Tuesday 13 November 2018

Andrew Bolt's Blog,13/11/18; You can't save us from what doesn't exist; However you can use it for personal advantage and both Pollie and Media do; When Morrison is doing it wrong he asks for more;






  This is now our fifth terrorist attack by refugees. What are we doing to ourselves? My editorial on The Bolt Report. Bolt's ad for Bolt himself.

What a prick Bolt is. Understanding is not at all a necessary goal for him.
 Ali had been here for over 2 decades and was a Naturalised Australian he wasn't a "refugee" any longer but an Australian according to each and every definition of what it means to be a citizen. He was as much an Australian as Andrew Bolt is.
 3% of us suffer from the severe mental health conditions and less than 1% are at times are certified as involuntary patients when considered a danger to themselves or others. Mentally ill Australians generally aren't referred to by their previous Nationalities or their religious affiliations. Dimitri Gargasoulos the Bourke st mass murderer is an example and he killed 6 people and wasn't referred to as the Greek Orthodox or as a terrorist. We know he was in a psychotic state and claimed to have been hearing voices at the time. His defence will be his psychiatric condition at the time. Bolt fails to make reference to the fact that a far greater number of people were killed in the past 5 years by Australians in psychotic states far, far more than just his 5 Muslims grouped from very different origins and cultures. For him being a Muslim is central tenet despite the fact that the statistical significance 5 in 10 million or even if only Muslims are considered 5 in some 300 000.
Bolt's the son of immigrants who his hero Trump gives him no birthright claim to citizenship so Bolt's suggestion 'we' saved Ali as if Bolt has some significantly different status to Ali in being an Australian Ali was as much a part of Bolt's 'we' as Bolt. To say he wasn't amplifying Bolt's exclusiveness, racism and his denial of our Constitution. The fact that Ali had a mental illness was really the only distinguishing difference between them. However many would believe Bolt also has a serious issue with delusion as well. The proof can be found in his opinionated narratives that have little or no relevance to the socially shared reality in which we live. Andrew Bolt has been witnessed to have committed attempted GBH on two pranksters who practically joked him in Carlton. A video showed he could be as much a danger to others too he simply wasn't charged.
 So 5 cases over a 5 year period shared between two cities regarded as the most livable in the world with a combined population of 10 million people stand as Bolt's statistical evidence that we as a country is in dire threat of domestic terrorism by the Muslims we have allowed into the country. Anyone of them without certainty could be our next attackers. If that's not deluded paranoia I don't know what is? Three of the cases if not all of them revealed a severe degree of mental impairment Haider, Man Monis and Ali were by definition ill and certifiable. Furthermore, Bolt never mentions that far, far more cases of murder and violence have been committed by people in mentally psychotic states in the same period and weren't Muslim who have been ignored by Bolt, a high degree of Christians among them.  In Ali's case, there wasn't even a cry of Allahu Akbar yet Bolt hasn't a problem suggesting the primary cause of murder in this instance was radical Islam. Why isn't radical Christian if the shoes on the other foot after all murder is radical if intended and we hear of it happening daily.
If there's a lesson to be learned from this tragic circumstance it is our approach to mental illness hidden in most part from us all. An illness unlike any other that has family and friends witness it for some time even years but without reporting it until it breaks out in a cathartic event for all to see. What we do know is Media and Politicians declare themselves the owners of the narratives in these moments particularly when the need to understand what happened is abandoned for use. Use it can have often for profit and or politics which is evident at the moment. 
Matthew Guy is immediately advertising fake statistics on crime I might add. Bolt is declaring the nation's faux danger anger and necessary Islamophobia and Morrison is back to dividing Australians with Abbott's divisive Team Australia catcall of them and us. While an Italian not that long ago regarded a wog, a dago lies dead and is about to be given a State Funeral for being unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Everybody seems to find a pot of gold in this event that is a tragedy to two families. All, however, if seen through the prism of self-interest makes Kafkaesque use of Ali rather than attempt any forensic empathetic effort to understand Ali and what happened. Accompanying this failure is to proffer only negative opinions and generalisations of the whole of those who practice and even don't practice Islam grouping some 54 plus different cultures and tarring them with a single brush. Declaring "them" really ordinary Australians as potentially dangerous to a mythical "us". The challenge for Victorian politicians in wake of Bourke Street tragedy

 

Morrison wants Muslim leaders to do more to prevent terrorism, but what more can they do?


There is an election around the corner just watch Andrew Bolt go tooth and nail in vilifying Islam as the fundamentally most dangerous system of belief in this country. The same was once said about the Catholics as their loyalty couldn't be guaranteed to Australia before the Pope and the Vatican. That was proffered back then by the ultra-conservative ruling elite to ensure they can turn traditional left-wing voters by nothing else but a sense of fear. Bolt's not original we have seen it before and it was disgusting and cowardly then and it is just as cowardly today. The conservatives have even taken us to war to retain power wars that we have all lost and left to the Labor Party to pull us out of. Andrew Bolt is parroting the right-wing movements elsewhere and in the English speaking world he's been employed and given the platform by Rupert Murdoch to do it. What relief, only the right-wing is listening to him.  Australian Muslims should be aware of how dangerous Andrew Bolt is he's, in fact, searching jabbing insulting in the hope of pushback in the form of sensation from anywhere he might generate it. In this case what he's promises isn't original it's been shown before but Bolt with his production team will do everything to sensationalise it.


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