Patriotism is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “the feeling of loving your country more than any others and being proud of it”.
Patriotism is perfectly normal in a healthy society, and helps create “social cohesion”, just as loving one’s own family more than other families is perfectly normal in a healthy family.
Sadly, in Australia, verbalising patriotism could soon land you in jail for five years under the government’s new hate speech laws.
The legislation, which is set to pass next week since the Liberals are self-hating traitors just like Labor, states that a person will be guilty of “publicly promoting or inciting racial hatred” if they engage in conduct intending to:
- disseminate ideas of superiority over or hatred of another person (the target), or a group of persons (the target group), because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the target or target group
And:
- the conduct would, in all the circumstances, cause a reasonable person who is the target, or a member of the target group, to be intimidated, to fear harassment or violence, or to fear for their safety
It is immaterial whether “the target, or members of the target group, actually are distinguished by the particular race, colour or national or ethnic origin; or the conduct actually results in hatred of another person or group of persons; or the conduct actually results in any person feeling intimidated, fearing harassment or violence, or fearing for their safety”.
If, therefore, you say that you think Australia is the best country in the world, and the police and courts decide that your statement may have made someone feel intimidated or fear harassment, even if you didn’t mention them and no one was actually affected, then you are going to jail for longer than many paedophiles.
For it is impossible to love your country more than any other if you don’t think it is superior to any other. Patriotism is believing your country is the best, despite its faults, because it’s yours.
It’s also impossible for two countries or two peoples to be equal – one will always be superior to another, just as no two individuals are equal – meaning these laws criminalise statements of fact, which should be worrying for anyone who values the truth.
We know too that some members of minority groups and many leftists find displays of patriotism frightening or intimidating, and routinely express fear of patriotic demonstrations and the Australian flag.
After the August 31 March for Australia rallies, for example, which were mostly peaceful except for in Melbourne where the police were off searching for Dezi Freeman, allowing far-left extremists to unleash violent attacks on anyone with a flag, the ABC published this article.
The headline read “Community leaders say weekend rallies stir memories of White Australia policy”, and the first paragraph stated: “Multicultural Australians have spoken out about the fear and harm they say was caused by the weekend’s anti-immigration events.”
The article also stated: “Sydney resident Nayonika Bhattacharya said she feared for her own safety on Sunday when she was in the city centre cheering on friends competing in the nearby marathon.”
I was at the Sydney rally, and there was no violence, and no abuse directed to the many “multicultural Australians” who stood and watched and filmed tens of thousands of patriots peacefully march past Central Station and down Broadway.
This is not to say that taking part in a March for Australia rally will be enough to get you thrown in jail, but it demonstrates that displays and statements of patriotism already result in the feelings of fear and intimidation necessary for charges to be laid.
But what kind of country would ban its own citizens from expressing love for it?
The concept should be unimaginable, and lead to national suicide, yet here we are.
This is only possible because we are governed by a self-hating, self-serving political class, who are also being held to ransom by minority voting blocs and lobby groups who want to change our country into one that works for them, instead of for us.
The hate speech laws, for example, protect them, not us, and we didn’t need them when they weren’t here.
Australia is no longer run by patriotic Australians, it’s run by traitors and foreigners, and these new laws are designed to keep it that way, by allowing the government to jail patriots for words that hurt no one, and ban groups who want to put their country first.
Patriotism is a threat to their rule, and must therefore be banned, while “social cohesion” is imposed from above at the barrel of a gun under Police State Multiculturalism instead occurring naturally via a shared love for one’s country and people.
But you can’t ban an idea, and you can’t stop people from loving their own country more, no matter how much you try to brainwash children with far-left colonial atrocity propaganda and equality lies.
And without patriotism, there is no Australia, so don’t let them take it away from you.
Header image: The March for Australia rally in Sydney on October 19 (Jesse Stewart, X).
