By Kevin Glancy

Labor ought to be cleaning up their own affairs before destroying our right to freedom of speech and opinion with its proposed changes to anti-discrimination laws. They could start by; stopping the name calling and verbal abuse of others, particularly directed at Tony Abbott and tell their own leader that her behaviour is racist and sexist.

It seems as far as Julia Gillard is concerned you can now fire someone for being white. Great example to set – the hypocrisy is astounding. She fired NT Senator, Trish Crossin while praising the job Crossin has been doing and by her actions, admitted that a celebrity aborigine with absolutely no political experience or at the time, even a member of the Labor party, was the way to go.

Tokenism is more obscene than racism and there is far too much of it in this country. When will politicians learn that the practice doesn’t unite anyone and that no matter what anti-discrimination laws you make, it will not change the way people think. The problem just festers like a boil and ultimately explodes – in your face and on the streets.

Although we all hope that freedom of speech is used responsibly – when you stop people from expressing their opinions it simply fuels the fires of extremism.

NOTE: The irony and stupidity of the amendments to anti-discrimination laws proposed by Attorney General, Nicola Roxon and Julia Gillard’s is that they, along with all of their Labor Cabinet Ministers, would be prosecuted under the changes for their previous slander of others – if the new laws were retrospective. Of course, more than likely, Labor politicians will be exempted from the amendments.

The fact that Labor are even considering such amendments is bad enough and reveals an ideology that is highly dangerous and divisive – let’s hope sanity prevails which it rarely does with this mob of socialists.

The final word goes to former High Court Judge Ian Callinan;

“It seems as if each year the Constitution and the cohesion of our Australian community are put at some new and entirely unnecessary risk.

The dangers of the current one, of the introduction of a new law to criminalize speech which might cause offence to anyone, should not be underestimated. Even the imaginative powers of George Orwell would not have conceived of an administration that would dare to try to forbid every member of society from passing adverse comment upon any other member of it.

The proposed law is such a silly one that it will turn everyone into offenders. A law of this kind fails the elementary test of rational, consistent, and worse, undiscriminating application.

In consequence, the cases selected for prosecution will be exactly that, “selected”, that is to say, carefully chosen, under the influence or pressure of the most vociferous pressure groups. Every Australian with an ideal of democracy – and I hope that means most Australians – should do everything they lawfully can to oppose the introduction of this outrageous law.”