Politics
- “The art of the possible” -
18/9/03
Some time ago, I read somewhere regarding
politics a line that said. “What is the definition for politics?”
Politics is the art of the possible.” That definition stayed with
me up to now, and always made me wonder what really it meant.
In my 23 years living in Australia I have, so
far, outlived three Primer Ministers, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hock and
Paul Kiting, to the present John Howard. No much
good flour out their mill
came out, I dare say, except selling of Australia assets
[Commonwealth Bank, Telecom/Telstra, Qantas, etc.] to the foreign
powers and impoverishment of the Australian people in the process.
Needless to say about the treaties signed by Federal Governments
[present ant past], with the international Community [read UNO],
IMF/World
Bank, WHO, NAFTA,
UNESCO, UNICEF, on a whole range of insidious business, such as
“human rights” for the child, homosexuals, pro-choice, euthanasia,
environmental, just to mention a few, we became the taunt of the New
World Republicanism.
Nonetheless, it was only after the 9/11 events,
I understood fully what this art of the possible
meant. Following then our Primer Minister John Howard how he
mastered his craft round the
globe, from east to West; and his desire to please George Bush/Tony
Blair’s league of arts,
for their warmongering against the Islamic world, it was evident to
me that nothing good would come out of there.
I read in the gospel according Matthew 19:
25-26, ‘When the disciples heard this, they said,
“Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked
at them and said, “For human being this is impossible, but for God
all things are possible.”
I associate this passage with John Howard, to
what he might think of himself: ‘I
am like God for whom all things are possible’. That is
the art of politician, making all things possible. Even when, in
many circumstances, the possibility of doing things seems most
incompatible, implausible, unfeasible, etc. say for ethical reasons
or other, politicians, as masters of this art, find always a way, a
modus
operandi, to suit their design,
i.e. to create new situation,
ad hoc, which
will eventually fits their political agendas.
Come to mind what Edward Rock wrote on
‘Target’, September 12th, 2003, from whom I got
inspired to write this letter.
LETTER
TO JOHN HOWARD:
Dear
Mr. Howard — August 11th, 2003.
I note
your almost daily exhortation to the Australian people to strengthen
themselves to meet the threat of terrorism coming out of recent
events in Indonesia. In this respect I refer you to the recent
history of Indonesia in which your government played a significant
role in persuading the Suharto administration to surrender its
financial sovereignty to the IMP The immediate result was the
cessation of all subsidy payments on food and fuel that made life
just marginally bearable for I living in near poverty When those
policies were withdrawn the resultant rioting, looting and burning
destabilised Indonesia and it became the seedbed for considerable
antipathy towards Australia. This is from where the threat of
terrorism emanates.
A few
years previously the Hawke-Keating government, with your blessing,
handed over our financial sovereignty to the IMF and its affiliates.
Our banks were deregulated and where previously they were answerable
to our Government and bank charges were regulated by Australian law,
they then became a law unto themselves and began their present
policy of exploiting the Australian people free of any form of
control.
As a
nation we were destabilised, and increasingly lost control of our
own economy and resources, and more importantly, the responsibility
to God for how those resources were managed, the essential factor in
a sovereign nation. So when it came to Indonesia turn we sided with
the IMP. We thus lost a golden opportunity to act as a good
neighbour towards Indonesia. Instead we incurred the threat of
terrorism.
The
basic evil in IMF policies is the creation of all money as
irredeemable debt. Jesus Christ gave us the opposite policy in the
prayer he instructed us to pray, “forgive us our debts as we forgive
our debtors.” The only compatible policy with this prayer is to
create money as Christ would create it, free of debt: In the same
chapter of Matthew in which his prayer is recorded, Christ goes on
to warn us of the utter impossibility of serving both God and
mammon, and, if we choose service to mammon we will hate God and
consequently our fellow man.
The
same alternatives reside in the choice between decentralised and
centralised power. Decentralisation establishes the God given gift
of sovereignty, while centralisation destroys that gift and offers
in its place power that corrupts. As a globalist and a servant of
mammon under the power of the IMF, this is the path you have chosen
for Australia. Over fifty years Centralism has become the
fundamental policy of the Liberal-Nat coalition.
Christ’s teaching on the Godly role of money is clearly taught in
Matthew 20, which begins ‘For the kingdom of heaven, is like unto
and toes on to describe the Godly distribution of money to mankind
by the master of the vineyard who repeatedly used the phrase, “I
will give you that which is right.” He proceeded to distribute money
not as a reward or a punishment, but completely free of either. Had
Australia encouraged Indonesia to develop a similar financial policy
to monetise its own native economy, there would be no threat of
terrorism today.
To
follow the path of Christ we must reclaim our right to create our
own money supply free of debt In its distribution, we must choose
the way that minimises corrupt power, decentralised distribution to
each citizen, allowing them to use freedom of choice to monetise our
economy, free from government control. It is the policy known as
Economic Democracy, anathema to the IMF but chosen by Christ.
I will
write to Simon Crean asking that he and his party support you in
this policy. I will also seek the same support from Christian
Bishops, asking them to call our nation to pray you will follow this
path.
Yours
in Whose service is perfect freedom, Edward Rock, Cape Paterson,
Victoria.
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The above letter
does need any further comments. But just a last though.
Politics? I’m in agreement with Mark
Twain. “In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about
the moralities. All the talk about doing people good, now is about
doing people. Public office is private graft. The political morals
for the United States are not merely food
for laughter, they are an entire
banquet.”
