I've just read the last few posts from Foxy. I thought she was the quiet one. I hope she's not on cocaine and disobeying her patents now. Crazy stuff.

"parents"

Dear Right Is Right,

Where's your sense of humour?
I'm on cocaine? But its Ok for
our resident "expert," (especially
on women and Fabians and Progressives) -
"On The Beach," to post as he did on page 11?

Anyway, I shall take my tongue out of my cheek
now, and try once again to make a few serious points:

Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of a healthy
democracy. Yet when we conceive of this freedom as
a right without a corresponding responsibility
requiring vigilance and hard work - freedom of expression
can be deployed in a way that is anti-democratic
and unconscionable.

Our media networks can be used to vexatiously destroy
reputations and disseminate misrepresentation to
assist the agenda of the rich and powerful, of governments,
and political parties.

This freedom faces daily incursions, whether it's
a government department threatening to remove services for
public criticism or a corporation initiating Strategic
Litigation Against Public Protests suits against dissent
(as typified in the Gunns 20 Case in Tasmania). Then of
course we have the other case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

There should be a balance between the protection of free
speech and the protection of other rights. Advertising
is regulated by the Advertising Standards Bureau which
has an Advertisers Code of Ethics that clearly states
that adds should not portray material that is discriminting,
vilifying on gender, race, and other grounds. In other
words that advertising should have limits and most of us
would agree that children need protection - and that
realistically freedom of speech cannot be limitless.

@Foxy, Sunday, 20 July 2014 6:30:32 PM

Maybe some of those words were used by someone else in a very different context. Do you remember the source or is it part of pre-packaged spin form somewhere? Anyhow, Assange and so on is irrelevant.

Back to the thread.
Wicked's customers are young, carefree, free-spirit, adventurous, travellers who want to have fun. They easily recognise cant and hypocrisy when they encounter it and they object to it. They are revulsed by the tiresome political correctness that abounds in modern life and particularly in Australia. Is there a country that is more politically correct than Oz? The media is full of it and some here have been discussing a recent example in another thread.

Wicked's satire is relevant. There is very little doubt at all that in some years time the Wicked artwork and satire will be treasures reflecting these times, a dark time when political correctness strangled and very nearly buried freedom of speech. George Orwell must be turning in his grave.

Your diatribes and guilt trips are wasted on the young. They need an outlet for their exasperation with PC and the mild satire of Wicked is fine.

otb,

I'm not going to correct your obviously
uneducated BS because I suspect that
you have a legitimate medical problem that
prevents you from understanding how
humans work.

Carry on.

Now, play nice Foxy, or we'll have to send you to the naughty corner for quite time. No one has called you a "girllll {:-P."