I do not know what to think about Rob Ford of Toronto, but that the press is hounding him and this is a moral panic. We have had a similar scandal with Len Brown, the mayor of Auckland, and more recently with a group of young men who filmed themselves having sex with (drunk, and perhaps underage) women. This is leading for people to say that the laws need to be made harsh (untrue: sex with a child under 16 is statutory rape and the police can and should prosecute: let the courts sort it out) but it has led to tow commentators losing their advertising for questioning the women’s behaviour.

The entire thing is horrid: both the actions of this group and the response.

“Roast Buster” Joseph Parker has skipped town after threats and abuse were shouted at his family home.

The Herald on Sunday has spoken to his family through an intermediary, who defended Parker’s actions despite video on Facebook showing him and his friend boasting about sex with young, drunk girls.

His family is adamant he did the right thing and fronted up to police on realising the sex had gone too far.

The turning point was an encounter with a 13-year-old girl, who alleged three boys had group sex with her. But when she protested, Parker had pulled another boy off her, saying they had gone too far.

The girl had told her family and laid a police complaint. The girl’s older brother had gone to the Parker residence in West Auckland to confront him, but Parker was away.

On Parker’s return home, a family friend says, Parker’s stepfather had taken Parker to Henderson Police Station to make a formal statement about the encounter with the girl.

The process is one of winding up people to force action. Mr Parker and his coterie — should not have been doing this. And, despite the moral panic, one has to wonder what a 13 year old was doing at a drunken orgy. She should have been kept away.

The process, however, is one of driving up a moral panic. People have been talking about “sorting out” these boys on the NZ blogosphere. I am not suer what a defence lawyer would make of this when it comes to fairness of a trial. But I fear more for the young men and women involved in this, and their families, than for our human rights record or our reputation for wmen’s rights.

It might be that I am middle aged, but when I grew up my father sweated bullets about protecting teenage girls. Not just his own — I can clearly recall the first time I smelt cannabis. at a church camp, and my Dad being really worried that all the senior kids had partnered off and disappeared from the campgrounds to the surf beach for most of the evening. But in those days we were taught not to put ourselves into positions where we were vulnerable, for there are those who would exploit others.

The current ideology tells people the exact opposite. You can do what you want, and others should let you: if it costs ruined male lives in the way of moral panics and forced convictions to make the streests safe, so be it.

This ideology is the spirit of the day, where it is the right of every woman to say that she is loved, and secure, for the state will provide, even if those men she desires are out partying. But that is a system that cannot last.

Revelation 18:1-8

¹ After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendor. ² He called out with a mighty voice,
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.
³   For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you do not take part in her sins, and so that you do not share in her plagues;
⁵   for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
⁶   Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.
⁷   As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’
⁸   therefore her plagues will come in a single day —pestilence and mourning and famine — and she will be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

The trouble is that the media are losing the argument. The politicians are divorced from reality. They are shocked about reality (What these young men did is wrong, but it happens all too much: i know of pregnant 14 year olds in my nice, elite Southern bubble) And when someone who is not of the elite gains power, the response is to drive them out.

Ford was an outsider to the elite-media game. And being an outsider is something almost every ordinary citizens feels nowadays. Government is not for them. Instead, it’s something for containing and managing them, talking down to them, pushing them aside when convenient — and then sucking up to them when vote time came.

Thus, these same voters see in the attacks on Mr. Ford not a little touch of contempt hissed at them for electing him in the first place.

As the stories about Ford piled up, and the campaign to get rid of him grew more zealous and frenzied, this feeling has increased. This was not your ordinary press coverage: This was bear-baiting.

And there was money behind it, too: On Friday, The Toronto Star admitted that it had paid for the most recent Ford video. Would they have paid up if someone else had come calling with, say, an embarrassing video of Justin Trudeau?

Mr. Ford’s supporters, even while admitting the truth of some of the revelations, saw a brutality in the coverage. They recoiled at the bitter meanness of the attacks on the man’s weight. And they cringed at the crapulous insults, the piling on past all barriers of taste or mercy.

This coverage has taken its toll. Whether Mr. Ford knows it or not today, it’s over.

His fall is sad, because beneath the many failings and the turmoil of this man, there were pulses of genuine feeling for the people. He saw Toronto as he saw that beloved football team he once coached. As he said frequently, he “loves this city.” Given how much embarrassment he has caused Toronto, it would be daring even to try to imagine what he must be feeling right now. I expect there is no shortage of pain in his heart.

Yet it may be a pyrrhic victory for his opponents. The members of what is often contemptuously referred to as Ford Nation, having seen their hero attacked so viciously, will return to viewing government as mostly they have always seen it: something run by insiders, by professional social and business climbers, as fenced in by modern paternalism.

Yeah, but this hounding has consequences.

The fight over Rob Ford is one of the prime examples of the democratic, class war between the vaisyas and the brahmins. The brahmins control every bit of leverage, almost all the press coverage, most of the major blogs, all of the universities, and the bureaucracy. The entirety of the Cathedral in Canada, along with parts of international Cathedral, has been been arrayed against him, yet he stands against them where they are strongest, with only the quiet support of his class.

So here’s to Rob Ford. Long may he govern.

Is Rob Ford a good politician? No, not really. But, he is the best the vaisyas have in Canada. He is the only one sticking it to the Cathedral; the only one even trying to fight the left.

Every day he remains in office is one more day the brahmin’s are blasphemed in their strongest cathedral. That alone makes him worthy of support, whatever his other failings.

The system has failed, as it was designed to, and the collapse is inevitable; at the very least we can enjoy the mockery Ford is making of of our self-proclaimed betters.

The only sad part is, that this is what one bumbling man with a spine fighting for the vaisyas can accomplish. What if the vaisyas could actually produce real politicians that had the courage of their convictions? What if we had a charismatic, competent leader who was ideologically strong and firmly loyal to his class?

Think of how successful he could be; we might even be able to turn the tide against the collapse.

If only better men of our class would stand and fight as Ford has

The paradigm we are taught, as good little children, by the organs of the state and the consensus, is generally a lie. Sometimes the lie has more truth than falsehood in it: The imperial project was, on balance a thing for the good while British Isrealite-ism was a heresy if I am being polite, and worse if I am not.

But the current feminist paradigm — where a woman can do what she wants, without consequences, but a man can only do what he is allowed, and bears toe consequences of this — will not hold. I do not like the commentators from Radio Live. I have met Tamihere, and I have a low opinion of him, predating this by decades. (My ex was involved in the Union Health Clinics, enough said). Doubling down on the feminist project is a recipe for poverty and destruction: it may be that the patriarchy (with all its faults) would have restricted these young women and kept the Roast Busters well away from the family door, and also dealt with those enablers who kept a crack pipe near Rob Ford. For we have had a 40 year experiment with Feminist Liberalism, in both the right and left wings of politics, and it has led to a shortened life span (for men_ increased incarceration (for men_ and misery, loneliness and cat food sales to women. It’s failed, as did the Soviet experiment did.

And it will collapse, for feminism relies on being in a safe and prosperous society, without realizing that safety and prosperity come in a society where all make compromises and where the laws are just. If you lose either, society will fail.