Well written Eddy, except for your take that Labor's demonization and criminalization of dissent is accidental. >80% of Labor Federal and NSW politicians appear to be working with (>80% of) the Liberals to deliberately normalize punishment of dissent. Consider what we've learned in the past 2 years alone: All the excessive policing orders; The banning of known quantity non-violent Palestinian sayings under false pretenses of threat; All the Israel war crime symbolic fawning and complicity from Albo, Wong, Marles, Minns, and others; All the weapons (components) sales to Israel; The CTF153 using our ADF to kill those legitimately blockading the Israel war crime state (and who knows what other secret military actions in support of Israel they haven't told those they are there to represent about); The hosting of pine gap intel very likely used for illegally targeting Palestinian childs and other civilians; The purchasing from the Israel war crime state various weapons systems; The racist creation of an Antisemitism envoy instead of correctly funding & legislating to use our Australian Human Rights Commission to implement the National Anti-Racism Framework, support community education, and launch a national anti-racism campaign (assigned to a Zionist lobbyist with a long track record of trying to censor criticism of Israel's war crimes); Refusing to call out Israel's war crimes as the Australian state, as international law requires; Refusing to honor the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu & Smotrich; etc ad nauseam. I think there is a super-sufficiency of publicly available choices made by Labor to claim that Labor's federal and NSW representatives are (>80%) providing methodical and deliberate support to Israel's war crimes, and that they are similarly demonizing and criminalizing Australian and NSW dissent to those war crimes. The question is how far do we let these war crimes and civil liberties abuses by our governments and other state apparatuses to continue, before the majority of yet uninvolved spectators decide to lend a hand in organizing effective union and civil group political (peaceful) resistance to this clear and present danger. The sooner everyone gets started in replacing this abuse, the sooner we can all finish replacing this abuse with something worthy of The (once) Lucky Country.
Wasn’t there someone in the visitor’s security detail who could have held the umbrella to protect him from the rain. How demeaning is it for the Premier of the state hosting the visit to do so! Would the Premier have wiped the visitor’s shoes too because they were wet? Takes subservience to a new level.
Just be careful not to spread panic about what is lawful to say - it is still entirely lawful to say those phrases anywhere in Australia. No changes have been passed.
It’s time we stopped hoping ( certainly time we stopped expecting ) that the ALP will act as a principled, transparent and progressive counterbalance to the overwhelming and destructive power of capital in Australia.
The ambition to become ‘the natural party of government’ is simply a camouflage for a significant lurch to the right by a now wholly-captured ALP, in the thrall of neoliberal ideology and seduced by the trappings of power.
The power of Zionist lobby groups , and that of the Zionist “antisemitism envoy” is an insult to the Australian public , and to state and federal governments who grovel to their every order and demand . This is a betrayal of our national sovereignty .
Well written Eddy, except for your take that Labor's demonization and criminalization of dissent is accidental. >80% of Labor Federal and NSW politicians appear to be working with (>80% of) the Liberals to deliberately normalize punishment of dissent. Consider what we've learned in the past 2 years alone: All the excessive policing orders; The banning of known quantity non-violent Palestinian sayings under false pretenses of threat; All the Israel war crime symbolic fawning and complicity from Albo, Wong, Marles, Minns, and others; All the weapons (components) sales to Israel; The CTF153 using our ADF to kill those legitimately blockading the Israel war crime state (and who knows what other secret military actions in support of Israel they haven't told those they are there to represent about); The hosting of pine gap intel very likely used for illegally targeting Palestinian childs and other civilians; The purchasing from the Israel war crime state various weapons systems; The racist creation of an Antisemitism envoy instead of correctly funding & legislating to use our Australian Human Rights Commission to implement the National Anti-Racism Framework, support community education, and launch a national anti-racism campaign (assigned to a Zionist lobbyist with a long track record of trying to censor criticism of Israel's war crimes); Refusing to call out Israel's war crimes as the Australian state, as international law requires; Refusing to honor the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu & Smotrich; etc ad nauseam. I think there is a super-sufficiency of publicly available choices made by Labor to claim that Labor's federal and NSW representatives are (>80%) providing methodical and deliberate support to Israel's war crimes, and that they are similarly demonizing and criminalizing Australian and NSW dissent to those war crimes. The question is how far do we let these war crimes and civil liberties abuses by our governments and other state apparatuses to continue, before the majority of yet uninvolved spectators decide to lend a hand in organizing effective union and civil group political (peaceful) resistance to this clear and present danger. The sooner everyone gets started in replacing this abuse, the sooner we can all finish replacing this abuse with something worthy of The (once) Lucky Country.
https://ipan.org.au/
https://greens.org.au/
https://www.nswccl.org.au/your_civil_liberties
Spot on Niemoller!
Well said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So Herzog's speech of healing in Sydney was nothing more than genocide denial, zionist propaganda, and outright bullshit.
Genocide denial is Herzog’s hourly ritual . That Australian governments grovel to this rubbish is insulting and humiliating.
Wasn’t there someone in the visitor’s security detail who could have held the umbrella to protect him from the rain. How demeaning is it for the Premier of the state hosting the visit to do so! Would the Premier have wiped the visitor’s shoes too because they were wet? Takes subservience to a new level.
I thought he did polish his shoes. :) The premier solid labor leader that he is, is only too willing to kowtow here.
Embarrassing! Clearly Minns is willing to demean himself for the Zionist state.
Just be careful not to spread panic about what is lawful to say - it is still entirely lawful to say those phrases anywhere in Australia. No changes have been passed.
It’s time we stopped hoping ( certainly time we stopped expecting ) that the ALP will act as a principled, transparent and progressive counterbalance to the overwhelming and destructive power of capital in Australia.
The ambition to become ‘the natural party of government’ is simply a camouflage for a significant lurch to the right by a now wholly-captured ALP, in the thrall of neoliberal ideology and seduced by the trappings of power.
Minns will realise the error of his ways when the Greater Israel lobby tells him it quite likes the phrase from the river to the sea.
Only when they say it…..
I fear it is coming to an Australia near you. Signals all over the place not least the hate speech laws and Herzog's visit.
https://substack.com/@profwolff/note/c-212188913?r=3r6xs7&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
The power of Zionist lobby groups , and that of the Zionist “antisemitism envoy” is an insult to the Australian public , and to state and federal governments who grovel to their every order and demand . This is a betrayal of our national sovereignty .