Category: Hate Crime Law

Law chiefs plan ban on race-hate sites

Imre Salusinszky, NSW political reporter: The Australian | April 01, 2008

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23464021-5013945,00.html

RACE-HATE websites could be banned under an internet censorship proposal being considered by state and federal attorneys-general.

The plan, which is in its early stages, has aroused concern among civil libertarians who fear it could be used to stifle political debate.

The attorneys-general, meeting in Adelaide last week, commissioned a report on the viability of authorising the Australian Communications and Media Authority to combat race-hate sites by ordering internet service providers to take them down.

At present, ACMA polices websites that breach copyright, promote terrorism or publish extreme …

Call to switch onus on racist offences

Carol Nader: The Age | April 5, 2008

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/call-to-switch-onus-on-racist-offences/2008/04/04/1207249461190.html

A STUDY of racial discrimination laws in several Western countries has prompted a call for the Government to toughen Australia’s 33-year-old laws.

Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma wants the burden of proof in cases of racial discrimination to fall on the alleged offender, instead of the person making the complaint.

Mr Calma said Australia’s laws made it difficult to prove there had been discrimination.

A Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission analysis of other countries, including the US, Britain and Canada, shows that in those countries the onus of proof shifts …

Jews Demand Special Protection – And Get it

Jewish groups want hate crimes squad

Richard Kerbaj: The Australian | March 11, 2008

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23353535-5006785,00.html

VICTORIAN police are resisting calls by powerful Melbourne Jewish figures to set up a hate crimes squad to tackle the growing number of anti-Semitic attacks.

Police opposed to the idea have accused Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation Commission – which keeps tabs on anti-Semitic violence – of exaggerating the number of attacks to justify greater taxpayer-funded security measures.

It is believed Victoria Police Commissioner Christine Nixon was approached by Jewish leaders to set up the unit, which would play a similar role to a …

Who is Allowed to Advocate Pride?

Pride, what is it? Who advocates pride? Who is allowed to advocate pride?

“Pride refers to a strong sense of self-respect, a refusal to be humiliated as well as joy in the accomplishments of oneself or a person, group, or object that one identifies with.” Pride – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Many different people around the world advocate pride. Whether it is is racial pride, national pride, religious pride (even though the religion itself dencounces any form of pride as a sin) or pride in one’s political beliefs, pride is a right advocated world wide by people of all persuasions …

Wanted Dead or Alive: Anti-Semites – Reward 30 Shekels

Global Holocaust-Deniers Bill Passed In Knesset

Earlier this year (2006), legislation that would make Holocaust-denial committed overseas an offense under Israeli legal jurisdiction was approved unanimously in first reading by the Knesset (the Israeli parliament).

The passage of the measure would enable Israel to demand the extradition of Holocaust-deniers for prosecution.

The bill was drafted by MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) as a move against former Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) for his doctoral dissertation 20 years ago in which he estimated that the Nazis killed less than a million Jews.

It is likely to serve as …

SA Government Raid’s Home – 2006

The following blog entry was originally written in October of 2006 for another blog I wrote on from 2006 until October 1, 2008 (yesterday). The Director of Public Prosecutions did not authorise the police to investigate my case. So I was not charged and the confiscated items were eventually returned in late January of 2008 after two years sitting in the storage room at Major Crime.

Thoughtcrime or Thoughtcriminal? Why do I choose to describe myself as such?

The answer to that is, to put it bluntly, the corrupt state (at the present time I live in the state of …