To their credit Australia Post is apparently standing their ground on the latest attempts to breach our privacy.
Despite requests from the Attorney Generals office and the threat of buying off Clive Palmer to pass legislation to enforce it, our personal mail will not be forwarded to be opened, read and cleared by George Brandis before being sent to us.
Well, that may not be true and could be portrayed as a bit of a stretch, but how much of a stretch is it really?
Today we read how everything done on the internet is now open to scrutiny. Your online activity, your purchases, your social media, the porn downloads someone else must do on your PC, and of course your email.
All of it.
Big Brother was a softy, now we have Big Brandis watching us. This isn’t 1984, it’s 2084.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that there is not a threat at all, there clearly are some that wish to do us harm within the pretend Islamic community. I say pretend Islamic community because the real Muslims believe amongst us in peace.
However watching the news it is clear to see that there is an imminent threat. We hear of a drive-by here, and a body found in a flat there, just the other day there was a body in the boot of a car next to a cemetery. There are people being murdered left, right and centre all over the country.
Violent crime appears to be on the rise, although the murder rate has been falling over recent years and let’s hope that trend will continue.
In 2012 there were 244 homicides in Australia. If we assume the murder rate has remained similar which is a safe assumption, that would mean that since 2012 there would have been around 670 murders in Australia.
How many of these murders do you think were carried out by Islamic terrorists?
None, not a single one.
Of all of the murders I have seen reported since the terrorist level was raised, and there have been several, not one has been linked to terrorism and anybody with links to Islam or found to have come from an Islamic background.
We’re putting on our serious faces
Maybe our heightened terror alert is highlighting the wrong people.
Maybe we should have a terror alert that makes people keep a watchful eye on those who don’t look like Muslims of a Middle Eastern background, because they appear to be one of the only demographics not killing people in Australia. How ironic that is who we are now being told to fear because of something that is happening thousands and thousands of miles away.
Imagine if every news article was reported equally.
By that I mean how often do you read about a robbery or assault that was alleged to have been committed by a man “of Middle Eastern appearance with an Islamic background”?
If all crimes were reported that way imagine how many murders, assaults and robberies etc would be reported as having been committed by “white Anglo-Saxon men with a Christian background”. The mind boggles.
After a few years of that kind of reporting people would be crossing the road to avoid churches. There would be residents complaining and up in arms when a new church was being proposed in their community, all scared of the criminal element that is bound to follow it. There would be campaigns for Nuns to remove their head wear.
Let’s not even start with the child sexual abuse numbers… The organised religion of Christian faith is to child abuse what McDonald’s is to hamburgers. The scale is beyond industrial.
Nevertheless the campaign of fear of Islamic terrorists is one that we must talk about relentlessly for as long as it takes for people to forget that Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey ever had a budget. Remember that budget?
The budget is the thing that actually will have a big impact on your life, the thing that will hurt you and your family. Not some guy with a cell-phone in Syria.
The only thing that has saved Abbott from his continued trip south in the polls is that people think he is doing a good job on terrorism.
Coming to a town near you… or so the Coalition would like you to think
Since the Twin Towers, the Bali bombing, and the London bombings as well as other terror attacks the world has been on terror alert. This is not a new phenomenon that Abbott now faces on the countries behalf for the first time.
Since the age of terrorism commenced we have had three Prime Ministers, John Howard, who many claim got is in this mess by backing George W Bush, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
Each of these Prime Ministers were able to protect our nation from a terror attack despite there being the same worldwide threat. During their time in government there was not one single homicide in the country that was committed by an Islamic extremist, and during their time arrests of suspected terrorists were also made.
The difference is, all of these Prime Ministers managed to protect us without raising the threat level so high and without us all having our civil liberties signed away.
Tony Abbott by raising the terror alert level and taking away our civil liberties such as privacy is admitting that he is failing.
Those in the Coalition will point to the fact that the threat level was raised on the advice of ASIO’s Director General David Irvine.
Is it just coincidence that this recommendation came on David Irvine’s last day in office?
I wonder if he will end up in a cushy advisory role or end up as a highly paid consultant after a bit of a break. We will wait and see.
Tony Abbott has proven to be more popular in Australia when he is somewhere else, preferably the other side of the world. When he is here, to try to keep his polling from plummeting he is forced to scare the crap out of people and discard their civil liberties.
We should be afraid.
Afraid of where our country is being driven to. We seem to have a driver behind the countries wheel that is drunk on his own ego and is swerving wildly as he drives us to a city called Despair, or perhaps we’ve already arrived.
Hopefully the country will wake up to itself soon, but it would seem the media will need to wake up first. Aside from the shock and awe tactics of the usual News Ltd brigade there are some signs that this may be happening though, such as the below video.
In the meantime dear readers, please keep yourself safe and remain on high alert.
There are white Anglo-Saxon men of Christian background out there killing people in their hundreds.
You have been warned.
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The fear I am feeling today has nothing to do with a terror group waging it’s lunacy 12,000 miles away and everything to do with my own government waging it’s lunacy right here at home…
I concur – everything is Tony Abbott’s fault. End of story. You don’t really have to explain it. Just post ‘Tony Abbott’s fault’ every day.
All valid stuff about but it isn’t tony abbot posting videos of beheadings or or men and children cowering in fear before being lined up and executed hundreds of thousands arnt fleeing in desperate fear of IS because of tony abbot, yeah yeah let’s stay calm here at home but these IS guys are reaching out to Anyone they can to help spread their terror beyond their shores. The young drummer ran down and butcherd in the UK, those blokes just stayed around and said ” yep we did it and we did it in the name of Islam”?! The world can’t sit back and watch the genocide these guys are perpetuating in the name of God.
I’m all for fighting them abroad to stop the genocide
But to run a fear campaign here is pure politics…
None of the videos of beheadings were filmed in Australia
Now is the time, almost a thousand years after the event. Now is the time, for the Christian world to reflect on the last almost one thousand years of carnage that has dogged the human race in the name of religion and loving gods.
When Pope Urban urged Holy war he spoke in these words:
“O race of Franks! Race beloved and chosen of God… From the confines of Jerusalem and from Constantinople a grievous report has gone forth that an accursed race, wholly alienated from God, has violently invaded the lands of these Christians and has depopulated them by pillage and fire… Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre; wrest that land from a wicked race, and subject it to yourselves.”
In his call to war, he promised that the sins of crusading soldiers would be wiped out “by the power of God vested in me.” His strongest enticement was the promise of plunder and rapine: a new territory was being presented to be carved up, to the glory of god.
Along the road to Palestine, the crusader mob burned Jews alive in their houses and temples, forced them to baptism at sword point, raped and committed other atrocities against young and old. In Prague alone they murdered several thousands Jews. [Poliakov I, 42-45] They did their blood work to a fearsome cry: Hep! Hep! This shout has a clerical origin, abbreviating the Latin phrase: Hierosalyma est perdita, “Jerusalem is lost.” It survived as a pogrom chant into the 20th century across Russia and Europe
The Crusaders battle cry of Hep, Hep, was added to as they moved through Hungary. In Hungary they saw executioners taking off heads by having the victims kneeling, hands tied behind their backs with head up. So when the sword came horizontally from behind, the heads would pop up in the air leaving a geyser of blood to leap momentarily into the air.
The executioner dispatched his victim with a cry of “To Paradise” which sounded like ‘Hooraah’.
When Jerusalem fell to the Christian armies, the crusaders slaughtered the city’s inhabitants: Muslims, Jews and Christians, men, women and children. The Franks’ own chroniclers admitted to killing 10,000, the mounted knights splattered in blood up to their hips. One wrote, “We slaughtered without regard for age or sex.” [Gontard, 250] Muslim sources wrote that the crusaders killed 100,000 people. Their violence shocked the Muslims, who had peaceably allowed Christian pilgrims to visit Palestine for several centuries.
And to this day, we celebrate happy times, by crying “Hip, Hip Hooray” and throwing our hats into the air to simulate heads flying into the air.
We still don’t seem to understand how Muslims might find this hateful? Or why the ISIL call our troops in Iraq Crusaders? These are tribal peoples, who hold grudges for thousands of years and follow “an eye for an eye” culture of vengeance.
Finally, from Palestinian poet and eyewitness Mosaffer Allah Werdis, a survivor of the 1120’s equivalent of our 9/11:
We have mingled our blood and our tears
None of us remains who has strength enough to beat off these oppressors;
Oh, that so much blood has to flow,
that so many women were left with nothing save their bare hands to protect their modesty!
Amid the fearful clashing of swords and lances, the faces of the children grow white with horror.”
Will we ever learn a peaceful way, to live together?
John Ward
Kevin Rudd was required to attend a Royal Commission regarding the workplace deaths of four boys who died by disregarding workplace safety instructions.
John Howard , along with Bush and Blair, invaded Iraq, causing the deaths of a million people, and Frogmouth says hes a bit embarressed.
When does Froggy face a Royal Commission for the direct results of his actions.
That’s really cool to quote the writings of old from the crusades and yes what a barbaric time it was, is that justification for the genocide being dealt out in Syria? These bastards are setting their own adgenda and murdering all IN their path, I wonder does their holy book say it’s cool to crucify, behead and slaughter all in their path as well? To say the shoe was on the other foot back in the day is smug and trite you have seen the videos these guys put up? They want you to see them shooting man after man in the head and dumping them in the river, they are smart, savey and they want your attention they also rely on your bleeding heart live and let live bulldhit they will line you, me and our kids up against the wall, shoot us and make slaves or our wives and daughters, am I a little hysterical? No they freely admit this is what they will do and now they ask all radicalised members of their ilk to join the fight in our neighbourhoods ” kill them anyway you can soldiers police AND ANYONE ELSE” iBook at the poor English guy who is a hostage ATM who was there working with the local Islamic people as an aid worker, he,lol be next to be posted on line with another threat to stop the attacks, it’s sickening. If any other religion or organisation stared spouting ” kill them all Non believers ” rhetoric would you roll over and defend them also? It’s bullshit, I don’t give a rats arse about Islam or Jehovah or any other form of worship but blatant unashamed wholesale murder and genocide NO WAY!
Any excuse to spy on us, here come the drones!
As always, religion is the major cause of so much death, misery and suffering.
To me, all religious people are nutters and often more than a bit kooky.
Sometimes their whole ideology is formed around an interpretation of something never proven to exist (and never will be).
Locally, the sooner we can take religion completely out of politics and get most of our politicians the mental health help they need, the better off we will all be……
As for the murderous fanatics in the Middle East and other countries (including a very small number here) ………I’m afraid only a bullet will ever help them.
I am in no way defending the acts of any legitimate terrorists, Im only criticising the government for trying to milk political advantage out of the situation.
Personally I hope they wipe ISIS, ISIL, ISUCK, or whatever they’re called this week off the face of the earth.
There has not been any terrorist attack in Australia nor one homicide attributed to this movement, it is ridiculous that we are happy to see our privacy attacked and a fear campaign promoted for something that is going on overseas.
If it is bushfire season in the US, do our brigades go on alert?
I’m not of the Christine Milne brigade of thinking that believes genocide can be negotiated away and we’ll all sing Kumbaya round the organic campfire at sunset while we eat mung beans.
My point is people are being killed here, but not by those people we are being told to fear.
I note so far the only threat that has been acted upon so far that relates to this is someone who went and threatened teachers and children at an Islamic school in Sydney. Great job this fear campaign is doing eh….
Then there is the military person attacked by two Islamists while in uniform, only it turned out it was all bullshit, another way up whipping up hysteria… the military has been forced to apologise since.
I am all for destroying terrorism, but let’s not destroy our way of life in the process…
From the dead soul
Through the rotting mouth
Come the lies
And the threats
And the promises
Never fulfilled
Never meant to
Be enacted merely
As bribery offered
To the unwary
Scared
And credulous.
We just need stronger laws to allow real estate agents to inspect rental properties. http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2503107/ram-raid-fing-belmont-home-raided-in-search-for-evidence-photos/?cs=305 http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/08/18/19/48/bomb-plot-uncovered-after-pullenvale-stash-found#BDqage4EvkumLDzt.99
I see a lot of people who seem to have had their opinions made up for them by gossip and hearsay, asserting this or that is the case when the reality is that the actual credible and verifiable reports coming out of the region are severely lacking. Most of the photos are of people in black pygama’s holding up flags in the desert, incidentally great idea to have a column of everyone wearing black in the desert, that’s sure to provide great camouflage and make them less of a target. I have seen a couple of dodgy videos that supposedly have some people having their heads cut off with a knife, shame the french had to invent the guillotine to do the job properly, according to Abbott they could have used a kitchen knife. We see supposed refugees on TV fleeing IS or so we are told but they could be running from anyone, rarely do you see IS actually mentioned by name by the refugee only in reports or as comments by a government spokesperson or through a voice overlay. We hear of the atrocities but where is the footage, where are the satellite images of the death and destruction rained down on these people by our brave coalition. Everything you are being told is filtered by the ‘interested parties’ and most of you sit there and comment as if you actually know what’s going on. What I see is closer to the Hollywood movie ‘Wag The Dog’ than it is to anything else. I would suggest that people disregard anything and everything they hear or read in the western media and start doing their own thinking.
Hey Johnward154 Don’t forget the Crusades were a belated European response to 400 years of Muslim aggression as they slaughtered, raped, pillaged, plundered, subjugated, and enslaved already settled 500year old Christian populations up to the gates of Vienna, get a grip on history , this does not justify the brutality of the Crusaders as Pope John Paul was to recognize with a deep felt public apology, Jesus did not issue a command for Christians to go forth and slaughter non-believers. unlike Muhammad who justified all the above in the former sanctioned by Allah. ” Their violence shocked the Muslims, who had peaceably allowed Christian pilgrims to visit Palestine for several centuries.” Yet Islam was barely 400 years old? , Christians were left to be taxed live and die at the discretion of their Muslim rulers.
I think that trying to point the finger at Muslims and calling them a violent religion is a bit one sided when one looks back through history
Remember burning the witches, the pope blessing Hitlers tanks while he slaughtered Jews, the Christians genocide of Muslims in Easatern Europe not that long ago etc etc?
There is plenty to be ashamed of on all sides
Two sides of the same coin. Find the one’s who call “heads or tails”, jail them. and the world will live in peace…