Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jan 28^th, 2026 at 5:20pm:

He got that wrong.

When the government fears the people, there is either anarchy or blood in the streets.

Any reading of history bears that out.

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I'm much happier now, thanks, because there are only 4 guns next door. Now I can easily repair the bullet holes in house and car and the noise has gone down considerably.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 30^th, 2026 at 8:32am:


Jefferson said it at a time and a place where the citizenry was armed and the government must smaller.

In the 18th century, respect was a sentiment that peers held for each other, not subordinates towards superiors, nor superiors towards subordinates.

The 19th- to 21st-century march of democracy and egalitarianism has altered the context of the word.

This highlights the problem when imposing modern meanings on texts from older eras.

I watched Jeremy Boreing 'explain' that Jesus' reference to freedom was his call to liberal democracy, but no mention of his freedom having everything in common with Hindu and Buddhist liberation, i.e., nothing to do with 20th/21st-century liberal democracy.

chimera wrote on Jan 30^th, 2026 at 10:35am:

Yep... that'd be my point!!

This is from govt.......oops..
'Since the beginning of the vaccine rollout to 19 February 2023, almost 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given in Australia. The TGA Therapeutic Goods Admin has identified 14 reports where the cause of death was linked to vaccination from 976 reports received and reviewed.'

However, Canada is definitely lost. They lurch around unprotected and disarmed
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/frrms/index-en.aspx

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jun 1^st, 2025 at 11:23pm:


Cunning. You've just outlined the strategy of the New South Wales government, you naughty old thing.

Australia fell in 1788. We the people suffered an endless barrage of invasion, disease and social unrest: wave after wave of immigrants, divided into their special interest groups, social classes, racial and religious enclaves.

Officers, convicts, squatters, speculators, protestants, papists, freemasons, missionaries, monarchists and separatists. They brought their foreign conflicts and rivalries, their competing world views and beliefs. They fought each other for domination, battling it out in constant pogroms, strikes, brawls, police crackdowns, riots and counter-riots.

Civilisation clearly has its discontents, but do you know?

When we finally ended the White Australia Policy, things began to settle down. Australia entered its most peaceful and prosperous era since 1788.

Where Australia was previously divided along tribal and linguistic lines, it now negotiated using administrative and economic criteria. It used a shared language, English; a shared political model, two-party representative democracy; and a shared currency, the $AUD, pegged respectively to the export price of wool, mineral resources, real estate, banking and human services.

Each of these criteria intersects and shifts - language, politics, the economy. Culture wars are a violent, but devastating, distraction. One of the most disruptive impacts on our well being over the past two generations is the influence of the Murdoch media. Its business model propagates social division. In the US, this has led to the rise of MAGA, a self-destructive, authoritarian personality cult.

This cult thrives on grievance, posing fake solutions to fake social problems, but is underpinned by a very real division of wealth. Australia has avoided this problem by having a more even distribution - higher wages, superannuation, a better social welfare system and universal health.

Even so, if the US had stuck with their previous president, they'd be doing far better economically than they are now. Their descent into authoritarian kleptocracy has seen the rise of unemployment, poverty and huge government debt, while their economic wealth, GDP and even the value of the US dollar - has fallen.

This highlights the intersection of politics and the economy. In Australia, we have far fewer problems, and where we do, it lies in our economic ties to the US. Our ongoing prosperity relies on global peace, free trade, fair markets and secure shipping lanes. We need free trade and free politics - democracy - to survive.

Our board's owner founded this site to promote such values. Free speech, he said, would lead to the inevitable rise of liberal democracy. And democracy, he said, would lead to increased global prosperity. We just need to stick to our democratic values, speak the truth and be nice to others. You'll see, he said, we'll all become prosperous, happy and free.

He certainly convinced me.

You?