The Gillard Government

[MrBurns]

The Gillard Government pursues it's war against freedom of speech!
The cause;
Laming tweeted;
A perfectly reasonable statement, I would say,...but;
It just reinforces my view that Emerson is an over-educated idiot.
Read more,
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...troversial-tweet/story-fndo45r1-1226553935301

Emmerson doesnt seem educated he just seems like a big mummy's boy, a real jerk.

I thought the tweet was on the money and a lot less offensive than the goons who took time off from shooting up to trash their neighborhood.

 

[MrBurns]

 

[dutchie]

Emmerson doesnt seem educated he just seems like a big mummy's boy, a real jerk.

But he's a good singer.

 

[Calliope]

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Our Biggest Enemy Is Freedom of Speech

 

[drsmith]

I note that Labor is making noise about an increase in the dole.

How will that be paid for ?

Having abandoned the 2012/13 surplus, Labor's election spendfest has begun.

 

[bellenuit]

Mobs tearing up Logan. Did any of them do a day's work today, or was it business as usual and welfare on tap?

The comment may be an accurate reflection of what is going on, but it was a stupid comment to make IMO. What did he expect that tweet to achieve? He is an MP and MPs are expected to help solve problems, not play the spectator throwing insults, no matter how deserved they may be. Tweets like that are what I expect from the general public following such an event. MPs get paid handsomely to be a bit more constructive.

 

[Calliope]

Emmerson doesnt seem educated he just seems like a big mummy's boy, a real jerk.

I thought the tweet was on the money and a lot less offensive than the goons who took time off from shooting up to trash their neighborhood.

The tweet was on the money and would have been politically correct if the rioting thugs had been white.

 

[dutchie]

Mobs tearing up Logan. Did any of them do a day's work today, or was it business as usual and welfare on tap?

The comment may be an accurate reflection of what is going on, but it was a stupid comment to make IMO. What did he expect that tweet to achieve? He is an MP and MPs are expected to help solve problems, not play the spectator throwing insults, no matter how deserved they may be. Tweets like that are what I expect from the general public following such an event. MPs get paid handsomely to be a bit more constructive.

Politicians must be slow learners because they keep on making the same mistake over and over. Poor Australia.

 

[Julia]

Laming tweeted;

Mobs tearing up Logan. Did any of them do a day's work today, or was it business as usual and welfare on tap?"

A perfectly reasonable statement, I would say,...

Yes, of course you would. It was, however, politically stupid, branding various racial/cultural groups who no doubt have a vote.

Emerson just took advantage of an opportunity for a free kick.
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Mobs tearing up Logan. Did any of them do a day's work today, or was it business as usual and welfare on tap?

The comment may be an accurate reflection of what is going on, but it was a stupid comment to make IMO. What did he expect that tweet to achieve? He is an MP and MPs are expected to help solve problems, not play the spectator throwing insults, no matter how deserved they may be. Tweets like that are what I expect from the general public following such an event. MPs get paid handsomely to be a bit more constructive.

+1.

 

[MrBurns]

I think we all know it was a stupid thing for a politician to say publicly but that doesn't mean we cant agree with what was said.

 

[Calliope]

Yes, of course you would. It was, however, politically stupid, branding various racial/cultural groups who no doubt have a vote.

Emerson just took advantage of an opportunity for a free kick.

Now who's taking the free kick? If it had been two rival white gangs rioting there wouldn't have been a peep out of anyone. While the tweet may have been politically unwise, Laming has every right to exercise his freedom of speech. Who did it harm?

This display of feigned indignation by special interest groups over such a trivial matter gives us a foretaste of what to expect when Roxon's anti-Discrimination Bill gets up.

I make no excuse for being an advocate of freedom of speech.

 

[DocK]

I thought all of the coalition MPs had been banned from using social media? I'm sure I read that on one of the political threads on ASF a week or so ago?

This silly tweet would provide excellent evidence of why such a ban is a very good idea.

 

[Calliope]

I thought all of the coalition MPs had been banned from using social media? I'm sure I read that on one of the political threads on ASF a week or so ago?

This silly tweet would provide excellent evidence of why such a ban is a very good idea.

No ban on the freedom of speech is a good idea.

 

[DocK]

No ban on the freedom of speech is a good idea.

Found the article - it was posted by SomeDude on the Tony Abbot for PM thread:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/liberals-slap-social-media-gag-on-mps-20121208-2b2eo.html

LIBERAL Party candidates have been gagged ahead of next year's federal election, with Coalition backbench MPs under pressure to close their Twitter and other social media accounts.

Fairfax Media has learnt of a directive from the head office of the federal Liberal Party in an opposition bid to limit ''stuff-ups and scandals''. The directive to preselected candidates ''strongly advises'' against using Twitter and that tweeting on behalf of the Liberal Party is ''not encouraged''.

So in this particular instance, from a PR point of view, it certainly would have been a good idea!

 

[Calliope]

So in this particular instance, from a PR point of view, it certainly would have been a good idea!

No "PR point of view" or political expediency or "good idea" justifies a ban on freedom of speech.
The horse has bolted and the social media cannot be reined in. The lNP have to learn how to take advantage of it as Gillard has done.

 

[Macquack]

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You are pathetic Burns, comparing Julia Gillard to Adolf Hitler. Shame on you.

Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the deaths of an estimated 50 million people during World War II, including 6 million Jews and 5 million "non-Aryans" whose systematic extermination was ordered by him and his close subordinates. - Wikipedia

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[Garpal Gumnut]

Burnsie, you are very, very naughty and matron has been tasked to spank your bottie.

Seriously though folks, if I were in charge of Lib campaigning I'd be pushing the good polls for Julia Gillard, telling the punters she is going to be re-elected, and sit back and watch the annihilation of the present ALP/Green coalition.

It is going to be much, much closer in the polls coming up to the election.

gg

 

[MrBurns]

You are pathetic Burns, comparing Julia Gillard to Adolf Hitler. Shame on you.

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I agree the comparison isnt really fair, Gillard has only killed a few with the pink batts disaster, she can improve on that but at present she's content with spending every cent we havent got.

 

[MrBurns]

Burnsie, you are very, very naughty and matron has been tasked to spank your bottie.

gg

I'm all a quiver

 

[Macquack]

You are pathetic Burns, comparing Julia Gillard to Adolf Hitler. Shame on you.

I had more colourful language penned, but ASF etiquette won out.