A worrying week. A young lady – the fact that she’s pregnant is beside the point – gets arrested and led away in cuffs. Her crime? Allowing the freedom of her thought to express itself through her FakeBook page. More worrying; that her State’s coppers turned up at her locked-down home and dragged her from it. How did the security bureau know her thoughts? Well, it appears, she did have the balls to say what she was thinking and perhaps…
“Preceptors of the nation. Do you really think you are fulfilling an educational task if you command history to stop in its course and return to its old condition.” – Walter Goetz, 1924. Of course, most of you couldn’t give a shit – except perhaps when you’re out at the school bbq or when you’re chucking a dinner party for enlightened souls, but, us out here in the margins care an awful lot. I hear that the Left has been…
“Tyranny usurps the place of equality, which is the soul of liberty, and destroys the public courage.” – Thomas Gordon. How is it that we’ve permitted such claptrap as this apparent ‘right not to be offended’ to become a virtue in our lucky country? Don’t tell me that this is one of the progressive ideas that make our country so lucky? Surely not. The right not to be offended by what, honesty, sincerity, truth? How is it that such a…
They’re caught in bit of a spot here – the King’s Criminals, you could say that they’re electioneering with a quiver of poisoned arrows … They need to turn the screws on the social conscience of the free thinking and democratically inclined people of Australia. And, they need to do it fast and they need to get those of us entangled in the miasma of neoliberalism to cast our votes for the King’s version of Law, and those votes must…
Censorship is a greater crime than the thing being censored can ever be deemed to be. And when the censorship is aimed at the public by a government that professes Democracy, and it is coerced upon the public broadcaster, then it is a transgression of the public’s right to know! Yes, its true, this is all dependent on the version of Democracy we profess. But I’m assuming that that version does not have a ‘k’ in it. “Those journalists who…
So, another week passes in Dreamland, and as usual, we’ve had a couple of our representatives who’ve abused the right of Parliamentary privilege and then offered a hollow apology for the abuse … Shameful. What they’re supposed to do – were this a Democracy – is apologize to the people of Australia for their petty corruptions of Democracy, not to other members of the Holy House who, let’s face it, are laughing into each others laps at our expense again….
The media are up in defence of their Rights of Free Speech again. I suppose its good to see a united front in something, though beats me how they can mobilise so much support, or at least seek to, but not do the same thing for the Rights of the individual – who support them – when it comes to the same Right. What bothers me here – and I support without any reservation this most basic right – is…
“A man can do you no greater injustice than tell lies. For in a political system based on speeches, how can it be safely administered if the speeches are not true?” – Demosthenes. Well here comes that slope they’ve been warning us about, ‘senior’ neoLibNats say it’s time to get serious and protect our democracy by gaolling and starving young dissenters … Of course, The Greens have seized on this suggestion, slamming it as undemocratic and “entirely inappropriate,” Young Bob…
I see the World’s told the King that he’s missed the point. What a joke, as if we here in the Lucky Country couldn’t have told them that without a great big convention. How on earth do we here let him get away with it? We should turf the idiot out. Its one thing having such an ignorant and hypocritical little man lording it over us here at home, but for us to allow him to get up in front…
“There are about two dozen people who have the judgment, the depth, the scale of knowledge, who have got the wit, and the sensibility to come forward and say ‘Look I’m going to run this yarn whether you like it or not. Let’s talk about whether it can be done safely.’ ” – Mike Pezzullo, Pistol Pete’s confidence man in the Department of Fear. To paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, one of the rather despicable things about governments of oppression is their…