Persona "non" grata....(sheesh!)

Lol!...another typo....perhaps I should go back to bed and get up again : )

".... that no Labor appointees would be rehired."

Foxy,

Again the fundamentals of the issue about freedom of speech escape you.

Having the right and freedom to do something does not remove anyone else's freedom to criticise what you say and take whatever actions are available to them against you.

MM has the right (which she exercises) to be a bigot. I exercise my right to call her a bigot and a poison dwarf.

Paul, as MM echos the views of that other arch racist Lee Rhiannon I fully expected you to come to the defence of MM's bigotry.

P,

Before you get on your soap box. AP is doing exactly the same in QSL and Rudd and Juliar did much the same after Howard.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Actually you don't have the right to call her names -
without producing evidence to substantiate your
claims. Freedom of speech does have certain limitations.
A person's freedom of speech is limited by the rights
of others - for example their rights to maintain their
good reputation. All societies, including democratic
ones, put various limitations on what people may say.
And we do have laws covering libel and slander. Therefore
you need to produce evidence proving that Miriam Margolyes
is a bigot (and a dwarf) before you make any such statement.

I watched the program and what she stated was based
on facts. Therefore your statements are erroneous and
not factual.
And the "dwarf" one in particular is a very slanderous one.

You should get better acquainted with what freedom of
speech actually is.

Foxy,

I see that while the concept of free speech has slowly started to sink in. However, you obviously have a sketchy knowledge of the law. I am free to call MM a bigot, and MM has the right to sue me for slander if what I have said is factually incorrect and she can prove it. I would love MM to try and show how "no one like Jews" is not a racist comment as she would lose badly.

As for calling her a poison dwarf (A selfish, untrustworthy, deeply obnoxious or evil person of diminutive size, whose ostensibly non threatening appearance allows them to fulfil their predisposition for causing unprovoked pain and suffering) I believe I have got that to a T.