30 September, 2021
Dear Reader,
We have written a lot about the Covid situation recently. The primary issue for us is not medical, but cultural, economic and constitutional. Our last article cautiously supported the use of vaccines, while also defending the rights of those whose consciences disallow it, and lamenting the misery of those whose livelihoods have been curtailed.
Regardless of the cause, when our hard-won liberties are threatened we must be vigilant. The gloves come off. Reader Winston Wilde has contributed a piece that I am proud to offer as lead article in this edition of our newsletter:
THE VIRUS CRISIS
‘A strike of the selfish,’ quips one politician about the recent Melbourne protests. Others reported the Melbourne chaos as ‘highly distressing’ and an ‘inappropriate response’. Perhaps it is too easy and safe to write off the marchers, the ‘anti-vaxxers’ and the non-compliant of the COVID circus as thugs, pretend protesters or radical fundamentalists, ignorant of science and research. Yet people resisting restrictions are unsettled, confused. For those that read beyond Facebook feeds, they uncover perplexing inconsistencies in reports about the virus crisis.
For instance, the dominant voice asserts Vaccine-as-Saviour, although we, the government, will still mandate masks (only when necessary); we’ll enforce tracing and tracking of your whereabouts at all times (to protect you); shut down the economy (to help you); and the vaccines will require booster shots but don’t reference the eye-watering profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines have made (nine new billionaires). We must lock out children and their teachers from real classrooms and shift education online to monitor their indoctrination as social justice activists in all subjects (but do not question the curriculum as that would be ‘cherry-picking’ and ‘misrepresenting’ the global education goals). As one despairing, online user posted, ‘When the powers-that-be bully, lie, manipulate, coerce, fine, exaggerate, confuse, frighten, silence and incentivise its population into taking injections then there are grounds for doubt and concern.’
So, what happens if we pause to consider other perspectives or articulate doubts? Vitriolic reactions await. People questioning the swift changes to their world invite labels: the ‘questioners’ are ignorant, conspiracy theorists, baseless in their fears and queries. It’s ‘us versus them’. Questioning people are the ‘anti-vaxxers’, worse than the COVID curse, something to be warded off with garlic. Make them show passports. Keep them off planes. Bar them from concerts. Refuse them medical care. Let’s make it easier for everyone: why not insist they wear visible armbands?
To reduce robust, considered discussions about things that truly matter – our freedoms and liberty – to uncharitable behaviour or extreme Christian nationalism shuts down debate. Indeed, Jesus never spoke explicitly of church closures or vaccinations, yet He also never spoke of numeracy and literacy standards nor of educational pedagogy. However, we do and should engage in these important conversations; we must advocate for change and prevent change when and where necessary.
Let us think on that non-descript, uneducated Austrian who duped a nation so profoundly intelligent, creative, controlled, disciplined and churched. He would have sacrificed his Charlie Chaplin-styled moustache to have the power that these modern globalists (Klaus Schwab and his WEF mates) and pharma-CEOs now have in developed and developing countries. Whilst the seeds of aggressive, German nationalism and group-hate were sown well before Hitler’s time, his ideologies swept up a nation so that evil became good and good became evil. Yes, there were infidels, fighting hard against the murder and control, but by and large, a whole country was deceived. How horrific.
So what’s the truth about Covid and its twin, ‘the jab’? It’s difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. The writer here has as many medical/science qualifications as Bill Gates: none. What’s obvious, however, is the civil unrest: in the last 18 months, the democratic government with its snap decisions and draconian measures to shackle free people have created doubt and concern. And while Australia and the world have been obsessive-compulsive over COVID statistics and COVID stories and COVID-vaccine numbers, other global agenda slid right past our doors. We salivate over every virus detail while freedoms dissolve and disappear.
This is an urgent hour. As media organisations are banned from taking aerial footage of Melbourne protests, life may never resume as it was pre-COVID. Courage is needed to ask questions and to seek truth in these troubled times. Be wise like serpents but harmless as doves. Martin Luther King Jr knew a thing or two about questioning the status quo. He felt that ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ And when we remain silent, Martin Niemöller warned, they eventually come for us.
With best wishes to all our readers,
David Daintree
A FUTURE FOR ‘CLASSICAL EDUCATION’?
So-called classical education, as the preserve of ‘rich white guys’, has had a bad press. Deservedly so, if that’s all it is. But according to this article it’s making a comeback.
But here’s what we’re up against – Peta Credlin interviews Kevin Donnelly.
As a corrective, Christopher Dawson reminds us that ‘Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole…’
Jordan Peterson and others think that the mainstream universities have dropped the ball as far as the teaching of the liberal arts is concerned. Could this be a solution to our problems, or just a pipe dream?
CAN THE CENTRE HOLD?
Simon Haines (Ramsay Centre) interviews Chris Uhlmann. What does our response to the pandemic tell us about our nation, our psyche, our constitution and the rule of law?