The hatred of hatred is about to doom Australia.
A proposed moment of national unity in the parliament after the Bondi massacre has descended into partisanship as politicians prepare to debate sweeping laws that would jail for up to 15 years Islamic extremists or neo-Nazis who collaborate with hate groups.
…“We want to make it clear that conduct which is hateful, dangerous and divisive will also be illegal because just as antisemitism and racism are an offence against our Australian values, they should be an offence against Australian law.”
…The new Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill, which the government drafted over summer, will introduce new anti-vilification provisions targeting Islamic preachers who spread hatred about Jews and other minorities; create offences for hate preachers and community leaders radicalising children; make it easier to cancel visas; and boost penalties for hate crimes.
Muslim groups said they had not been consulted on the laws. Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Rateb Jneid said he was concerned that the proposed new serious vilification offence, which criminalises the promotion of hatred, only applied to race rather than religion.
…A striking new element of the package of changes is a move to outlaw groups that spread hatred and foster division. This masthead has confirmed with government sources unable to speak publicly that the proposed laws will contain a maximum 15-year sentence for people who join or donate to these groups once the government has prohibited them.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke suggested that neo-Nazi groups and radical Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir could be in the firing line, after they had been identified by national security agencies for their role fomenting hatred.
What does it mean to “join” one of these groups? Do they have a paid membership register that they publish? Pfft.
What if you want to attend a protest against mass immigration and some black-clad fool gatecrashes the event?
Did you just join a neo-Nazi group? Sure looks like it to me.
What if you want to protest for immigration, and some tea-towelled student turns up?
Did you just join a radical Muslim group? Sure looks like it to me.
The Bondi Massacre was horrific beyond words. But this response is not just addressing it. It is moving to criminalise all mention of mass immigration, ethnicity, and religion or the Planet Earth beyond Australia.
Will MB be designated a hate group because it argues, factually, that the mass immigration economic model is a class war on working Australians, if it is linked by some external source that wears black or the wrong scarf?
15 years jail for us!
What if we factually report some deleterious economic characteristic associated with a particular ethnic group, and it is linked by some external source that wears black or the wrong scarf?
15 years jail for us!
What about the danger of malicious reporting to authorities? It is already rife in many regulatory services. I have previously been maliciously and mendaciously reported to the HRC. How do you disprove you’re not a neo-Nazi or a radical Muslim when there is no membership list, and they all hide their identities?
15 years in jail for you!
What if China invades Taiwan, and you want to protest against it, and some anti-Chinese group turns up?
15 years jail for you!
I abhor anti-Semitism and racism in all of their forms. But effectively banning all protests associated with foreign countries is MAD.
As feared, the bidding war in parliament is over who can be toughest and spread the net widest to end freedom the quickest. Resistance is futile.
Your country is about to legislate itself into a mass immigration corner from which it will never return.
This isn’t fighting extremism. It is extremism.
15 years’ jail for you!
