or speech we don’t mind, or speech we are willing to accept — it is designed to protect speech that we abhor, speech we hate, and speech we vehemently disagree with. However, this democratic concept of free speech is opposed by people with an authoritarian frame of mind, such as those within the Labor and Liberal parties.

Freedom of speech is a basic pillar of democracy — because without freedom of speech, how are people able to discuss political issues and advocate for their political points of view? They can’t. If you don’t have freedom of speech, then you don’t have a democracy.

Of course, there are those who use dodgy tactics to undermine and subvert freedom of speech. The major tactic used in modern times is to label speech you don’t like as “hate speech” — it is a clever tactic used by immoral politicians, shonky lawyers, and political propagandists. The “hate speech” narrative is one used by snake in the grass traitors, those slimy oily spivs who don’t care if they ruin democracy, so long as they can get their own way, and use the political tactic of alleging so-called “hate speech” so that they can jail or intimidate their political opponents.

Anyone who supports democracy will defend free speech; anyone who is authoritarian will oppose free speech. It’s that simple.