By TONY MOBILIFONITIS
UNITED Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet (Victoria) has openly defied the censorship of Anthony Albanese’s chief censorship bureaucrat by posting a video on X and on his own YouTube channel containing footage of the knife attack on Sydney Assyrian Christian leader, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.
A fellow Senator Malcolm Roberts (One Nation, Queensland) has sprung to Senator Babet’s defence on the X platform, questioning whether the so-called eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant is acting unconstitutionally.
US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jnr also entered the debate, posting a meme with his own picture and the words: “There’s never been a time in history when we look back and say that the people who were censoring free speech were the good guys.”
Elon Musk, who is fighting efforts by the eSafety Commissioner in the Federal Court to impose a global ban on the video, posted on his own platform: “The Australian people want the truth.”
Senator Roberts said the eSafetyCommissioner “has now sought to censor something shared by a Senator. The implied right to political expression is one of the few protections Australians have in the Constitution. Why does the government get to ignore this?” he posted on X.
Senator Babet stated above his posted video: “This opinion piece contains the video that the Australian Government has gone to the Federal court to have removed. I will not remove it. Without free speech our nation will fall. The Liberal party, The Labor party and the eSafety commissioner are a threat to democracy.”
Babet explained in his video that the attack on the bishop “is a metaphor for the awful truth of what is happening every day in the western world – Christianity and the West is under attack.” In a follow up message he called Albanese the “divider in chief” who “spent a year trying to divide us by race is now suddenly concerned about community disharmony”.
He said the Albanese Labor Government and the Australian Law Reform Commission are facilitating an attack on Christianity and Christian schools with recommendations that require schools to employ staff who don’t prescribe to the Christian religion, potentially banning a Christian school from teaching a biblical world view on sex and gender.
Babet went on to call for churches to stand up for what it right and to cease weak and insipid Christianity that misrepresents Jesus Christ as a “slightly effeminate timid preacher who would never offend, never upset and never inconvenience anyone”.
Speaking on Melbourne ABC radio’s Drive program, Senator Babet strongly defended his decision to post the video clip of the attack on the bishop after a woman identifying herself as “Liz from Beaumauris” phoned the station saying she was “absolutely horrified that a senator could be pushing that forward” with “absolutely divisive commentary” around it and “awful in so many ways”.
Senator Babet responded by asking whether the woman’s name was “Karen”, but pointing out that what he posted was a seven-minute monologue about what took place in the Wakeley (Sydney) church and Albanese’s response. “I had to show it because people need to know what’s going on out there,” he said.
When presenter Ali Moore attempted to defend the eCommissioner Babet as keeping gratuitous violence out of public view Babet butted in: “No, no, no. What the eSafety Commissioner wants to do, what the eSafety Commissioner wants to be is the arbiter of speech, wants to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. That is not her job. What she should be doing is going after things like child pornography – things that are blatantly illegal, right? She has no right to police the speech, especially the speech of a sitting senator that’s been put in the big house on the hill to represent the constituents of this great nation.”
PM Albanese and the upstart bureaucrat Julie Inman-Grant believe they have the right to simply ban a video that has already been viewed nationally and worldwide, because it was part of a live broadcast of a mass conducted by the Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.
When Elon Musk’s X company agreed to block the content being available to Australian-based IP addresses, that wasn’t good enough for them because people with VPNs could still see the content. So Albanese and his chief censor outrageously demanded a global ban on the video footage.
Albanese claims the action to censor the clip of the failed stabbing, violent as it was, is a question of “social decency”. Yet this is that same PM whose party defiantly supports gender mutilation of children and exposing toddlers to drag queens and teaching on all manner of LGBTIQ perversions.
In addition, entertainment content that is actually gratuitously violent (not necessary, appropriate or justified) is available on major video platforms like Netflix and Stan that feed into millions of Australian homes on a nightly basis.
The video of the bishop being attack is violent, but real and fortunately, unsuccessful. It is certainly not as violent or graphic as the worldwide clips of the JFK assassination seen by millions of people.
