people in Australia took to the streets on the weekend to protest against the government’s crackdown on free speech. You’d think that this would be an event that would be covered by the media. If, in every major city thousands of people were suddenly out protesting, wouldn’t that be something that the the taxpayer funded Australian Broadcasting Commission would be telling people about?
Nope…nothing, not a word. There’s plenty of free speech Downunder, what are these people on about? In case you’re wondering, these marches were organized by a group called March for Australia. On their website they say they are marching because…
“In recent years, Labor and the Liberals have passed an unprecedented wave of draconian laws restricting freedom of speech, expression and political communication.
These laws have ALREADY been used against politicians and political commentators, as well as to ban political parties and even to go after legitimate news outlets.
The uniparty has set Australia on the path towards UK-style police-state tyranny, where an estimated 12,000 people are arrested over social media posts each year.”
You probably wouldn’t put your name on this website either unless you liked the idea of prison
The website is short on details about who actually runs this thing, so we have to ask (totally unbiased I’m sure) AI who these people are.
This was the answer..”March for Australia rallies, held on 31 August 2025, 19 October 2025, and 26 January 2026, involved a mix of far-right activists, politicians, and neo-Nazi organizations.
Investigations by ABC News and The Age revealed that the National Socialist Network (NSN), a neo-Nazi group, played a central but initially concealed role in organizing and leading the protests.”
Well the ABC might have investigated it, but they sure as hell didn’t cover it on their news platform. If you want Wikipedia’s assessment you can see it here
To cut to the chase… it’s Nazis, Neo Nazis, White Supremacists, Right wing extremists and people who don’t like a certain kind of immigrants arriving in overwhelming numbers. IOW, just your usual everyday concerned citizens that the place they grew up in is rapidly being transformed into a multicultural hellhole where any criticism of it will result in being charged with a hate crime/hate speech or just badthink. They can see what’s happening in Europe and the UK and they don’t like it.
My message to the gaslighting scum in the media and elsewhere is that continually calling people Nazis for wanting to live in peaceful, mostly homogeneous society is not going to end well. In fact you may end up with actual Nazis who won’t be as forgiving as the decent and sane people protesting about stuff that should be a guaranteed part of living in a western democracy. This is not a threat, just an educated guess.
It’s a Monday. I don’t really want to start the week off talking about this crap, but it’s only going to get worse unless people start complaining about it. It’s not extremism to want to live in a high trust society. After living in Australia which is thief central, it’s a tough bar to aim for, but you know what I mean.
Zappa’s Reuben and the Jets – animal noises
On the weekend I got out some LPs that have been laying around here for years and started listening to them. The previous owner had worked at a college radio station and had left behind an amazing collection of “DJ, not for sale” promotional copies of mostly records from the late sixties, early seventies. I have never listened to a lot of these, so I found some real gems that I hadn’t known existed.
The cat doing the animal noises is Charles Moffet, first on the left. He was shot dead in an argument in 1986
One record was called “Remember with the Velours” The Velours were described on the back cover of this album as “one of the smoothest, classiest R &B groups of the late fifties.” I would describe them as Doo Wop, based on the couple of songs I listened to.
I was particularly taken by the first track on side one, “Can I Come Over Tonight”. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It sounded like animal noises, and I mean that in a good way. Turns out it was one of Frank Zappa’s favorite songs because as Frank said, according to AI,
” (He) Frank Zappa held the song “Can I Come Over Tonight” by The Velours in extremely high regard, naming it one of his top 10 favorite records in a 1975 interview.
He praised the group’s bass singer for his complex vocal techniques, specifically noting his use of quintuplets and septuplets, which Zappa described as “amazing” given the song’s East Coast doo-wop origins.
It is pretty amazing. If you listen to Zappa’s 1968 Reuben and the Jets album, Frank is clearly channeling Charles Moffet.
Good Day