“From the river to the sea,” is an expression that has become illegal in Australia. An insecure nation with government often desperate to placate foreign interests and those who keep the politicians rich. And, in 2026 any thing that has been determined as ‘antisemetic’ is forbidden. Read, anything that is anti-Israel. Not, necessarily Jewish.
Bonnie Carter, who was taken by the police and has not been charged at this time. Upset them enough to wear a shirt. What she wore, ensured that armed, mostly men could force her to go with them. Her fate in their hands, and the hands of their masters. Bonnie Carter, eighteen, is a threat to the State.
Aussie cops have shown they will do what cops the world over do. Serve masters. Whether they agree with the politicians or not, really doesn’t matter. They serve them. Whether they think the laws are bullshit or not, they enforce them. The tired lie often told, “I don’t make the laws, I enforce them, if you want to change them, go through the political process.”
A political process which is both theatre and self serving. To vote often leads to more of the worse, or variations of the pain. More government. Many of those who do vote are seduced by the dangling charm of a welfare increase or the liars promises not to tax them any more. Or, more laws that will some how fix things, make us all safer. Aussie culture has become one obsessed with banning things. The increase in surveillance, censorship, prohibitions are all done, we are told, for security, safety, and health. To save the children from freedom, to stop the terrorists from allowing more freedom, the insecure only know how to ban and outlaw.
Which brings us to the image of an 18 year old girl being arrested by police officers who found the words on her shirt offensive. This Australia which has spent much of the last and current century inviting itself to wars, proclaiming human rights as a justification for intervention and acting with moral self-righteousness whenever it decides to. Free speech, is meant to be offensive and to challenge. It can be as ugly as it can be beautiful. To homogenise society and disapprove of art and expression, to only allow certain statements while forbidding others is the hallmarks of political ideologies that many seem to view as a pariah. It’s also the cowards pragmatism.
“We are Charlie Hebdo…” an act of terrible violence because the murderers saw an offence in imagery and words. “From the river to the sea,” an affront to an ongoing genocide and an apartheid State. It may be an offensive, or an implied statement that challenges and threatens, so what? What is government policy other than brutal threats? YOU WILL OBEY, or else!
Moving forward, does the Australian public think it will be freer for these laws? Better for it all? The more dependent they are made on the Government, the less choices. The rising costs due to the policies and parasitic manipulations from it. Less choice when it comes to things that are allowed to ingest. More restrictions as to what may be said, read and viewed or heard. Less privacy, every thing must have a camera recorded what and where we are or the digital communications between familiars, strangers and intimate partners observed, stored and monitored. Where did you get that five cents from? Have you paid fees and taxes on it? You can’t save without us having some it! What exactly will be allowed? Or, is allowed?
It’s a predatory culture levelled by insecure masters and professionals who lack any morals or, steel themselves with a zealotry that excuses any wrong doings as a greater good, a good they see as being righteous or ideological pragmatic. With an increase in violent crimes, the citizenry disarmed in their ability and right to defend property, self and loved ones. The masters assume their mercenary constabulary will be enough. Many of which are best serving as political officers and revenue workers than they are investigators and deterrents to violent criminals. But, the monopoly on violence insists you must comply and take it. Suffer, endure. It’s for the greater good?
Let the machete attacker hit you, think about the jobs it creates. Medical, NDIS, lawyers, it’s a shattered window of economic reasoning. To defend and protect yourself, that’s dangerous. Independence! That is radical. To deny your victim hood is being selfish. Or something hyperbolic like that. You get the picture.
To expose yourself online by using government approved ID’s along with the march towards further digital dependence is an insistence that does not ensure convenience or safety for the individual. Perhaps some enjoy it as a one stop. It determines that all must have a digital life style, must comply with the measures and must reveal every aspect of their life possible to those who are consuming the data and using it. Technology no longer serves the customer or individual, it’s now used against them. It serves equity, corporations and above all else, governments. It’s a twisted partnership of absolving responsibilities while retaining loopholes that satisfy their control and manipulation over human beings. The chattel for them to rule.
Ignoring the power outages, incompetence and obsession with turning most things as AI reliant. It will also cost lives and time. Not to mention such “smart” measures dumb down the populace and those very sinister beings who are using it against the citizenry. Which will lead to ghosts in the machine and hallucinations becoming less known or causing trouble which can’t be fixed until too late. More corruption, though that seems to be a perk of such careers. The outsourcing of morality and trust in such systems and machines will lead to a religious embrace, that they are always right. Morality and curiosity are algorithms. And to shrug, “the machine said…”
Decades ago it would be fictional depictions of what to avoid. Now, this far along, ensnared in public and private debt, hooked on welfare and the grifts associated, locked into mortgages and a lifestyle which requires a regular income, a safe career and brow beaten by media and social media bobble heads which cry over anything thing as the greatest testament of human destruction, if not for a new law. If only there was another tax. Another regulation. The solution is always the same. Control.
The Australian government will arm and support coalitions that would blow up school busses in Yemen, pretend a genocide is not occurring in Gaza, join in a war that does not seem possible to be won and has little popular support. Then again, nations like Australia love war. Even if the culture has turned it’s dingo bark into the pathetic whimper of a lap dog. Decades of dependency and belly swelling corporate slop living has turned the nation into a soft handed and shrill public service.
But such insecure societies need a win. It’s great victory, arresting an 18-year old lass because she wore a shirt. I guess that’s why the diggers fought, and why they will fight again. And the cops. They would throw children into packed trains and watch them die in chambers full of gas. We know this to be true. History has shown us. Just ordinary men…people in this case. These ordinary, though armed mostly men would force Bonnie Carter to go with them. Because she wore a singlet with words.
Call it whatever you want. Ideologies adapt, they evolve. Above all else, those who boast “anti” as pragmatic beasts will adopt the very things they lied to oppose.
The fascists won, again.
