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#AUSPOL #ClimateChange radicals
#theirABC institutions @conversationEDU @abcnews @QandA
#ExtinctionRebellion child soldiers
#UN eco-#Socialists
#Twitter activists @slpng_giants_oz
#labor/#lib/#green politicians

All of whom seek to SILENCE debate in our democracy.
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "The whole essence of #Freedom is that it is freedom for others as well as for ourselves.

Freedom for people who disagree with us as well as for our supporters.

Freedom for minorities as well as for majorities."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "All things considered, the worst crime of #Fascism and its twin brother, German National #Socialism, is their suppression of #FreeThought & #FreeSpeech.

It is one of the many proofs that, with all their cleverness, they are primitive & reactionary movements."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "One of the first actions of the NAZIS was to regiment the newspapers by telling them -

EXACTLY WHAT THEY COULD PRINT.

The result was that newspaper controversy came to an end, since all sang the same tune."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "Why is #FreedomOfSpeech of real importance to humanity?

What appears to be today's truth is frequently tomorrow's error.

There is nothing absolute about the truth. It's elusive. If truth is to emerge [ ] the process of free debate-the untrammelled clash of opinion-must go on."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "I believe in a #FreePress and in no way undervalue its importance; but I do not believe in a privileged Press.

There is something to be said for the view that in a #democracy the eternal and real conflict is between freedom for all and privilege for some."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "In a word, it is the duty of any newspaper which claims the right of free criticism to publish enough of both sides to make its own views and criticisms intelligible and fair.

A #FreePress must not set itself up to be the master of the people."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "A #FreePress must not seek to maintain its #FreedomOfSpeech at the expense of popular freedom and popular government.

For the Press has great power and inevitably so.

In a democratic world, great power destroys itself only when it seeks to become tyranny."
@ConversationEDU @abcnews @QandA @slpng_giants_oz "And so, let us have a #FreePress, & let us have free readers whose letters will be published, even though hostile. Let us have honest & fearless criticism of politicians by Press & of Press by politician, & let each be heard."

The Hon R.G. #Menzies - "The Forgotten People" 1942
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