Oz didn't get the right to pass its own laws, without approval from the UK Parliament, until 1986. How can a country be truly self-governed and not have laws guaranteeing a right to freedom of speech?
"If you would know who controls you, see who you may not criticize.”
Along with the others, I also think it's a great article. You are so f'n rational.
In the meantime I happened to have a conversation with an American who lived in Australia during covid. He had nothing but praise for the government actions there. He told me there were only 300 deaths because of the lock downs and incarceration of those who didn't get the shots. Now he's back in the US spreading great information. Argh.
If I were really a suspicious person, I'd suggest it's about who is the greater threat to power rather than to individuals.
And can you imagine the jails we'd have to build if we were to incarcerate repeat offenders? So much better to spend that money on, say, chasing oil tankers across the Atlantic or bombing Iran at the behest of Israel.
There's a reason why right-wing power talks a good game but doesn't actually show up to play: the unarmed surveillance state and the chaos of free crazy people benefit them as much as they benefit left-wing power. Oh, and they're great for fundraising too.
Thanks for compiling this complete summary of this incident. I only heard bits and pieces of it, and nothing made sense. It seemed to me this was an intentional coverup of an intentional hit on a specific female student. Brown had no desire to be forthcoming with what they knew.
The only people that government wants to keep safe are themselves. Safe from the pitchfork crowd. Otherwise, they have totally failed to keep ONE citizen safe in the last 150 years. Just how long will government keep us safe? Is it a life long job? Do I have some illegal alien hired to watch over me? The idea of safety is utter nonsense. And that defines all of government's existence... pure and unbridled NONSENSE.
Biskop Thomas frihetsvisa/Bishop Thomas freedom-song
(I can't do parallel columns to I'll put my translation beneath the Swedish verse, but bear in mind this is a straight translation so neither meter nor rhyme or any idioms will carry across)
1.
Frihet är det bästa ting,
Som sökas kan all världen kring,
För den, som frihet kan bära,
För den, som frihet kan bära.
Vill du vara dig själver huld,
Så älska frihet mer än guld.
Med frihet följer ära,
Med frihet följer ära.
Freedom is the best thing,
that may be sough around the World,
For whom, that freedom may carry
For whom, that freedom may carry.
If you wish to be good to yourself,
Then love freedom more than gold.
With freedom comes honour,
With freedom comes honour.
2.
Fågeln värjer egen bur,
Så göra ock all vilda djur,
Nu märk vad du bör göra,
Nu märk vad du bör göra.
Gud har dig givit sinn’ och själ:
Var hällre fri än annans träl,
:,: Så långt du kan dig röra. :,:
A bird will guard its cage,
As will all beasts wild,
Now know what you must do,
Now know what you must do.
God has given you mind and soul:
To rather be free than thrall for others,
As far as your own power carries you
3.
Ädle svensk, du statt nu fast
Och bättra det som fordom brast
Och låt dig ej förvända,
Nej, låt dig ej förvända.
Våga både hals och hand
Att frälsa dina fäders land!
:,: Gud skall dig tröst väl sända. :,:
Noble Swede, you must now stand firm
And better that of olden days now destroyed
And not let yourself be turned away
No, don't let yourself be turned away.
Dare you both hand and neck
to save the land of your fathers!
God will lend you aid, be sure.
(Biskop Tomas. † 1443.)
To post this may count as inciting insurrection, the same as it was when Bishop Thomas first wrote it. And in case you want to hear it sung, here's a link:
Our govt has also been allowing large and costly palestinian protests every week for years whilst the protesters shouted out slogans about killing jews, from the river to the sea etc etc and burnt our Australian flag..
Supported by Cultural marxists here who also hate our country.
And the police and politicians did ..nothing.
Hang on..they did do one thing..
They were donating $ to the major radical islamic schools which had been producing hatred for years.
More Muslim young men here have tried to join/succeeded in joining, Islamic state than have ever tried to join the Australian army.
just when I decried too many cat videos. you do this.. that was a long 10 minutes while people were being killed..oh for a rifle. instead of a phone.. as for Brown.. please. inept and we still dont know what the “manifesto” says on any of these crazies as i watched the mayor of NYC today. i crumbled in fear. 9/11 is long forgotten.. free crap for everyone..
A modest proposal - complete surveillance visually and of phone, computer data for those who work for the government released automatically as it is collected and posted online. I think that will help eliminate much crime and keep us safer.
Government is for surveillance, but not of government. For reasons of op-sec, you know.
Here, our police have uniform-cameras and car-cameras since many years.
But it is the officers on-site that decide if the camera needs to be on, or not, and it is the police that has full control of the material collected.
Filming an officer in the execution of their duties is legal. But if they tell you to stop and you don't, then you are committing the crime of "disobeying a policeman's order", which is an actual crime here.
600 years ago, in 1439 AD bishop Thomas Simonsson of Strängnäs wrote: "Frihet är det bästa ting som sökas kan all världen kring" in a song composed to laud the leader of a national uprising against foreign overlords trying to control Sweden. The quote translated reads: "Freedom is the best of things you may seek all over the world" - doesn't retain the cadence, but well the meaning.
The struggle is not new.
(I'll make a separate post with the lyrics, and an off-the-cuff translation)
We're not safe until we have spork-like objects unable to fulfill the requirements of a normal utensil! (It will be perfect for your state-supplied gruel, though!)
Another great piece. But for how many years have we been railing against the metastasizing security state?
Government is and has always been a problem, especially when unchecked and given unlimited funds and latitude.
The key is their funding. I know, I know, they'll just deficit spend, but it would collapse on itself in short order.
The sticky part to the funding, is compulsory taxation, namely withholding and sales taxes. There is (currently) no way to avoid that. Very big "ifs", but if sales and excise taxes were paid separately, or withholding wasn't the primary source for the IRS (individuals would pay their taxes just at the end of the year), then "we" might gain some leverage against this parasitic clown-show that is making all of us sick (financially, mentally and physically).
Great piece… although depressing as hell. It’s like a combo of incompetence, political correctness and zero accountability is the common denominator in these tragic episodes … this year definitely exposed far too many women in leadership roles for which they are clearly not qualified….. I know, not just women, but the Ivy League Presidents, several mayors and police chiefs of large cities….. and then the bevy of brainwashed women bellowing on the airwaves…. It’s been a cringe-a-thon for me.
Yep. I finally believe that women should not be in leadership roles. A WAY different way of thinking from when I was in college. Maybe there's some that would do a good job, but it would be a TINY fraction IMO.
I was commenting more on their unwillingness to acknowledge\address the anti Semitism on their campuses. And the President of Brown seemed rather lame in her lack of preparedness for such an event. And while I’m venting, why is it if it’s a white male that messes up, they get the criticism they deserve,,, but we are still wearing kid gloves when it comes to women and people of color?
THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
The authorities responsible for the failure to stop the murders and promptly apprehend the perps at Brown U. & Boston (the MIT prof), and Bondi Beach should have hung their heads in shame and tendered their resignations.
It's long past time to remove DEI from hiring considerations and demand competence, bravery and the ability to take responsibility as job requirements.
P.S. The incompetent woman President of Brown U. should be sent packing before the start of the Spring semester. How is it possible she's still at the helm?
My opinion: The Bondi Beach assassins should have been shot in the commission of their crimes. There was no doubt regarding their guilt.
It drove me crazy watching the media praise the dude who "disarmed" the shooter. He was brave to confront the guy and take the gun, but once you have it YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO USE IT, at LEAST to force compliance.
Oz didn't get the right to pass its own laws, without approval from the UK Parliament, until 1986. How can a country be truly self-governed and not have laws guaranteeing a right to freedom of speech?
"If you would know who controls you, see who you may not criticize.”
― Tacitus
Along with the others, I also think it's a great article. You are so f'n rational.
In the meantime I happened to have a conversation with an American who lived in Australia during covid. He had nothing but praise for the government actions there. He told me there were only 300 deaths because of the lock downs and incarceration of those who didn't get the shots. Now he's back in the US spreading great information. Argh.
Australia, just like North Korea, China, and the other countries where you have to ask permission to travel outside your assigned region.
If I were really a suspicious person, I'd suggest it's about who is the greater threat to power rather than to individuals.
And can you imagine the jails we'd have to build if we were to incarcerate repeat offenders? So much better to spend that money on, say, chasing oil tankers across the Atlantic or bombing Iran at the behest of Israel.
There's a reason why right-wing power talks a good game but doesn't actually show up to play: the unarmed surveillance state and the chaos of free crazy people benefit them as much as they benefit left-wing power. Oh, and they're great for fundraising too.
Like.
In a partial defense of the right; the leftist legal system has produced mountains to climb to get anything done.
All part of the game.
Thanks for compiling this complete summary of this incident. I only heard bits and pieces of it, and nothing made sense. It seemed to me this was an intentional coverup of an intentional hit on a specific female student. Brown had no desire to be forthcoming with what they knew.
The only people that government wants to keep safe are themselves. Safe from the pitchfork crowd. Otherwise, they have totally failed to keep ONE citizen safe in the last 150 years. Just how long will government keep us safe? Is it a life long job? Do I have some illegal alien hired to watch over me? The idea of safety is utter nonsense. And that defines all of government's existence... pure and unbridled NONSENSE.
Biskop Thomas frihetsvisa/Bishop Thomas freedom-song
(I can't do parallel columns to I'll put my translation beneath the Swedish verse, but bear in mind this is a straight translation so neither meter nor rhyme or any idioms will carry across)
1.
Frihet är det bästa ting,
Som sökas kan all världen kring,
För den, som frihet kan bära,
För den, som frihet kan bära.
Vill du vara dig själver huld,
Så älska frihet mer än guld.
Med frihet följer ära,
Med frihet följer ära.
Freedom is the best thing,
that may be sough around the World,
For whom, that freedom may carry
For whom, that freedom may carry.
If you wish to be good to yourself,
Then love freedom more than gold.
With freedom comes honour,
With freedom comes honour.
2.
Fågeln värjer egen bur,
Så göra ock all vilda djur,
Nu märk vad du bör göra,
Nu märk vad du bör göra.
Gud har dig givit sinn’ och själ:
Var hällre fri än annans träl,
:,: Så långt du kan dig röra. :,:
A bird will guard its cage,
As will all beasts wild,
Now know what you must do,
Now know what you must do.
God has given you mind and soul:
To rather be free than thrall for others,
As far as your own power carries you
3.
Ädle svensk, du statt nu fast
Och bättra det som fordom brast
Och låt dig ej förvända,
Nej, låt dig ej förvända.
Våga både hals och hand
Att frälsa dina fäders land!
:,: Gud skall dig tröst väl sända. :,:
Noble Swede, you must now stand firm
And better that of olden days now destroyed
And not let yourself be turned away
No, don't let yourself be turned away.
Dare you both hand and neck
to save the land of your fathers!
God will lend you aid, be sure.
(Biskop Tomas. † 1443.)
To post this may count as inciting insurrection, the same as it was when Bishop Thomas first wrote it. And in case you want to hear it sung, here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFv8zWJTaN0&list=RDcFv8zWJTaN0&start_radio=1
Regarding the Bondi shooting..
Unlike the US, violent gun crime is quite rare here in Australia.
So its not really an issue of having to go to the beach and checking if my Glock is loaded..
The US has the right to free speech.
We are like the UK and have no such free speech protection.
And what little we have, is being slowly reduced and this is actively supported by the two main parties.
This leftist clown is our deputy prime minister.
Watch him duck and dive over religion and the shooters..
https://youtu.be/HAgfGVDa-9E?si=OEBJm32S86ReQw7V&t=522
Our govt has also been allowing large and costly palestinian protests every week for years whilst the protesters shouted out slogans about killing jews, from the river to the sea etc etc and burnt our Australian flag..
Supported by Cultural marxists here who also hate our country.
And the police and politicians did ..nothing.
Hang on..they did do one thing..
They were donating $ to the major radical islamic schools which had been producing hatred for years.
More Muslim young men here have tried to join/succeeded in joining, Islamic state than have ever tried to join the Australian army.
Australia has gone...
From a distance, it looks like what's happening to Canada and the UK.
100%.....
Simple question. Why pay taxes?
This is a question more people are starting to ask.
Crazy shit, huh.
just when I decried too many cat videos. you do this.. that was a long 10 minutes while people were being killed..oh for a rifle. instead of a phone.. as for Brown.. please. inept and we still dont know what the “manifesto” says on any of these crazies as i watched the mayor of NYC today. i crumbled in fear. 9/11 is long forgotten.. free crap for everyone..
A modest proposal - complete surveillance visually and of phone, computer data for those who work for the government released automatically as it is collected and posted online. I think that will help eliminate much crime and keep us safer.
If there's ONE group I would approve of surveillance of, it's government.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-power-of-anonymous
So here’s my compromise:
Instead of telling Nikki Haley and the rest of the authoritarians in government to go shove their idea of ‘transparency’, I’ll instead tell them —
“You first.”
Government is for surveillance, but not of government. For reasons of op-sec, you know.
Here, our police have uniform-cameras and car-cameras since many years.
But it is the officers on-site that decide if the camera needs to be on, or not, and it is the police that has full control of the material collected.
Filming an officer in the execution of their duties is legal. But if they tell you to stop and you don't, then you are committing the crime of "disobeying a policeman's order", which is an actual crime here.
600 years ago, in 1439 AD bishop Thomas Simonsson of Strängnäs wrote: "Frihet är det bästa ting som sökas kan all världen kring" in a song composed to laud the leader of a national uprising against foreign overlords trying to control Sweden. The quote translated reads: "Freedom is the best of things you may seek all over the world" - doesn't retain the cadence, but well the meaning.
The struggle is not new.
(I'll make a separate post with the lyrics, and an off-the-cuff translation)
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." Unknown source.
Nixon famously said that "if the president does it, it is not illegal".
In further Australian news, there was a nasty incident of machete attacking on NY eve in Melbourne - https://7news.com.au/news/crime/cctv-footage-surfaces-of-grim-machete-wielding-gang-attack-on-two-men-in-melbourne-on-new-years-eve-c-21178090
Which is odd and impossible because the Victoria state government banned machetes back in May - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/victoria-machete-sale-ban-crime/105341512
I just can’t understand why criminals don’t obey the law….
Just one more common-sense knife law will clear this right up.
eating instrument regulation now!
We're not safe until we have spork-like objects unable to fulfill the requirements of a normal utensil! (It will be perfect for your state-supplied gruel, though!)
Blunt chopsticks for all
lets harken back to trenchers for everyone. let the dogs and cats lick the plates clean
Paper, though. Gotta think of the environment!
KFC was way ahead on this issue...but they had to be.
Another great piece. But for how many years have we been railing against the metastasizing security state?
Government is and has always been a problem, especially when unchecked and given unlimited funds and latitude.
The key is their funding. I know, I know, they'll just deficit spend, but it would collapse on itself in short order.
The sticky part to the funding, is compulsory taxation, namely withholding and sales taxes. There is (currently) no way to avoid that. Very big "ifs", but if sales and excise taxes were paid separately, or withholding wasn't the primary source for the IRS (individuals would pay their taxes just at the end of the year), then "we" might gain some leverage against this parasitic clown-show that is making all of us sick (financially, mentally and physically).
Not to mention their ability to counterfeit more money at the drop of a hat....
Great piece… although depressing as hell. It’s like a combo of incompetence, political correctness and zero accountability is the common denominator in these tragic episodes … this year definitely exposed far too many women in leadership roles for which they are clearly not qualified….. I know, not just women, but the Ivy League Presidents, several mayors and police chiefs of large cities….. and then the bevy of brainwashed women bellowing on the airwaves…. It’s been a cringe-a-thon for me.
Yep. I finally believe that women should not be in leadership roles. A WAY different way of thinking from when I was in college. Maybe there's some that would do a good job, but it would be a TINY fraction IMO.
Maybe. “Women” is a large swath of the population 50%?. I know some that have what it takes. Maybe.
The some you think have what it takes are the total bitches like Piglosi, Omar, and AOC. The ones that ruin everything and make everyone miserable.
Nope. Not even close, amigo. Conde Rice is one of the women that have what it takes. Those hags you mentioned got nothing ..
Up until about 15 years ago, I used to opine “ if women ruled the world, we might have world peace.”… Buzz on that one.
Exactly what I thought when I was in college. Ugh. Wrong again!
women suck.. and I am one
We certainly don’t showcase very good examples in the political arena. The list is long…
Looking back, the plagiarism scandal was mild because it only really affected the colleges themselves.
I was commenting more on their unwillingness to acknowledge\address the anti Semitism on their campuses. And the President of Brown seemed rather lame in her lack of preparedness for such an event. And while I’m venting, why is it if it’s a white male that messes up, they get the criticism they deserve,,, but we are still wearing kid gloves when it comes to women and people of color?
Now that I think about it, being a communist does make Bass a moron and evil…
We can't dare suggest such people didn't earn their positions.....
Or that they suck … drives me nuts!!! And what’s the scoop with the LA Mayor? She’s either a moron or evil….
You left out what she really is, a communist. She publicly stated years ago she idolizes Fidel Castro. This explains a lot.
Which is why my sympathy for LA residents is limited… they vote for this shit.
This is one of Aesop's Fables:
THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
And of all of it perfectly legal!
What an excellent piece, SC!
The authorities responsible for the failure to stop the murders and promptly apprehend the perps at Brown U. & Boston (the MIT prof), and Bondi Beach should have hung their heads in shame and tendered their resignations.
It's long past time to remove DEI from hiring considerations and demand competence, bravery and the ability to take responsibility as job requirements.
P.S. The incompetent woman President of Brown U. should be sent packing before the start of the Spring semester. How is it possible she's still at the helm?
My opinion: The Bondi Beach assassins should have been shot in the commission of their crimes. There was no doubt regarding their guilt.
Agree. If someone is trying to kill you or others, SHOOT TO KILL. Don't try and wound them so "they can be brought to justice." Administer justice.
Yes. Anything else is senseless.
Exactly!
It drove me crazy watching the media praise the dude who "disarmed" the shooter. He was brave to confront the guy and take the gun, but once you have it YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO USE IT, at LEAST to force compliance.
at least kneecap him.
Hell, yeah.
Same situation with everybody involved in the LA fires fiasco, but AFAIK they're all still gainfully employed.
When there's no price for failure, expect more failure.
At everything, every day, every where. That is the new common.
Your last sentence sounds like California's current motto. (And Gavin Newsom's.)
That will be Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign slogan.