2011-09-29 Australia: Andrew Bolt tuomittiin vihapuheesta

[qwerty]

Kuka on Andrew Bolt? Eteläisen pallonpuoliskon paras bloggaaja.
Mitään vihapuhetta ei oikeastaan edes ollut. Tuomarin unimaailmassa joku saattoi jostain loukkaantua. Tämä sitten riitti tuomioon 

Aboilla on, nykyään, kelpo oikeudet ausseissa. Bolt kirjoitti että itseään aboiksi kutsuvat kaukasialaisperäiset, mutta ulkonäöltään abohkot ovat poliittisia aboja, jotka hyväksikäyttävät systeemiä.

James Delingpole: Freedom of speech is dead in Australia  (Telegraphin toiseksi paras bloggaaja, Hannanin jälkeen, tiätty)

Newspaper columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt was today found guilty in the Federal Court of breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act. Justice Mordy Bromberg in his ruling, found two articles written by Bolt in 2009—claiming that self-proclaimed aborigines of caucasian descent and appearance were "political aborigines", who used their legal "indigenous" status to intrigue themselves into lucrative positions open only to indigenous Australians and further their (predominantly activist) careers—left it

...reasonably likely that fair-skinned Aboriginal people (or some of them) were offended, insulted, humiliated or intimidated...

What this precedent means, is that the legal test of vilification now turns on the degree of offence experienced in the mind of the claimed victim—an impossible legal criterion, one which is open to any imaginable distortion of meaning, and one which opens the way to the tyranny of the hypersensitive.

Sydney Morning Herald: Bolt loses high-profile race case

ABC News: Coalition flags race law changes after Bolt case
Shadow attorney-general George Brandis says he is not questioning the judgment, but says the law as interpreted by the court places an unacceptable limitation on political freedom.

"Regardless of the niceties of the case, the fact is today in Australia... journalists, commentators, ordinary citizens are not free to make critical and unpopular remarks in the course of ordinary political exchange," Senator Brandis told Sky News.

"I think that is a terrible thing"

Andrew Boltin blogi

edit: Otsikko korjattu moden pyynnöstä

[Nationalist-92]

Tuolla päin mualimaa media ei ilmeisesti nöyrry hallituksen vaaliman monikulttuurisuusideologian edessä, sillä Bolt on kolumnisti maan isoimmassa lehdessä ja sen lisäksi hänellä on oma tv-show paikallisella maikkarilla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bolt_Report