The National Forum   Donate   Your Account   On Line Opinion   Forum   Blogs   Polling   About   
The Forum - On Line Opinion's article discussion area



Syndicate
RSS/XML


RSS 2.0

Main Articles General

Sign In      Register

The Forum > General Discussion > Is it right to censor Senators in Australia?

Is it right to censor Senators in Australia?

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. ...
  6. 5
  7. 6
  8. 7
  9. Page 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. All
cont

"What do you want me to be like?" In the ideal world, sometimes I want you to be like Pauline Hanson, sometimes I want you to be like Lidia Thorpe and sometimes be like Jacinta Price, be pragmatic, but without losing sight of the final objective. To give an analogy; i want to cook a spud for dinner. I put it in a pot of cold water on top of the stove, the element is off, that's no good, I turn the element up to high, that gets the spud boiling as I want, but it cooking too fast and boiling over, so I turn it down to medium, that works well and the spud cooks nicely, so I turn it down to low, keep it warm just as I want it, now I turn the element back to where it started "off" and enjoy my spud. The question is what was the right setting for the element, high, medium, low or off. The answer is none and all, they combined together to give the desired outcome.
Posted by Paul1405, Saturday, 23 November 2024 6:21:09 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
" i want to cook a spud for dinner."

At your age you ought to be cutting back on the carbs.

Just as Australia should be cutting back on electing loud-mouthed morons only interested in self-promotion.

Of coarse the antidote to these people isn't censoring (which she wasn't) or even censuring which is just parliament's way of saying 'don't blame us, it was her fault'.

The correct response is bad speech is good speech. If only our pollies were capable of that they might have gone down that road rather than the cowardly censuring path.

Good speech? Well how about telling the silly shiela that rather than denouncing Chuck and his ancestors, she should be thanking them for taking them under their wing and treating them far better than another other colonising power would have done. Perhaps she should also thank them for giving her the English language that she used to make herself look the fool.
Posted by mhaze, Saturday, 23 November 2024 10:26:33 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Thank goodness the Greens aren't supporting the MAD bill. My guess is that they realize that they represent the people rather than tell them what to think. A triumph of democracy over cult leader Albo's serfdom.
Posted by Fester, Saturday, 23 November 2024 4:48:31 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
mhaze,

No comment on the censure of Ralph Babet, then again Babet is your kinda guy, is he not? I said;

"The other fella Babet, seems is some far right homophobic racist nut job, got a few of them on here, providing he's not calling for physical violence against others, which by default he could be, so could Thorpe for that matter, the Senate doesn't get so petulant about them anyway. I think the Coalition was big on censuring Thorpe, but not so Babet.
Posted by Paul1405, Saturday, 23 November 2024 7:47:39 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Oh Paul, so you're telling us the silly shiela and Babet are equally bad.

I agree.

But neither should be censored or even censured. It should merely be explained why they're wrong, or in their cases, deranged.

Unfortunately these days there are few who can do that, hence the left's rush to censorship.
Posted by mhaze, Sunday, 24 November 2024 6:03:53 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Sorry I forgot to address you properly last post,

Trumpster,

Do you have telepathic medical qualifications? "deranged" why do you say they are "deranged", they might consider you "deranged"

In your book if someone says, "Your're not my sovereign" then they must be "deranged"? Hummmmm. we have a bad case of "King Worship" from the Trumpster.
Posted by Paul1405, Sunday, 24 November 2024 7:36:15 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. ...
  6. 5
  7. 6
  8. 7
  9. Page 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. All

About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy