Reclaim Australia protest would have exposed ''enemy''

I agree with Shane Jensen (Your View, August 11). Reclaim Australia should be encouraged to exercise the same freedom of speech, religion, association and other civil liberties as everyone else in a democratic society.

As a World War II veteran, I want their members to demonstrate and be seen, heard and identified so that we — and the police — will know how to deal with these neo-fascists and the racist, divisive, antisocial, hateful ideology that drives them.

Know your enemy.

Nor will I, a fourth-generation Australian, display an Australian flag lest I be associated with these authoritarian phonies who enfold themselves in our national standard as if they were the sole guardians and exemplars of our traditional values, ethos and aspirations.

That war ended 70 years ago, but their ideology lives on here and elsewhere awaiting any chance to re-assert itself.

Jim Ayling, Kirrawee