The ideological struggle over the Oslo atrocities has already begun and threatens quickly to overshadow the hideous and murderous events themselves. The race is on for Islamist and left-wing political groups and their supporters in politics and the media to exploit this appalling tragedy to discredit and delegitimize their opponents.
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I know anti-Semitism when I smell it, even when it’s dressed up as human rights – and so do they. The demonstration I saw was not a manifestation of free speech; it was bullying, plain and simple.
Will Australia abolish itself? This is a question that arises with the visit to Australia of the German economist, politician, banker, and freshly minted pariah, Dr Thilo Sarrazin.
In the hysteria there has been no mention of Britain’s most prolific phone hacker, the government, or that it was the previous Labour administration, now pointing the finger at News International, that gave birth to its worst excesses.
In Australia anti-Semitism has bought together the Far Right-wing, the Far Left-wing and Muslim extremists to boycott Jewish owned chocolate shops.
Has there ever been a mob in the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia more worthy of a make-over by the Monty Python team, than those who sit on the government benches?
The big question is whether Tony Abbott can counter the dark forces that the prime minister has at her disposal: ABC radio and television networks, the unions, Crikey and GetUp! - the other left-front opinion-banning mobs.
John Izzard on the greatest speech Julia Gillard never gave. The one that would have saved her government, and Australia, from the impending disaster.
What is at stake now is not just the fate of Murdoch’s empire but the freedom of the press. Yet the anti-Murdoch media are incapable of seeing this. They are simply hysterical with the delirium at having so badly wounded the man they have long elevated into a cartoon hate-figure.
The future of the politically-driven ABC, the audio-visual arm of the extreme Green Left, needs to be reviewed. It has abused its charter. It does not contribute to a sense of national identity, inform or entertain as its charter decrees. It is divisive.
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