Be sure to include this one:
Posted on 06/09/2023 11:22:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The ban would include the displaying of flags, armbands and clothing with "symbols that promote Nazi ideology."
The Australian government will move to ban public displays associated with Nazi Germany.
The ban would include the displaying of flags, armbands and clothing with "symbols that promote Nazi ideology."
"There is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust," said Mark Dreyfus, a member of the governing Labor Party.
The legislation is part of a wider counterterrorism bill aimed at rooting out antisemitism, which has reportedly been on the rise in the country.
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One of the most notorious symbols associated with Nazi Germany is the swastika. However, it wouldn't be banned when used for religious purposes under the current proposal.
Dreyfus noted that it has spiritual significance to religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
"We have consulted with these communities to ensure nothing in these laws will impinge on the use or display of these symbols in association with those religions," he said.
There are also exceptions in the bill for educational, journalistic and artistic purposes.
The fate of the bill is up in the air. The Labor Party controls the House, but not the Senate.
If the law is passed, a person could face up to a year in jail for displaying a Nazi symbol.
Canary in the coal mine.
How about the hammer and sickle?
But not government edicts that infringe on liberty on par with the nazis?
So now ,the elderly war veteran who has a few war souvenirs is now in trouble with the law.
What about China symbols? Mao’s communist revolution and Great Leap Forward slaughtered MILLIONS more people than the holocaust… yet I don’t see any outcry there?
Or how about Russian communism?
How about communism in general?
yeah this will stop them
Not to be confused for the Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism symbol for peace.
The Labour Party doesn’t like the competition on tyranny.
Gesundheit!
I think there are also Africans who recognize the symbol; and all of this long pre-dated the Nazi’s appropriation of it.
The Australian government acted like Nazis themselves with their insane covid measures. This is just the first step in eliminating free speech. Pretty soon defacing the LGBTQ rainbow flag will incur a similar punishment of a year in prison.
A symbol... banned. Wrap your heads around that one.
Just btw, you see the swastika all over the indian subcontinent as a benign hindu symbol of life.
Native American craftsmen began using it too, in the late 1900s:
https://messieraz.com/the-use-of-the-swastika-symbol-in-american-indian-art/
I wouldn’t be surprised to find it in much older carvings and cave paintings.
Sorry, s/b ‘late 19th century’.
.... Or the crescent moon and star?
It’s responsible forthe largest loss of human life on the planet, after all Islam spread by the sword.
Religion of peace? Wanna buy a bridge?
Will the Japanese Meatball and Rising Sun flags be banned as well?
Be sure to include this one:
This amounts to an “I know it when I see it” kind of definition. They will use it against whoever they want whenever they want. Free speech is dead in Australia.
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