Pardon if I’m More Bleak Than Usual

Without the rule of law Western civilisation would be dead. Ergo Western civilisation, if not dead, is gasping for breath. Vengeful and vexatious lawfare is being openly waged against Donald Trump by his political opponents. They are not the least shy about it. The rule of law, under which everyone is treated equally, no longer applies in America. It would be a mistake to think that this travesty is a transitory aberration. The bluff has been called. Constitutional guarantees were always meaningless in the absence of patriotism and honour. Patriotism and honour are no longer abiding characteristics on the left side of the political fence. A darkness is spreading across human affairs.

This darkness is not isolated to the rule of law nor is it unique to America. Earlier this year a by-election took place in Rochdale, following the death of the incumbent Labour member for parliament. Rochdale is a working-class Lancashire town in England, adjacent to Manchester and close enough to where I was born in Liverpool. George Galloway of the Workers Party easily won the seat. The Labour Party’s candidate had to be withdrawn after he speculated that Israel might have been complicit in the October 7 attack. After winning, Galloway said, “Kier Starmer, this is for Gaza.” How come? Well, there is no mystery. Rochdale’s population is more than 30 percent Muslim. Muslims vote left until they are numerous enough to set up their own Islamic party. Either way, left or Islamic, detesting Western values and Israel is par for the course.

So where is Australia in all of this? We are doing our bit. And have every chance of being mentioned in dispatches. Let’s see, where to begin. For the sake of brevity I will cover just three bite size pieces; under the headings of lie, lie, and, yes, yet another lie.

First, the Aboriginal lie which involves paying affected homage to a long-gone hunter-gatherer culture. This allows made-up beliefs in, say, the crocodile man, the rainbow serpent, or whale songlines to stymie resource developments in courts of law. It allows myths about historical harms – of which the so-called “Stolen Generations” is prominent – to fester and create debilitating victimhood among a small section of Australians who need encouragement and help to stand on their own feet. And it allows more than half the land area of the country to be tied up in indigenous community ownership.

Second, the immigration lie which involves pretending that multiculturism is an unmitigated boon. In Australia net overseas immigration was over 547,000 in 2023. That is 2 percent of the population of 27 million in just one year. No one voted for this. And, to the point, no one had, or has, a say in the countries and cultures from where migrants are sourced. That is a political no-go area.

Multiculturalism is a shared value among mainstream politicians on both sides of the aisle in Australia, as it appears to be across most of Western Europe and North America. And bolstering this insidious political alliance is the connivance of the mainstream media. And the lie? The lie, flying in the face of all evidence and experience, is that all cultures and religious allegiances are equal. None better or worse in contributing to a peaceful and cohesive society within which values are shared.

A darkness is spreading across human affairs.

So on October 9 last year, just two days after the wanton slaughter, maiming, raping, and kidnapping of Jews in Israel by Hamas terrorists, we had thousands of “Australians” [advisedly, I put Australians in inverted commas] around the Sydney Opera House chanting, “where are the Jews” and “fuck the Jews.” And, according to some reports and my ears, “gas the Jews.” Didn’t seem as though Australian values had penetrated that particular Muslim mob.

The third lie is the lie of so-called catastrophic “climate change.” “The biggest deception in history,” as the late Canadian geographer and writer Dr Tim Ball (1938-2022) called it. But that lie is ubiquitous. Australia also has a derivative lie; a delusion of grandeur of epic proportions. To wit, that a geographically-isolated country of just 27 million people, lucky enough to be sitting on hundreds of years of readily extractable hydrocarbon energy, can simply give it all away and become a “renewable-energy superpower.” And, to boot, a “green-hydrogen superpower.” It defies all sense and reason, as do all delusions of grandeur.

Some people retain an optimism that things will sort themselves out. It is a cockeyed optimism. The barbarians are inside the gate. Institutions of learning have been debauched by communists in drag. The mainstream media has been debauched. Government bureaucracies have been debauched. Even the police and military appear to be succumbing. Islam is fouling Western values and freedoms.

Christianity and patriotism are being hounded out of public life. Replaced by cults paying homage to diversity, equity and inclusion; to LGBTQ oddities; to the equivalent of the sun god of old reprised as “climate change;” and, of late, to a pure manifestation of evil in the form of Hamas and its malevolent supporters openly calling for the slaughter of Jews. Getting to that point of dissolute depravity, even among only a sick small minority, speaks loudly about the degenerate state of our once peerless Judeo-Christian civilisation. Prognosis: terminal without intervention. Flawed, big, brash earthly messiah required. Any thoughts?

Peter Smith