The Heroes We Had to Have

Noting the recent death of porn king Larry Flynt, one of my friends commented, “The guy might have been a creep, but, damn, he fought for our free speech rights when no one else would.” Sometimes you can’t pick and choose the heroes of freedom. Real heroes aren’t movie matinee idols, as Bruce Baxter comments in King Kong, “got bad teeth, a bald spot, and a beer gut”.

Solihin Millin isn’t exactly the hero we might have chosen in the fight against the COVID dictators, but he’s the hero we’ve got.

A man accused of inciting others to attend a protest against coronavirus restrictions through a series of Facebook posts has had his criminal case adjourned while he challenges the law in the High Court.

Solihin Millin is one of a handful of Victorians charged with encouraging others to attend anti-lockdown protests while restrictions on gatherings were in place during the worst weeks of the pandemic last year.

Police allege Mr Millin, 76, incited others to attend a September 5 “freedom rally” at the Shrine of Remembrance and Albert Park in the weeks before the event, through a series of Facebook posts.

I can’t help but notice that not one of the organisers of the massive, leftist “BLM” copycat protests, also organised in defiance of COVID restrictions, has been so much as issued with a fine, much less dragged off to court. But I digress.

Mr Millin is not exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to saying what he thinks, it appears.

In one post, according to documents released by Melbourne Magistrates Court, Mr Millin wrote in complaint that the “Sieg Heil fascist dictator” had called an extension to the state of emergency in Victoria, in an apparent reference to Premier Daniel Andrews. He did not mention Mr Andrews by name in the post.

But police say Mr Millin wrote it was “time to rise up against this foul criminal mafia fascist extortionist destroying our lives and our country”.

Inflammatory rhetoric aside, Millin is standing up for a principle about which the usual suspects of leftist protest culture have been notably silent, in stark contrast to their usual yammering about “rights”.

Mr Millin, who is charged with one count of incitement, appeared before the court on Tuesday via video link and told magistrate Simon Zebrowski he was challenging the “constitutional validity” of the charge against him in the High Court.

He said the High Court had “approved” his application to hear his challenge and quoted a case number.

Mr Zebrowski said he had no other option than to adjourn Mr Millin’s case and asked the accused man to inform police prosecutors about what was happening with his High Court case. Mr Millin, who is on bail, is next due to appear before a magistrate in June.

Mr Millin, of Windsor, was interviewed by police after his arrest and told officers he organised the rally, according to a summary.

He told police he was “pretty fired up about this” in reference to the protest and was “prepared to die for this” […]

Mr Millin is one of a handful of Victorians charged with incitement over their roles in anti-lockdown protests last year.

On the other hand, police not only conspicuously failed to charge, warn or rough up BLM protesters, but actually joined in the ritual anti-white subjugation of “taking a knee”.

But again, I digress.

Mr Millin, the founder of anti-vaccination group Make Australia Healthy Again, is also charged with possessing a drug of dependence related to cannabidiol.

The Age

Millin, as I say, is not the hero we might have chosen, but he’s the hero we had to have. Somebody has to stand up to megalomaniac state premiers and power-drunk, unelected public health bureaucrats. If it’s a slightly nutty anti-vaxxer, well so be it. All power to his constitutional challenge.

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