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Bonkers down under
Australia has been mad for years, but it gets now to the point where the deterioration of their collective mental condition seems to be accelerating. While there is always a stream of news from Australia strongly indicating a hysteric mindset, the recent developments have been particularly telling.
For me, it started when an Aussie woman was offended by the art of Bill Henson, an accomplished photographer. There were photographs of naked young people. This prompted police to shut down the art exhibition and confiscate the works. The images of uniformed men dragging art into trucks are chilling. The police then went on to scour art galleries nation-wide for similar artworks.
It is now clear that Bill Henson will not be charged with a crime. Meanwhile, press is picking up that Perth taxpayers will have to pay for a life-size bronze statue of a nude nine-year-old girl. The model, now 80 years old, denies the statue is pornographic, and has a distaste for the recent crackdown on art in her country.
Attacks on artists and intellectuals is the eleventh of the fourteen defining characteristics of fascism.
In a new crackdown on child pornography, so far 90 Australians have been arrested. More than 1500 Australians went to a website described as "a 'legitimate, non-government' portal". But it had been hacked, and child pornography images had been put there. Police acknowledge that some of the visits may have been accidental, and also that they have no way of telling. They warn everyone who saw the images that they were not anonymous and that they each will get a knock on the door and get caught. One person has killed himself so far, and another has tried. Four children have been taken from their families. More than a thousand people, some who just saw the images by accident, must now live in untellable fear.
In the wake of this, Member of Parliament Vaughan Johnson applauds the person who committed suicide for his bravery in doing so, and says he encourages everyone who is paedophile to kill themselves. Let me emphasise that this is not a random hate-blogger or right-wing talk show pundit. Vaughan Johnson is a Member of Parliament of Australia, in the upper echelons of government. And he is encouraging innocent people to kill themselves lest they do something illegal in the future. He describes suicide as a courageous solution. Suicide Prevention Australia says that there is a "huge major national epidemic" of suicide in Australia, and that Johnson's comments are "not helpful". I think that is putting it politely.
Australia has been mad for years, but it gets now to the point where the deterioration of their collective mental condition seems to be accelerating. While there is always a stream of news from Australia strongly indicating a hysteric mindset, the recent developments have been particularly telling.
For me, it started when an Aussie woman was offended by the art of Bill Henson, an accomplished photographer. There were photographs of naked young people. This prompted police to shut down the art exhibition and confiscate the works. The images of uniformed men dragging art into trucks are chilling. The police then went on to scour art galleries nation-wide for similar artworks.
It is now clear that Bill Henson will not be charged with a crime. Meanwhile, press is picking up that Perth taxpayers will have to pay for a life-size bronze statue of a nude nine-year-old girl. The model, now 80 years old, denies the statue is pornographic, and has a distaste for the recent crackdown on art in her country.
Attacks on artists and intellectuals is the eleventh of the fourteen defining characteristics of fascism.
In a new crackdown on child pornography, so far 90 Australians have been arrested. More than 1500 Australians went to a website described as "a 'legitimate, non-government' portal". But it had been hacked, and child pornography images had been put there. Police acknowledge that some of the visits may have been accidental, and also that they have no way of telling. They warn everyone who saw the images that they were not anonymous and that they each will get a knock on the door and get caught. One person has killed himself so far, and another has tried. Four children have been taken from their families. More than a thousand people, some who just saw the images by accident, must now live in untellable fear.
In the wake of this, Member of Parliament Vaughan Johnson applauds the person who committed suicide for his bravery in doing so, and says he encourages everyone who is paedophile to kill themselves. Let me emphasise that this is not a random hate-blogger or right-wing talk show pundit. Vaughan Johnson is a Member of Parliament of Australia, in the upper echelons of government. And he is encouraging innocent people to kill themselves lest they do something illegal in the future. He describes suicide as a courageous solution. Suicide Prevention Australia says that there is a "huge major national epidemic" of suicide in Australia, and that Johnson's comments are "not helpful". I think that is putting it politely.