It has been a week since Labor’s rushed hate speech bill was chaperoned into law by the Liberals and already the public are suspicious.

Parliament was recalled early to combat, specifically, Islamic terrorism, Islamic hate preachers, and suspected radical Islamic groups that are banned in many other countries.

The purpose of the activity was to stem the tide of antisemitism coming directly from radical Islamic rhetoric which has, on more than one occasion, translated to violence on Australian soil.

Given that the target of Islamic terrorism encompasses the entire Australian community (remember the Behead the Infidels! signs?), there was no need to cite antisemitism in the bill. Radical Islam would have been sufficient (and more appropriate, taking into consideration 20 years of threats and a desire to maintain public unity).

Citizens do not like it when a law seems designed to protect one religious group over another, especially when we have a situation in Australia where the Anglo majority feel under attack from more than one ideological threat.

Not everyone will like that observation, but it is true.

Last week, most politicians refused to focus on the active threat to public safety, or they were afraid of what would happen at the next election if they did.

It took an enormous campaign of public scrutiny to hold some political figures back from making this an omnishambles of let’s ban every political view we don’t like!!!

What resulted was a deliberately imprecise, convoluted lawyers’ paradise.

So far, the only disbanded hate group belongs to the cosplaying neo-Nazis whose specialities include upsetting high-end fashion brands, midnight marches, and delusional podcasts that circle the drain of intellectual revisionism. The only people arrested are members of this group. And the only person who has had their visa cancelled was … an Israeli invited to Australia by the Australian Jewish Association. Whoops!

There is even some soft talk starting in the media about banning Norse, pagan, and Anglo-Saxon imagery because a few Hitler-simps have co-opted our heritage after their precious swastika was banned. Let us hope the government would not entertain erasing the innocent history and symbols of an entire people because of a couple of loons. Mind you, this is the same government mulling over an X ban because anonymous randoms asked a chatbot to render them in a bikini. (Did they forget about the Peter Dutton potato memes they indulged in?)

Can you see the problem of fannying around banning images and speech instead of banning dangerous criminals?

Does the government think if they banned the fist of Marxism or the hammer and sickle of communism that history’s most bloodthirsty political system would disband peacefully?

Indeed, why didn’t Labor seek to include these groups in its ban if public safety has become the critical issue?

There are a lot of communists and Marxists shouting antisemitic threats in the street lately, and there are more of them than there are neo-Nazis. These are the groups falsely painting the Jews as Nazis to justify genocidal threats. The unhinged antisemitism of the young is waved off as resistance because Labor has no stomach for self-reflection. Antisemitism is far more deeply embedded on the left than the right, especially in taxpayer-funded institutions.

(And yes, for the thousandth time, the National Socialists, including the neo variety, are Big State socialist race collectivists. They are left-wing and always were. That’s not to say there isn’t hostility toward Israel in some quarters of the right, there is, but the Marxists, socialists, National Socialists, communists, and fascists are all the same species. There is nothing remotely conservative about them.)

Despite passing this new law to make the Jewish community feel safer after years of hostility from the pro-Palestine agitators, it is still legal to shout, From the river to the sea! No action has been brought against individuals who took part in rallies where F- the Jews! was shouted and the Israeli flag burned (or the Australian flag, for that matter). Plenty of current and former politicians supported the march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge where signs read: Abolish Israel. Abolish Australia. Land Back [ Aboriginal flag | Palestine flag ].

There has been no outrage from the Prime Minister or the bleeding-heart Left about the desecration of war memorials and precious colonial-era monuments destroyed by self-declared pro-Palestinians who left their mark on the rubble.

And the internet is still full of these ideologies threatening Jewish people and telling Australians that their ‘colony will fall’.

That last slogan is a waking threat against the public safety of every Australian.

When Parliament was asked to include the burning of the Australian flag as a hateful act, the left immediately declined. Protect the Australian flag? Ha! Why would the left do that? They knew the flag would be burned on Australia Day and they did not want to juggle the political fallout of activists being put in handcuffs under the watch of a Labor Prime Minister.

You would think hearing white genocide doing the rounds on social media would give the Prime Minister pause, but no…

In other words, the hate speech legislation has been a total failure when it comes to protecting Australians, protecting the Jewish community, and removing Islamic radicals from our strained social fabric.

You are always going to have a couple of people who think Hitler was cool, just as there are hundreds of thousands of serious academics who think the murderous Mao and Stalin were ‘great men’. None of this has the slightest bit of relevance to the threat of Islamic terrorism.

It is clear to every man and his dog that this law is badly written and not fit for purpose. Before things get out of hand, Parliament should admit their error, rescind it, redraft a Combatting Islamic Terrorism and Islamic Extremism bill and put some protections in there to classify attacks on Australia’s war history and colonial history as hate crimes.

That is what the people want. This is a democracy, which means the people should be served, not ignored.

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