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Free speech beached

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

Let’s start by stating the bleeding obvious. The organisers of any ‘right-wing’ rally that allow or fail to prevent a couple of brain-dead idiots goose-stepping with their fingers under their noses in the style of John Cleese in a Fawlty Towers skit deserve whatever opprobrium comes their way. Nazi imagery of any kind is repulsive; as are dim-witted references to Hitler and the Holocaust, regardless of free speech considerations.

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