> [Canavan] told The Conversation he had doubts at the time about the new law, which the opposition supported. It was a kneejerk reaction to a protest at which Nazi symbols were seen, he said.
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> “We’re not going to suppress the idea by banning the symbol.”
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> The threat of “locking people up for flying a flag is a halfway measure. It won’t defeat extremism – rather it risks spreading it”.
Soft-Butterfly7532 on
We need to be consistent.
They are recognised as a terrorist organisation in Australia.
If you think waving a Nazi flag or an ISIS flag should be illegal then you should be opposed to a Hezbollah flag as well.
If you think waving a Hezbollah flag, the flag of a terrorist group, should be legal, then you should also think waving a Nazi or ISIS flag should be legal.
People can’t have it both ways. They are a terrorist group and should be viewed the same way as any other terrorist or militant group.
ProfessionNo4708 on
people try to honestly tell me we don’t live in a leftist shithole.
DesignerRutabaga4 on
Tolerance and free speech should be reciprocal.
Hezbollah and the like are highly intolerant of free speech especially criticism of their belief system, theirfore we shouldn’t tolerate them or their supporters in our society.
If we let their supporters grow in number they would support a fascist religious takeover of our society.
Theirfore zero tolerance.
Very odd that the far left nut jobs support fascist-religious organisations.
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> [Canavan] told The Conversation he had doubts at the time about the new law, which the opposition supported. It was a kneejerk reaction to a protest at which Nazi symbols were seen, he said.
>
> “We’re not going to suppress the idea by banning the symbol.”
>
> The threat of “locking people up for flying a flag is a halfway measure. It won’t defeat extremism – rather it risks spreading it”.
We need to be consistent.
They are recognised as a terrorist organisation in Australia.
If you think waving a Nazi flag or an ISIS flag should be illegal then you should be opposed to a Hezbollah flag as well.
If you think waving a Hezbollah flag, the flag of a terrorist group, should be legal, then you should also think waving a Nazi or ISIS flag should be legal.
People can’t have it both ways. They are a terrorist group and should be viewed the same way as any other terrorist or militant group.
people try to honestly tell me we don’t live in a leftist shithole.
Tolerance and free speech should be reciprocal.
Hezbollah and the like are highly intolerant of free speech especially criticism of their belief system, theirfore we shouldn’t tolerate them or their supporters in our society.
If we let their supporters grow in number they would support a fascist religious takeover of our society.
Theirfore zero tolerance.
Very odd that the far left nut jobs support fascist-religious organisations.