More on bigots (and your right to be a moron)

While checking facts for my previous post regarding our right to be bigots, I came across this truly terrifying statement, in the once great Sydney Morning Herald, by a Professor Andrew Lynch, a director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of NSW.

“Brandis presents his case as one of inviolable principle, yet we need only reflect on the circumstances of the notorious Bolt case to appreciate why free speech might justifiably be ceded to other interests. The reality is that some voices are louder than others in our democracy.”

Bullshit.

It's not principle – it is the law that is inviolable and Brandis did not invent it. And did you really just state your opposition to free speech because you don't agree with Andrew Bolt? Doesn't that make you a bigot? And since I don't agree with you and and you write for the Herald while I'm just a lowly blogger your voice is louder than mine so I guess I should be able to shut you down? (you twit).

He went on to burble “Law is an instrument through which a community's values and rights may be given effect.”

Bullshit.

This is Australia and the only right we have is to do what is not prohibited by law. When you make a law you take away our rights. How can our rights be “given effect” by taking them away? (You twit).

As for community values – do you really believe Australia is a single communal entity sharing identical values? If so – you need to get out more.

OK so this guy is a lawyer and probably doesn't believe this bullshit either. His client, the left leaning SMH, is paying him to come up with a legal argument to make George Brandis and the government look like dicks. This is politics, not law.

And here lies the danger to our freedom, folks. Politicised media pandering to an audience on the Left or the Right to prop up their falling readership. Politicians and their lackeys who will shut down free speech to win a political argument. Who will make laws not for the people but to help themselves get re-elected. They will glibly tell you that they are protecting your rights while casually taking them away - forever and a day.

These people are the enemies of liberty – treat them as such.

And remember you are free.