Pixelated Semantics

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The real Sedition?

Victorian Premier Bracks yesterday commendably called out the recent 'racial violence' for what it is - formed from 'Nazi ideology'. Despite being quoted on SBS TV News last night, (until now) not a single media outlet has today reported the comments.

Questions are also being asked as to why 'shock jocks' who have arguably incited violence through the media, are not being charged under the government's shiny new sedition laws - for instance Alan Jones, who is reported to have said he 'understood' the text messages used to called for 'force' and then read them on air - is this not providing information that supports incitement to violence to a wide public already stirred up by the issue?

Man of Steel's questionable decision to again state his 'Nationalist' fervour yesterday, and to refuse to condemn the use of the Australian flag as a rallying point for 'white Australia' should also be taken into account. Those actions could be argued to add tacit support in the absence of clear condemnation and restraint of language:

'I have had a very clear view on identity for a very long time. I've never felt anything other than a passionate Australian nationalist. The frantic search for a precise, unanimously accepted definition of who we are is a load of nonsense.'

The local Liberal MP's curiously tame response to the initial incident also seems to carry an implicit 'understanding' of the violent Anglo response to a media-magnified threat 'against a way of life', as with others in government often demarcated by what is not said.

There seem to be no depths that our current 'moderate conservatives' will not descend to in their desire to retain power at any cost - as long as properly managed perceptions are maintained through a compliant media. Howard can now conveniently claim 'everything this government's said about homegrown terrorism has been totally justified' - but the fact the worst 'race riots' here since 1860 have been sparked on Howard's watch, fanned by the rhetoric and the apparent ethical failures of his government have become a supporting excuse for removal of civil rights and other authoritarian behaviour is a damning indictment.

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