Freedom of Speech & Expression
FREEDOM! The Daughter of Davos Resigns.
Two extraordinary things happened yesterday. First, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation effective, at the latest, early in February 2023. (Yes, New Zealanders need to endure her for a few weeks more!) Second, I put out this short tweet yesterday together with a video of the Prime Minister, and it went viral. In a mere 180 minutes, it...
INTERVIEW: Wincing First-Hand Account of Uyghur Concentration Camp Torture
This isn’t easy to read. Omar Bekali visited Adelaide recently to deliver a series of keynote speeches. At first glance, a man on a speaking tour seems ordinary enough. However, Omar’s story is anything but ordinary. A survivor of the Chinese Communist Party’s Xinjiang Camp, Omar Bekali, 46, presents as a courageous but scarred man with first-hand experience of the Chinese Government’s...
BREAKING: Man Who Chanted “CCP, Step Down”, Arrested and Disappeared!
Brave Chinese citizens have yet again risked imprisonment challenging their country’s regime. They took to the streets to fight the Chinese Communist Party’s prolonged and inhumane lockdown, a policy which caused residents trapped in their high-rise apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, to be burned-alive. In scenes from the security state rarely accessible to the world, Chinese people gathered...
INTERVIEW: The CCP imprisoned him. She got him out!
If you listen to rare public forays by senior members of the security establishment, the spies and their agencies, we in the West are under threat from several fronts. Looming front and centre, they say, is an expansionary Chinese Communist Party. To be clear, Liberty Itch has no quarrel with the Chinese people. However, Liberty Itch is sceptical of government of...
You’re The Voice
In a quiet moment today or even right now if that’s possible, read the lyrics below whilst watching this clip … and tell me this doesn’t make you more determined politically. “We're not gonna sit in silence, We're not gonna live with fear” could well apply to the last two and a half years. So, are you going to “Make...
VIDEO: Doing What’s Right!
A timely reminder about what’s at stake in Victoria … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDDQQWsvUl0
Twitter Can Now Fly
Two hours ago, Elon Musk’s long-anticipated acquisition of Twitter was completed. Hopes now run high that at least one social media platform can operate for all and free speech restored. Time will tell. As an avid user of the platform, I believe the following needs addressing: 1. Bots. The system is fouled by fake accounts created by algorithm. The platform must be cleansed...
