This will mean nothing to the majority of you but is interesting anyhow...
Pauline Hanson has just been released from maximum security prison in Australia.
She was jailed for fraud relating to donations made to her political party "One Nation" however that was the culmination of an enormous witch hunt against her which began after her comments in her first speech in the House of Representatives in Australia in 1996, basically similar to jailing a mobster for tax evasion.
Some of her comments in this speech I've put below - but judge for yourself whether she should have been correctly or incorrectly labelled as a racist, and then forced to become bankrupt and subsequently served time in a maximum security prison....racism is alive and well but is it allowable freedom of speech?
"I have done research on benefits available only to Aboriginals and challenge anyone to tell me how Aboriginals are disadvantaged when they can obtain three and five per cent housing loans denied to non-Aboriginals. This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this. I am fed up with being told, ‘This is our land.’ Well, where the hell do I go? I was born here, and so were my parents and children. I will work beside anyone and they will be my equal but I draw the line when told I must pay and continue paying for something that happened over 200 years ago"
"I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 per cent of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. Of course, I will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country."
"Do we want or need any of these people here? I am one red-blooded Australian who says no and who speaks for 90% of Australians."
"Therefore I call for the introduction of national service for a period of 12 months, compulsory for males and females upon finishing year 12 or reaching 18 years of age. This could be a civil service with a touch of military training, because I do not feel we can go on living in a dream world forever and a day believing that war will never touch our lives again."
Pauline Hanson has just been released from maximum security prison in Australia.
She was jailed for fraud relating to donations made to her political party "One Nation" however that was the culmination of an enormous witch hunt against her which began after her comments in her first speech in the House of Representatives in Australia in 1996, basically similar to jailing a mobster for tax evasion.
Some of her comments in this speech I've put below - but judge for yourself whether she should have been correctly or incorrectly labelled as a racist, and then forced to become bankrupt and subsequently served time in a maximum security prison....racism is alive and well but is it allowable freedom of speech?
"I have done research on benefits available only to Aboriginals and challenge anyone to tell me how Aboriginals are disadvantaged when they can obtain three and five per cent housing loans denied to non-Aboriginals. This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this. I am fed up with being told, ‘This is our land.’ Well, where the hell do I go? I was born here, and so were my parents and children. I will work beside anyone and they will be my equal but I draw the line when told I must pay and continue paying for something that happened over 200 years ago"
"I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 per cent of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. Of course, I will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country."
"Do we want or need any of these people here? I am one red-blooded Australian who says no and who speaks for 90% of Australians."
"Therefore I call for the introduction of national service for a period of 12 months, compulsory for males and females upon finishing year 12 or reaching 18 years of age. This could be a civil service with a touch of military training, because I do not feel we can go on living in a dream world forever and a day believing that war will never touch our lives again."
