Australian Liberals (Communists) are pushing a new hate speech and gun control bill that augments the old ones beyond what anyone expected. This is Mind Control on the edge, because if the penalty were more severe than the one being demanded, it would be death.
“The new 2026 “Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill” punishes speech that causes fear—even if no harm occurs—with up to 5 years in prison. It gets worse. The law applies to nearly everything: tweets, blogs, memes, even quoting scripture online. It explicitly states that it doesn’t matter if anyone actually felt hatred or fear. And it allows the government to go back in time and charge people for things they said before the law existed.” This is Ex Post Facto, after the fact, application of a new law which is one of the Big Reasons so many people escaped England and braved the dangers of untamed America. You could be charged for a crime when, at the time it happened, it was not against the law, but then a law was passed to make it so.
Many of these laws were entirely unfair and based on nothing other than what the King said, and you could be put to death for anything. In Australia, if this expansive bill is passed and Google AI says “Australia’s proposed hate speech bill has a strong chance of becoming law, with the ruling Labor government pushing for its passage in early 2026”, anything you said that this law condemns at ANY time in the past, can cause you to be thrown into prison.
What this really is, isn’t an effort to protect people from verbal assaults by others or prevent the feelings of some whiner or delicate flower from being hurt. It’s to force the population into total compliance with whatever the government says. Speaking out against a politician can be hate speech. So can complaining about anything the government does, or the price of something at a market, or a person’s appearance or behavior. ANYTHING. Displaying a flag “improperly”, a political sign on your lawn, cheering for a rugby team that’s fallen out of favor. Anything.
Canada and Great Britain are on this same course. Will the US follow it? We’ve always mirrored each other before, so will we stop and not cross this Bridge Too Far?