Queensland government and tyranny?

Queensland government and tyranny?
30/08/09

In recent years there have been many “news” items telling us that Bikers are acting like criminals.
Since 2007, when Hell's Angel Chris Hudson went wild in Melbourne, winning himself a free ride to jail, other incidents involving Bikers have made the news.
More were blamed for a restaurant “shoot-up” in Adelaide, and of course everyone remembers the bad scene at Sydney airport.
In the months since those events, the respective state governments have made efforts to clamp-down on Bikers, outlawing them from wearing their club colors, and from associating with each other, as well as other restrictions on their day-to-day activities.
The Collective of apparently “warring” Bikers clubs did the smart thing, and formed a nationwide Council, the “United Motorcycle Council”, and have since shown sensible behavior to the ongoing negative “press”, with UMC spokes-persons releasing their own straight-forward and accurate media statements and comments, etc.
I've been pro-Biker for a few decades really, but in the last five or so years, more so.
In the last week, the Queensland's Anna Bligh government let it be known that they were setting-up some sort of “consultative committee” to help draft legislation, but have apparently made it their business to select who would be on the committee, and who they would consult, leaving out, “Bikers”.
(United Motorcycle)'Council representatives said they were informed by public service officials last week that the laws would not be made publicly available but would be posted to selected stakeholders for comment. Council spokesman Terry Walker said “the Government's claims of consultation had been exposed as a fraud. The Queensland Government is preparing to hand massive new powers to the police, and tear away basic legal and civil rights that have been a cornerstone of our democratic society,'' Mr Walker said.'
(These 3 paragraphs are excerpts from the Sydney Morning Herald's online article, found at
http://www.smh.com.au/national/blighs-vow-of-forum-on-antibikie-laws-a-sham-20090829-f3af.html.)
Hmmm...?
Queensland never really was a paradise for “free-speechers” and libertarians. The recent media about Qld slipping back to the draconian days of Jo Bjelke-Peterson and endemic corruption in government, is supported by this case, where the government is probably breaking the rules of government in Australia by limiting public consultation and access to whatever laws and reforms are introduced.
Abolition of “the requirement of proof beyond reasonable doubt” goes straight against our legal values here, as it would seem to, across most modern democracies.
But who said we live in a Democracy?
I don't, and since learning a bit about it all, about 20 years ago, have never said we do.
It was certainly a bad stroke of luck, or of fate, for the whole Biker fraternity in Australia, when the Fella died at Sydney airport. State governments have since then gone Hell-for-leather toward totally clamping-down on the irascible Harley-Riders.
It seems very “overkill” if you ask me, and begs a few questions from the defendant's side as to why so hard on them, as they have been around since world war 2, and generally have done their bit, in that some of them, and perhaps a lot of them, have been in military service?
Also, these years, when I hear a government or lobby-group calling for “bans” on minority groups, or practices, my alarm-bells go off, usually because the protesters themselves are using the media to focus on ideological enemies to keep or reduce any heat which mayhap should be applied to them.
In light of the “Sydney” media's recent canning the Queensland government as sliding back to those bad old “Jo days”, Anna Bligh and cohorts may well be using the Bikers to take the heat off the Qld government, by appearing to be actively tackling corruption and crime?
But this anti-Biker move may precede that bad press for Anna? I don't know. Then, therefore, perhaps the Sydney news releases about Qld's backward-slide was part of a wider conspiracy to get the heat out of Sydney?
Nevertheless, there is definitely a bad smell coming from the Qld government's actions against Bikers and Biker Clubs.
On the “up-side” however, Bikers profile has risen somewhat of late, bad press and all.
There is a saying that once you reach a certain amount of notoriety, or fame or infamy, any “press” is GOOD “press”, because, even in the underworld of Australian corruption, there will be an increase in the body of support for you, whether you're a “good-guy” or a “bad-guy”.
And, as I've firmly believed for many years, that in a world riddled with corruption, which is another word for “crime”, where the corruption is actually MANAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT, or by the oligarchy of upclub elites, whether in what we call “government” or not, whether in our own nation or off-shore, it IS more Honorable to be a criminal, particularly when you are fighting against the dominant crims. Ie., the powers-that-be, the powers who MAKE the rules.
A famous American Philosopher of the 19th century, perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson, but probably another, wrote that “in a nation run by criminals, the only place for the Honest person, is in prison”.
This, we must be Honest here, doesn't apply to Bikers, or to most any who are forced by the crims-uptop to commit crime to feed the kids etc., for today you'd have to be a naïve fool to be HONEST all the time. You would also be as likely unemployed and exiled from all levels of society, and labeled by the authorities as being mentally ill.
This may apply the most, to belonging to a religious sect or church. These days, people are leaving “western religions” in droves, and it's as likely because, if you join a religious group, it will soon become evident that it is NOT acceptable to ask too many questions, or to postulate reasoned doubts about the dogma one is told to learn in Bible-studies or such.
As well, what a fool one would be, were one to be totally honest all the time, considering most all levels and members of government are themselves disgustingly DISHONEST to the public.
But, that line about where the Honest person belongs, amidst tyrannical rule, lends support to Bikers, and to everyone who disagrees with ANY corruption in the halls-of-power.
In a corrupt society, in a corrupt world, especially in this recent time when we are being bombarded with media, government and religious predictions about it being “the end of the world”, where nothing can be done to save the planet and it's kiddies from the, in biblical terms, “apocalypse”, or from the scientific evidence-backed reports saying that we have trashed the Mother Eartha and that indeed, for many millions, if-not billions of Human Beings, the end is close, there seems little point worrying about being Honest, especially, as I say, when dealing with the jokers (NOT the Gypsy Jokers!) uptop, who are perhaps the most cynical, uncaring and dishonest of all.
If the bust-hards uptop are blithely and callously playing along with those further-again up the global mountain of governmental corruption, simply to make as much as each of them can, before Armageddon(outta-here!), then what right have they to enforce ANY laws on the rest of us, which deem we must be honest, or follow their rules?
Hmmmmm.....?
Lately, I was inspired to contemplate and then write on the subject of Integrity, even when facing the above mentioned “apocalypse” or planetary annihilation, and it became evident that even when in the face of disaster, of global disaster, it is Right to fight to the end, especially against that which is bringing-on “the end” as we all generally agree our global powers-that-be have done, and who continue demonically to do.
In my musings “All Things Considered” (as I chant here-and-there), the Maths said loud and clear, that there are perhaps three “Groups” here in Australia, who are of that Kind, who regard Integrity as significant. Perhaps significant to the future for their own Soul? Perhaps for the future of their own Children? Perhaps for the Group? Or perhaps for the whoever, whatever living thing or being might survive after they've gone? After they themselves have been washed-away by the rising sea-level, or by there being no food left for their clan, or such.
Three Groups, who have always been regarded by “Babylon” or the monster of global powers, as unworthy of consideration, as unworthy of assisting, of ensuring safety in future.
Aborigine, Green and Biker are the three Groups I came to regard as Righteous.
Righteous because in the face of Babylon's evil behavior, to them and to the planet and Her environment, these three had, in the past, and still today, stayed “out there”, either on the streets or up forest trees, or elsewhere, protesting AND ACTING/FIGHTING against the tyranny and against the path the tyrants in power were sending all down.
So it came around to my suggesting that if any of us ARE serious about Resisting, Defying, Dissenting against the upemselves upclubbers uptop, then the most effective thing we all can do is, to Unite.
Aborigine, Green and Biker.
As the idea floated around in my thoughts, the term “The Three Wise Tribes” arose from the deeeep.
This, is now not a secret, as I have sent emails around the globe explaining this notion, and for what it's worth, it's on my weblog.
For those who, hopeful or not, are nevertheless NEVER gonna lie down and bow to the demands of the busthards uptop, and are never gonna agree with the common sentiment that “all we can do is PARTY!” etc., as the busthards would prefer we do, until the sun doesn't rise one day, it will not be hard to see the Logic and Reason in having these Three Wise Tribes Unite.
Of the last decade, after many decades of Greenies' Forefathers and Mothers standing and marching against BADBADVERYBAD government environmental policies, of being floored and kicked and jailed by errant policing and errant courts, of Greenies' Forefathers and Mothers lying in front of BIGBIGVERYBIG deforesting machinery, and LOCKING-ON! etc., to the busthard's equipment to STOP THE DECIMATION of the Environment, today's Greens have gained considerable Respect from the once cynical (read-poorly-informed) public. Indeedy, most all first world nations have Greens representing their Tribe in parliament,and many other nations are catching-up.
However, the bigboys of the world's super-elite seem still to have the final say on whether old growth forests are preserved or not, etcetera.
Greens wax-and-wane in their political influence and effectiveness. As is typical of corporate tyranny, whenever the Righteous have a “win”, the machinery of Babylon automatically “kicks-in” and begins the subversion campaigns, and before long, the Righteous have had to take a step back in the vote, influence, power or publicity polls.
I am quite certain, that were Justice, or whatever, to silence the subversive machinery of the idiots-of-ruthlessness and capitalism, Righteousness would BLOSSOM across the nation and across the globe.
In terms of what these last paragraphs address, the Greens would become the government in most western, and other countries worldwide, in a snap.
As to whether “Greens” as the generic term applies, are ready for any such Shift-big-SH, I and we must be careful.
But once more, Greens' ability to cover all the bases which Good and Comprehensive Government must cover, as far as I'm concerned, is only restrained by the fact that the selfish power-hungry anti-Greens corporate subversion machinery makes it it's business to engineer a smear campaign against them, and so would undermine any chance the Righteous had of Educating the populace to the point of appreciating and understanding and voting for their, for example, economic policies. Or their “health-care” policies. Or their “education” policies. Or their “Housing” policies. Etcetera-and-on.
So, how much can a Green Koala Bear? (Thanks, Austin Tacious!)
Aborigine? This last week we've seen publicity turn to The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma's proposed new Aborigine representative body, with up-and-down comments from both sides of the “Indigenous Affairs” debate.
Liberal MP “Lonely” Tony Abbott (for not having his buddy Peter Costello in the House of Reps with him) “panned” the idea, and there was general agreement, with some disagreement, on the side of the Righteous, ie., on the Bleck side, that it is worth pursuing.
The new “Council”, my word for the “new organization to represent Indigenous people” is not something I am qualified to comment on. One would Hope it takes-off and succeeds, but as is again, always the case for minority groups, support from the mainstream, not that the mainstream should necessarily have any influence in this issue, and therefore from the mainstream politicians, that-is support from the state and federal governments is as likely to hit hurdles.
Self-Determination for the Aborigine here is a must, but those who must pluck and play with the purse-strings of government and funding and lobby groups et al, are almost inherently cautious about giving the OK to such a concept or body as is proposed.
If PM Rudd's “Apology” of February 2007 to the Aborigine meant anything to him and the government, every assistance would be forthcoming from Canberra and Darwin I guess. Northern Territory Indigenous MP Alison Anderson said the proposed new 128-member council body would be too small to properly represent all Australia's Aborigine, saying that Canberra “...should be setting up a body that represents the whole nation, and not just a little body that is not really going to work."
Can't argue with that! So, if Rudd has his ears-on, and his coffers unlocked, how long will it take, how much cajoling and delay will it suffer, before the Australian Aborigines get PROPER Representation?
Well, they ARE an amazingly patient People. But that is no reason to delay the Restitution of their Dignity one more day. Again, being a minority group of Australians, the general approach from the authorities is to find reason to delay and to delay and to delay, then commission a report? And that'll be ready in 2033!
Humphf!?
500,000 Australian Bush People, down the other end of the planet to Wall Street, to Zurich, to Bonn, to Downing Street, to where the money really comes from and goes?
500,000 People who really should have Sovereignty on their own Land, STOLEN from them or not?
Meanwhile, more Aborigine kids die before they reach one year old, one of the worst statistics of infant mortality in the “developed (HA!) world”!
Where can they go to get the support they Deserve?
Where can Humanity go to get the support we (perhaps?) all Deserve, to minimize the carnage expected?
Well, as the “mainstream” of Australian society is today so self-absorbed, and as so few of them actually get out of their armchairs and vote with their feet, or march in support of those who Deserve more support, minority groups are left to fight for themselves. As mainstreamers are prone to blob-out and say “yes” to whatever the government asks of them, with not a Righteous bone in their bodies, the Righteous are usually the ones who do the marching, the shouting, the fighting, against tyranny.
Today, the majority here live pretty well. This is only because, from way back in Britain, before Australia was invaded and “settled”, through the 19th century's Worker's Movements in Australia which gave birth to the Union Movements, which gave every(white)one alive here the wealth and comfortable lives they generally live, the Righteous, who would not shy from a fight, were the ones who United to stand-against the vicious coppers and army, until the powers-that-were relented, and gave them their Proper Rights and Dues.
Everyone benefits, from the actions of the Righteous few.
Most people here today are incapable of accepting that a bunch of motorbike riders who have a reputation of wearing very soiled outfits, riding very scary bikes, and of generally being breakers of all the rules, would or have contributed to making the world a better place.
Yeah, some of them are scum. I know, I used to ride with them, and may be said to have been one myself!
Bikers have not got a reputation for standing next to hippies and ferals in the forests and stopping bulldozers from destroying 500 year old trees. Usually, they stood opposite, and supported their Working-Class mates, often only too ready to take a swing at a Greenie.
The same has been the case in their attitude to Aborigines, and to non-white races in general.
You won't see many Bleck Fellas riding Harleys.
But, of the last say, ten years, things have changed SIGNIFICANTLY both here in Australia, and most everywhere else on Earth, in regard to, and for, Bikers.
That said, it has to be known that they have been a lot more “Charitable” than the media would tell, and for most of their existence.
We lucky bimbos in the middle to upper classes and suburbs of Australia, rarely if ever get inside a lower class or under-class suburb, let alone inside a household there. We never see or know about the chaos which often rules those undereducated, forgotten sections of OUR society. We don't have to. We have a job, and the learnt skills to manage our dollars between pay-cheques and rent-days etc.
We are not behind the eight-ball from birth, or from three, five generations BEFORE our own birth, and so don't have to grow up in a house with one or more males constantly under the thumb of some strange phenomena, which may have been from when they were kids in a broken household, of say, ex-convicts, whose only response to life, or to a hard question was violence toward the missus or the kids, and another drink.
We don't see the psychologically busted white families and their abject existences, in our own nation. And we don't see the occasional Biker paying them a visit with a few things to help them through another week of unrelenting trauma from an unrelenting and uninterested landlord, or from a history which beggars belief, when viewed from our comfortable and relaxed bimbo lifestyles.
We don't understand that the Bikers join together because often enough, in the past, that is where they have come from, busted homes, criminal records stuck to their foreheads before they are born, kicked by coppers when just kids being kids, in poor suburbs where it is sport for the cops to harangue them.
And, because they don't care for the “sophistication” we take for granted, sophistication meaning “false”, we don't see anything Good in them.
HA! have your falsities ambitious classes! You haven't been bashed from childhood, so don't understand why a bloke or woman HAS TO reach for a bottle of grog, or for a smoke of Weed, or for some pill or another, just to GET ME OUT OF HERE.
And you haven't ever had to endure constant harassment from malicious authorities because you were poor, uneducated, or had no respect for what, even as a young child, you learnt well was a filthy, malignant corrupt government AND religious system.
Then, there's the returned serviceman? Comes back, severely changed from their time on the front line, in a war engineered by your nation's allies to get your nation's servicemen hooked on heroin.
Comes back, and after a few sharp-end engagements against an invisible enemy in a foreign land, perhaps injured, perhaps after watching your only mate in the world drop dead next to you, perhaps watching your whole platoon being blasted to kingdom come.
It's a bit fucking HARD going down to the dole office after serving your country in war, enduring and bullshitting your way through farcical interviews for a menial no-brainer job, paying a bit more than you need for the rent and food, etc, etc, etc, after that kind of experience.
Then, there's the blokes who grew-up in the warzones of the Middle East. Same-same!
Gorr-save-me! Give me a motorbike, an open road, a few beers and a spliff!!!
D'y'reckon Tony Abbott has been there?
D'y'reckon Anna Bligh has”been there”?
Howard?
Rudd?
Even that Working-Class bloke Nathan Rees?
And what about those punses in Adelaide? Wran? Ever been there MISTER Wran?
Lots, as it happens, of Aborigine have. Not necessarily to Vietnam, or to the Middle East. No! They jus' go down to their “HOME”, in the Town Camp!
Gorr-save-me! Give me a few beers and a spliff!!!

What we don't see, is where these blokes are “tempered”. Where they get their “Mettle”. Why they aren't afraid of fighting, when fighting is called for.
Before the media got on the bandwagon of sensational END OF THE WORLD climate change news items, soapies and telemovies were what they'd see on tele. Few could begin to take an interest in any political blah. It, like stopping climate change, was in another galaxy to them. Outta reach and outta control, and outta their ability to effect. Especially if the government showed no interest in helping to stop the meltdown!
Most of the people in the tough classes, where a lot of Bikers come from, managed their own world's, and left the world beyond their “patch” to the rest of the world. As crime was a given, theft from the rich usually meant a bit more for their mob, shared around. It wasn't a crime. Just a bit of “Robin Hood!”
So..., as the “system” deserts so many otherwise Good, Capable, men and women to their own devices, where they must scrap to scrape a few extra dollars together, to help the neighbor's daughter through an unwanted pregnancy, to give their kid a bicycle, to have something left over at the end of the day, to help them relax..., and after a violent mob have gone through their own home, they join forces. Without the security of a nice suburb, without lots of onside coppers to keep the yobos out, they do it themselves. In the end, they make it, and can actually buy a house.
That they had to run a relatively harmless illegal operation to acquire the “wealth” seemed no different to how the real estate agent, or the lawyer for a property developer made their pile. Indeed, the Biker didn't put and keep thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of Good people out of a home so he could live in opulence. So it goes on....
Since climate change has struck-home, and into the hearts of many people these days, the blokes who are organized into clubs, “gangs”, if you must, who have a bit of military experience, and who have matured passed the old stereotypical white superiority ideals, and who have pretty-much ALWAYS had a Moral Reason for their being in their Club or Gang or Tribe, Bikers have come to see that nothing they do is woirth it if the climate is rooted. If the planet melts down!?
Like most people, if they can see a wrong, they WILL try to right it.
As the old Biker line goes “When we do right, no-one remembers. When we do wrong, no-one forgets”.
That the Bikers have always been a strong force against corrupt tyrannical corporate globalization, and see that they may be able to help a Righteous Mob of WHAH?! GREENIES in their fight to change the corporate attitude to the environment, and that they MAY be out there in the forests standing NEXT TO Greenie ferals and trippers of all flowery colors, to stop the carnage, it's quite understandable that our tyrannical state governments are trying to destroy them as a force.
Just like Jo Bjelke-Peterson did, or tried to do, to the Greenies in the 1970s.
Just like the SAME colonial governments, ex-Britain, did to my Great-Grand-Parents' and their Nation in Gippsland in the 1890s.
It's quite understandable that Queensland's colonialist, corporate, pro-Babylon government will do everything they possibly can to blacken the name and reputations of Bikers, if they foresaw Greenies, Aborigines and Bikers joining forces against tyranny, to help save the Environment.
To help make the lot of the Aborigine Better.
To ensure that tyranny does not take away our FREEDOM, to Associate, to be Honorable against the evil of centralized government!
Might very well be one HELL of a Tribe to answer to........
Might be a much better world if Bikers are allowed to Associate.