The government’s determination to control our lives did not stop at a media inquiry. The draft Human Rights and Anti-discrimination Bill 2012 seeks to further restrict our freedoms. While softened somewhat following strong criticisms, including from eminent retired judges, the reverse onus of proof remains, along with an expansion of victimhood.
The government says it never intended to restrict free speech, but the fact is, while it preaches liberty, it is about coercion. The bill is an ambit claim. We may ask, to whom is the government appealing? Since when has limiting our basic freedoms been advocated in an election campaign?
There is no popular groundswell. The government is responding to the collectivist instincts of those intellectuals who hold liberty in low regard. It isn’t so long ago that an academic floated the idea that we “suspend democracy” to silence climate change sceptics. Authoritarian government appeals to these people.
There are people in Australia (collectivists) who want to rule and they want to rule absolutely. They believe they know better than you and me and therefore they want to control our every thought, action, intention and emotion.
We must resist in order to remain free, and resist now before the only options left are violent ones, because as sure as night follows the day, the only alternative once reasonable debate is extinguished is violence, and violence makes monsters of us all.
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