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…
He talks about freedoms but not rights and he says that we deserve an early mark (which of course is his to give) … Though, we don’t actually get the early mark we deserve unless, unless we download his tracking app! His National Board says we must do this. His National Board, my lord. Have we corporatized our demockracy already? And, he talks of a magical thing called a commonwealth which it is unlikely that a man such as our…
Governments don’t give ultimatums to the people, its the other way around. “In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better that a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides.” – Heinrich Heine. No matter how powerful a government believes itself to be, if we say we are a Democracy…
Well here we are. All the good souls, us beautiful people, awaking on another sunny day on the east coast of the land of Nod. The news today – so my wet dog says – is, Special powers. Ha! Special powers from whom? Where? We have a suspended parliament where do ‘special powers’ come from? Show us the docs, the minutes .. who ran this through who? Was there any dissent? By whom? Was it allowed? I don’t believe it…
How interesting it is that all these ideals of social justice and responsibility have suddenly come together as saviours of the neoliberal nightmare. Socialism, and a steady and open moral compass, to the rescue of gross theft, negligence and the petty protectionism of our societal elite. My, my, who’d a ever thought! Dirty Dutton must be rolling in his au pairs … Poor soul. Of course, deeply at the heart of the matter, this neo profession of social conscience by…
“If I must not trust the conclusions of reason relative to the intrinsic value of things, why trust to your reasons in favour of the benefit of being deceived? If I must reject the dictates of reason in one point, there can be no possible cause why I should adopt them in another.” – William Godwin. They didn’t sign up for any code of conduct standard, Mr Bowen. They’re the King’s ministers and as Pistol Pete says, ministers rule by…
“No wisdom greater than an elected MP!” So says the King … Bridg, being an MP, has operated in the highest of all interests – her own. Her own being of course, the interests of her party … which is after all what really matters. The King says that MPs, politicians, are so very much better at judging just who it is that public money should be doled out to than any democratically misguided panel of supposed experts. These ‘experts’…
Damned leaks. Well I’d suppose that thats what leaks are for … To show us where the weaknesses are in the System. No leaks; strong system! Small matter, this time we found out that our Gov was trying a fellow citizen somewhere in secret, for something that is a secret. Don’t s’pose there was a jury? Chosen in secret from a secret pool … ? Ah, the joys of Demockracy – we’ll get there yet! With all this secrecy, I’m…
One of the more despicable things about the King’s government is its abuse if process … Its true, the process i talk about are ones of convention; processes that we as democratically minded Aussies have become accustomed to and not processes with constitutional protections. But, as in Willing Don’s US of A, we didn’t, and don’t, expect that a small group of unscrupulous men will ‘get themselves elected’ in order to be ‘allowed an opinion’ and with the express purpose…
Is it only me, or has anyone else noticed that punishment and punishments seem to be so much more enjoyable now … How much punishment has become a part of the great Australian character; a sure way to enact our dreams for a golden future on our darling children. Punishment, and its companion secrecy, for the benefit of our State’s Security, has become a popular keyword – and the driving forces, in the King’s neo-Australia. Have we really, us common…