Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Voice to Parliament a ‘fraud from the beginning’" video.

The ONLY reason for inclusion in the constitution is so no future government EVER, can dismantle this proposed indigenous organisation. Basically permanent jobs for the indigenous grievance industry no matter how ineffective or corrupt like its predecessor ATSIC it may become. The present government already has the powers to create a "voice" by legislation.
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Linda Scott describes how well the current consultation process with indigenous representatives is working at a local government level. She puts forward a rather compelling case to vote NO! Why is another 'voice' needed when the current system (which would be similar at both a state and federal level) would be similar.
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Once you include "freedom of speech" in the constitution it is EXACTLY up to the High Court to interpret and establish what that actually means. Go study the US and their revered Bill of Rights and Constitution, and then look at what occurs in practice. It is their Supreme Court that establishes what really happens.
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Agreed, as she was speaking all I could hear was a pretty compelling reason for the NO case.
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@TheMichaelStott Freedom of religion is already guaranteed by the Australian Constitution. What you are completely failing to recognise is that the REAL law of the land, regardless of whether a Bill of Rights exists, is the 'common law'. It is what the Supreme Court or High Court says it is, regardless of a few brief words in a founding document. Just where in the US Bill of Rights does it deal with abortion? Where does it deal with same sex marriage? Did the right of the US States to maintain a "well regulated militia" (intended so the federal government couldn't subdue the states by military means) mean every citizen can own 100 semi-automatic assault rifles. FFS, the US currently holds people in permanent imprisonment without trial by jury. Something banned in British justice by the Magna Carta in 1215. What country had slaves, what country suffered under McCarthyism, what country had effective racial segregation laws to not that long ago? What country invented 'cancel culture'? What country drove the obscene global 'covid' response? What country has perhaps the most ingrained and politicised 'deep state' on the planet. The US is the last place to go look for a model of 'freedom' among developed Western nations.
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@tomorrow6 Nonsense, the USA is the home of 'cancel culture'. You can be fired from your job just for expressing an opinion. Even a former President is effectively restricted from 'free speech' by the tech giants. The USA's Bill of Rights was written by people who 'owned' slaves.
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@HandsomeNamed You can make up any interpretation you want of the Fourteenth Amendment. But that's all it is, the interpretation YOU want it to be. What matters is what the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment intended it to mean. And the majority of the Supreme Court have determined they did not intend it to address the rights of two cells inside a woman's body.
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