Fight dem back! Australian founder Mat Henderson-Hau awoke yesterday morning to find the following A2 size stickers plastered around his street and surrounds.

The Northern Districts Multicultural Foundation was the local forerunner to FDB and is still very much an active group within North-western Sydney.

Roughly 50 of these stickers were posted around Eastwood, with particular concentrations on Shaftsbury road and Campbell street.

A children’s playground in Auld Avenue was targeted, with stickers applied to the slippery dip, see-saw and swings. A number of bus stops and street signs were also vandalised.

Ryde Greens Councillor Tom McCosker says that the Council is a staunch supporter of multiculturalism and deplores any attempt from elements both inside and outside the local community to sow disharmony.

“Mat Henderson-Hau has been staging a courageous fight against fringe race-hate groups for some time now. This is a campaign that has earned him the respect and admiration of the local community, a standing that is only set to increase with this bizarre campaign of vandalism,” he said.

Both Ryde City Council and Eastwood Police are investigating this matter.

As for the content, we here at FDB are struggling to understand the idea of Mr Henderson-Hau (AKA Darp Hau) a social/liberal democrat being labelled a communist (the hammer ans sickle rat).

FDB is a pro-free speech organisation. We understand that the racist right interpret any attempt to challenge their views as somehow being an attack on free speech. This is clearly not the case. They have their views, we have ours. We voice our views and they respond with cowardly attacks like this in an attempt to silence progressive opposition.

Just who is anti-free speech?