Imagine if, in Canberra… more than a thousand people marched down Commonwealth Avenue, ascended Capital Hill, broke into the public entrance by smashing doors and windows, roamed the halls and invaded the Senate chamber, took over the desks and the presiding officer’s chair, and attacked the House chamber only to be stopped by guards with guns drawn and aimed at the chamber’s door.
You tell me whether the full force of the law would be brought down on these people through trials in Commonwealth courts.
OK, I will tell you, Bruce. But not before you watch this contemporaneous ABC news report about a violent assault on a legislature that makes ‘Jan 6’ look like Joe Biden wandering around lost on a rostrum. Of 49 people arrested after the insurrection, only two were charged with assault and two others were charged with trespass. This was despite the fact that 90 AFP and security officers were injured in the attack. Before the bloodshed began, the large crowd of unionists listened to speeches given on the rally’s official stage. Then Opposition Leader Kim Beazley told them John Howard’s LNP government “hates workers, it hates students, it hates Aboriginal people, it hates women.” This was a green light. The classic rhetorical device in genuine incitement is dehumanisation of the enemy. Beazley was saying that Coalition MPs and supporters were so monstrous that they were not entitled to the conventional protections of law and morality. He was never charged with an offence and has never apologised.
I would leave it there but for the fact that Wolpe’s embarrassing analysis has come to the attention of Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog. Understandably so. But more interesting than a lifelong servant of the Democratic Party and one-time chief of staff for Julia Gillard butchering the truth – unsurprising for a man in whose head Donald Trump lives gratis – is that he and Henderson share an interest: dear old Ukraine. Wolpe dishonestly links Trump to the “nazis” of Charlottesville while glorifying Europe’s last open range zoo for brownshirts. His love for Volodymyr Zelensky verges on homo-erotic. Naturally, he’s also a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre – a lightweight neocon ‘think tank’ whose mission is endless war.
This matters because Wolpe’s support for criminalising Trump’s campaign is actuated in large part by Uniparty fear that the Republican frontrunner-phenom, if re-elected, will shut down its already lost proxy war against Russia. There is no coincidence in Wolpe’s one-liners being identical to Dick Cheney’s. It also matters because the neocon right’s non-aggression pact with neo-con communists for the sake of Ukrainian ‘democracy’ has enabled extremists in Washington to turn America into a lawless toilet in just three years. Can you bear it? I can’t.
It’s different when they do it.
I note too that Henderson took a swipe at Rita P.
Maybe revenge for Rita literally laughing at Greg Sheridan last week when he told her (sitting in for Credlin) that the Democrats have to win the 2024 election “honestly” as they did last time (from 5.57).
Well, she did suffer from that overinteruptus virus.
It is very difficult to understand how people can tell such utter lies about events that occur in front of cameras and get away with it. The gullibility of Australians is astonishing to say the least. Of course, it doesn’t help that almost every contemporary event reported by the media is ‘spun’ into a ‘narrative’ that conforms with government propaganda. Covid, climate, Aborigines, US elections, Ukraine. Everything the average Aussie thinks they know about those topics is a lie.
Very strange how the war in Ukraine is seen, no less by those who might be in a position to see differently, as a struggle for democracy, probably also as a stand against communism, even when it is difficult to distinguish between the two, each having appropriated the power structures of the other.
American Communism in Action – Travesty: Why is John Eastman even on trial?
The “new normal” indeed.
They’re now arresting lawyers for representing Republicans.
Let. That. Sink. In.
Not a single one of the imbeciles in the employ of the aforementioned “centre” publicly predicted a Fatty Trump victory in the 2016 election.
It was an outcome they simply couldn’t comprehend.
As for Wolpe, he’s beyond parody, as the piece reported by CL demonstrates. Talk about blind spots.
The new normal includes senior liberal politicians like Mark Speakman going on the record supporting a Yes vote and receiving zero scrutiny for picking the wrong side.
It also includes people needing to be pardoned from a weaponised justice system even when their claims can be backed by evidence .
The same Uniparty which claimed Trump was going to start WWIII.
That whirring sound you hear is John Adams rolling in his grave.
The black pill, so to say, is hearing people on the centre-right talk and act as if its still 2003.
American commentator Matt Walsh is quite outspoken on this.
He is often having a go at Republicans and conservatives who say we mustn’t do such and such, because it upsets the Democrats and sets a precedence for them.
Well, as Walsh points out, Democrats are doing what they like anyway, for instance completely politicizing and perverting the justice system and using it to hunt down, charge and jail their political and ideological opponents.
American commentator Matt Walsh is quite outspoken on this.
He is often having a go at Republicans and conservatives who say we mustn’t do such and such, because it upsets the Democrats and sets a precedence for them.
Well, as Walsh points out, Democrats are doing what they like anyway, for instance completely politicizing and perverting the justice system and using it to hunt down, charge and jail their political and ideological opponents.”
A few months ago Matt Walsh was interviewed on Triggernometry. Now, the two guys from Triggernomery are pretty middle of the road, they steer a middle course although I now think both have now experienced an epiphany of sorts when it comes to the left. However, Konstantin Kisin (I’m paraphrasing) asked Walsh why he’d been so mean and awful about that pervert, Dylan Mulvaney, and suggested that perhaps he should tone down the “mean” rhetoric. Walsh didn’t mince words, he said NO, and he said that it is precisely this polite, delicate, not wanting to upset anyone attitude which had led us to this situation where male perverts with a fetish, who are a menace to society and particularly women and children, are trying to invade women’s spaces, women’s sport, and are basically trying to erase what it is to be a woman.
Absolutely correct.
I have had more than enough of this let’s turn the other cheek, “be nice and polite to the left and they will be the same towards us” attitude (typified by the likes of Bolt, but he’s far from alone).
And look where it has gotten us.
Cassie: the problem with the assertion that prosecutions of Proud Boys and Trump etc are driven by Democrats is that so far the indictments have been by grand juries (drawn from the community – in one notable case, Florida) and cases heard in quite a few instances by judges appointed by Trump. Grand juries are where lies go to die.
“Laroque says:
13 September, 2023 at 11:01 pm”
You’re a comedian, just not a good one.