Ironically, Canem Malum, we’re in a “town square” right now!

Further to this:

- Sky, 2GB, Spectator, The Australian, Rebel News, and most on X say the same things daily to massive audiences.

- Neo-Nazi rallies have been held in recent years, filmed and reported on without the organisers vanishing into gulags.

- Multiple Senators and MPs push this exact rhetoric in Parliament - and on national TV.

- Facebook groups, Telegram channels, podcasts, and YouTube shows run 24/7 for “traditionalists,” all free to join.

- Even complaints about being silenced are broadcast… loudly… in real time… without consequence.

The microphone works just fine, it seems. The problem is that the messages have no basis in reality.

CM

Our rulers have certainly lost confidence, common-sense, and honesty in the half century since the White Australia Policy was abolished. They used to make laws for us prior to 1973, now they make them for the United Nations.

Yes. We can ignore the “ugly noisy trolls”, but the media glorifies them, and people like our appalling Prime Minister, a liar, claims that 100,000 people, many of them not even Australian citizens, speak for our country.

I'm not sure that the ‘quiet Australians’ who do indeed outnumber the thugs, are much use any more, following their re-electing of a government that left no doubt in its first term that it was incompetent, authoritarian, anti-American, and all the other things that remind us of that other Fascist Italian, Benito Mussolini, who did pretty much everything to Italy than is now being done to Australia.

Good on you for withstanding and not feeding the noisy and ugly trolls on OLO.

ttbn,

If the “quiet Australians” really do outnumber the so-called thugs, and if they’re free to vote - which they clearly are - then what we’re talking about isn’t censorship or silencing.

It’s just that when given the choice, the majority didn’t agree with you. That’s not suppression of democracy, it’s the outcome of democracy.

And by your own account, those “quiet Australians” are less useful to you than the noisy ones - which makes it sound like your problem isn’t that people are being silenced, it’s that the people who agree with you aren’t persuasive or motivated enough to carry the day.

If anything, the fact they re-elected a government you can list a dozen faults for should be more troubling to you than any protest on the Harbour Bridge.

It suggests your frustration isn’t with “not being heard” - it’s with not having the numbers.

... the majority didn’t agree with you.
John Daysh,
You sound rather sure of this, I'll keep that in mind once the enquiries commence & will remind you of these words !

Correction-

"John Locke, the father of liberal democracy, promoted governments free of gangs but sadly we just have bigger gangs, making Locke a mafia boss, and democracy "depositism". "

Was supposed to be-

"John Locke, the father of liberal democracy, promoted governments free of gangs but sadly we just have bigger gangs, making Locke a mafia boss, and democracy "despotism". "

Very well said John,

In 2019 ttbn was extolling the virtues of The Australian Conservative Party, heaping lavish praise on his new found wonder god, that "Churchillian" leader of all conservatives, Corny Banana! ttbn waxed lyrically as to what awaited Australia, as the great messiah Corny, would sweep aside neo liberals, and misguided progressives and march upon the hallowed halls of the Australian Parliament, and assert his authority as the nations 31st and greatest Prime Minister. A new found Caesar, just as Julius had marched triumphantly into Rome, Corny would march triumphantly into Canberra. Truly a man in the mould of the great conservative himself 'Pig Iron' Bob. Unfortunately, things didn't quite go to plan. Despite Corny and his entourage jet setting first class, staying at only the best 5 star establishments, and dinning Sumptuously at the finest of restaurants, it just didn't happen as planned! It was all the fault of those pesky unintelligent, uninformed and unworthy voters! Corny and his party scored less than half a percent of the popular vote, ttbn was left totally flabbergasted, vowing to turn communist! After all it was some of his aged welfare that went towards the great phonies campaign. However there is hope, there is always the fish n'chip shop lady, someday, you never know, what might be inflicted upon us.