DON QUIXOTE RIDES AGAIN

by Jeremy Lee
With the news that former Labor member for Kalgoorlie and leader of Australia First Graeme Campbell has joined Pauline Hanson's One Nation and may stand for the Senate, Senator Ron Boswell has come riding out of the sunset on his National Party charger to save rural Australia from a fate worse than death. A page 2 article in The Australian (8/5/01) quotes Senator Boswell as claiming the move meant the League of Rights was now taking over One Nation:
" ....Ron Boswell, National Party leader in the Senate, who is competing head to head with Pauline Hanson for a Senate seat in Queensland, said the membership shift was 'a reverse takeover, an amalgamation, a merger of the League of Rights and One Nation'. "It won't be Pauline Hanson's One Nation. It will be the League of Rights' One Nation and if people want to support this party they will have to deny the Holocaust occurred, they will have to deny the story of Anne Frank's diary and that Jesus Christ was a Jew. We are celebrating a hundred years of Federation and we now have people in three parliaments who will be directly associated with the League of Rights ...."

Following the abysmal showing of the National Party in the recent State elections, culminating in the humiliating result in the recent by-election for the State seat of Surfers' Paradise, where the Nationals went from incumbency to a mere 8% of the vote, most would recognise that Senator Boswell is desperate for an issue to run with. He daren't stand on the record of his own Party - look where such a normal procedure has got the Nationals in recent months. So he has got to try to create one, even where he hasn't got the ingredients to begin with. The closest he can come is to intimate that Campbell is a member of the League of Rights, which even he must know is not true. But Campbell has spoken on League platforms, which is enough to damn him for ever in the eyes of Ron ("The grim weeper") Boswell.

But then so have many other prominent Australians, including members of his own party such as Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen and former National State leader in Victoria Peter Ross-Edwards. Some have wilted after being attacked for doing so. Current Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, after giving quite a good paper at a League seminar in Adelaide, completely went to water subsequently, even making the absurd excuse that he didn't know where he was at the time! He surrendered to the "guilt-by-association" technique which Boswell hopes desperately will succeed in getting the Nationals off the hook in the coming federal election.

Ever since 1969, when the League of Rights published the small booklet "They Want Your Land", it has been a thorn in the side of the Country-cum-National Party, which could have halted and reversed the present rural tragedy had it had the courage to do so. In order to evade its responsibilities the National Party decided to attempt to "smear" the League as a way of diverting just criticism. Time has now run out for the Nationals. They are seen as betrayers in many areas of rural Australia. Attempting to drum up a "guilt-by-association" straw man will produce no feather that they can fly with.
(The forthcoming May edition of The New Times Survey will carry a much more detailed history of the ongoing battle between the League of Rights and the remnants of a once-great party. For non-subscribers, $3.00 posted from The Heritage Bookshop, Box 1052 J, GPO, Melbourne, 3001.)

THE DAVE DRUMMOND MEMORIAL LECTURE

It was in September 1994 that Graeme Campbell was invited to give the Fourth Annual D.H. Drummond Memorial Address at the University of New England. The invitation was unprecedented. Campbell was a sitting Federal Labor Member at the time. Dave Drummond had been Country Party member for Armidale in the NSW Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1949 and Deputy Leader of the Country Party from 1938 to 1949. He was of an intellectual stature, and a level of integrity unknown in today's National Party.

Campbell's address, "The Struggle for True Australian Independence", went out in booklet form by the thousands, and was, perhaps, the start of the increasing national attention Campbell subsequently gained. Speaking of the dangers of those pushing the old socialist international policies of globalism, Campbell said in his address:
" .... These internationalists dictate policy from above against the wishes of the great bulk of the people. They have become so powerful, with their media influence, that they have been able to define what constitutes acceptable political discourse. These unrepresentative pressure groups taken together are even arrogant enough to call themselves 'the community'. Australia is developing into a corporate state where only those groups either established or recognised by those in power are given legitimacy in the political process. This mentality infects both political parties ...."

You don't have to be a member or supporter of the League of Rights to recognise the truth of what Campbell was saying. He dared to express what Boswell and his ilk in the National Party dare not put into words. The National Party voted without dissension for the GST. It voted without dissension for gun-confiscation. It voted for the National Competition Policy. It did nothing in the early nineties when interest rates went to quite murderous levels as high as 30 percent, destroying many farmers and their families, as well as rural towns and communities in the process. Its epitaph will be the massive rural exodus. Squirm and wriggle though it may, it cannot blame the League of Rights, Graeme Campbell, Pauline Hanson or anyone else for that. It now has to carry the can.

WHEN PEOPLE HAVE A SAY

FARMING CRISIS IN BRITAIN

QUESTIONABLE NOSTALGIA

Two days before the official parliamentary centenary celebrations, Australia's oldest political party, the ALP, held its own bash in Melbourne to celebrate 100 years existence. Any connection against the workers association that had its genesis under the tree of knowledge in Barcaldine and the current Labor Party is so obscure that Andrew Fisher, Joe Lyons, John Curtin, Ben Chifley and above all King O'Malley would have missed it. The party which formed the Commonwealth Bank has now sold it, giving private finance free rein in the deregulation of the finance sector. The biggest trading bank profits in Australia's history, now being posted on the score-board and made during a year of recession in Australia, are testimony to the complete Fabian takeover of the traditional Labor Party. All of which, apparently, caused no sign of conscience as Labor stalwarts, with a lump in their throats and a tear in their eyes, re-pledged themselves to Chifley's "light on the hill".

An article in The Australian (IT Section, May 8th) told us that Parliament House now receives 500,000 e-mails a month (six million a year): " .... Every federal member and senator along with every public servant in Parliament House, has a unique e-mail address - and there are 2,500 of them. 'The addresses are used extensively, and some members and senators feel they are being overloaded with electronic documents,' ...."

A NATION OF TAX COLLECTORS

DOT COM BUBBLE HAS SURELY BURST

YOUNG BRITS SAYING 'NO' TO EUROPE

LEAGUE IN FOR SOME INTENSE 'BASHING'

It looks as though the League is in for some intense attacks from the Jewish lobby, politicians of all parties and the establishment media. Of course it has nothing to do with the fact many voters now have a strong focus for the next federal election with Graeme Campbell joining forces with Pauline Hanson! And, absolutely nothing to do with the fact Senator Ron Boswell will be competing with Pauline Hanson for a Queensland Senate seat at the next federal election.

A strengthened One Nation, must be discredited in the eyes of the voting public. This is done with the usual 'smear-by-association' tactics. Having 'demonised' the League of Rights in the eyes of the unthinking, they then go on to smear-by-association the One Nation party. A number of 'beat-ups' along these lines has recently appeared in newspapers throughout Australia. But one word of advice for would-be politicians - no matter which party - if you think you can 'run with the hares and hunt with the hounds', forget it. IF you are effective in the fight to retain some semblance of political and economic democracy for the Australian people 'they' will set out to ostracise and marginalise you. Of that you can be sure. You would have to be discredited in the eyes of the voters. That is one of the tactics of the ruling elite.

The following is a copy of the response by the National Director to one of the attacks by a West Australian rural paper. To date the letter has not been published.

Sir, I tend to agree with Peter Lee's view "that politicians were so comfortable in Canberra that they had no idea about the state of the real world." But, after reading "Political winners and losers" Farm Weekly, WA, April, 2001, I have to say neither do rural journalists! Whilst tempted to respond to the usual 'smear job' done on the Australian League of Rights, I would rather take issue with his statement about Senator Ron Boswell and former politician Tim Fischer. "They are great listeners to the people in their regions, but they are also aware that the ability to describe a problem does not necessarily mean that the 'describer' also has all the answers..."

Tim Fischer and Ron Boswell may be good listeners, but listening is not enough! That is not the basic underlying purpose for which they were elected to Parliament by their supporters. It was to represent the interests of their electorate (not the interests of the multinationals and international bankers, who expect 'pay back' for their party-political donations) and this is what the two gentlemen in question have not done!
Oh! Yes! They have made the right noises and no doubt they have the "ability to describe a problem", but when it came to the decision-making process they chose for the big guns, and by doing so, chose the destruction of the livelihood and lives of thousands and thousands of Australian families, their industries and farms. They, as politicians, sold out their own people, their own electorate.

The process of voting within a political party is not the same thing as representative government and if Mr. Lee's perception were more acute he would know the difference. There is a world of difference between 'what the party decides is what we do' (a party-dictatorship) and re-presenting the interests of the people (that is you, me, considered collectively) and is based on our individual rights and freedoms. He writes of 'fundamentalist economic policies'. What does this mean? Does he mean policies that take into account the eternal, immutable fixtures such as families, communities and nations, and community relationships and the relationships between nations? Is there something wrong with that? When did these eternal, immutable fixtures change - how did I miss it?
When did the purpose of a crop of wheat change? Is not food for the body? And isn't the body more than raiment?
When did the purpose of an economic system change? Did I miss that change too?

May I suggest Mr. Lee get off his backside and do some old-fashioned investigative journalism? He would discover, the policies of globalism, of economic rationalism (whatever name he wants to give to the ruling elite's Life-blind philosophy, you know, the pre-suppositions they hold about the purpose of money, an economic system, etc.) are destructive of families, communities and nations. I am referring to the policies which both Tim Fischer and Ron Boswell latched onto, on the coat tails of the Liberals, to keep the 'chosen few' of the Nationals in positions of power in a Coalition Government.

It's a bit rich when Mr. Lee continues to smear the League of Rights, even though that which the League predicted would happen has happened! If he made an honest effort to investigate - come on Mr. Lee get out of that chair, move yourself - the League's written material, he would find that I have made a correct statement, not a boast. We get no joy out of seeing farmers forced off their lands, families falling apart, and the nation stripped of its resources and assets as the people are brought to their knees by these power-hungry, Life-blind fanatics. Yours faithfully, Betty Luks, National Director, Australian League of Rights.

BASIC FUND

QUEENSLAND STATE WEEKEND

SYDNEY CONSERVATIVE SPEAKERS' CLUB

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 29th. Guest Speaker will be Mrs. Betty Luks, National Director, Australian League of Rights. Subject: "Implications of the Racial Vilification Legislation". There is a belief among the ruling elite that they know what is best for the people, even to telling them what they can think, believe, or say, on such issues as immigration, race and multiculturalism. That is an arrogant assumption and must be challenged. Although the legislation is claimed to be aimed at what is euphemistically called 'racial vilification', it will not end there. Betty Luks will challenge that belief. The meeting will be held at the Estonian Club, 141 Campbell Street, Sydney - commencing at 7.30pm. The cost of attendance is $4 per person (a steal at that price!). Books from the Heritage Book Service will be on display. For enquiries phone: (02) 9759 4450.

Next Month: Tuesday, June 26th - Mr. Graeme Campbell, Founder of Australia First Party Inc. Subject - "Is There a Way Out for Australia?"

Further Dates for your Diary: Tuesday, July 31st - Mr. Ian Murphy. Subject: "The Question of Australia's Defence"
Tuesday, August 28th - Annual General Meeting. Guest Speaker: Mr. Welf Herfurth Subject: "The Threat to Freedom and Democracy in Germany Today".

CANBERRA CONSERVATIVE SPEAKERS' CLUB

BETTY LUKS FOR WAUCHOPE AND CANBERRA

STATE WEEKENDS

West Australia: August 11th-12th, to be held in Perth. Speakers for the WA seminar are Graeme Campbell, Betty Luks and Jeremy Lee.

South Australia: August 18th-19th, to be held in Adelaide. Speakers for the SA seminar include Mr. Jeremy Lee and Mrs Wendy Scurr, who will recall what she saw and experienced at the Port Arthur massacre. After having heard her at the Inverell Forum we believe her story needs to be told. Keep these dates free.

Victoria: Wendy will be doing a series of meetings prior to the SA Weekend. At this stage meetings have been arranged for Melbourne, Horsham, Nhill and Apsley in Victoria. Further details as they come to hand.

Queensland: Betty Luks will be available in early June for meetings in central/northern Queensland. Those interested in having her speak on "The Arrogant Assumption Behind the Racial Vilification Legislation" please contact Mr. Gerry Patch, who is co-ordinating the tour, by phoning (07) 4635 7410.

NATIONAL WEEKEND

PETITION - INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FORCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

Don't forget the Anglican Church's PETITION to the UN High Commissioner: Who knows? Some time in the future Australians may be in such a position as the Palestinian people are now. I would like to think somewhere in the world there were people with enough heart and courage to speak out on our behalf. Let's do the same for the Palestinians today. Photocopy, circulate and make sure you sign the petition.

To: Mrs. Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

WE, the undersigned, call urgently on Mrs. Mary Robinson to uphold, in full, the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on behalf of the Palestinian people, at this most critical and dangerous historical juncture. In particular, we call on her urgently to affirm Article #1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which calls for the inalienable right of all peoples to self-determination, and which continues to be grievously and systematically violated by Israel's occupation, and by its refusal to accept the right of return.

The right to self-determination and continued occupation stand in fundamental conflict. Continued occupation is the root cause of the present situation. It is the machinery of occupation which produces the systematic violation of the range of other individual and collective rights provided for by the Covenant, including the right to liberty and security of person, the right to freedom of movement, the right to control one's own natural resources, and others.

It is the machinery of occupation which produces settlements, closures, checkpoints, home demolitions, land confiscation, destruction of crops, and wanton killings by settlers and occupation forces, which the Palestinian people have continued to endure even during the last 7 years under cover of the peace process. Occupation can be maintained only by violence or the threat of violence.

Instead of respecting the principles of human rights and international law, and acknowledging the Palestinian right to self-determination, Israel has declared war on the Palestinian people. It has openly unleashed an arsenal of military violence against them. In just six weeks, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed and over six thousand wounded. We demand a total end to the occupation.

We appeal urgently to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to call for the implementation of the Palestinian right to self-determination, and as a first step, to call for an international protection force for the Palestinian people, before continued violence against Palestinian society results in massive destruction for the second time in 52 years.

Signed: Sincerely,