funnybunny said:
"Burning the flag is not a symbol of freedom of speech, its disrespectful and malicious. How anyone ca"
It is freeedom of speech. Have you been blocked out to the issue of freedom of speech that has been raised in current affair/news in almost the past month?
freedom of speech? you have to be joking! No I haven't been blocked out to the issues of freedom of speech raised recently. What you must realise is this country and the government have to balance people's right to freedom of speeh with people's right to be safe and live in a safe environment.
I refer to the banning of the "grafitti game", games like this (including violent games) should not be on sale. They provide no entertainment value, and if you find people beating each other up and killing them entertaining then you are SICK.
Australia isn't a flag lovers country - and I don't make it sound like that - the flag is simply a SYMBOL of what Australians love, we don't actually love the flag.
You people are trampling over the freedoms that this great country has given you.
ihavenothing of course you dont give a f*ck about the flag. You seem to be one of the "migrant" type people who don't recognise what Australia is about. Your ancestors came here from Nazi persecution (you say) so they realised that Australia was a free country - they wouldn't have came here if it wasn't.
I recognise that Australia had Aboriginals on it originally - and the "discovery" of Australia was controversial, but you must realise what the Europeans believed in then - the land was not cultivated so in their eyes it was not "owned". This is what their views were back in 1700's.
Thankfully we have developed and grown over the past 200 years, and we do recognise what they went through - but why should we apologise - we (the people of today) should not have to apologise for what others did.
Would you apologise if one of your ancestors hurt someone in the past? Meaning would you apologise to that person's ancestor? If you would why? It was not your mistake, you shouldn't have o apologise for something you did not do. Take responsibility for your own actions - not some one else's .
It will be a very sad day for Australia if people like you become PM.