Green Ostriches

The interesting thing about this blog: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2012/05/aussies-abroad
is that it features comments by the Utopianists in our culture..i.e. readers of the AGE.
Their comments reflect an undisguised condescension and class consciousness...these are people living in a world they wish was returning to the previous master-peasant paradigm with themselves as the master.
That is what drives the Greens and likeminded 'progressives', they don't really want us back in the stone age,(though their power generation policies are doing that) rather just a few centuries back where the 'elite' are in total control and the 'peasants' their (un)willing 'slaves'.
The only problem with that scenario is that as soon as the barbarians who wait on the sidelines (see Frnace & Greece) have the upper hand, revolution happens and the 'elite' take a trip to the guillotine.
Just desserts I don't wonder, the problem is that many innocents suffer as well.

SAd but true

An unfortunately truthful observation by Melanie Phillips:

Moral rules were developed to restrain the worst in human nature and encourage the best. In this post-religious, post-moral society, selflessness, compassion and generosity of spirit have been replaced by selfishness, sentimentality and cruelty.

Civilisation is only ever a thin veneer. As Dr Wright said, the combination of the ‘me-society’ and the new anti-social media is toxic. The internet has peeled back our culture and given us Lord — and Ladettes — of the Flies.

The full article is here: http://melaniephillips.com/the-net-has-given-us-lord-and-ladettes-of-the-flies

Miffed!

If you believe in Anthropogenic global warming then what do you think of this?
 http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/mirandadevine/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/heartland_faces_the_heat/

Beware the preacher!

From Bolts blog:

Nick Cater never dared confess to me that he’d not only worked for the BBC but had a sociology degree.  He’s now a fellow Murdoch minion, editor of The Weekend Australian, and explains how he came to love the evil Rupert Murdoch:

It’s interesting to imagine what would happen if an Australian government, presumably one better disposed to the fourth estate than this one, passed a law forbidding The Australian’s readers from voting with their wallets. The energy would drain out of this office in a month, or probably less. We would become lazier and more complacent, and start publishing stories that matter to our colleagues rather than our readers. Politically, we would start drifting towards the territory currently occupied by The Age.
Far worse would be the loss of restraint, the obligation to consider the interests of the whole country, not just the inner-city enclaves where most journalists probably live. We would end up hostage to group-think, reinforcing our own prejudices and eventually coming to secretly despise the readers. I know, because I once worked in such a place.

I agree with Nick. No Murdoch, and the debate in Australia would shrivel. Few other proprietors are as willing to risk profits to defend free speech and defy the political class that dominates the institutions.

A similar take from Marxist Brendon O’Neill on the Leveson show trial in Britain:

Here, we can glimpse what is really fuelling Leveson: not a simple desire to hold to account the small number of people who did wrong at the (Murdoch-owned) News of the World, but a thirst to remake politics in the image of the anti-Murdoch “decent classes”. It is their boredom with parliament and their disdain for the masses that has led them to see Leveson as the saviour of the political realm. In truth, this lordly show trial of politics and the press doesn’t enliven democracy - it endangers it.

Be very mindful of those who preach one thing whilst doing another. Pause and reflect.

Who are you

A rubric for life

If a Conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a Labor/Greenie doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.If a Conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a Labor/Greenie is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone. If a Conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a Labor/Greenie is homosexual, he demands legislated respect. If a Conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. If a Labor/Greenie is down and out, he wonders who is going to take care of him. If a Conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. If a Labor/Greenie doesn’t lake a talk show host, he demands that those he doesn’t like be shut down. If a Conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. If a Labor/Greenie is a non-believer, he wants any mention of God and religion silenced. If a Conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it,or may choose a job that provides it.If a Labor/Greenie decides he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his. If a Conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh. If a Labor/Greenie reads this, he will delete it because he’s “offended”.

Decide

We decide:

My understanding of Finkelstein proposal is very simple: after the ill-advised and maybe even criminal multiple breach of privacy by the News of the World, the Left decided to use this pretext to advance their totalitarian agenda. As in the USSR, these

political hacks do not tolerate any critical appraisal of their activities. That is why they hate the independent media. The Greens, with their hardcore communist cadres, initiated the proposal, which amounts to the introduction of political censorship for the first time in Australia’s peacetime history. Naturally, they cited the need to protect innocent Australians from rapacious, power-hungry and manipulative media magnates.

Using the Trojan horse of protecting the people, the hardcore Left is preparing censorship legislation which threatens the fundamental freedoms of our country.

However, we should not be angry with these people and their modus operandi, any more than we should be angry that sea water is salty or that great white sharks are aggressive—it is their nature. It is in the nature of the hardcore Left to limit and, if possible, to abolish our freedoms in the name of the glorious future they envision. There are enough examples in history to demonstrate this inevitability. They are doing what they are supposed to do according to their belief system—no more, no less. Nothing to be surprised or be angry about.
The question which we, the freedom-loving people of Australia, have to ask ourselves is: What are we going to do about it? Are we going to let it happen?

Before its too late.

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Courage

 I confess I am convicted by the courage and principles shown by this individual.

Just as earlier brave culture warriors – usually Christians – fought the evil slave trade, so too today some heroic believers are putting their life on the line for the unborn. Here is part of Graham’s latest story:

“A father of seven children will spend 8 months in jail starting Wednesday as a result of his efforts to the defend the unborn.  It is the longest jail-term ever received by an Australian pro-life activist. Graham Preston, 56, was called by police last week to arrange a time for his arrest. He negotiated to move it back from 8am to 9am this coming Wednesday, May 2, so he would have enough time to get his children to school.

“Mr. Preston will serve 232 days in prison – seeing him out just in time for Christmas – for refusing to pay roughly $8000 in fines that have accumulated after ten years of non-violently blocking the entrances of four abortion clinics around Brisbane.

“Since beginning non-violent direct action with the group Protect Life almost exactly ten years ago (April 16, 2002), Mr. Preston has endured more than ten months in jail over five separate jail-terms – mostly in Brisbane’s maximum security Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre.

“The warrant for Mr. Preston’s arrest came after he received a letter from the Queensland Justice Department telling him he had until April 6 – coincidentally, Good Friday – to pay the fines or else face prison. Mr. Preston refuses to pay the fines on principle, arguing that trying to save the innocent from harm should not be regarded as criminal behaviour.”

The article continues, “Two years ago, Mr. Preston wrote on his website: ‘Going to jail is of course not a desirable thing, either for the person who does so, or for their family who may be very directly negatively affected. Yet our conviction is that this is probably an unavoidable part of seeing the value of all human lives given proper recognition. When anyone pays a very high price for something, it makes everyone ask the question, is it worth it? That is what we want our society to be asking, what are preborn babies worth? We want to say that babies’ lives are worth a person’s, or even many persons’, freedom.’

“Warwick Marsh, the National Co-ordinator of the Canberra Declaration, said: ‘Graham is one of Australia’s great heroes, truly putting the kids of Australia first. He is being unjustly imprisoned for his peaceful protests, while murderers and rapists walk free from our court systems and jails’.”

His wife Liz has also written about this latest stint in prison: “In the minds of some, if the mother or parents of a preborn child decide that they want to have an abortion, then their child loses absolutely all right to have their life protected. But not everyone is prepared to simply turn away and abandon such children to death. And not without good reason either.

When one considers the amount of truly guilty people getting off because of compromised court rooms and magistrates it gives an indication of where our society stands.
I pray for such strength.