Andrew Bolt's Blog,5/10/18; Bret Kavanaugh is a liar; Bolt calls for the legislation of hate and the reduction of civility to faux manners of style over meaning showing what an ass he is;

 Brett Kavanaugh Is a Liar—So Why Couldn’t Democrats Call Him One? | The Nation

  It is no secret that—amid his whining, braggadocio, and staggering displays of self-pity—would-be Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly perjured himself. Fact-checking articles in the days after the hearing identified well more than a dozen lies: lies about his high-school years, his college years, his drinking habits, his calendar, his yearbook, his judicial beliefs, the laws of Maryland, the testimony of his friends, and the meaning of words. It’s a wonder he gave his real name.

 

WE'RE WINNING. MAYBE

I thought we were losing the fight for free speech. But then we got a new Education Minister. The chancellor of the ANU today defended free speech and told students to harden up. And students in New Zealand booed protesters trying to shut down Don Brash. Good stuff! My editorial from The Bolt Report.

04/10/2018

 Why the likes of Abbott, Bernardi, Bolt, et al are Neanderthals wishing to drag us back into the days of irrationality and darkness. Enlightened days from which we broke through that darkness to be re-enshrine returning to by legislation hate? The right to hate and be hated legalised. "Do unto others as you would" no longer to bear any sufficient moral truth or value in an enlightened society

"Why is it then that the likes of Abbott, Bolt, Jones, Brandis, Bernardi and others need to go beyond common decency to express them and defend others who cannot express themselves without degenerating into hate speech?
The answer has nothing to do with an honourably noble sort of democratic free speech." John Lord

After all, the dignity of the individual (or individuals) within the collective is more important than some fool's right to use freedom of speech to vilify another.
Those who insist on unlimited free speech should realise that when they do so, they also reveal their own inner morality. John Lord

   Freedom of Speech — Why do we need to change

  If you were to ask the likes of Cory Bernardi if we live in an enlightened society, he would probably answer “yes”.I’m not sure how he would answer if you asked: If we are an enlightened society, why do you think we need to enshrine in law the right to hate each other? John Lord
Surely you would think that an enlightened progressive free-thinking society would want to eliminate it, not legislate it.
If free speech’s only purpose is to denigrate, insult and humiliate, then we need to reappraise its purpose. There are those who say it identifies those perpetrating wrongdoing but, if it creates more evil than good, it’s a strange freedom for a so-called enlightened society to bequeath its citizens.
Are we saying that hate is an essential part of the human condition?
 Is this really what an enlightened society means by free speech? Does it demonstrate our cognitive advancement? Is this what well-educated men and women want as free speech or should we see free speech as being nothing more or nothing less than the right, to tell the truth in whatever medium we so choose?
One has to wonder why the so-called defenders of free speech feel they are inhibited by what they have now. I don’t. I have never felt constrained in my thoughts or my ability to express them. I’m doing it now. But then I don’t feel a need to go beyond my own moral values of what is decent to illuminate my thoughts. John Lord