Very good article, Mr Maher.

"Racial Discrimination Commissioner" Tim Sout...(whatever) is basically saying that he believes passionately in Freedom of Speech, provided that you don't say anything he doesn't like.

It seems as if 18C is now suffering from "mission creep". Not only can you not say anything bad about anybody's race or ethnicity, Tim Sout......(whatever) thinks that you should not say anything bad about their religion either. Why don't we just make it the law that you may never say anything bad about anybody?

This is the way our laws are going to try and make multiculturalism work. Every demographic group in Australia must be protected from criticism, unless of course, they are Jews, whites, and Americans who have traditionally been fair game to the Socialist left.

OK, so you can't criticise race or ethnicity. And Tim Sout.....(whatever) thinks you should not criticise religious beliefs, or none beliefs either. Except in the nicest possible way. Tone is everything. perhaps the Australian government should appoint a board of Tone Commissioners examining the "tone" of every statement made in the media to root out journalists and individuals guilty of Tonecrime. But why should just religious beliefs be protected from criticism and Tonecrime? Why not political beliefs as well? Beliefs are beliefs. To protect one sort of belief through censorship but not another would be (shudder) Discrimination. And we can't have that, can we?

One get's the impression that Tim Sout....whatever would make a great Iraqi Information Minister, or a great spokesman (whoops...spokesperson) for North Korea. Extol the virtues of Freedom of Speech while simultaneously doing whatever is needed to suppress it, and think that nobody will notice. And Tim gets $300,000 a year for coming up with this sort of tripe? Why don't we just abolish the non job of Race Commissioner and tell Tim to go and get a real job?

Come off it LEGO; who'd employ him and what could he do?

So let’s see. Say there’s a religion (far be it from me to suggest there really is one) which calls for death to anyone who abandons it, savage injury to anyone who is an unbeliever in it, murder for women whose sexual choices “dishonour” their menfolk, enslavement for unbelievers in lands the religion has conquered, then it’s OK to criticise it (in suitably deferential terms of course) but totally unacceptable to express scorn for or hostility to those who peddle it. Not in MY Australia!