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A Message to the Resistance
November 2021
Saturday the 20th of November, 2021, will be a day long remembered by the Resistance in Melbourne, and posterity besides, for on that day Melbourne, Victoria, Australia was - for those who marched from Parliament to Flagstaff gardens in the name of Freedom and Truth - the capital of the world ....
CG was in attendance - after a long hiatus from the pen we return to write this short message to the millions with whom we rallied in body and spirit that day, not only in Melbourne, but elsewhere around Australia and around the world. Readers of this website will recognise some key recurring themes and quotes from previous articles.
It is easy these days with the constant stream of Covid data and statistics from so many sources, much of it dressed up, skewed, manipulated or plain fixed, politicised, to forget that ultimately our present situation has little or nothing to do with any of that really. The real issue here is much more fundamental. And while it is tempting to engage from time to time in arguments about statistics and other secondary issues, I wonder if it occurs to many of us that that might be precisely where our adversaries want us to remain.
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| Left: Saturday, 20th November 2021. Hundreds of thousands gather in Melbourne's CBD to protest against Covid draconianism. The quality of the banners and t-shirts were outstanding. Two examples we personally witnessed: “The first symptom of Covid is no Common Sense” and “If your vaccination can't protect you how will mine?” Right: a T-shirt worn by one of the protesters we spoke to succinctly and starkly describes the plight of many of those who did not attend the rally. | |
In fact, as many of us are well aware I'm sure, the issue here is much deeper than that which gross materialism and the prevailing false and shallow religion of science or pseudo science attending it would have us believe. For tyranny has always been built on false religion from time immemorial; on the misguided idea that knowledge is the exclusive domain of a priestly class - the initiated and the privileged. It matters not whether the ceremonial garb they don is that of yesteryear or a lab coat.
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While it is tempting to engage from time to time in arguments about statistics and other secondary issues, I wonder if it occurs to many of us that that might be precisely where our adversaries want us to remain.
But actually it is a knowledge and wisdom very basic and available to all that is the decisive issue here - an article of Common Sense if you will, though sadly one that we have in large numbers forgotten apparently, not so much in the Resistance where we are among more like-minded friends, but out there in the general public where fear and ignorance hold too much sway over people's lives.
They shouldn't do really, of course, because it is a simple knowledge that sets us free, we need not be specialists to understand it. We need only be human. Put simply it is this - no man is fit for freedom unless he is prepared at any moment to lay down his life for it, be it by the sword or the gun or the coronavirus.
Perhaps it is because it is so fundamental this ancient wisdom of renunciation, and thus so often tacit, unspoken, that we have forgotten it in such great numbers and have so easily surrendered our basic liberties in spite of it. Perhaps it is so long ago that any of us had to spill our blood, or shed a bitter tear or shout out loud from the house tops in the words of one great revolutionary of a different land and a different time, but with a heart a bit like ours perhaps - “give me liberty or give me death!”
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No man is fit for freedom unless he is prepared at any moment to lay down his life for it, be it by the sword or the gun or the coronavirus.
Or the Scottish brave hearts who exactly seven centuries ago last year declared boldly at Abroath that:
“We do not fight for honour, riches, or glory, but solely for freedom which no true man gives up but with his life.”
For you know, a man who is not fit for freedom is not fit for life either. He may carry on a semblance of life, but he will never know what it is to really live. It takes true intelligence to perceive this. By “intelligence” I mean Common Sense. Common in the sense of belonging to us all, like Common Law and Common Ground.
Life is not for cowards. Life is for the brave and the free, and the wise. Only a coward makes a god of Safety. Safety has its place sure, but it is not God. To elevate it to such a position is to become a slave to it. For a wise man knows as well as the coward that the safest place to spend the rest of his life is in a coffin awaiting the inevitable, but unlike the coward he's not going to take that option, though the coward may call his coffin or his cage something else, like a “house” for instance, or a “career”, or "healthcare", or the “Premier of Victoria”.
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Life is not for cowards. Life is for the brave and the free, and the wise. Only a coward makes a god of Safety. Safety has its place sure, but it is not God. To elevate it to such a position is to become a slave to it.
No, life is not for the cowardly or the gullible. Life is for those who can say along with Jesus, that great Master of Life and Freedom and Wisdom, “let the dead bury their dead, you go and announce the kingdom of God.”
I wonder if it has occurred to many of us in the Resistance that we are proclaiming the kingdom of God? Not that it matters if we know it as such or not. (It's not mere words that count after all.) For the kingdom of God is a free one indeed and freedom and life are the same thing. Knowing that is the key to the kingdom.
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