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October 22nd, 2008, 12:15 AM
Flying NS flag declared free speech
Nazi flag is free speech - A-G
The Australian Tuesday, 21 October 2008
ADELAIDE — There’s not much the South Australian government
can do to stop an Adelaide man flying a Nazi flag on his property,
state Attorney General Michael Atkinson says.
Mr. Atkinson said that while the flag was in very bad taste,
the issue was one of freedom of expression.
“I assume that the tenants are that one-percent-type people
who just like to shock and disgust, like they’ve managed to do,”
he told ABC Radio.
“Unless one can argue that it incites racial hatred, then I suspect
it’s a matter of free speech, free expression.”
Yesterday, the suburban Croydon man forced a Nine Network crew
off his property and gave no reason why he was flying the flag.
But the RSL has called it sickening, saying the flag was a symbol
of a regime that took the world to war in 1939 costing millions
of lives, including those of 40,000 Australian servicemen and women.
“Australians will be rightly offended by this and most veterans are
grossly offended by it,” said RSL national president Bill Crews.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-12377,00.html
Nazi flag is free speech - A-G
The Australian Tuesday, 21 October 2008
ADELAIDE — There’s not much the South Australian government
can do to stop an Adelaide man flying a Nazi flag on his property,
state Attorney General Michael Atkinson says.
Mr. Atkinson said that while the flag was in very bad taste,
the issue was one of freedom of expression.
“I assume that the tenants are that one-percent-type people
who just like to shock and disgust, like they’ve managed to do,”
he told ABC Radio.
“Unless one can argue that it incites racial hatred, then I suspect
it’s a matter of free speech, free expression.”
Yesterday, the suburban Croydon man forced a Nine Network crew
off his property and gave no reason why he was flying the flag.
But the RSL has called it sickening, saying the flag was a symbol
of a regime that took the world to war in 1939 costing millions
of lives, including those of 40,000 Australian servicemen and women.
“Australians will be rightly offended by this and most veterans are
grossly offended by it,” said RSL national president Bill Crews.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-12377,00.html