In which the pond tries to restore faith by offering up the wrongly sacrificed Angelic One as a late arvo wafer ...

The pond has sinned, has been a most grievous sinner... Benedic mihi, Mater, quia peccavi

The pond has been distracted by impure thoughts ...

Ley’s approval ratings tank after month of Liberal chaos and disunity (*archive)

The pond's lust to make some lettuce off that lettuce winning the race is unholy and impure ...

Even worse, on the weekend's culling, the pond became overwhelmed and extremely tired at the thought of ploughing through all of the Daily Zionist stories to hand.

It was a grievous error, and in the process the pond tossed the Angelic baby out with the bathwater.

How to make things right?

Of course the pond first settled down with a few Hail Marys, a couple of prayers to "Our Great Mother in the Sky", and the saying of more than a few rosary beads.

But it still didn't seem right, and so the pond decided to give the Angelic One a late Monday arvo airing.

Yes, it's more reptile blather about Gaza, but for heaven's sake, this is the Angelic one, and the reptiles only timed it as a three minute read ...and how wrong was it for the pond to overlook her work?!

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ...as the pond admits to sins in thought, word, deed and omission ...

The plaintive cry in the header ... Where do we draw the line on protest and free speech? This weekend we face yet another protest about the conflict in Gaza, and yet more commentary bemoaning the loss of ‘social cohesion’ in Australia (also in the archive)

The caption for the terrifying image of Muslims invading the Opera House, the end of Western Civilisation in all its glory: This weekend we face yet another protest about the conflict in Gaza. Picture: AAP

Why it's just as bad and as shocking an image - a soiled Opera House - as the news that sent Laura into hyper drive...

Sorry, the pond keeps distracting from the Angelic one, a most grievous sin, especially as she had a pretty fair clue what this Muslim thing was all about ... it was bloody multiculturalism.

Stick with her, she'll get there ...

This weekend we face yet another protest about the conflict in Gaza, and yet more commentary bemoaning the loss of “social cohesion” in Australia. However, the conversation in many households across Australia will ultimately be about free speech and what, if any, are the limits to that right.
This is particularly if, like many parents and grandparents, you have young people in your family who are well-meaning, idealistic and moved by understandable compassion for the terrible situation of Palestinians in Gaza to support the protest. They see the whole thing as a moral issue.
For many people the situation in Gaza is not an issue over territory happening on the other side of the world that has nothing to do with Australia; rather, it is seen as a fundamental moral issue, particularly by the wider Middle Eastern diaspora.

This being an old reptile story, you should expect the faint smell of rotting fush and chups, as in the AV distraction, Sky News host Steve Price discusses a court’s decision to block a pro-Palestine protest at Sydney’s Opera House this weekend. “The Supreme Court in NSW has blocked protestors from rallying on the steps of the Opera House as they should,” Ms Price said. “But still these protestors, both in Sydney and in Melbourne ... continue to want to protest. “Shouldn’t they now be marching with signs, ‘thank God for peace’?”

The pond only includes it for the terrifying image and for the record, as the Angelic one tried her hand at a little both siderism, as if she really wasn't just a one-eyed, blatantly biased reptile scribbling for The Daily Zionist ...

But framing Israel’s destruction of Gaza as a moral issue, part of the crushing of the national aspirations of Palestinians, also feeds the ability of the pro-Hamas rump in this country to maintain the rage.
On the other side, Jewish Australians are equally imbued with moral outrage over blatant anti-Semitic outbursts and even criminal attacks, prompting Israel’s supremely ironic demand of our government to “get your country in order”.
So, we seem to be faced with at least some level of social fragmentation because this issue has now morphed into a lot more than just a domestic or international political issue but something that is now seen as moral issue by people with passionate views on both sides of the conflict.

And so to the core question ...

Is the current imbroglio the result of a fundamental flaw in multiculturalism? 

Some might wonder what this dog whistle might mean.

Could the pond humbly suggest that it's code for "why did we let those bloody difficult, uppity Muslims into the country?"

They've ruined everything. They've been doing it for decades, and now they want to get agitated about a little ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass starvation, wanton destruction, and epic displacement.

There's no pleasing them.

Of course the Anglic One might also have been worrying about the way that multiculturalism leads inevitably to atheism - so many gods to chose from - and there might have been a racial element, but seeing as she's a fundamentalist Catholic, more than likely it's religion.

And so she turned to the right sort of analyst...a Connor Court favourite...

Peter Kurti is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies and also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has written extensively about issues of religion, liberty, and civil society in Australia, and is the author of 'The Tyranny of Tolerance: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia'. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.

Pity about the Anglican thingie, but Notre Dame is a plus, and besides Our Henry wrote the forward to this one ...

33 smackeroos, give or take a zac!

There's more tomes, but the pond must get back to the Angelic One ...

We are a pluralist society, that is a fact. So, we must deal with it. 

Yes, and if not by throwing mud at it, why not some chicken poo?

Peter Kurti from the Centre for Independent Studies has published a timely paper, Drawing the Line: Moral conflict and the Fragility of Liberal Tolerance. Kurti sets out to tackle the problem of arbitration over moral issues in a liberal society whose civic institutions were never equipped to deal with issues such as genocide.
Kurti tells The Australian: “Courts are getting into areas where they don’t belong and for which they have no expertise.”

What's this Kurti tells The Australian? Has the Angelic one become a trinitarian, melded into the hive mind, at one in body and soul with the reptile rag?

And what's with the notion that this Kurti chap has the expertise to tell the courts what's what, as if he's some kind of Dame Slap?

Sorry, pause for another shocking image ...March for Palestine starting at Hyde Park Sydney in August. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Now to winkle out the real problem, and it's not the carry-on by the Zionist lobby ...it's the bloody Muslims...

In a multicultural society, he writes, “the “civic compact is the agreement that citizens are free to maintain private cultural and religious traditions in return for observing civic norms, laws and democratic institutions. Thus, the civic compact is grounded not in shared cultural values but in shared political commitments.”
Kurti is clear that there are grades of harm against which we must protect our fellow citizens and on which courts can act. This has direct implications for any legitimate protest. First are threats to physical safety. However, he also includes “sustained dehumanisation”; this includes “organised campaigns of vilification”. For example, in the 2025 case of Wertheim v Haddad, systematic anti-Semitic propaganda “was distinguished from legitimate political criticism of Israeli government policy”. However, could this also have direct bearing on signs and slogans at demonstrations that call for Jews to be killed and portray Jews, not just the Israelis, in offensive ways?
Kurti makes clear that “pluralism does not mean the absence of constraints of public behaviour”, even though anti-pluralist groups, such as Islamists, “may nonetheless participate in democratic politics, advocate for their vision of society and seek electoral success; but they cannot use democratic processes to eliminate democracy itself. In the ‘civic compact zone’, drawing the line means protecting the conditions of public reason: the expectation that citizens will argue, protest and campaign without resorting to violence, intimidation or abuse … The challenge is to maintain a public culture in which disagreement can be fierce but never destructive.”

At this point, the reptiles settled the matter by turning to simplistic Sharri, full disrespect, Sky News host Sharri Markson elaborates on the Supreme Court judges' decision to ban a pro-Palestinian rally from taking place at the Opera House. “They said given the extreme safety risks, as outlined by New South Wales Police, it could not proceed at the Opera House, which only holds 6,000 people on the forecourt,” Ms Markson said. “What are they protesting? A peace deal has been agreed - Palestinians are celebrating. Israelis are celebrating. So, what are they still protesting? “No one is stopping free speech. No one is stopping their hateful protests. "It's just the attempt to take over major landmarks that's so deeply objectionable.”

Indeed, indeed, deeply objectionable.

And what of ethnic cleansing, and mass starvation as a war tactic, and endless displacements, and all the rest of the baggage? Not objectionable at all if you're a star for Zionist Corp ...

And at that point, the Angelic One began to channel old grievances, and recalled 'Nam days ...

Social cohesion has come under pressure in Australia before. Forget the Palestinian flag. How many recall seeing the North Vietnamese flag flying at demonstrations in Sydney? 

Because it was a just war, and the US would have won if it hadn't been for all that shocking, shameful behaviour, just like King Donald won in Afghanistan ...

Of course it was multiculturalism, though perhaps godless atheists were also involved.

And then there are teh bloody gaze ...

As for civilised behaviour, remember the gay marriage fight: threatened boycotts of venues, churches daubed with graffiti, an archbishop hauled before the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for publishing Catholic doctrine?

Oh it was shameful, grievous, and all so those bloody wretches could pretend that it was true love, rather than a breach of Leviticus ...

It was multiculturalism of course that let so many gaze into the country. The pond knows for a fact that despite all that talk of rum, sodomy and the lash, there wasn't a single gaze in the country back in the day ... a bit like the AFL right now... until the gaze started to arrive and cause trouble.

And then the Angelic One got truly deep ...

What we are seeing is not a simple failure of multiculturalism. It’s not a simple clash of ethnicities or culture. It is deeper than that. 

Oh so deep, deeper than deep ...

People on both sides of this conflict have a right to express their opinions. Some ask, “Why is this happening in Australia now?” and question whether the government is doing enough to control public order. Have there been enough prosecutions? Others feel deeply the misery of Palestinian women and children. There is no doubt about that. However, it is valid to ask: where do we draw the line?

Um, might we draw the line at barking mad Catholic fundamentalists rabbiting on in the lizard Oz?

Or if they are going to troll on about multiculturalism, might they not join with Pope Leo in putting in a kind word for difficult, uppity furriners?

Or mebbe join Leo on another matter ...

Yes, yes, agreed, that's asking far too much of the reptiles, or of the Angelic One.

Here endeth the lesson, and those add-ons to this visit with the Angelic One were really only so the pond could segue to a couple of 'toons to close out the service...