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Paul Templeton
@Paul__Templeton

The Australian state has now declared itself sovereign above the people.

Under the new ASIO Amendment Bill, they can legally force you to answer questions — and jail you if you simply say “I can’t answer that.”

This isn’t law. This is legal positivism on steroids.

The state has become the sole source of its own legitimacy. It writes the rules, judges the rules, and punishes you for not playing by the rules it created.

Truth, original constitutional intent, and the sovereignty of the people no longer matter.

The system now feeds itself.

We no longer live in a constitutional democracy.

We live under a self-referencing managerial state.

That's what I said fifty-five years ago - that Orwell was not positing a dystopian future, he was talking about reality right now (then the late 1960's), up to and including the powerlessness of the individual, the absolute uncertainty about any truth in the media, the 'advertising' that perpetually showed Big Brother as being the only way forward, the wars that you didn't really know existed, the reality of having to accept - and make the best and make it sound good - what were often abominable conditions, the absolute power of the state and its tame 'courts' which put on show trials of any considered dissident or dangerous (and you thought the over-zealousness of cops was because you lived in a rough-nut city or something - but then they bit you without reason), and so forth .....  a true Truman show..... except with real teeth ...

We lived, and live, in a time of programmed/planned shortages creating demand and real need in the community, the workers are obliged to accept what they can get more and more each day, your fuel, your margarine, your ability to be socially mobile, and such are increasingly restricted by calculatged government policy........ you ask over and over why a country so rich in resources cannot create a heaven on earth for its own people..... you say lack of available capital is the issue - yet others from Offshoria can get together massive capital to exploit our resources for us, with government benediction ... we have literally trillions stored in super funds, yet no capital is available for Australian ventures beyond buying up a tract of hovels in Sydney or malbun etc... and all the while the benevolent face of Big Albo is shown to us daily, full of love for all humanity not Australian to the core, exploring the wonders of internationalism, explaining to us what a wonderful life we are leading, explaining to us how to follow blindly to the next petrol non-drought and so forth, and how he is heroically keeping us out of those nasty wars .......

Most thought, and think, it only right and reasonable to stand in line behind Big Brother in trampling those considered undesirables or to be lesser beings and types, or as many groups do today on a daily basis, actively incite and beseech Big Brother to trample any they disagree with on the basis of anything regardless of whether it be fair or reasonable.... look at yond feminists in their endless raving nightmare ...

1984 has been upon us for as long as I've been reliably sentient.... you just missed it... and I believe Australia has always been 1984 Unbound.