Where has everybody gone?

 

 

 

Chuck: “Hey Big Brother, how’s your ass?”

 

 

 

 

Dear sports, this was originally posted on the great Copious Dissent a week ago. This post is slightly modified.

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil”. -Thomas Mann

One of the greatest blessings of living in America is our First Amendment, which protects the right of all of us to speak out without facing government persecution. People in other countries, even strong Western democracies, are not as fortunate.

The French government, for instance, is prosecuting 73-year-old former film goddess Bridget Bardot for criticizing the ritual [Islamic] slaughter of sheep in a 2004 letter to Nicholas Sarkozy, now France’s president. -From Projo

Man, in Australia regards the true freedom of the US Constitutional and Amendment kinds, they were never really around in the first place. Because baby, a few of the fundamental rights we had, have been able to be modified down, and virtually without a squeak. “Waiter! I’ll have some more cheese!”

So dear sports, it is a funny thing to have over an eighteen month period, an epiphany about your own country, mine being the very, very far away land of Oz. To realise that there is apart from a few scattered columnists, blogs and the rare and isolated radio program, entirely no public forum, voice or constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech or expression of the kind found in America. And er, there’s certainly no media place for the free reign of our true Australian character. Nope, not really, sports.

There is no freedom of speech if it’s conditional. There is also no right to bear arms in Australia as we were disarmed by making the owning of guns criminal. Now mostly criminals have guns. And as they say, in every Hell hole on earth, disarming the populace is an essential step to the convenience of permanent control and firing squads.

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