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A random note for Bill Leak.

Oct 19, 2016

“First they came for the cartoonists and I did not speak out, because I was not a cartoonist”. (apologies Martin Niemoller)

Random note #178,956 — The ABC and 4 Corners

Oct 19, 2016

Something’s up. It’s Wednesday already and the Prime Minister de jour hasn’t called for a Royal Commission into another Four Corners, beat up fabrication on Monday night.
When he gets around to it, this time he should make it a Royal Commission into the ABC itself. Instead of making busy with pretend make work projects about diversity and inclusion, the newbie MD Michelle Guthrie should focus on the core business and sorting out the basics, starting with a greater diversity of subjects, opinions, presenters and views from across the political spectrum. Programs like 4 Corners, The Drum, Q&A etc, have become a soap box for tiresome, boring left wing activism with the same tired, predictable talking heads and their narky and morbid black arm band world view.

Bill Leak cartoon: the war on free speech has just begun — Mark Stein, The Australian

Oct 19, 2016

The thrust of the second paragraph should chill the blood and bone of everyone because it’s a giveaway to the thinking and shows for those who didn’t already know, exactly where Obama and HRC are coming from. Both are disciples of community activist and Marxist, Saul Alinsky. In fact HRC wrote her senior thesis in 1969 on him and as I mentioned a post previously, they were so close that he allowed her to read and critique his Rules for Radicals, before it was published. Obama’s notion of “rebuilding the internet and curating content” is code for filtering content and therefore deprivation and control of information. It is Orwell’s thought and speech control in neon lights.

Why is a beheading threat okay but a cartoon comment not? — Janet Albrechtsen

Oct 19, 2016

At a protest in Sydney’s Hyde Park in 2012, a 14-year-old boy carried a sign that said “Behead all those who insult the Prophet”. That same boy is alleged by police to have been on the verge of a ghastly act of terrorism last Wednesday. Together with a 16-year-old boy, he was arrested last week outside an Islamic prayer centre in Bankstown, in Sydney’s southwest. Last week, too, we learned that a cartoon by The Australian’s Bill Leak is being investigated by the Human Rights Commission for breaching section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. These two seemingly unrelated events tell a story of how free speech has gone awry in Australia.

What thinking Australians are Thinking

Oct 19, 2016

What thinking Australians are Thinking. (This first one nails the issue) The hypocrisy of the AHRC is appalling. On the one hand, they allege abuse and violence against women and children asylum seekers is taking place on Nauru, when to all appearances it is not, but...

Like Islamists, UNESCO erases history — Washington Times

Oct 17, 2016

Islamism is characterized by elements we have sadly come to know too well: brutal violence, terrorism, misogyny, suppression of “infidels,” and destruction of history and culture. That is their MO. Cultural destruction in the name of Islam has taken place everywhere from Timbuktu to Afghanistan, from Egypt to Libya. Precious art and artefacts, legacies of civilization, some more than a thousand years old, have been trashed.

Fabrication on an industrial scale — List of Debunked Groper Allegations by Corrupt Media Against Donald Trump

Oct 17, 2016

As I suggested over the weekend these unsubstantiated, allegations are pretty much all fabricated. The entire thing has been a deliberate, orchestrated campaign with the Democrats working with a compliant media on a campaign to throw up dust in the eyes of voters and throw a blanket over and smother the Wikileaks email dump and timed to inflict maximum damage. Of course the obvious question is why didn’t the allegations surface during the Primaries?