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Protesters jump on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle's car outside the National Gallery of Victoria. Picture: Andrew Tauber
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I WAS in the National Gallery of Victoria on Thursday talking with people over drinks when I first saw them at the door.
Sounds quite foreboding doesn't it.
Sounds quite foreboding doesn't it.
Can you imagine that Andrew is trying to sell you on the idea that members of Melbourne's Socialist, Green, Anarchist, Union, Occupy, Anti-globalist, Anti-central banking, and other independent political agitators were actually acting under the spiritual leadership of Julia Gillard or Tony Abbot???
This article is already shaping as one for the non-discerning thinker.
They were protesters who'd burst through a gallery entrance and were now trying to push through scared security guards -interesting, unproven claim that is actually an attempt at programming opinion in his direction- defending the entrance to our function room.
What they'd do if they'd got their hands on us I don't know. To judge by the posters attacking me and Rupert Murdoch, part of the "hate media" vilified by this Government -now Andrew has implanted the second programming spell trying to connect this protest to the ALP, this time, presenting himself & Rupert as innocent victims & but, tries to shift the blame in the readers mind to Julia Gillard because it is an opportunity for him to push his desire for a change of government, and the fact that he is happy to tell an outright lie to his readers is indicative of who he is-, it might have been uncomfortable.
But Lord Mayor Robert Doyle later told me what they'd done to him outside.
They'd stopped his car, let down its tyres, sat on its roof, hammered on the windows and screamed obscenities at him.
Dealing with protesters is part and parcel of political life, and Doyle wasn't actually stressed out by the protest at all, but, sold himself as the victim for the media because apart from these arrogant folk not liking attention and focus on their plans, it is a chance to 'show proof' of ALP misadventure & therefore advance the agenda against Gillard. If it had been a liberal government the protestors would have been abused and unceremoniously blamed with Bolt probably calling for the reintroduction of the iron maiden to deal with the jaywalking epidemic that is fermenting jihad and terrorism and being advanced by these violent protesters.
One woman waved an "Eat the Rich" sign at the ample Doyle, with an unnervingly hungry glint in her eye.
Is he inferring that this woman wanted to eat Doyle? Really? This is actually great fiction. How can he know this? Did he ask her?
Meanwhile, others with megaphones told latecomers to our function - the Institute of Public Affairs' 70th anniversary - it had been called off.
Good. so some good was achieved then.
Exactly what evil inside the NGV needed to be stamped out was hard to tell, but I suspect it was the kind of thing Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and his Labor heavies have also tried to stop on Channel 10 and in the Murdoch newspapers.
Here Andrew describes his ignorance about the reasons for the protest before apportioning blame to the ALP which is the third attempt at programming people about the ALP being to blame for this protest.
You know, like talking. Debating. Criticising. Questioning the Left's assumptions.
Yes, I mean the kind of thing this astonishingly authoritarian Government has tried to limit by proposing state control of the media, holding an inquiry into newspaper bias, bullying media executives and trying to make it unlawful to offend even people's political views.
Talking. The new enemy of the Left.
He is playing the left/right card as if there is a discernible difference between the ALP and the Liberal Party.
So what kind of talk were these protesters trying to stop?
Well, at the very moment I saw the mob trying to reach us I was talking to the impressive new Opposition Leader of South Australia, Stephen Marshall, about how to put more workers into jobs. How to make life easier for people by, say, cutting power bills.
Bolt is claiming that he was earnestly in discussion with a Liberal Opposition Minister about how to help the average Joe which is his fourth attempt at programming people about the Liberal parties need for election, which is pretty much what this whole article is about.
I admit, this is dull stuff for most sane people apart from the bit where I advised Marshall to show his state was open for business by having himself filmed blowing up the first of his state's grotesquely expensive wind towers.
Sadly, Marshall's raised eyebrow tells me he will not start his premiership with such a satisfying bang, despite the international publicity I swear he'd attract.
For the rest of the night, here is what we talked about as fluoro-vested police and dark-suited men guarded the stage and the entrances.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott told us to defend freedom -how very vague?, and to remember "much is expected from those to whom so much has been given"-Andrew is giving the impression that he is part of the movers and shakers in the Liberal Party which would adequately explain why he is so politically neutral in his articles-. We should also heed the injunction to "love your neighbour as you love yourself", which "is the foundation of our mercy".
Seriously. That is what he just said about a minister in the Howard Government. With the Children Overboard Scandal, Schappelle Corby, & David Hicks examples of "the foundation of (their) mercy".
Andrew really seems to have abandoned writing about the protest in favour of pumping up Tony Abbot's tyres in the fifth attempt at programming the reader in what is ostensibly a piece of liberal party advertising.
Murdoch, my boss, told us to help our citizens make "a better life for themselves and their families" in a "fair and just society" in which "opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top".
He attacked "crony capitalism" and anything that gave the impression "benefits are only for the already rich, well-connected and politically powerful".
If you are happy to swallow this, Andrew has a bridge in Sydney Harbour that he'd like to sell you. Nice how he describes his boss this way. Most people would disagree that Murdoch believes these things that Andrew has just attributed to him.
Shocking talk. See now why we wicked plotters needed guards to save us from the anger of the rent-a-mob?
See how the protesters are now a 'rent-a-mob'? How much were they paid and who paid them?
See why simply arguing against us was not enough? Why we had to be threatened, physically stopped and turned away?
Now he is trying to link Doyle's experience to himself, Abbot & Murdoch by the use of words like 'us' and 'we'.
Actually, I shouldn't exaggerate this protest. Really Andrew, you don't say? Mikiverse Politics contends that this whole article has been exaggerated- Every society has people so damaged or megalomaniacal that debate is their enemy.
His point is that the protesters and the ALP are "so damaged or megalomaniacal that debate is their enemy."
And these protesters helped us. As I said in my own speech, they reminded us the enemies of the Open Society had been with us since Plato and are with us still. Some are now ministers in the Gillard Government.
Many in the crowd, adrenalin still pumping from the push-and-shove, even seemed to feel more keenly that they, too, were foot-soldiers for freedom, and opened their wallets wider to help the IPA battle the Gillard authoritarians.
As the article winds down, Andrew attempts to both remind the reader of who is the hero and villain of this peace as well as imply that the protestors had shot themselves in the foot, and ultimately, the ALP, by inspiring these rich bastards to donate more to the IPA to help effect the change of government. He doesn't tell you that big business in Australia are largely subsidised in Australia, with the recent revelations that Liberal & ALP governments are subsidising Holden to the tune of ONE BILLION DOLLARS PLUS are a prescient reminder that both major parties are for rich Australia and against poor, working class and even middle Australia.
Indeed, one man who'd been confronted by protesters as he got out of his car was so enraged that he stumped up the biggest donation of the night, $25,000 to see the filming of my show.
Thanks, protesters. You've helped the IPA.
Only idiots protest or vote ALP is the message.
But, best of all, you've shown us all the naked face of intolerance, and reminded us today's street thugs too easily become the politicians who tomorrow steal our freedom.
Like the ones who this year tried to.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/the-naked-face-of-intolerance/story-e6frfhqf-1226614361440
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