Protest marches.

[barreness]

it's an interesting and challenging discussion. Last thing we want to do is limit freedom to express concern about government action or non action like the dictatorships run by Xi and Putin.

However we shouldn't accept support of terrorism or treason. Maybe the rule could be:

• not allowed to wave the banners of or call for support of a prescribed terrorist group (eg. Hamas)
• not allowed to wave the banners of a country whose forces are in armed conflict with Australia.

So waving the Israeli or Palestinian flag or calling for an end to attacks is fine. Waving Hamas flag bad.

Ukrainian or Russian flag are fine as we are not involved but say a certain big country attacked one of its smaller independent democratic neighbours and we join a coalition to help defend them then waving the flag or supporting the big country should be illegal with severe punishment.

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Prescribed by whom?



'Last thing we want to do is limit freedom to express concern about government action'...........'not allowed to wave the banners of a country whose forces are in armed conflict with Australia'

A little incongruous no?

 

[kickazz]

The idea of blocking protests in the courts or needing pre-approval to stage one is so anti-democratic it's not funny. If the protest turns from peaceful to violent, by all means throw the book at them, but the right to protest without approval is the point of the right.

I don't think certain flags and so on should be banned outright. Call them out for what they are - hate flags.

Pre approval, or at least pre notification, is important so emergency services can be notified of blocked streets etc

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Can't tell you how many times I've seen those arguments trotted out here by progressives...so yes, we are consistent!

If you're marching with haters of Jews and people carrying Hezbollah flags, you're guilty by association just as much as anyone marching with Nazis. Protesting on October 7 would be a massive slap in the face to the innocent people who suffered in that day - it's hard to believe anyone is dumb enough to think it was a good idea.

Remember when you protested a thread ban by deleting your account?

From that we can deduce that you support everything Andrew Tate has said and done.

 

[Skeppersap]

There must be a terrorist under there somewhere



1, 2 and 3 are not even in dispute.

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In which case the original attacks on October 7 were acts of genocide as well ...