by PAUL COLLITS – TENS of thousands of terrorist-adjacent protesters shut down the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday – and marched “for humanity”.
Who could possibly disagree with that? Just like 17 years ago, another grievance group made use of the iconic bridge to make a political point. (PM Kevin Rudd’s apology to non-stolen Aboriginals.)
- That was until Judge Belinda Rigg of the NSW Supreme Court stepped in.
- The evil that female public officials do is astonishing.
- They seem to be everywhere, and everywhere doing awful things.
The NSW Government and the NSW Police did disagree with the latest Islamic disturbance. That was, until Judge Belinda Rigg of the NSW Supreme Court stepped in to say it was okay.
Judge Belinda is a North Shore girl with a lifelong interest in social justice. She’s another woman-in-public-service from the Teal community.
FEMALE OFFICIALS
They seem to be everywhere, and everywhere doing awful things. The evil that female public officials do is astonishing.
Judges who mistake social justice for real, actual justice before the law shouldn’t be judges.
The NSW Premier had said: “The NSW Government cannot support a protest of this scale and nature taking place on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, especially with one week’s notice.
“The bridge is one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in our city – used every day by thousands of people.
“Unplanned disruption risks not only significant inconvenience but real public safety concerns.
“We cannot allow Sydney to descend into chaos.”
In other words, Premier Chris Minns kept to the relatively safe ground of disruption of access and lack of prior notice. This saved him from getting off the notorious Labor fence on matters of geopolitics.
The marchers were a motley crew, typical of the broad, anti-Israel alliance.
Arabs, socialists, sincere peace-at-any-cost urgers, rent-a-crowd – they were all there. The usual weird bedfellows.
But there was also NSW Libertarian MLC John Ruddick. Scratch a libertarian and you will often find a rabid critic of Israel.
Ruddick’s appearance has caused a stir within libertarian ranks.
Rowan Dean at Sky News’ Outsiders was incensed, both at the march and at some of the unexpected participants /supporters, as followers of Dean’s might have expected.
SLITHERING
All this marching was done under the cover of “free speech”. Something dear to Ruddick’s heart. But there is much slithering going on here, free speech-wise.
What with new (unnecessary) hate speech laws in Australia and elsewhere specifically brought in to curtail Islamophobia.
In regards to online hate speech, under the cover of being seen to curb anti-Semitism, one could be forgiven for wondering how hate speech is actually defined in practice.
Clearly shouting provocative, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish slogans on the Coat-hanger – with a global audience watching on – is never covered. While questioning the core elements of the Koran on social media always are.
It is all linked to Albo’s sudden (never let a crisis go to waste) reversion to a two-State-solution.
It was performative two-State-solutionism, on the Bridge.
Perhaps Albo and all his fellow travellers need reminding that those most opposed to the two-State solution are the Palestinians themselves, or at least their terrorist leaders, from the PLO to Hamas.
They, of course, have resisted the efforts of many to get to the TSS over a long, long time, with vigour.
NO JEWS
They endlessly repeat that they want a one State solution. From the river to the sea. No Israel. No Jews.
Unlike the State of Israel, which houses many Arab residents and citizens, living in peace and enjoying the fruits of the widely recognised, Israeli economic miracle.
There isn’t much point negotiating here. Negotiating is as likely to succeed as Palestinian “protesters for humanity” being even-handed about the Middle East – you know, faults on both sides – would be.
None of this is new news.
No, this conflict, like all the others over thousands of years in that part of the world, will be the gift that keeps on giving.
The rights and wrongs of it, some of which are complex and others which are not, suggest that anyone wanting to be on the “right” side of history will have definitional problems from the get-go.
Three footnotes.
- Where was Captain de Groot when we needed him?
- The only surprise is that the marchers didn’t proceed to St Mary’s Cathedral to conduct a non-controversial Muslim pray-in.
- And no, the Sydney Harbour Bridge to this Sea isn’t a nickname for the iconic City to Surf run. That is next Sunday.PC
