Show Your Pride and Fly Our Flag, Politicians Say
HERALD SUN: PROMINENT Australians have urged their compatriots to fly the flag with pride, despite claims the national symbol is a sign of race hate.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Premier Ted Baillieu led the charge to dismiss a study suggesting Aussies who attached flags to their cars for Australia Day were more likely to have racist views.

But an Islamic leader claimed the country could not deny some flag-flying patriots were racist and that the flag had allegedly been used as a "weapon" against some Australians.

The flag furore follows neurosurgeon Dr Charles Teo's claim that racism still plagued Australia and migrants were victimised.

University of WA researchers found in a survey of 513 people last Australia Day that one in five attached flags to their cars, and that flag-flyers "tend to express more racist attitudes" than others. » | Wes Hosking, Aleks Devic with Stephen Drill | Herald Sun | Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Death of Patriotism: How National Pride Is 'Under Threat by a Global Super-Elite'
MAIL Online: Patriotism is back in fashion. With the Union flag flying high over Beijing after the golden success of our Olympic athletes, the British public has been given a rare opportunity to indulge in unbridled expressions of national pride.

Yet, in our ever more globalised world, instinctive patriotism is being diluted. The concept of nationhood has been undermined by mass immigration and the imposition of the dogma of multi-culturalism.

Our economy is increasingly tied up with the global financial system, dominated by multinational giants which see borders as irrelevant. Supra-national bodies, such as the UN and the EU, have a mounting influence over our political governance.

The idea of national interest is sliding towards the dustbin of history.

Only last month, in a rhetorical and extravagant speech to the Israeli parliament, Gordon Brown called on the nations of the world to ensure that our era becomes ‘the century of the global community’.

In one overblown passage, he pledged to ‘make a reality of the vision of a global society in which we create global civic institutions that turn words of friendship into bonds of human solidarity’.

Not to be outdone, David Cameron has joined this enthusiasm for earnest globalism. Death of Patriotism: How National Pride Is 'Under Threat by a Global Super-Elite' >>> By Leo McKinstry | August 23, 2008

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