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The BFD Comment of the Week

The BFD Comment of the Week

Today’s comment of the week is from Rod Defining hate speech as speech which is “insulting” or “offensive” means to me that the government’s current waffling about legalising drugs and defining licensed gun owners as somehow responsible for the Christchurch shooting is in itself hate speech because those

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A Vile Lie about David Seymour

A failing major media company, who today disgusts me so, that I refuse to mention their name, has been running a series of columns advocating ‘quality journalism’ and the benefits thereof to societal good. It seems to be some form of propaganda, a softening-up, to place themselves front-of-queue in the

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is cartoonist Garrick Tremain. His employers fell for the classic trap. They should never have apologised. Apologies are used against people as the mob say that it is proof that a thought crime has been committed and they then demand that their target loses

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Free Speech Almost Gone!

Free Speech Almost Gone!

Press release: New Conservative Party Elliot Ikilei, New Conservative Deputy Leader At the Labour Party conference, Andrew Little finally admitted what many have suspected for months. That the current government seeks to expand state control over speech in our nation. Over the weekend, Andrew Little declared that, “We need to

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Labour to Toughen ‘ Hate Speech’ Laws

Labour to Toughen ‘ Hate Speech’ Laws

ACT Party Revealed: Labour confirms it will toughen our “hate speech” laws next year. Giving a government censor more power to criminalise what you say is dangerous. Freedom to Speak There is a growing danger of taxpayer-funded universities abusing their health and safety obligations in order to ‘deplatform’ speakers and

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Wednesday Nightcap

Wednesday Nightcap

‘The policeman told me, “I need to check your thinking”‘ Harry Miller, a former police officer, is taking Humberside Police to court over reported ‘hate incidents’. Harry, now chief executive of campaign group Fair Cop, was previously told by Humberside Police that he had been reported for hate speech because

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Powerful Forces Threaten Our Future: Part Three

Powerful Forces Threaten Our Future: Part Three

Dr Muriel Newman NZCPR.com While councils are a crucial target in the iwi march into governance, radical claims are being made across the board. Just last week, Dr Keri Lawson Te Aho of Otago University blamed colonisation for the suicide rate of Maori men being more than double that

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Powerful Forces Threaten Our Future: Part Two

Powerful Forces Threaten Our Future: Part Two

Dr Muriel Newman NZCPR.com Under Jacinda Ardern’s progressive Government, the momentum for change is intensifying. A new radicalised narrative now claims that Maori have been oppressed since colonial times and their over-representation in disadvantage is the fault of the descendants of the colonisers. Meng Foon, Labour’s new

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Church FORCED to Lie about God

Church FORCED to Lie about God

Mark Imagine a criminal trial where a lawyer threatened a witness with prosecution, bankruptcy, and humiliation if that witness did not say something about a defendant that the witness knew to be false. I would hope that if that actually happened for real today, the lawyer would be facing serious

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Freedom of the Press

Freedom of the Press

As someone who was living in Britain when the Princess Diana phenomenon first took hold, I have witnessed first hand how the media can harass a private individual, and once she became a member of the Royal Family, she was fair game. There was at least some protection for her

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Hong Kong – Free Speech – Unarmed Citizens

Hong Kong – Free Speech – Unarmed Citizens

This is what happens when a nation’s citizens are disarmed, and the government decides what you can say in private and public. Imagine if these real Journalists at the Epoch times had handguns. Notice the police in drag brazenly walk in and not even hide the fact that they

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