Last week while the world gathered to remember our World War One fallen on November 11th, our politicians were pushing through legislation that represented the very antithesis of what those brave men fought and died for in the most horrific of conditions.
The photo I have at the top of this article is of Australian troops marching to the frontline to relieve their Australian brothers in arms from that horrifying life-and-death struggle that wiped out a generation of our nation’s finest young men.
What were they fighting for? What did our politicians of that time convince them that they were fighting for? What misinformation and disinformation were they fed to persuade them to take up arms?
Our politicians, you see, have been misleading us since the beginning of time. Sure, politics can sometimes be a noble pursuit of the most moral of principles, but on the whole, it’s a cloak-and-dagger game in which participants use deception and manipulation to achieve their desired ends.
It’s been on exhibition repeatedly, and the only surprise is that the voting public continues to fall for it. In these modern times of the World Wide Web, mobile phones and social media platforms it’s becoming increasingly more difficult for politicians to control the messaging as they did in the past.
Events in 2024 have reinforced this to our political elite through a number of events. The deadly stabbing attacks in Sydney, where both the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton chose to lay the blame for those attacks on tech giants and in particular Elon Musk. They chose this course of action to deflect from their own failings that saw a man with obvious mental issues be allowed to roam the streets, or was it for fear of it being labelled a terrorist attack?
Our politicians with the mass immigration that they have allowed are walking on eggshells each day. One incident involving a recent immigrant with terrorist sympathies and connections could set off a tinderbox that they know currently lies dormant within our society.
If that tinder box ignites, then the potential for the repercussions landing at our politician’s feet is high, and rightly so. They need a whipping boy to deflect attention and any blame from themselves and both sides of politics have landed at the same place – the bogeyman that is the tech giant cartel.
So very convenient.
The other thing that they are relying on is their condescending opinion that the Australian public is stupid enough to fall for all of this. For a large percentage of that population, they may well be right, but for the rest of us the cat has been out of the bag for some time. That cat is that the most untrustworthy and dangerous demographic within Australian society is the political class themselves.
Social media certainly has its faults, but one of its strengths is that those with the fortitude to search the World Wide Web for sources of fact and truth can shine a light on the corruption and deceit not just of our politicians, but of our media and bureaucracy and their collective totalitarian tendencies.
We all witnessed this writ large throughout COVID-19.
The second major incident that exposed the politicians for their true selves was the stabbing deaths of those poor English girls in Southport and the ensuing riots. The deaths of those innocent lives lay at the feet of the ruling class as much as they did the perpetrator. With both sides of the political aisle allowing unchecked immigration in the UK for a generation now, they clutched for something to blame and deflect and the old chestnut of far-right thugs and the evils of social media were brought to the fore to camouflage the obvious guilt of the governing class.
Soon people were been brought before judges in record time for the crime of a social media tweet or post and were handed stiff jail time to replace real criminals who were then released to create space to fit them in.
Despite two-tier Starmer’s totalitarian and oppressive approach, it hasn’t worked as he has been exposed and lampooned by millions for his actions and he will be at best a one-term Prime Minster reviled and hated by the same citizens he naively believes he represents.
Then we witnessed the historic events of the past fortnight where the greatest political comeback was achieved in world history with the election again of Donald J Trump. A victory that was achieved on the back of the social media platforms, in particular X where free speech has been embraced and emboldened by one of the world’s great patriots, Elon Musk. It was also achieved through the genius strategy of the Trump team for all of them to go on some of the world’s most popular podcasts and speak for hours on end.
This strategy gave the audience an actual chance to get to know each of the Trump team on a deep level and allowed them to see the human side of rump and Co. It allowed them to understand their concerns, their beliefs and their policies. It allowed people to be informed and to be able to make up their own minds on individuals that they could actually relate to without the political and media spin, lies and deception.
It was like a fireside chat with your favourite uncle or a drink at the pub with mates, where you suddenly realise, “Hey this guy isn’t so bad, I’ll get to know him more”.
It was brilliant, it was conducted on social media and it has absolutely terrified the political and media elite as they can see the writing on the wall, and that writing is telling them that if they are not irrelevant now then they soon will be.
So what do our political elite do? They reach for the totalitarian tool of choice; censorship. “You’ll listen to what we say and you will damn well believe it.”
It’s a tactic you can understand from the ALP with their deep connections to socialism and Marxism, but what has really been exposed is how far the once mighty Liberal party has fallen from its once cherished values and beliefs. The only place you will find those values and beliefs within Liberal party ranks is when you read them on their website, otherwise, for all intents and purposes, they have disappeared from their parliamentary ethos both at the state and federal levels.
The Liberal party of Menzies stood for small government, low taxes, encouraging business, property ownership and the freedoms and liberties that had been fought and bled for by the men and women we remember on ANZAC and remembrance day. Those sacred days are now seen as nothing more than ceremonies that our politicians can use for photo opportunities and places to opine with staff-written words about sacrifices they know nothing about nor respect. These speeches are written with the intent to hold aloft their own importance in some narcissistic pursuit to platform themselves for their own political ends.
They now even resort to celebrating other countries’ national and holy days in the pursuit of those votes. They are political ambulance chasers, nothing more, nothing less. If they allow us all to congregate on social media to share our speech, thoughts and opinions, then the game for them is up. So censorship is the order of the day.
Or is it?
The fact is you cannot create a “fortress Australia” with the internet, there will still be loopholes to take advantage of, and people will still write opinions overseas and publish opinions for Australians to follow and comment on. Our youth will now be like bees to a honey pot once our politicians foolishly legislate to ban it.
Has any law stopped teenagers from pursuing things they were banned from in the past? No, it just encouraged it. Did we not congregate as teenagers to smoke behind the toilets, to drink at the footy club, to smoke weed at the park, to lie about our age to buy the latest Playboy magazine?
Just as we worked away around laws then, teens of today will do likewise. Our politicians know this, the youth ban is just the Trojan horse to sneak the Digital ID behind our walls of liberty.
The only thing our politicians achieve through a ban is how very little they understand about these modern times and how Orwellian they’ve become in their tendencies and most sadly, how far removed they have become from our ANZAC forefathers.
There has already been some celebrating that the MAD bill has been defeated, this is premature, firstly a vote has not been had, and there is still time for shenanigans behind the scenes to see it pass. Secondly, if you think they won’t redraft it and bring it back then you’re a naive fool and third, if you are placing your hopes in the LNP then you’re a dangerous naive fool as it was the LNP that introduced the first version of such a bill into parliament.
Peter Dutton and the Liberals aren’t opposing this bill because they value our freedoms and speech, they are opposing it because they want to push through their own version of it when they are the government. I still believe that there are some good conservative people within the Liberal Party ranks but they are too rusted to the hips of their moderate colleagues who are social democrats at best. The big tent approach of John Howard has outlived its usefulness and needs to be assigned to the dustbin of political history. If you lay down in bed with the liberal moderate you will awake with a bad dose of socialist lunacy.
If the defeat of this bill indeed happens then it will be only the first battle in a long political war that will have been won. in my mind, there needs to be three important things that have to happen in Australia for our speech to ultimately be protected.
First, the conservatives need to split from the moderates within the Liberal ranks and form their own conservative party. A party which embraces the policy platform of the Menzies era, just with modern amendments.
Second, they need to find a leader like Trump, Vance, Musk, Gabbard etc to lead this Conservative movement. That person can be within or outside the federal parliament. A person coming from the outside as Trump has done would be my preferred option. The US template of MAGA is there to follow.
Finally, that conservative movement needs to design an Australian bill of rights similar to the US one and embed it deep within our constitution and commit to defending it to our last breath.
Then and only then, can we consider that the war for our freedoms, especially the freedom of speech and opinion, has been won.
If we achieve that then maybe we will have honoured the sacrifice of those brave fighting men from over a century ago and delivered on the promise of freedom and liberty that they fought for us to enjoy, not to have taken away.
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