Akerman: Weak Albanese encourages lunatics to indulge look-at-me fantasies
Anthony Albanese’s weak leadership undoubtedly encourages adolescent lunatics across the nation to indulge their look-at-me fantasies, writes Piers Akerman.
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The completely utter stupidity of the current cluster of attention-seeking protesters is beyond belief.
The deplorable ignorance of pro-Palestinian idiots who breached Parliament House’s laughable security measures, and the moronic antics of climate catastrophists stifling the economy with their anti-coal stunts in the Hunter, are a total indictment on the education system and decades of political failure by so-called centrists on both sides of the spectrum.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s disgraceful embrace of the traitorous hacker Julian Assange and his supine handling of the former Labor Senator Fatima Payman embodies an abject weakness of leadership which undoubtedly encourages adolescent lunatics across the nation to indulge their look-at-me fantasies.
Do those delaying a couple of coal trains near Newcastle really think it does anything to alter the global climate? Assuming they believe the totally unproven climate theories, are they aware of the infinitesimal percentage of emissions for which Australia is responsible?
It’s safe to guess these knuckleheads aren’t across the details. Anyone who is would dissociate themselves from the misinformation trumpeted by the world-is-doomed proponents and paraded regularly by the ABC, SBS and Nine Media commentators.
Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen seems to be among the propagandists with his irrational claims for unreliable wind and solar power generation.
The merest child is aware that the sun sets daily, curtailing solar power, that the wind stops blowing and windmills sit idle for days and weeks, and that batteries cannot supply the baseload energy industry needs.
Bowen’s mathematics are so poor he cannot comprehend the fact that transforming the sun’s rays (when the sun is shining) or the wind (when it’s blowing) into dispatchable power requires thousands of costly kilometres of wires and transformers.
His bizarre assumption that this energy is “free” is beyond ridiculous as the ever-increasing power bills received by every homeowner prove.
But the Payman fiasco and the rooftop protesters take bogus demonstrations to new levels.
Ms Payman joined the Labor Party and signed up to its rules, one of which bound her to follow the Caucus position on issues. Claiming to be following her conscience, she voted against her party, and then resigned.
A Muslim refugee from Afghanistan where the Taliban now holds sway, she has been unable to have her Afghan citizenship formally revoked as the dysfunctional Kabul theocracy doesn’t respond to diplomatic requests.
Some in Labor say they wish to challenge her right to sit, but that’s an issue hardly worth pursuing.
A better question would be: Does she believe the Koran is subservient to the Australian Constitution or did she falsely swear when she took her parliamentary oath? Which takes primacy – Australia or Islam? If she believes her first allegiance is to her religion, she should quit parliament.
Her claim to having been led by her conscience and her desire to see a free Palestine invites further questions, as does her repeated use of the “river-to-the-sea” slogan which is no more than a desire to erase Jews from an area where they have lived for millennia.
The Keystone cops running security at Parliament House permitted Thursday’s protesters to unfurl banners which included a Hamas symbol and the date of European settlement on the continent. Assange got a mention, and climate activists helped deliver the protest with diversions. This medley of madness fluttered for about an hour, long enough for it to be captured for the global media. Its incoherence accurately encapsulated the insanity within the building.
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