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August 2, 2010

The Drum Unleashed: Political porn as the sun rises

Hilar­i­ous arti­cle by Cather­ine Deve­ny on the ‘debate’ between Fam­i­ly First’s Wendy Fran­cis and the Aus­tralian Sex Par­ty’s Fiona Pat­ten on morn­ing television:

Look out, up next, the inter­net fil­ter. Fran­cis played the ‘You’re either with us or with the child rapists card.” Pat­ten was forced to explain to Fran­cis that child sex abuse is ille­gal, the Inter­net will not stop it and that any­one involved in child sex abuse should be pros­e­cut­ed and sent to jail. Not allowed to continue.

See also this fine arti­cle writ­ten by Fiona Pat­ten on net cen­sor­ship and hypocrisy.

Please stop vot­ing the two prac­ti­cal­ly iden­ti­cal polit­i­cal par­ties into pow­er. Make a big, unavoid­ably notice­able dent in their vote tal­lies and give sen­si­ble, adult-fac­ing pub­lic pol­i­cy a chance.