Q&amp;A tonight .. free speech advocate Mark Steyn

Originally posted by Lapdog ↑

Ravishankaray; I don't know Rod Halsted but I'll accept your assurance that he's a 'good Australian' even though I don't use such terminology and it has nothing to do with my response to comments he chose to publish in the Opinion Section of Albury-Wodonga's local daily paper [' The Border Mail'].

I regard that article as a derogatory comment about Aboriginal leaders Adam Goodes and Stan Grant as well as Kevin Rudd and including the extracts below:
"... the issue that just won't go away, the Adam Goodes racism saga. ..."
"... Please name me another player in either AFL or NRL who has been booed the way Goodes was. ..."
"... The fact is both you [Kevin Rudd] and Stan Grant are using this divisive issue to further your own political agenda. Ego over the best interests of the nation you failed to serve well. ...".
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/3727560/letters-to-the-editor/?cs=14

IMO such comments should NOT go unchallenged. Yet our local paper is known to be censoring people who may do just that and following pressure exerted by the local Liberal Party - a matter Cathy McGowan is soon expected to raise in Parliament.

Please note that it IS possible to disagree with views people express without saying they're not good Australians and that is was YOU who raised the issue of Halsted the person.

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"IMO such comments should NOT go unchallenged. Yet our local paper is known to be censoring people who may do just that and following pressure exerted by the local Liberal Party - a matter Cathy McGowan is soon expected to raise in Parliament."

See, you are talking nonsense again, .... still.

The Border Mail, censors, changes words, doesn't publish letters, say, that vote Liberal and any other party.

The Border mail is a pain in the derrier for some, like myself that writes a letter or two, a couple that I sent in a while ago, in reference to CCTV for Albury, they never published, ... only gave details of my letters to Albury Council Mayor and Fed Govt Office.

The Border Mail, Fairfax, seems to stifle free speech no matter what political persuasion, religion or sexual orientation, etc, (they have always done this), so I hope Cathy McGowan raises the free speech, bias, censorship by our Border Mail, in relation to all that send in a letter, who should have the right to not have their words interfered with or not published, no matter what political persuasion.

On the other hand, I don't see any reason why The Border Mail should assist Labor, greens or any other strange political party.