TIME TO REVIEW THE SITUATION
On Tuesday 01-Nov-2005 I wrote
The Police State gathers momentum. A few journalists are beginning to realise the implications the Sedition Laws bear upon Writers and Artists. Just walk up to someone, anyone, on the street and ask them what they think of the new sedition laws and the implications to free speech and the creative arts. They will just look at you as though you are some left wing nut trying to sell them a badge. Police State is coming, yeah sure, you are just paranoid Brentley. Well have a look at that picture above. FAST TRACKED my friends. Expect storm troopers everywhere. And what the hell are those things behind the state hero sent to protect us? This picture was broadcast on Channel Ten news in Melbourne as the backdrop symbolism for Emperor John’s new Anti Terrorism Bill to be passed in parliament
Then on Sunday 06-Nov-2005
Just as the Howard Government takes aim at creative artists with their new Sedition laws the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald published this article Why Artists are Rebels
QUOTE ” … test(s) found creative people were also more predisposed to mental illness” and in particular ” writers scored highest on most personality disorder scales and were also more likely to be neurotic and disagreeable.” Topped off by the knockout punch ” The healthy rebellion aspect involves things like questioning social conventions and being open to new or radical ideas,” she said. And the psychosis processes were “a driving force for creativity”.
Followed by Sunday November 13, 2005
I have noticed a disturbing tendency for news reporters to quote poetry when talking about terrorism attacks. Here is the most glaring example - in this article the author quotes both Auden and Wallace-Crabbe, it begins - As Melburnians go about their business tomorrow, a panel of key emergency response people will imagine bombs exploding and people dying on our streets.. I suspect the quote All Tyrants believe Poets to be their worst enemies is relevant to John Howard - his new sedition laws include the clause that seditious intention is to urge dissatisfaction toward the Government of the Commonwealth - this is communist China territory he is stepping in- remember this back in 2000 - China bans poets conference - “Dissident writers invited to the meeting included a poet arrested during a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989, sponsors of underground poetry reviews and a writer who posted poems on the Internet expressing dissatisfaction with modern Chinese society” Empahasis mine - even though I didnt really need it, the comparison is not only obvious, it is word for word.
AND NOW, 1 year and 5 months later- we have the VT Killer, a ‘literature’ student who was known to be ‘mentally ill’ who wanted to be ‘famous’ and who despised, or, one even may say, ‘dissatisfied’ with contemporary society. Do you smell something funny here? Incrementalism in action? even worse, a triple grab, renew gun debate in the U.S, associate dissatisfaction with sedition and an attack on free speech. Nice, straight out of The Art of War. Who is surprised? Not me. Napoleon Bonaparte invented corporations, and came up with the concept of outsourcing.
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