“He would like to come & argue it out. Fuck that! I’m a monomaniac. Me no argue.” – Henry Miller.

Here we go again. These men our king’s about to parade around in condemnation were sent there by the King to do a job. The job being to kill other men. The fact that we should never have had anything to do with policing in a far off land, I s’pose, will somehow slide but that’s the criminal act. We sought vengeance on another people for their apparent transgressions in our world. We sent our Defence Force to attack and not to defend. We invaded them … There is the crime.

Soldiers need to make decisions that basically involve this simple fact – who survives. Me or you? The king says that he’s preparing us for some nasty truths, but the truth is that this king, this disgraceful dissembling man, is using this ‘outrage’ as just one more deflection of the crimes of himself and his ministry – our gov’mint. The only example – leaked of course to the press – was of a SAS soldier who decided that, though another man was on his knees pleading for his life fiddling with his rosary in the middle of a paddock, he had to die – and therefore shot him. Think of this … Put yourself in the position of this soldier. A soldier we sent of to a foreign land to kill and to destroy and who had, most likely, killed and destroyed on our orders. What if … ? What if … ? Think. Who is the criminal? Its us for allowing it in the first place. Taking death and destruction to someone elses land to shape them in our image. This is not the same as murder in the suburbs of the shire. This is a different game altogether.

“I did not understand why it was objectionable to acknowledge the fact that war was concerned with killing the enemy … I am by nature opposed to any effort to ‘sell’ war to people as only a mildly unpleasant business that requires very little in the way of blood.” – Matthew Ridgeway, when asked how he was going to sell the idea of his Korean offensive (Operation Killer) to the American people under that name.

The crime is our complicity in exporting war. The crime will be in the kings use of this as a deflection of his and his band of thieves transgressions against democracy and humanity here in our lucky country. Think of this, we have a father down on his knees, twiddling his rosary, pleading for the life and future of his kids and we allow him – and his family – to be caste into oblivion on some remote island; we deny him – and his children – adequate and responsible medical care; we remove his – and his family’s – ability to make contact with the wider world. We remove the rights of man from this man – and his family – why? Because he was brave enough and desperate enough to seek our help. To seek to make a better life for himself – and his family – in a far off land … Why? He came by boat; he speaks a different language; he believes in a different god; he is poor and not rich; he is a different colour than the King and his thugs. Do we jump up and down at this crime commited by us on our soil? No! We sit behind our closed doors and we tch tch tch. We allow such crass and criminal ideals such as ‘that our moral compasses must point toward our economy and not toward our humanity’* to shadow our complicity in our own crimes against humanity. We murder, and deny justice to those who ask for our aid – and we do it here, at home … For what? For the ideals of a corrupt King!

This King, this Morrison, this deceitful, dissembling man of coal, attempts to shape us in his image – to make us all liars, and thieves and cheats … and murderers. To make us and our children complicit in his sins.

The kings say, “all apparent transactions that transgress must be held accountable under our laws”. This he explains, applies to Australian soldiers as well as pensioners and jobseekers, to union members and migrants … It doesn’t, apparently, apply to Ministers or to their Corporate sponsors – It applies only to others … Us.

“I know the malice of many envious and evil disposed people who build the ground work of their own honour upon other men’s disgraces … ” – Walter Raleigh.

On the same page of fuzzy principles, our once subject state, PNG, has unanimously voted to create an independent parliamentary corruption watchdog … They’ve done it for the benefit of their children and the future, and they’ve decided that ex-judges of Australia and New Zealand’s courts would be the best people to sit on this independent watchdog – may our great king’s god bless, and protect, them. How about a bit of public support for Helen Haines … eh kids?

*David Hubris Littleproud, the King’s Farmer in waiting.