Abbott the great

English politician and member of the European Parliament; Daniel Hannan, and his devastating observations about Australia's left-wing luvvies and their perspective on Tony Abbott:

...the three unpardonable heresies of our age: he believes in God, opposes eco-taxes and wants to scrap restrictions on free speech.

Read more @ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100139577/my-favourite-politician-in-the-entire-anglosphere/

Believe it or not!

As I grow older and as I am exposed to the attitudes of the general public (including my own extended family, even my two older children), the more I despair for the future of Western civilisation.

However, I sincerely pray that I am completely wrong and without good reason to worry! (And on one level I truly am without fear).

But lately what I observe in the many interviews of (mainly but not exclusively young) people on the streets of Australia and after all that has transpired over the past few years in the political realm, after all that has been revealed about the attitudes, worldviews and behaviours of the Labor ruling class, people on the street still (appear to) vote overwhelmingly for Rudd.

I now understand how monsters like Hitler could rise to power on the popular vote.

Are people bereft of reason? What is it that blinds people to reality?

I honestly cannot understand how thinking people can continue to support such a man in the face of almost a continuous abuse of power and devastating failures of policy.

The shallow, superficial 'popularity' of Jerry Springer-like 'celebrity' appears to be all that is necessary for a post-modern politician to succeed.

Is it any wonder that the enemies (and they are legion) of the West merely have to wait until Western civilisation self destructs. 

Our 'educated' population has been raised on propaganda, our 'elites' are ideologically determined to destroy this culture in order to replace it with a system that has been proved a failure in multiple applications, our youth believe that the 'pleasures' they enjoy are somehow a 'human right’ and that all these things just exist, they are just 'there', almost like money growing on a tree.

Our 'rulers' think they can legislate morality and that they can change the climate by taxing people into submission...this world has literally gone mad and the madness within the Labor party stoush just witnessed is merely an exposed symptom of that madness. And what about the liberal party? Much talk emerging from that quarter seems to reflect a similar madness (think Turnball & cronies). They also appear to want to give money away to PC minority causes, to tax more and create less ‘free’ opportunity (free that is of government interference).

Unfortunately it appears that the governing classes have lost touch with reality and the reasons behind Western prosperity and that is the real problem with government regardless of who gains power.

We have not arrived at the most advanced of civilisations because of some evolutionary quirk, no; we have arrived at this point because our ancestors started with, and built upon a work ethic and knowledge base that is almost exclusively derived from the Judeo-Christian worldview.

If you believe I am in error, as most who are currently framing policy most obviously do, then look forward to the day when I am going to be proved wrong. Although, as a student of history I am comfortably certain that I could safely bet my house on the assumption that if we continue to undermine the basis for our prosperity and stability, then in the not-too-distant future we are going to experience a return to the dark ages, where roving ‘tribes’ of ‘multicultural barbarians’ will be vying through force of arms for superiority in a (far more) broken society, to see who rules the roost, and it will undoubtedly take another Attila to bring cohesion to the chaos.

Goodbye passive, inner-city, latté sipping, vegan pacifists!

And quite frankly...good riddance.

But once again I hope that I am wrong...for my children’s sake!

In Deuteronomy 28 there appears the following promise:

¹ If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands that I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

² All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

And the writer proceeds to articulate many wonderful blessings.

Skip to verse 15 where it is said:

¹⁵ However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

...including:

 ²⁸ The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

²⁹ At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no-one to rescue you.

Forgive me for what might appear to be bible thumping...but I suspect that few can argue with the fact that this does sound suspiciously like what is happening right now, right here.

Thank God for Grace and forgiveness and the new testament solution to the "no-one to rescue you" clause!

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What goes around...

The latest deadly tantrums by Islamic proles in Afghanistan and the abject apology awarded to these malcontents by the space cadet president of the united states illustrates the rapidly escalating deterioration to the backbone of Western civilisation.
What is of significant import to me is that in the many press articles I have read regarding the debacle, Diane West is the first journalist who uncovers that really essential nugget of information that has been hidden from our view and which is the real reason behind the book burnings:

 That's partly because I see no upset in the land over the latest and greatest display of American dhimmitude -- the subservient state of Jews and Christians in thrall to Islamic law -- that we have witnessed in Afghanistan all week. Afghan Muslims have convulsed in rioting and killing (among other fatalities, two U.S. military personnel have been murdered by an Afghan army member) on word that Qurans and other religious materials were disposed of on a U.S. military base after authorities discovered the books were being used at Parwan prison in what the BBC said may have been "a secret Taliban message system."

Now I have to ask the question...why have so many articles, puff pieces, essays and journalistic endeavours  ignored this somewhat salient fact from their reports?
The rampant dishonesty and fraudulent bias that exists in the main-stream-media today beggars belief and is I believe, a major factor behind the accelerating demise of Western civilisation. And what makes it all so incomprehensible is that these communication elites will be the first to suffer annihilation under the rule of the incoming barbarians.

This is a classic case of those who either ignore the lessons of history or just willfully ignore them are in fact doomed to repeat those lessons.

West ends her article with some strong sentiments:

This isn't just political correctness run amok; it's open submission to Islamic law. After all, the Quran is an inanimate object, a thing, cheaply printed and distributed by the gazillion, often by Saudi Arabia. We -- if by "we" I may still refer to the Judeo-Christian-humanist world -- do not rampage and shoot people when an inanimate object, a thing, even a Bible, is torn, written on or thrown away. In fact, we have constitutional rights to do all of those things as a matter of free speech.

Nonetheless, we as a nation -- spilling blood for the "noble people of Afghanistan," as top commander Marine Gen. John R. Allen says in his prostration video (see it here) -- have deemed it vital to accommodate, apologize, slurp and scrape to those who do. Equally as tragic, in the frenzy to apologize, the logic behind throwing the stuff away has been sacrificed. Reason itself has been discarded in a shameful and irrational act of fealty. This isn't just dysfunctional behavior. This is full-blown dhimmitude.

I cannot say I disagree with her.

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A marvellous speech on freedom of religious expression and how these freedoms are under attack by Islamism and its 'useful idiot' partners in the west.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2012&month=02

A change of heart.

What is it about the public and the MSM in Australia regarding Abbott?
This is a man who was a Rhodes scholar and is a polymath yet the MSM keep referring to him as a fool and an idiot and people believe them.
He is a man who was (still is) a volunteer fire warden, a volunteer lifesaver (long before he rose to prominence in politics) and yet the MSM excoriate him as uncaring, a spoiler and vicious...AND PEOPLE BELIEVE THEM!
It seems that in this country your worldview, your life and your actions mean nothing but what the main-stream-media (who are biased beyond belief) write about means everything...what does that say about the average Australians ability to cogitate? How gullible can the public be?
Have we become so reliant on government largesse that we have lost the willingness to risk offending our benefactor?
Welcome to abject dependency!

Perhaps there is more to it.
Is it primarily that Tony Abbott is also a man of faith?
If you are a Muslim or a Buddist or anyone of a thousand other 'protected faiths' there is no issue, no problem, but woe betide you if you are a Christian (or more recently a Jew).
You can believe in esoteric sytems, you can lie like Gillard (et al), bully like Latham, discombobulate like Swan, ponce like Brown, switch allegiances, cause fatal accidents through incompetance etc...in short you can do anything but believe in a (Christian) higher power!

Look at the way Lindy Chamberlain was treated without any evidence or reason and just because she too was a person of faith (the wrong kind). Unfortunately Australia's record in this regard is less than stellar and speaks volumes about the anti-authourity spirit that resides deep within many Aussies.

The solution is not a change of political parties but a change of heart.

Uh!

This observation by Thomas Sowell illustrates the paradoxical dilemma faced by left wing ideology:

The multiculturalist dogma may say that all cultures are equal, or equally deserving of respect, but treating cultures as sacrosanct freezes people into the circumstances into which they happened to be born, much like a caste system.

The AGENDA!

Few people have managed to articulate the leftwing agenda and its attack on Western culture as succinctly as Star Parker:

The three high profile left wing victories of recent weeks all touch these key areas. End the traditional institution of marriage as a bulwark of our society. Continue to promote sex as recreation and relegate the life this activity creates as a trivial byproduct which we allow to be destroyed with ease, and destroy the sanctity of private property so government can finance irresponsibility with other people’s money.

Amen sister.