I won’t let the Press Council silence me on mass immigration debate, writes Andrew Bolt

THE LEFT has again called in the speech cops to censor me, this time because I told the truth about mass immigration, writes Andrew Bolt.

THE LEFT has again called in the speech cops to censor me, this time because I told the truth about mass immigration.

The Guardian Australia couldn’t be more excited: “The Australian Press Council has received an unspecified number of complaints about an article by Andrew Bolt that argues a ‘tidal wave’ of migrants are swamping Australia, forming enclaves and ‘changing our culture’.”

Guys, don’t waste your breath.

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No official body (The Press Council) should interfere in the exchange of opinions that distinguishes us from a tyranny or a flock of sheep, writes Andrew Bolt. Picture: John Tiedemann

The Press Council can go whistle. I do not recognise its moral right to shut down debate and will not co-operate with it. No official body should interfere in the exchange of opinions that distinguishes us from a tyranny or a flock of sheep.

Besides, the Press Council is in no shape to judge any conservative while its members include Carla McGrath, deputy chair of the GetUp!activist group, and Leftist Matthew Ricketson, a union representative who has recommended that a government-appointed body act as a censor of newspapers.

I’d never subject myself to that kind of jury, which also includes David Fagan, who once edited the only Murdoch daily newspaper without a single conservative columnist and who boasted last year: “I never published Bolt.”

I will not answer any question such a body puts to me, and will refuse to respect its usual request for proceedings to be treated confidentially, to allow it to do its intimidation in the dark.

It is time to fight the forces of shut-uppery that have stifled debates on exactly the issues that need them most.

This shutting down, whenever the Left is challenged, isn’t done just by our notorious thought police — by the Press Council, courts, and various human rights councils and tribunals that have persecuted cartoonists, students, bishops and conservatives for expressing their opinions.

There’s also the typically vile abuse by the Left’s winged monkeys on “social” media, flying in again in response to my latest article.

To sum up my actual arguments, now publicly damned (but not answered) by at least three Labor MPs: there is increasingly no “us”, thanks to mass immigration and the deliberate destruction of the symbols that once bound us as a people.

A massive flood of immigrants has given Australia the fastest population growth of any Western nation — 242,000 foreigners, net, settling here in a single year. Picture: Stuart Milligan

For instance, we now have councils that refuse to celebrate Australia Day. Our national flag no longer represents us all; most government buildings also fly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ones.

And now comes a massive flood of immigrants that has given us the fastest population growth of any Western nation — 242,000 foreigners, net, settling here in a single year.

All of this is turning immigration into colonisation.

In Lakemba, in Sydney, two-thirds of residents follow Islam.

In Box Hill, nearly half speak Chinese; in Springvale, a quarter speak Vietnamese; and in Caulfield North, 41 per cent are Jews.

Not all of these colonies should worry us. The more Jews the better.

But when more Muslims, for instance, volunteered to fight for the Islamic State than now serve in Australia’s army, we must ask whether we are accepting more migrants than we can assimilate.

Indeed, what’s left for them to assimilate to?

For serious people of the Left overseas, this is worth discussing.

David Goodhart, former editor of Prospect, warned in Britain’s Guardian that if immigrants no longer assimilated to a core culture, “it weakens the bonds of solidarity and in the long run erodes the ‘emotional citizenship’ required to sustain welfare states”.

But in the Guardian’s Australian outpost, Katherine Murphy just stuck her fingers in her ears in response to my article.

“Someone conjured up a tidal wave of immigrants in order to get people to take notice of him, and fight him,” she snapped, as if I’d simply imagined more migrants coming each year than the population of Hobart — and did it just to get attacked.

Still, Murphy’s response was mild compared with the more general hysteria and the ritual shut-up screams of “racist” — including from other journalists.

Crikey’s Bernard Keane even painted me as an anti-Semite — a sick joke from someone who derides Israel as an “apartheid system”, and backs the boycott of the Jewish state.

Keane sobbed that “to see Jews being singled out and criticised for forming ‘colonies’ and failing to integrate, in a mainstream media outlet, makes the blood run cold”.

In fact, I neither said nor believe that Jews do not integrate.

I say again: there is a trend in Australia to form ethnic and religious colonies, just when our sense of “us” is weakest.

Fact.

Do not call the cops.

Discuss.

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