GEORGE Brandis says it is “deplorable” deniers are being excluded from the climate change debate and people who say the science is settled are ignorant and medieval.
The attorney general called the leader of the opposition in the Senate, Penny Wong, the “high priestess of political correctness” and said he did not regret his comment that everyone has the right to be a bigot in an interview with the online magazine Spiked.
He said one of the main motivators for his passionate defence of free speech has been the “deplorable” way climate change has been debated and he was “really shocked by the sheer authoritarianism of those who would have excluded from the debate the point of view of people who were climate-change deniers”.
“One side [has] the orthodoxy on its side and delegitimises the views of those who disagree, rather than engaging with them intellectually and showing them why they are wrong,” he said...
“The moment you establish the state as the arbiter of what might be said, you establish the state as the arbiter of what might be thought, and you are right in the territory that George Orwell foreshadowed.”
And I'm quoting from Bridie Jabour writing in the The Guardian!
I called Mick Martyn an ape during the '96 GF. Didn't like him shutting down Lockett. When he was drafted to Carlton the coach said they wanted a gorilla at fullback.
It's okay though. I'm sure Mick will be made Australian of the Year for our deliberate attack on his Anglo-Celtic ancestry. And I'm sure the police will want to interrogate me and Dennis Pagan till the early hours - even if we aren't thirteen year old schoolgirls.
So yes I think that everyone has the right to be a bigot in a free society with the full knowledge that they can be judged by what they say.
I remember the repulsive NAMBLA scum gained some left wing support in the USA for promoting sex with children in their magazines, videos etc. This organisation should be outlawed in my opinion in any reasonable free society.
I certainly believe in free speech, but everyone should be judged by what they say. Is it bigotry for a muslim leader to call Jews pigs and monkeys or a MSM journo to call for Brendan Nelson to be glassed (a call to glass the c...t) or a union leader's call for the Qantas chief to be shot in the back of the head or Kathy Jackson to be booed repeatedly and abused for trying to clean up the HSU or a call for Abbott to be decapitated ( performed more than once at recent rallies on dummies)
I think we get the picture, but I would draw the line at any exploitation of children under any circumstances, no ifs no buts.
bloody oath SP