Typical, accuse others of the very thing you do yourself - they teach this in conservative school, eh?

Anyway, I got dibs ... from now on you are Mr Wiggles :)

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

You should try to get hold of a copy of the book,
"Silencing Dissent," which gives the specifics
of what happened under the Howard government.

Shadow Minister brushes the book aside as being
"leftist," even though the authors (its a collection
of essays) are from various organisations and walks
of life.

What amuses me is that Shadow Minister says
he is for the freedom of speech - yet he won't have
a bar of anything that disagrees with his political
leanings and is very quick to assign labels to people.
I guess that speaks for itself. "Do what I say, not what
I do!" Like certain religious people who preach
God at every turn but whose actions are "Foul!, Foul!
Foul!" And stooping down to personal insults like
"Comrade Conroy," "Juliar," and so on, just shows the intellectual
base that we're dealing with here.

Nah Joe, I wouldn't touch Greens with a 10 foot pole - they've lost the plot big time.

Funny tho' Joe - the recalcitrant round here think I'm green as, even tho' I'm all for 4th Gen nuclear! Go figure :)

By the way, in that other place - I was 'gagged' towards the end of the Howard years from disseminating and expressing the science behind AGW.

Yes, SM, you continue to spruik as if you're some paragon of fair and balanced commentary....but....as Lexi has just pointed out and I've often criticised, you consistently begin your rants by labelling Julia "Juliar" - surely a man who holds his own sense of proportion up as an example as you do should probably get his own house in order before preaching to others?

Or is the puerile "Juliar" an exalted example of your idea of free speech?

i just wanted to say that i received an email yesterday from stopbigbrother.com.au asking me to sign a partition against intrusion by the fed govt into our computer histories, website usage and our passwords. All in the name of national security. Just how much can this phrase be banded around and misquoted just so the govt can clamp down on individual freedoms?. I might add, not long after i signed the partition against this i got a reply from the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security sec.... the standard reply, probably an automated response. I also got a response from our state labour politician... same sort of response. i dont trust them at all on this one. its worth checking the site out ...

BM,

YOu have dibs on the name Mr wiggles. So Mr wiggles where do you want to take this? So far you have contributed nothing except to try and pick holes in others contributions. All you do is wiggle.

Lexi, I have never tried to stop you saying anything. But with all free speech, when you say something ridiculous or fanciful on a blog site, then expect someone to challenge.

Poirot,

I have never spruiked myself as fair and balanced. I have as conservative a view point as lexi and you have far left view points from which you never deviate. I do however, like to refer to opinions and news articles from respected journalists and commentators.