Post by NFA on Sept 11, 2020 22:49:07 GMT 8
A taste of this fine article from Paul Collits
While a Nationals MP in New South Wales is willing to threaten future of the Coalition Government over koalas, where is the resistance in our political parties to the threats to our basic rights and freedoms visited upon us by the Covid lockdowns their own governments have implemented?
A minor Nationals MP in New South Wales – one Chris Gulaptis, the Member for Clarence – has threatened to leave the Nationals and sit on the cross benches. In a parliament where the Premier of New South Wales has a wafer thin majority – the Coalition holds 48 seats in a parliament of 93 – such actions or threats of such actions tend to get your name in the papers.
The issue on which Gulaptis is considering putting his own government in numerical peril? Farmers being forced to do extra paperwork in relation to koalas on their properties. Yes – an issue that big.
With the greatest respect to both farmers and koalas, really? Ah, the good old Nats…
This at a time when our state and national economies are being decimated by government policies, when our core freedoms are being traduced at will (perhaps not in New South Wales with the sheer thuggery witnessed on an almost hourly basis in Stasiland south of the Murray), and when all sense of joy and hope has been drained from the people, when suicides are occurring more than we have ever seen, when the frail aged wither away in care homes denied the companionship of their loved ones, when the phrase police state is bandied around with good reason about our crumbling country – all in service of fighting a virus no deadlier than just about any year’s seasonal flu.
As all of this engulfs the nation, there is apparently not one single politician willing to walk from his or her government in any parliament in defence of freedom and of our way of life, or even to threaten to. If this isn’t sufficient cause to make all who cherish freedom severely depressed, I do not know what could.
Remember that the Government led by the accidental leader, Scott “Chauncey” Morrison, itself has a majority of a mere three seats. Only one more than the Government of New South Wales where Chris Gulaptis is playing his cute games. That there is apparently not one single member of the Liberal Party willing to exercise the nuclear option at this time of national crisis is beyond sobering. These are people who give speeches about freedom in their pre-selection contests. Who quote JS Mill ad nauseam. Who bend the knee – or at least they used to – before Thatcher and Reagan.
Yes, there is Daniel Andrews and he is not a Liberal. And he is state, not Commonwealth. Those surely diminishing numbers still willing to stand by Scott Morrison over Covid will say that he is not to blame for the worst of the lockdown madness. He is no Andrews.
With respect, this is rubbish on steroids. Andrews’ manifest madness and evil aside, there is not a sliver of thin paper between the ALP governments and Liberal led governments in relation to lockdown madness. It has been a race to the bottom, with all participating, even trying to outdo each other in achieving maximum Covidmania. They all bow before the so-called expertise of the health public servants, who themselves do not have a clue, who make it up as they go along, who have no brief for freedom or individual rights and yet are thrown the keys to the bus. As it drives us all over the cliff. To expend effort making the argument that we live in a tweedledum-tweedledee political system is no longer even required. All the major parties have morphed into a single political class, remote from the people they are assumed to serve.
Remember that it is Scott Morrison who continues to enforce the unprecedented ban on Australians leaving the country, a ban matched only by Cuba and North Korea. It is Morrison who infamously stated, “I fully support Daniel Andrews”. It is Morrison who has responsibility for aged care. It is Morrison who blathers on about “national cabinet” as if it is something sacred, to be revered, and never, ever to be questioned. It is Morrison who provides no vision, no national leadership, no nothing except endless platitudes about all of us being in this together. It is Morrison who spinelessly refuses to stop the insane border closures. How about joining Clive Palmer’s constitutional challenge? No, too hard. We don’t believe in national unity and free trade among the colonies any more. How about hitting the premiers where it hurts. It is said with reason, “never get between a premier and a bucket of money”. Well, how about using the power of the purse to shift policy at state level? Our accidental prime minister is palpably guilty of both sins of Covid commission and sins of Covid omission....
A minor Nationals MP in New South Wales – one Chris Gulaptis, the Member for Clarence – has threatened to leave the Nationals and sit on the cross benches. In a parliament where the Premier of New South Wales has a wafer thin majority – the Coalition holds 48 seats in a parliament of 93 – such actions or threats of such actions tend to get your name in the papers.
The issue on which Gulaptis is considering putting his own government in numerical peril? Farmers being forced to do extra paperwork in relation to koalas on their properties. Yes – an issue that big.
With the greatest respect to both farmers and koalas, really? Ah, the good old Nats…
This at a time when our state and national economies are being decimated by government policies, when our core freedoms are being traduced at will (perhaps not in New South Wales with the sheer thuggery witnessed on an almost hourly basis in Stasiland south of the Murray), and when all sense of joy and hope has been drained from the people, when suicides are occurring more than we have ever seen, when the frail aged wither away in care homes denied the companionship of their loved ones, when the phrase police state is bandied around with good reason about our crumbling country – all in service of fighting a virus no deadlier than just about any year’s seasonal flu.
As all of this engulfs the nation, there is apparently not one single politician willing to walk from his or her government in any parliament in defence of freedom and of our way of life, or even to threaten to. If this isn’t sufficient cause to make all who cherish freedom severely depressed, I do not know what could.
Remember that the Government led by the accidental leader, Scott “Chauncey” Morrison, itself has a majority of a mere three seats. Only one more than the Government of New South Wales where Chris Gulaptis is playing his cute games. That there is apparently not one single member of the Liberal Party willing to exercise the nuclear option at this time of national crisis is beyond sobering. These are people who give speeches about freedom in their pre-selection contests. Who quote JS Mill ad nauseam. Who bend the knee – or at least they used to – before Thatcher and Reagan.
Yes, there is Daniel Andrews and he is not a Liberal. And he is state, not Commonwealth. Those surely diminishing numbers still willing to stand by Scott Morrison over Covid will say that he is not to blame for the worst of the lockdown madness. He is no Andrews.
With respect, this is rubbish on steroids. Andrews’ manifest madness and evil aside, there is not a sliver of thin paper between the ALP governments and Liberal led governments in relation to lockdown madness. It has been a race to the bottom, with all participating, even trying to outdo each other in achieving maximum Covidmania. They all bow before the so-called expertise of the health public servants, who themselves do not have a clue, who make it up as they go along, who have no brief for freedom or individual rights and yet are thrown the keys to the bus. As it drives us all over the cliff. To expend effort making the argument that we live in a tweedledum-tweedledee political system is no longer even required. All the major parties have morphed into a single political class, remote from the people they are assumed to serve.
Remember that it is Scott Morrison who continues to enforce the unprecedented ban on Australians leaving the country, a ban matched only by Cuba and North Korea. It is Morrison who infamously stated, “I fully support Daniel Andrews”. It is Morrison who has responsibility for aged care. It is Morrison who blathers on about “national cabinet” as if it is something sacred, to be revered, and never, ever to be questioned. It is Morrison who provides no vision, no national leadership, no nothing except endless platitudes about all of us being in this together. It is Morrison who spinelessly refuses to stop the insane border closures. How about joining Clive Palmer’s constitutional challenge? No, too hard. We don’t believe in national unity and free trade among the colonies any more. How about hitting the premiers where it hurts. It is said with reason, “never get between a premier and a bucket of money”. Well, how about using the power of the purse to shift policy at state level? Our accidental prime minister is palpably guilty of both sins of Covid commission and sins of Covid omission....