Czechs Support Press Freedom

In heartening news from Europe, where governments are apologising left, right & centre for publication of the controversial Mohammed cartoons in national newspapers, the Czechs are refusing to knuckle under to political correctness. Muslim leaders & the Iranian embassy have demanded apologies, & assurance the offence will not be repeated, but the Czech foreign affairs minister Cyril Svoboda has said nup. In a nice twist Svoboda means free man.

There are 10,000 muslims in the Czech Republic, out of a population of 10 million plus. For this tiny minority to want to change press freedoms is presumptuous in the extreme. It's like Tongans coming to Australia & demanding that all labour should be banned on the sabbath. After decades of brutal repression of freedom of expression & opinion under the soviets, it is not surprising the Czechs want to retain the freedoms they have paid for with blood, pain and hardship.

Read the story here: http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0216/news1.php.

Ollie Off The Trolley

It's rumoured Andrew Olexander plans to go the Liberal Party for deselecting him, on the basis that he was dumped because he is gay. What a crock. He was dumped for stupidity - getting behind the wheel when over the odds makes him a bloody idiot, & no party wants bloody idiots running for office. There are plenty of gay people in the Liberal Party, & not a lot of us give a fat rat's about their sexual orientation.

Open Thread

Too lazy to think of something banal & inane to say. Comments welcome.