My Political Views
I am a right social libertarian
Right: 4.84, Libertarian: 3.88
Political Spectrum Quiz
I beleive the state should ensure that there are appropriate laws around property and safety of one’s live and limbs.
And try not to ally with others. I consider armed neutratlity the ideal position… but I don’t consider the citizenry of Godzone want all their adults from 20 to 50 to serve a month a year, which is what it would take.
Test is a bit US centric, but OK
Homepaddock notes that the same thing is happening in NZ. What most Greens don’t understand is that Farmers have to respeck land in both countries because if they do not the fertility erodes.
Which is not profitable.
They aslo forget that humans are part of the ecosystem, that ecosystems change (with the climate — I am still amused about people beleiving that it was warmer when the dinosaurs roamed but recent warming is doe to us)
But, three chaers for Mr Sheehan, and the county should pay him his fine and expenses back in teturn for advising others to do what he did.
The Sheahans’ 2004 court battle with the Mitchell Shire Council for illegally clearing trees to guard against fire, as well as their decision to stay at home and battle the weekend blaze, encapsulate two of the biggest issues arising from the bushfire tragedy.
Do Victoria’s native vegetation management policies need a major overhaul? And should families risk injury or death by staying home to fight the fire rather than fleeing?
Anger at government policies stopping residents from cutting down trees and clearing scrub to protect their properties is already apparent. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” Warwick Spooner told Nillumbik Mayor Bo Bendtsen at a meeting on Tuesday night.
Although Liam Sheahan’s 2002 decision to disregard planning laws and bulldoze 250 trees on his hilltop property hurt his family financially and emotionally, he believes it helped save them and their home on the weekend.
“The house is safe because we did all that,” he said as he pointed out his kitchen window to the clear ground where tall gum trees once cast a shadow on his house.
“We have got proof right here. We are the only house standing in a two-kilometre area.”
via Fined for illegal clearing, family now feel vindicated | smh.com.au.
More Mark. He writes good. He writes true. Canuckstan (a small village situated somewhere in a cold part of Ontario) wants to ban him.
So let us think ungood thoughts and eat share our bacon bagels with the local Mullahcracy…
If young Muslim girls are being murdered in “honor killings”, the Chief Commissar of the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission will explain that they’re a “small commission” and they have to be able to prioritize and that Mark Steyn is a far greater threat to the Queen’s peace than killers of Muslim women.
But, if you don’t threaten violence, if you don’t issue death threats, if you don’t kill anyone, if you just make a movie or write a book or try to give a speech, the state will prosecute you, ban you or (in the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali) force you to flee your own country.
In their appeasement of thugs, buffoons like Miliband and the Tory squishes across the House of Commons on the Opposition benches are making it very clear that the state accords more respect to violence than to debate. As I said to my interrogators in Ontario this week:
When you go down that road, all you do is lead to the situation that you have in, say, Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, you can’t start a newspaper and print what you think, so if you object to the House of Saud, the only thing you can do is blow stuff up.
In Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and elsewhere (as the Instaprof has often noted) the state is teaching a very dangerous lesson.
via The Free World Fatwas Itself – Mark Steyn – The Corner on National Review Online.
Because free speech cannot just be polite speech. And without humor and freedom of enquiry, there will be no new thought, no new ideas…
Oh I forgot. New ideas are notgoodthink. Must follow Islam.
No thanks. I prefer to have my integrity unsmirched and my soul intact.
From the inimitable Mark Steyn…
America has a choice: It can reacquaint itself with socioeconomic reality. Or it can buckle its mandatory seat belt for the same decline most of the rest of the West embraced a couple of generations back.
Dear Nazir.
You are sworn to defent the crown and her people.
Those people can handle free speech. Well most of them. This person, who clearly had a leftist lobotomy in some polytech, cannot.
I’m saddened, but not suprised, that people have directed thier anger at you.
Unless interested parties lobby the government they will not uphold thier own laws it seems. eg. the law against inciting hatred that was blatantly designed by some not all in govt. to be aimed at Muslims, which this Dutchman clearly contravenes
Roll on the day Pope Rat attempts to enter this country and finds a big group of homosexuals and women lobbying govt. to stop him
via Nazir Ahmed: Banning Geert Wilders is in Britain’s best interests | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
But most of us can. I understand that you following a murdering pedophile called Mohammed. I follow a man who was naled to a cross because he threatened the local petentates who were compromising their monotheism for realpolitik.
If you truly beleive this, resign your peerage, and go and live in Pakistan, “the land of the pure”. Besides, poverty may be good for what remains of your soul.
Otherwise you are a traitor and a coward. And the Brown government, who are betraying those who they ought to serve by collaborating with you,, is on borrowned time.