30 March 2007 Thought for the Week: The final page
in the history of your uprising was written in 1989, when the Hungarian people
helped East Germany to liberation. Your contribution was vital. You, and not the
governments in London or Washington, are the real champions of freedom. - - Speech by David Irving to the People of Hungary 23 October, 2003. |
DISCONTENT REIGNS IN CENTRAL EUROPE Under the heading, "Fringes tugging at Central Europe," 18/3/2007 the Tribune's foreign correspondent Tom Hundley is warning those he serves that "Discontent reigns as Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia struggle with their post-communist transformation." Hundley continues, "When British Holocaust denier David Irving is the honoured guest at your National Day celebrations, you know something nasty is brewing in the body politic. But there was Irving, fresh from serving his jail sentence in Austria, firing up a large crowd in Budapest's Heroes' Square last week on the 159th anniversary of the 1848 Revolution, the upheaval that brought Hungary its first taste of independence from the Habsburg emperors."
WHAT DID IRVING SAY
TO THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE? Because the lights of freedom, -- the right to think what we like, to say what we think, and to print and publish what we say -- are slowly dimming as the ugly light of enforced socialism is dawning again. I know what I am saying. Governments do not like historians, and they like those of us who write real history even less. They prefer the kind of writer they can buy with money, or bribe with knighthoods and peerages (Sir and Lord). You know that something is foul with your own government, when you see it bringing in two hundred foreign police troops to help it stay in power. You know then that your government is, in real history, in the hands of a foreign power.
British government made no protest Innocent in gaol, guilty in positions of
power In today's world, the system of international law that was so painstakingly and carefully created for the Nuremberg trials is now in ruins. The innocent are held in jail. The guilty are in the seats of power. The electoral system in the democracies has been twisted and distorted to ensure that the criminals gain office - not ordinary criminals like those who walked the prison yard with me in Vienna, but the mega-criminals in the pay of Big Money and foreign powers. Will we ever see them in handcuffs? Don't make me laugh! Under rules of Nuremberg
Bush and Blair did what Hitler did: George Bush and Tony Blair, the leaders of
the USA and Britain, launched a criminal attack on Iraq in 2003, a few months
before I spoke on the last occasion at this spot. Shall we ever see Blair and Bush hang for their crimes, which have caused the Holocaust in Iraq today? A Holocaust which has caused the deaths of over 600,000 innocent people, and far more if we include those killed by **the sanctions campaign which preceded it. We shall not see them hang; they even deny that this holocaust has occurred! Bush says he has only killed 30,000
so far, that is his best estimate. He and Blair are the real holocaust deniers,
not the historians like me. Yes, in Washington and London the guilty are in the
seats of power. It
is for you, the ordinary people of Hungary, to protect your freedoms, just as
you paid for the world's freedom then with your own blood. Szabadsag! Yes
Mr. Downer, just as the governments of the western world imposed 10 years of sanctions
on the Iraqi people prior to invading their country and thereby making the situation
indescribably worse. The western govermnents contributed to the death of many
a premature baby, children, the elderly and the sick in Iraq. The hospitals could
not import medical supplies nor equipment, such as humicribs. We reported on this
barbaric, inhumane treatment of innocent Iraqi people quite some time ago. Your words may yet come back to haunt you Mr. Downer. |
THE REAL ISSUE IS NOT PERSONAL BEHAVIOURby
Betty Luks No
nation or peoples can tolerate more than a small portion of alien peoples or races
in their midst and still expect to survive racially and/or culturally. Mr. Obama, a presidential candidate, is accused of being a 'closet' Muslim and is finding the going tough at the moment. His opponents are using the anti-Muslim religion card for all its worth. Politics in America is just as dirty as it is in Australia as Barak Obama is finding out. New 'revelations' about Obama's Muslim past could provide ammunition for his critics - and political opponents. One such critic is Chicago-based Internet journalist and broadcaster Andy Martin, who wrote earlier about Obama's connection to Islam. Reacting to the claim from Obama's sister that the family went to the mosque only for "big communal events," Martin responded: "Tens of millions of 'Christians' flock to churches for Easter and Christmas. And they would slap you down if you told them they were not Christians merely because they only appear twice a year for 'big communal events.'" He also wrote: "Obama no longer denies he was a Muslim. Now he says he wasn't a 'practicing' Muslim. People in general will accept most anything from public officials as long as they don't lie about it." Now
I understand that in Indonesia, predominately a Muslim nation, everyone, no matter
what their religious persuasion, is required, by the Constitution, to attend a
religious centre on certain days throughout the year. But I ask: does a half-truth count as a lie? I think Mr. Martin should wash his mouth out. And while he's at it, could he name one or two of the current batch of his nation's politicians who don't tell 'half truths'. Come to think of it, do two half-truths equal one lie? What about the
elephant in the corner? But
the following report tells me who Mr. Obama will serve faithfully - no matter
what! |
WHAT DOES ISLAM TEACH?Having said the above, world traveller and diplomat, Sir David Kelly would have a better idea than such as I, who have no experience whatsoever of living in a Muslim country. Once again I have appealed to his work in "The Hungry Sheep". There
are curious resemblances to Christianity but these are, Sir David assures us,
only incidentals. Examples
are: The essentials are: Sir David
notes:
Their great philosopher Averroes, writes Sir David, "distinguished between the
intellectual elite with an intelligent faith, and the masses who must have uncritical
faith in the external literal sense of the beliefs." Sir David concluded: "the strength of Islam lies in its simplicity, its easy attitude to sex for men, and in its essential fanaticism which creates a real feeling of brotherhood among the elect." |
MULTICULTURALISM AND RAPEby Brian Simpson The defence of the rapists and that of the Sheik is along the lines of "my culture made me do it." The Sheik goes further and says that the Anglo "meat made me do it," but "it" probably isn't so bad anyway and perhaps could even be a multicultural right. Anglos are the meat that the mighty Other can freely eat. That seems to be the implication of the "cat" metaphor. Cats naturally eat meat and prey upon it. So where are the protests of all the academic feminists who support multiculturalism? Certainly some feminists complained, but no major member of the cultural feminist elite responded. Germaine Greer, for example, freely commented on the death of Steve Irwin (the hated rugged heterosexual male), but as far as I am aware has been silent on this matter. In fact, when the war in Iraq was impending she suggested that women protest by donning burkas (The Australian 9/11/2005 p.16). Feminists are dominated by a culture of loathing of Western civilisation. Accepting politically correct relativism - that all cultures are equal except our own, which is the one true evil - no culture but our own can be criticised. This has led to the cultural defence for Aborigines and ethnics. It has been used to get Aboriginal men off murder charges (reduced to manslaughter) in the Northern Territory and this argument was also used by the lawyers for three Pakistani brothers convicted of gang-raping two teenage girls in Sydney in 2002. The offenders were "cultural time bomb(s)". But it is multiculturalism which is the real cultural time bomb and that bomb is now exploding. Everyday. |
SOME GOOD NEWS - ACCESS CARD STALLSThe Howard Government has been forced to delay the introduction of laws for its new Access Card after caving in to the demands of an all-party Senate committee. Human Services Minister Chris Ellison, who planned to introduce legislation for the card to the Senate next Thursday, has agreed to put the plan on hold. The decision followed the release of a report by the Senate's Finance and Public Administration Committee in which government senators joined with the Opposition to call for a delay and reconsideration of the proposals. They were particularly worried about a proposal that the card include a biometric photograph, warning it would increase the likelihood of it becoming a "de facto national ID card". Although the move heads off a split within Coalition ranks, it is likely to derail the swift implementation of the card, which was designed to provide access to government services. |
THE QUEEN AND HER AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORSWhat we weren't
told: from David Flint's Opinion Column: Dr Twomey lays bare the wheeling and dealing of high politics, with Whitlam, Murphy, Wran, Fraser and Hawke playing central roles. Most of us thought Australia was fully independent by some time during the Second World War at the latest, but the fact is that our politicians so mistrusted one another that important functions were still left to British ministers as late as 1986. While we assumed this was a mere formality, Dr Twomey reveals the startling fact that as long as we wanted the British to have these powers, they were determined to exercise them conscientiously and independently - and certainly not as mere letterboxes for the Premiers. This is no dull law book
- it is an exciting account of something the politicians preferred to keep from
us. Bringing our constitutional system home was no easy task, and the solution
finally and reluctantly extracted from Canberra represented a singular victory
for the States. Until now, we Australians were left ignorant about a major chapter of the Australian story. As a result of Dr. Twomey's skills and perseverance we now know the truth. This must significantly change our understanding of the role and function of the Crown and of proposals for constitutional change." Dr
Twomey, is a leading constitutional lawyer, author, and Visiting Fellow at the
University of New South Wales, will speak at a luncheon at Parliament House, Sydney
at 12 for 1230PM on Wednesday, 28 March, 2007. (We have raised with Dr. Twomey
the possibility of her speaking in other states.) |