tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59114392012-01-31T07:33:02.804+11:00The rush to use laws in a bid to control conflict and modify behaviour must be the biggest piece of lumbering logomachy since Christianity brought the warring tribes of England together in the 1st millenium. What are we westerners going to do to help our citizens avoid the injury and dumb weight of more legislature -"brilliant policy" badly implemented. Legislation medicine- but without proper administration. You name it,we'll talk it here!journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-54367383224763480542012-01-30T16:26:00.002+11:002012-01-31T07:33:02.825+11:00

Heaven help us when we need the police to tell us whether we are doing the wrong thing. Can we expect the police and the growing nanny state to provide us final verdicts on more and more things? If we ask for it , maybe we will get it ? The PM's  press agent is said to have not committed " a crime "after a group stormed a private meeting following his advice on a high level public meeting

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If nothing else , the situation in Papua New Guinea today  should remind the world that just having the parliamentary process doesn't mean it will work ( both parties in this poor country believe in it ) . That seriously dangerous  myth that Form is content has caused the 1st world to invest heavily in free elections in the 3rd World when any sound engagement with another country MUST face the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-67589697700859840002011-11-28T11:07:00.003+11:002011-11-28T11:18:46.751+11:00

Albanese is so out of touch he celebrates the AMOUNT OF LEGISLATION the Feds  have passed this year . Its not parenting and governance - it groping around in the dark . Its the sort of distorted desperation of a parent who comes home after years of disengagement , to set rules on everything.   Worse for our culture, which is built on a specific balance between liberty and law,on set big picture

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Doesn't it depend on whose in the chair at the time ? Clearly not , but postmodern  principles are watering down our capacity to deal with each other , anger and failure to listen and act responsibly response -like ( I play awe-fully deaf when i get in my chair at night)

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-26825581124185665742010-10-02T16:29:00.001+10:002010-10-06T10:20:18.271+11:00

We know as a culture when we are moving backwards..... when lawmen behave fanatically ,Geoffrey Robertson and the NSW govt 

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-52947274297614024572010-09-08T14:33:00.001+10:002010-09-08T18:45:18.504+10:00

Been great to hear the independents speak freely about concerns in their areas . But how far should they push for change when we believe in taking much advice and voting TOGETHER for change .Any change in the consititution is after all completely dependent on consensus,  and that clearly is in question with unpublished agreements made with at least 2independants.  As the prominent libertarian

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Been greatly enjoying reading Dreams of my Father by Barack Obama. His forefathers weren't alone in seeking power in the predictable ,superficial  pedantry of mere and more raw power.  Good on them though , for trying to make the system work and to Obama for reminding us that the groaning will continue - however well we work together! I just pray a new generation of young people will , instead

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Well done team !!!!! In a move destined to not please the worryers and the pedants , "the progressives" and all those still stuck in some old school of mere description. The Aussies have this April led the way in the West  by going beyond the superficial appeal of a bill of rights to see its silly sentiment. Instead of concentrating on crime , the focus of the courts would have been on

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Minister Robinson( today) thinks he's doing a great job - growing the compliance sectors of planning departments. 40 new jobs in Melbourne alone. He can't see it, but this preoccupation is a sign of degradation; degradation of what was once the jewel and crown of government - its ability to plan ; to lead : a lead focused on giving freedom and liberty to the people.(Not that our generation have

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-68545372091327493602009-06-23T11:58:00.000+10:002009-06-23T16:13:25.578+10:00

By knowing whose talking; i mean really ! . We all need a caution, when filled with that excitement we get when we feel that urge to point the finger; to remind us of why we don't want the world to be filled with talk about everyone elses faults; To remind us that , what we think is happening, may not be actually what is happening.When we think we know what motivates another- it may just be an

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This note is to ask a question and suggest that "the heavy weight of political and other correctness is killing us" . Example 1 The era of "doing what we like ( Valuesystem = there is no such thing as the wrong thing) has been followed by an era of political correctness(valuesystem = "whatever you think is the wrong thing is right? " -The result: A value system that stops just about everyone

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-72588481200959629262007-05-03T14:02:00.000+10:002007-05-03T14:08:28.301+10:00

The First Amendment US parliament. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The First Amendment restricts the government, not the people. Should be more of it!

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A minister parked his car in a no-parking zone in a large city because he was short of time and couldn't find a space with a meter.Then he put a note under the windshield wiper that read: "I have circled the block 10 times. If I don't park here, I'll miss my appointment."Forgive us our trespasses."When he returned, he found a citation from a police officer along with this note. "I've circled

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-1173907804330537552007-03-15T08:50:00.000+11:002007-03-25T09:33:57.583+10:00

You don't expect Non christians to pick up when a Judeo Christian imperative is being undermined, but when progressive Christians want to sign up to "the evangelical climate initiative ", they allow the secularists to pull the carpet from under them theologically;-we should be concerned over what those blokes are still standing on!Instead of looking to where we in the west came from, and noting

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-1171328101185581862007-02-13T11:45:00.000+11:002007-03-25T10:00:36.680+10:00

Where is the post modernists theory of action when you really need it ? gifts, grants, incentives, market forces, private consultants , landcare,self regulation , audits, education or more regulation . Both political parties are in a mental mess over what works.( look at the waste of words and taxes in environment and health care management) eg They savage the subject of stewardship ( all

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The government are making huge mistakes by lecturing us about good and bad behaviour Thinking people, in the face of patronising nonsense (good ideas roughly implemented) ,can be predicted to rebel. Clearly our current leaders don't understand the efficiencies of modern democracies - nip the problem in the bud --not in the courtroom.

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HALLOWED HALLS OF HAILESBURY From ABCTV "As many of us know,the badge of "old Christian school" is no guarantee against complacency,heresy, and blinkered bullheadedness in some matters of principle. THE RISK of INNOCULATION The risk, for those who attend church schools , as the facts of the story at Haileybury testify, is not indoctrination in the great free choice and personal performance

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The clouds over the Migration act have moved methinks this legislation has got to do more with desperation than responsible decisionmaking -the job of parliament. We have enough bad law .At least the controversy has flushed out some argument ; what a win for truth Talking and discussing - Surely it shouldn't take members losing incumbenecy to get the public debate going . Even amanda has finally

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-1150499790642786942006-06-17T09:16:00.000+10:002007-03-25T10:06:01.716+10:00

After all -"all religions do is create wars".the chant oft repeated . NO as Ghandi said - Men create wars One of the greatest paradoxes of the new milleneum is the failure of most anti-religious elements in the West to take their own tutors seriously.Modern mind Science supports the idea and importance of all people having "a religion" It's not only good for you, you have to have one to be sane

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Freedom to is always the bigger issue than freedom from . Julia Gillard, in advocating freedom of choice for abortion seekers is loud, but surely she is she deaf ? - Like a laizze faire mum of the 60's . deaf both to the past , the lessons of the present and therefore the future . Governments role is not about being a voice for teenage like calls for "freedom from ". The job , Julia is not

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Regulatory statements - it would be funny if it wasn't so ridiculous . They know the problem - who doesn't. Point is they really don't know the solution . After all they just spent 55 million on a shallow edict called “so shall we workum” The stupidity of the campaign is highlighted by the careless use of the silly simple idea that you get less regulation by having less laws and courts - the

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A BILL of rights - two wrongs don't make a right- to change the law ( and introduce a new heirachy) they just create two more lawyers . The desperation of so many and their haste to enshrine their own doctrine of divine purity in law is very evident in the range of bills proposed by different groups at this time .Clearly most don't know what world view they are coming from . how else do you

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Singing in Church- Business knows Best Practical people from the old world would be agast at the way modern polys fall for simple ideas . That rebel Saul and old greek and roman thinker ,for example , after writing aboutrevolutionary paradigms restated the old adage of his forebears that Governments, whether we like it or not , believe it not. ( according to Romans 13:1) have very special

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Vic and Qld governements can't believe people are so unaccepting of their brilliance on matters of new judicial process.- it may be more efficient but is it just . Take this eg from QLD The guilt of a person accused of a vegetation clearing offence under the VMA is determined not by a court but by an official. (The judicial trials mandated by Division 3 have no application to vegetation

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911439.post-1072178361102555272003-12-23T22:10:00.000+11:002003-12-23T22:19:36.733+11:00

The goal of a "good" society is achieved by repealing all laws according to Alphonse Anarchist but to every one else on the spectrum you substitute your own label and maxim. For everyone but Alphonse, society is modified by the constraints of a legal system. The question is 'which system?' There are relatively few alternatives; there is the body politic or there is the sovereign God. (The God

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Vic labor - the worst meddling we have ever seen The Victorian Labour Government are busy legislating in the name of the best intention- restricting the freedom of the people in everything from children on farms to seeking to prescribe revegetation requirements on private land . They even reckon they are able to restrict namecalling and its hideous effects. Desperate for power and

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nannyism is rife

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