As a result of a discussion we held last night, I agreed to invite the director general of Asio, Mark Burgess, along, to talk about the rise of right-wing extremism in particular, the so-called sovereign citizens and other issues as well, and we had a high level national security briefing on that for the premier and chief ministers.
I reiterate that the commonwealth will always make available our senior national security advisers to state and territory governments, to deal with the challenges that are there of keeping people safe and protecting our internal security issues as well, right around the country.
“So-called” is a qualifier that sovereign citizens and “national cabinet” should have in common but the latter is in a class of its own as a menace to liberty. Invited to this socialist soirée like a strip-o-gram in a pop-out cake, Burgess must have known what was expected of him: the usual balderdash about the ‘rising threat’ of nazis. Meanwhile in England, the Australian government is now training Ukrainian ‘recruits’ (of unknown backgrounds) how to kill. In Ukraine, nazis are not performative spectres thought-bubbled to troll the cons. They’re the real deal. They have that in common with the ISIS brides recently chaperoned back into the country after their WAG sabbatical in the Middle East. Guess whose attitude to Jews theirs resembles.
This pas de deux between Western states and intelligence agencies about “right-wing extremism” was turbo-charged at the height of state lawlessness during the pandemic. Violent, criminal leaders who had driven nations to the precipice of anarchy needed patsies and spies needed to be needed – which is to say, funded. As the Russia Hoax, Laptop From Hell and Twitter Files demonstrate, this symbiosis is the biggest threat to democracy, national comity and the rule of law in the West today. In Australia, it is Labor governments and the ABC – not birdbrained Mein Kampf fetishists – that sow racial, religious and cultural enmity on a daily basis. The more out-there the left becomes, the more nazis it needs; the more it finds, the less extreme it hopes to seem. At yesterday’s funeral for Cardinal George Pell, the tactics of a right-wing US hate group were given a Radio Rwanda green light – qui tacet consentire videtur – by all members of “national cabinet.” But it was anti-Catholic hate and therefore welcome. Every one of them is a disgrace.
It certainly is a joke when you consider most of the extremist behaviour, a demonstration of which happened the very previous day in fact, is so prominent.
But I guess that for right wing extremists, the problem is even though they probably number in the tens at most, if one decided to prosecute their anarchist/isolationist ideologies by deciding to do something physically nasty to their object(s) of hate and anyone else nearby, they would be a lot more effective at it than your typical Pell hating cross dressing child preaching activist that gets regular airtime on their ABC. Yes in the big picture the nasty drag queen is just as dangerous to society, but they aren’t running around with guns. It would hurt their nails.
Besides, I wouldn’t be surprised if these laRiuch/CEC/sovereign nation types probably believe Pell was a sword bearer of the antichrist and a drug mule for the British monarchy.
The other thing that gets my goat is labelling acolytes of the National Socialist Workers Party as “right wing”.
…… and right on cue, the PM foreshadows further firearm restrictions – to keep us all safe from the far right extremists, naturally.
Strange how a firearm owner with an unblemished record is a threat to society but an ISIS member is no problem.
Got to hand it to the PM, however – he has hit the ground running, implementing his backers far left agenda, no time being wasted.
Romper Stomper was a fictional account not a documentary
Thank you C.L.
Just before I went to bed last night, I decided to read the front page of the Oz and I saw the piece. My jaw dropped and my blood began to boil. I wanted to post a comment under the piece but I vowed yesterday never to post a comment on the Oz again. Yesterday, I’d written a comment under the newspaper’s very good editorial about George Pell and political cowardice which, unusually, was published (I’m clearly on a blacklist with the paper’s adolescent UTS Marxist activist moderators). Scrolling through and reading others comments, the Oz has a resident a troll (not the only one), a troll that the adolescent Marxist troglodyte moderators allow to splatter the pages with juvenile and almost always, offensive comments. The troll’s name is JohnT. The troll had written a highly defamatory comment about Tony Abbott being at Pell’s funeral. If similar had been written about Albanese or Gillard, there’s no way in the world that the Marxist moderators would have waved through to be be published, but of course they did with JohnT’s offensive comment. What did I do? I flagged it, and I wrote to the Oz. That was yesterday morning but as of last night the offensive comment by “JohnT” was still there, and I haven’t heard anything back from the Oz. So, I have decided my days commenting on the Oz are finito. I will still maintain my subscription because of the good work by Janet A (Janet has some very good pieces today after La Brittaneeee), Chris Merritt, Chris Mitchell and a few others. But no more commenting, it’s over, finito. Besides, I have forums such as here to vent my views. Anyway, I digress, my apologies. I wanted to comment on the piece titled “the rise of right-wing extremism”, because I was furious about the headline by the two activist journalists who had written the piece. The headline was deliberately misleading, disingenuous, deceitful, untruthful and false. It was a headline designed to smear people such as myself as “far-right”. I then read the piece.
Some points…
Point 1. On Thursday, 2 February 2023, sitting outside St Mary’s Cathedral with hundreds of other ordinary Australians, I witnessed “far-left” terrorism. Okay, there was no violence that morning only because NSW police were in attendance however there were police on horses which means the police clearly thought that violence might be a possibility, and I can guarantee you all that the NSW police knew that if violence was to happen, it would not emanate from various “far-right” mourners such as myself outside the cathedral.
In case anyone reading here has had their heads stuck in concrete over the last few days, a funeral was targeted by far-left extremists and the so called Liberal government of NSW, and a spineless, gutless NSW Liberal premier (and supposed Catholic) allowed a funeral to be targeted by far-left protesters. Two questions…
Has anyone seen, read or heard Labor politicians such as Albanese, Minns or Plibersek, or Liberal and National politicians, accurately describe the putrid protesters as “far-left”? Nup, nope, nyet.
Has anyone seen, read or heard the MSM accurately describe the putrid protesters as “far-left”? Nup, nope, nyet.
Point 2. I am right-wing on most things (not all), and of course I’m not an extremist but such facts don’t matter to juvenile activists posing as journalists in today’s MSM, or to the progressive left. The smear “right-wing” is now common parlance amongst the left. I’ve said it time and time again that this dumping of “right-wing” with “far-right” is deliberate, designed to delegitimise and shut down ordinary Australians such as myself. It’s pure unadulterated dog whistling, and it’s worked, spectacularly. Why? Well, yes, it isn’t rocket science, you guessed it, much of this has been due to the eternally stupid Liberals and Nationals, who’ve refused to fight the culture wars for the last twenty years, bar a few notable exceptions like Canavan, Antic and a few others.
This latest quest to stamp out “far-right extremism” is manna from heaven for Labor and the Greens and they won’t hesitate to use it, to demonise, to shut down and to silence people like us. Only two weeks ago, when it was revealed Perrottet had once worn a “Nazi” uniform to a fancy dress party when he was 21 (so effing what), the story was used by, don’t laugh, the Greens to pontificate and condemn Liberals and Nationals as “far-right”. So we had real verminous Jew haters and far-left extremists, aka the Australians Greens, lecturing the Liberals and the Nationals about extremists in their ranks. Now that’s what I call chutzpah! Or in plain English, you couldn’t make this shit up (pardon the language C.L.).
But again I ask, did you see, read or hear any Liberal or National condemn the Greens for their hypocrisy and call them out for being “far-left”? Nup, nope, nyet.
Apologies about the rant.
All true Cassie, although I must admit if I call someone of “The Left” I am implying them as an emotionally dominated, economically stupid, authoritarian enabling idiot. So in other words a pejorative just as much as the left uses against those they j’accuse of being right wing.
And I am very comfortable with that.
“National cabinet” and the “voice” are both the systematic dismantling of “our democracy”.
The establishment class are staging a revolution, their paranoia about ” right wing” is text book counter revolutionary paranoia and projection that every communist junta in every country had and used to create the conditions to suppress any opposition to what they were busily doing.
Or, because there is no right wing, they had to invent one.
“All true Cassie, although I must admit if I call someone of “The Left” I am implying them as an emotionally dominated, economically stupid, authoritarian enabling idiot. So in other words a pejorative just as much as the left uses against those they j’accuse of being right wing.
And I am very comfortable with that.”
Yes, but you’re not trying to shut them down and silence them. The deliberate lumping of right-wing with “far-right” is designed to intimidate, scare, muzzle and silence those of us on the right. These people, including the current grub of a PM, would no doubt describe this site as “far-right”, and I have no doubt that the censors on the left, having described this site, Dover’s site, Sky News and so on as “far-right”, would happily shut us all down. Because that is what is coming, it will be a fight for our lives. This “far-right” is a very useful meme, and it’s worked very well because of the cowardice of the right who’ve consistently refused to fight any culture wars.
As someone else noted, the ABC’s actions post the Alice Springs citizens meeting are calculated to inflame the race war in the Northern Territory. “White” resistance will be cited as right-wung extremism.
As someone else noted, the ABC’s actions post the Alice Springs citizens meeting are calculated to inflame the race war in the Northern Territory. “White” resistance will be cited as right-wing extremism.
“Twostix says:
4 February, 2023 at 7:48 am”
All correct.
Cassie, you would have more impact if you canceled your subscription, not hearing your voice is exactly what the John T and right wing extremist obsessed want
Slightly off topic but pertinent, Tony Abbott’s pearler during his eulogy for His Eminence George Cardinal Pell AC bears repeating:
He was made a scapegoat for the Church itself. He should never have been investigated, in the absence of a complaint. He should never have been charged, in the absence of corroborating evidence. And he should never have been convicted in the absence of a plausible case – as the High Court so resoundingly made plain.
And that delightful snippet of gentle humour:
And as I heard the chant “Cardinal Pell should go to Hell” I thought “ah ha!”, at least they now believe in the afterlife! Perhaps this is St George Pell’s first miracle.
If praising those comments make me a “right wing extremist” or a “right wing nut job” then I’m proud to haul up the Red Ensign to signal my opinions.
Perhaps I’ll even spit on my hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
(Joke, Joyce. NADT. h/t HL Mencken)
“He was made a scapegoat for the Church itself. He should never have been investigated, in the absence of a complaint. He should never have been charged, in the absence of corroborating evidence. And he should never have been convicted in the absence of a plausible case – as the High Court so resoundingly made plain.”
Yes, Abbott nailed it. Superb.
Dave Oneegs on Telegram was happy about the protesters at Pell’s funeral. Seems you are right about that particular sovereign citizen, Entropy.
There were demonstrations by two groups. Call the rainbow clowns left wing until the cows come home but those protesting against Pell and child abuse ,remembering of the course the royal commision simply din not believe what he said, and they most definitely were right wing.
and no the ISIS brides had nothing in common with so-called soldiers. They were wives of very misogynistic muslims for pete’s sake.
Evidence for albo doing anything CL alleges.
This is the George Santos blog
Just a caveat about Pell being a scapegoat for the Church – suggesting as it does that the Church was in need of a scapegoat. No. Pell and his Church were (and are) under attack and the scapegoat trope was an attempt at justifying the attack.
Yes. Thank you to Franx for those words
Looking at the biggest group of crooks in our history sitting around the National Cabinet tablemade me think only one recurring thought. Guyfawkes.
Non Mentis
The rainbow clowns with their huge flag could not care less about pedos. Their gripe is with Cdl Pell refusing to give them communion when they wore their rainbow sashes to the rail, symbolising their state of sin.
The Royal Commission declined to believe that Cdl Pell could not be aware of Tisdale’s actions while sharing accommodation with him, but happily accepted the claim of Paul Bungjourno that he was not aware of Ridsdale’s actions while he was living under the same circumstances.
The ISIS brides travelled to join their husbands in the full knowledge of their activities.
You are the George Santos of this blog, living in a fantasy world created in your mind, which never developed further after you left pre-school after failing.
I was under the impression that the so-called “National Cabinet” was a temporary device to deal with the so-called “Covid-19 emergency”.
Why is it still running? Does it have any place in our legislature or constitution? Are the people privy to it’s discussions and decisions? Is recording in Hansard involved? Is there any public scrutiny at all or only what their press releases tell us?
So many questions. So few answers.
The Israelites would once a year have a scapegoat slaughtered in place of the Israelites’ sins. The wages of sin is death and all that. It was meant to be a symbolic precursor for the ultimate scapegoat, Jesus who died for all our sins, in our place.
That is the analogy. Pell is paying for the sins of others.
As for the activists, I suspect the contemptible rainbow activists are more interested in being opposed to Pell because he would not let them have communion while they were promoting gayness.
I beg to differ. Left-wing extremists are killing – and have killed – many thousands of people. They are now driving a teen mutilation fad to match their love of murdering unborn children. That’s before we get to their new fetish for killing the elderly. In comparison, the death toll wrought by the odd sov cit who goes bananas is minuscule.
It’s part of the left’s psychological con to package their atrocities as ‘rights’.
No, Calli, it doesn’t. It’s a completely invented sham. The “statement” it published on the Voice has the same legal standing as an online medical degree from the University of Nigeria.
Rafiki. Ya gotta stop worrying about how the ABC presents stuff., since practically no-one watches them nor believes what they present, if they do watch them….
Putting aside stale-snob Pommy comedies revolving around sheilas pronouncing Bucket as Bouquet and such like….or fellas wearing banana-suits, which amuses geriatric dementia-sufferers (see ANY friends of the ABC shindig)….the ABC gets no traction at all….
Their news channel pulls about 1 % of available viewers. This means that for anyone wanting immediate new, 99% go elsewhere. Meanwhile at dinner-time or thereabouts, when the average ABC dementia-sufferer is either eating, or else downing their 20 tabs from a Webster Pack, and there is no-one in the room to string three coherent words together they listen to the TV, which gives them Home and Away, A Current Affair, ABC drivel or some such nonsense to choose from. ABC has no ads!
And that’s it. Sure it’s a disgrace they get a billion bucks per year, but if you spread that out over a year per senile on-looker, it’s actually a quite cost-effective way to keep the mentally-marbleless off the street and out of harm’s way, FFS!
“I beg to differ. “
As do I. Left-wing extremists are currently running amok in big US cities, Atlanta has been in flames for weeks, caused by Antifa.
Similar will begin here soon, you can bet your bottom dollar.
I was there on Thursday. I saw and felt the hate, the suppressed violence, the loathing. There would have violence had there been no police and I believe they would have tried to storm the cathedral.
I attended CPAC back in early October and many of these same cockroaches turned up to protest and they were violent.
Entropy, I take it you are not buying into the trope that Pell is ‘paying for the sins of others’.
Absolutely no doubt.
As Gerard Henderson has repeatedly written, the RC cited no evidence or proof for its opinion (just “Pell must have known” – a flat-out assertion) that Pell knew what was going on, and who was doing it.
Absolutely correct, John.
Cardinal Pell was quite prepared to give them communion, but only if they removed all their rainbow paraphernalia.
N.T., re the Royal Commission into investigating sexual crimes in Christian institutions, but definitely not into government schools and Islamic institions, etc:
“and they most definitely were right wing.”
Hard data? Please don’t offer “the vibe.”
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
— Milton Friedman
I would guess this theme is older than Uncle Milt, but might have been expressed in different ways. At any rate … they promise it’s only a small thing for a little while, and then it ends up a big thing forever.
See also: boiling frog.
See also: salami slicing.
See also: two weeks to flatten the curve.
See also: income tax (yes they originally said it would be temporary).
Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church died in 2014 and it looks like the activism died with him.
He had a 250 page file with the FBI dating from the 1950s, but oddly, they never prosecuted him.
Which leads me to suspect that he was a Fake right wing extremist working undercover for the Feds over decades.
The Royal Commission declined to believe that Cdl Pell could not be aware of Tisdale’s actions while sharing accommodation with him, but happily accepted the claim of Paul Bungjourno that he was not aware of Ridsdale’s actions while he was living under the same circumstances.
Okay, SpongeBob.
Do you think Paul Bongiorno was being perfectly frank about that?
I deline to believe that 90% of the showbiz industry in Hollywood didn’t know exactly what Harvey Weinstein was up to and they were all perfectly fine with that. Heck … you wanna go back to Roman Polanski, the evidence came out, he was found guilty and the industry close ranks and protected the bastard for decades.
They must have known, right?!?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Gerry Ridsdale is having the time of his life.
Richard Speck [killed 8 nurses in Chicago in 1966] was interviewed in Prison about 35 years ago.
He said he had a pair of GG sized Breasts courtesy of the State of Illinois and a large black boyfriend, and if the Government knew how much fun he was having, they’d let him out.
Richard Cranium
I have no evidence to the contrary. Do you?
Who cares what the royal commissioners believed? As if households never have secrets.
They also ‘believed’ Cardinal Pell must have heard Ridsdale in confession even though Ridsdale publicly stated he never went to confession.
Where do you think the impetuous to create the infamous breach the seal of the confessional law came from?
I can’t see anything analogous between hollyweird and a very clever paedophile hiding his tracks.
He abused his own nephew and his brother and sister in law didn’t know.
Neither Bongiorno nor Pell knew what Ridsdale was up to in that one year when they all lived in the one presbytery, not a homely place but an official and rambling residence. Why would they know. Even long-term cheating by one of a married couple often remains totally unsuspected by the other. And Ridsdale had things down to fine art, as when he asked to stay in town in a monastery having told his hosts he had a court appointment. The hosts were unaware of the nature of the court hearing until the media were on their doorstep accusing the hosts of complicity with Ridsdale.
Nazis galore. Again.
According to ASIO. Again.
Yes, a pas de deux , too, in ways where it is the agencies themselves who are increasingly found to have been in support of acts and entities which they themselves ostensibly hold as reprehensible.
Someone brought up Mississippi Burning the other day.
The reality was that the 1st iteration of the KKK folded at the end of Reconstruction, having achieved it’s aims, the second was based in the MidWest and folded when the Grand Kleagle got Life for strangling his office secretary in Ohio around 1924.
There was no 3rd Iteration, just groups of provocateurs organised by the FBI in the 1950s and 1960s.
There’s now compelling evidence that David Duke always worked for the FBI.
Whitey Bulger worked for the FBI for decades.
Jerry Garcia was an FBI informant for years and may have finked for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics too [relying on memory, that news was only made public after he died].
John Ferguson had a story in The Australian about Cardinal Pell’s service in Melbourne on Friday night. It sounded much quieter than Cardinal Pell’s funeral service in Sydney: Outside the cathedral, opposition to the late cardinal was modest, waves of ribbons in honour of the dead and the abuse survivor community.
I am so pleased this was the case, but why so different from Sydney? In a way Sydney seemed like Rent a Protest.
Where was the CLAN mob (whose patrons include prominent politicians), the Ballarat survivor group extensively promoted by the ABC, and other high profile victims and victims advocates, eg Broken Rites and political figures such as Fiona Patten who were outside the Royal Commission hearings and the Melbourne County Courts doing radio and tv interviews over the last 9 years? The ribbon group Loudfence Inc is chaired by the sister of one of the swimming pool complainants in Milligan’s program. There was an Aust Research Council Panel session in May 2022 in which a postdoctoral associate funded by a $298K research grant Breaking Silences told everyone that:
.. they are not only visually loud, they are vibrant, they are intended to provoke a response, and that audibly they are loud as well when the wind is blowing which she had not considered. They are loud in a number of ways, and provoke a response by the viewer and the person who is present in the place – and an important reminder of the place in Ballarat and in the world – not only the vibrancy but the fragility of the images where the ribbons have been worn by weather and time – a metaphor for the strength and fragility of survivors and coming to terms with past traumas which allow us to make our own meanings and reminiscences of childhood…’??
The Chair of the RC briefed CLAN and journalists about the meaning and significance of the ribbons on 4 July 2015!!! But Vic Pol’s Operation Plangere investigation which was published in a story in The Australian on 25 July 2015 substantiated only one suicide and that was a female in Melbourne, not Ballarat!
And having it substantiated that there was one suicide in Melbourne and not 46 in Ballarat, as first put by VicPol, there has not been any comment from Ashton or Patten as to how – and why – VicPol had proceeded with distorting the truth.
Patton.
Franz – exactly and ABC now has TV headlines
and online story about how D Andrews is giving an apology to Victims of CSA in Parliament this week ( says focus is state schools but the church link is there with C Foster pictured online and Pell’s funeral referenced).
He must not be aware of Operation Plangere – started in 2012 and quietly reported to the RC in May 2015 (as per J Ferguson July 2015 story in The Aust). All the victims narratives on the RC website have disclaimers next to them and the Aust Research Council 2019 Research Grant entitled “Breaking Silences” hosted by 4 Uni Canberra academics has its final report on the LoudFence Inc site where they advise that a team of creative writers and journalists were employed to write up and “synthesise” the narratives from the private sessions (which were held with Royal Commissioners in upmarket hotels in capital cities according to the budget in Vol 1). I always thought the text sounded the same and some of the scenarios did not sound credible. Eg In a testimony statement presented to the RC, one anonymised speaker eg, BWG, even said the priest Searson let him order Holy Communion hosts over the phone!!?? The statements were never questioned because Mark Dreyfus changed the RC Act in 2013 so that alleged victims would not be questioned about their statement.
The text in many of these narratives and statements always reminded me of the language, style and expressions used on the Broken Rites website. And I think I remember reading an article about Bernard Barrett from Broken Rites promising Phil Scott (Pell’s accuser in about ?2000/2001?5!) that he could write Scott a terrific victim impact statement and Scott would receive a $50,000 compensation payout.