by FRED PAWLE – THE Diggers who died defending Australia wouldn’t recognise the place now.
There isn’t much about the mainstream media that is impressive these days, but it does deserve credit for seizing opportunities to promote an agenda with co-ordinated speed and skill whenever they arise.
- No wonder the media is in a death spiral.
- You don’t need to be a “neo-Nazi” to think “Welcome to Country” is stupid.
- It’s about as appropriate as a trampoline at a nudist colony.
Then again, maybe this isn’t so impressive after all. The media discarded most of its integrity, intellect and cultural kudos during the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates, if not before.
All it has left now is the ability to react quickly and cleanly whenever its shadowy puppet-masters deem it necessary. It gave us a textbook demonstration of that yesterday.
UNCLE
No sooner had several people booed “Uncle” Mark Brown for conducting a “Welcome to Country” during a Melbourne Dawn Service than the media responded in lockstep.
It reduced its coverage of the protest to one person and repeatedly reminded Australians that the man is a “neo-Nazi”.
Channel Nine, The Australian newspaper, Sky News, The Herald Sun, The Age and of course the ABC responded as one.
If you didn’t know that the “Welcome to Country” had been invented by Ernie Dingo in 1976, you could be forgiven for thinking it was as integral to Anzac Day as The Last Post.
“The solemn mood of the event was broken,” the ABC lamented in a rare moment of patriotic fervour.
The disruption was “completely inappropriate and disgusting,” federal Veterans Affairs Minister Matt Keogh was quoted saying in The Herald Sun.
“To pierce the sombre silence of the dawn service is – disrespectful,” Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen was quoted saying in The Australian.
And so on.
The main culprit, Jacob Hersant, was routinely described as a “prominent neo-Nazi”.
I can’t have been the only person who needed to Google him to find out how “prominent” he was – and how terrified I should be.
Not very on both counts, as it happens. People like Hersant seem to be willingly playing the villains in a media pantomime that mashes 1930s Germany with 21st Century Australia.
They hide behind cupboards or under staircases and then jump out yelling “Seig Heil!” to frighten the innocent damsel while the audience gasps – then laughs when the villains get their comeuppance by appearing like losers on a newspaper front page.
The dramatic conceit as far as the media is concerned is that Australia is just a goose step away from hosting its own Nuremberg rallies, such is the depth of the racism that lingers just beneath the surface of our deceptively peaceful country.
Only journalistic diligence is preventing Hersant from brainwashing the media’s own readers and viewers from putting on brown shirts and hitting the streets to hunt down minorities.
It’s a little insulting, don’t you think? No wonder the media is in a death spiral of its own.
STUPID
The point that journalists failed to contemplate – in their haste to beat up this story – is that you don’t need to be a “neo-Nazi” to think the “Welcome to Country” is stupid.
It’s bad enough hearing it every time a Qantas plane lands on home soil, but as an introduction to the most solemn event of the year it’s about as appropriate as a trampoline at a nudist colony.
Nevertheless, journalists and politicians soldiered on, as if by staunchly vilifying a popular opinion they are as courageous as the fallen Diggers themselves, fighting the eternally brutal war against fascism.
“Anzac Day honours the values our Anzacs lived and died for: courage, loyalty, mateship, and sacrifice,” Jacinta Allen said.
She deliberately omitted the other quality they died for – freedom – because, as one of the architects of Victoria’s draconian lockdowns that would have exposed her hypocrisy.
Albo was as quick to jump on the bandwagon. “What occurred at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance and Kings Park in Perth was a disgrace,” he said.
“There is no place in Australia for what occurred. The disruption of Anzac Day is beyond contempt, and the people responsible must face the full force of the law.”
It’s a pity that Albo doesn’t think the same laws should apply to thugs who chanted “Gas the Jews” on the steps of the Opera House in October 2023, or who say that participating in a democracy is a fundamental sin against Islam.
Sydney preacher Wissam Haddad recently announced on social media that the act of voting was a type of polytheism that is “far worse than possible benefits”.
Actually, in Haddad’s defence, he is half right. There aren’t many benefits to be had from voting for the crop of Party hacks and anonymous retards vying for our votes at this election.
On a wider level, he’s being far more provocative than the likes of Hersant and his “neo-Nazi” friends could ever be.
What’s worse, declaring democracy to be a sin or wishing that we could be relieved of the tiresome welcome to our own country even during the most solemn moment?
You know the answer to that.
But the laws to which Albo refers were passed by parliament to punish only people like Hersant.
The real opponents of freedom, the types our Diggers died fighting, have nothing to worry about these days.PC
– Fred Pawle
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The mainstream media have a lot to answer for. They went along with Labor’s lies, fabrications, tale-twisting and gaslighting as if they were real. What’s the matter boys – hanging out for your union to push for a colossal wage hike?
Well thanks very much – you have ignored the co;ossal national debt, the over-spending, the devastation to our countryside, the atrocious name-calling, the old Labor playbook of targeting the opposition leader daily for three years with every possible imaginary horror that Labor’s Dirty Tricks Department” could come up with.
And fallen for it hook, line and sinker – so we’re in for a stinker.
No point hiding your money under the bed – it will be eaten away by the LCI of 10% pa in cities and 20% in the country.
Hope you all squirm.
https://www.abs.gov.au/methodologies/selected-living-cost-indexes-australia-methodology/jun-2024
Leftist politicians, such as Albanese, sat at the knees of leftist activists who disrupted ANZAC Days throughout the 1970s. Disrupting ANZAC Day and disrespecting returned service men and women was the objective of most leftists. Pretending that they believe it is a sacred day, is another enormous lie. Someone might find evidence of Albanese and his mates being rat bags at historical ANZAC Day events if they looked. Unlike Abbott and other Liberals, there has been very little scrutiny of Albanese’s university days, except the photo of him with loudhailer disrupting students.