Posted on 01/16/2022 6:06:12 PM PST by RandFan
They don’t seem to be bashful about being on camera.
I can’t believe the damage the Aussie cops have done to themselves and their agencies. They will never recover.
Yep. Get them at THEIR homes.
” . . .Solzhenitsyn’s words had the ring of truth because they are true. But because he dared to speak in spiritual terms, he is being attacked on all sides of the major media.
Those who are attacking Solzhenitsyn now are the very same forces of evil who, a quarter-century ago, attacked the late great British historian Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee, of course, wrote the monumental work entitled “A Study of History.” Over a period of three decades, Toynbee studied in mind-boggling detail all 23 of the separate full-fledged civilizations that are known to have existed in human history. Through a process of comparative study of these civilizations Toynbee arrived at some very far-reaching and important conclusions about how they form, grow, and finally collapse. Toynbee’s “Study of History” was universally acclaimed as an astonishing feat of scholarship—and yet he was attacked viciously through the public media world-wide for just one reason: Toynbee’s critics were driven into a frenzy over the religious approach he had applied to his work.
In an annex to Volume V of his “Study of History”, Toynbee warned of the repudiation of a spiritual principle. He described this phenomenon as “the supreme danger to the spiritual health and even to the material existence of the western body social, a deadlier danger by far than any of our hotly canvassed and loudly advertised political and economic maladies.”
Today, my friends, we are witnessing the breakdown of one of the five civilizations that exist in the world today—that of the
modern Western Civilization. The growth and development of any civilization is a process of challenges and responses to those challenges; and as Toynbee discovered, it is when a civilization fails to respond to an important challenge, especially a moral challenge, that breakdown occurs. History reveals that there is no hard and fast pattern that requires breakdown to occur at all; but once it does take place, the civilization starts disintegrating—and from then on, modern history reveals not a single case in which the process of collapse has ever been reversed.
History has another urgent lesson for us as well, and that is that civilizations are never destroyed merely by an overwhelming external attack. Instead, it’s always internal decay that sets the stage for collapse. And so it is today.”
- Beter, P.
LMAO.
News events in recent weeks have given me the impression that Australia has become a nation of happy slaves. But not this crowd.
“Monumental” indeed.
Toynbee unabridged is hard to find, as it’s something like ten ot twelve volumes.
We love not history unto death.
Does the Aussie Gestapo live in that town? DO they go home at 1:30 am? History shows us may examples of such types getting some justice.
“The offensive side always has the advantage of time.”
Something the tyrants would also do well to remember.
“The offensive side always has the advantage of time.”
Something the tyrants would also do well to remember.
Yes!! I hope they continue to fight back!
This is a modern version of Boston circa 1770. A rowdy crowd.
There is a spark like a Boston Massacre looming close by in each of these.
The tyrants are pushing and feel empowered. This is exceedingly dangerous. There is a line somewhere, and neither side is precisely sure exactly where it is.
I believe I just saw that your US Supreme Court approved Federal vaccine mandates for health workers. We have no Federal mandate for any reason, other than for workers in aged homes. Also, your current USA law would also prevent Novak from playing in the USA Open. You also have your Federal police (FBI) and Justice Department holding people in political prisons and threatening to charge people who protest. I think I would much rather live in a free Australian than a Federal police state like you have in the USA.
Touché. Funny how we can sit and criticize the Aussies. I have always been pro-military, pro-police, pro-FBI etc.
I feel powerless watching them abuse power these past few years. And so yes we too need to start standing up.
• How the FBI treated an elected president.
• FBI Raiding homes with CNN.
• DOJ threatening school board protesting mom’s.
• This week Mathew Olson, assistant attorney general at the DOJ announced he is setting up a domestic terrorism unit to go after those with racists or antigovernmental, anti-authority ideologies. (video on Steve Hilton show this evening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP135iYydrs)
The previous was from a 1978 talk to either Harvard or Westpoint graduating class by Solzhenitzen. Remarked upon by Dr. Peter S. Beter, who was an attorney who practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court. Hence the weighty references.
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