ozzie, haha, that's hilarious.

I'm sure you don't mean that anyone who disagrees with the left, should be locked up, do you?

Ozzie,

When you write, 'this author has no idea what he's talking about. He is arrogant, ignorant and totally uneducated. Such people should not be allowed to voice their views. He should probably be locked up', are you seriously suggesting that people with views other than your own should not be allowed to express them, and should be jailed if they do ?

Some of us very old Lefties would find that attitude appalling, on many grounds:

* who is presuming to oversee which views are permissible, and which views should be silenced, either by threat or direct repression ?

* surely even you can imagine if the shoe was on the other foot, as it were: what would happen to the Left ? Wouldn't such threats act to terrorise people into silence ? Wouldn't that be the point of threatening imprisonment (and what else, for worse 'crimes' ?

* surely a more involved society presupposes a freer flow of ideas, outrageous, hum-drum, stupid, incisive, and active discussion and passionate disagreements ?

I guess the tendency towards stalinist repression amongst what passes for the Left is constantly, spontaneously, evolving, thrown up by a daily sense of ineffectuality, incoherence and disengagement from the real world. Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, people ARE being imprisoned for expressing their views: even Ozzie has probably heard of cases.

Joe

Mirko, I agree, "I cant say to much" Oh, but then the left have now lost their shoes and want, demand, that the state must replace them, always at the taxpayers expense, and they don't think these prescriptive outlays will effect interest rates, as they are lost, in their labor party spin and whitewash, a no problem green nirvana state of mind, producing nothingness, just a mess, at some others expense, what hypocrisy, but what’s new, the left always thought it would be a free ride, just look at the greens bob brown and his labor labouring mates.

Did the ABC drive the thrower home and supply him with a new pair of pumps?