When, if ever, will we see the reasonable and educated people in the warmer side of climate debate speak out against hateful garbage like this? What will it take? Why would government fund what amounts to a sanctioned hate crime disguised as “art”? This is just bizarre.
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Andrew Bolt writes:
The Left is the natural home of the modern totalitarian – and of all those who feel entitled by their superior morality to act as savages.
How how the ACT Government justify spending taxpayers’ money on a theatre work entitled ”Kill Climate Deniers”?
What sane Government donates to a project urging others to kill fellow citizens, even as a “joke”? Are these people mad?
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Here is the web page of the Aspen island Theatre Company. They say:
Aspen Island Theatre Company is dedicated to the creation of contemporary Australian theatre in Canberra. We seek to make theatre that is intelligent and inventive and engages with the present.
Really? A play about killing people some disagree with is “intelligent and inventive”? Maybe I’m confusing them with ISIS?
Their contact page is here: http://aspenisland.com.au/contact/
Left speaking. ‘It is OK if we do it BUT if others do it to us it is bullying. We are the victims.’ This is the common response.
$18,793? Haven’t they learned to round-up and homogenise their numbers yet? Or maybe that last 3 is there for realism. A bit like saying 97% when you really want the punters to think 100%.
Ironically, the more extreme the positions become, the more the majority start to say, “Hey wait a minute.” As I explained in my book “The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science”, most people don’t know how far to go with a new paradigm, in this case environmentalism. I used to wonder what role the extremists play. The answer is to define the limits for the majority.
As Mark Steyn notes, “Perhaps the Government of the Australian Capital Territory could just eliminate the middle man and give me $18,793 to kill myself.”
http://www.steynonline.com/6582/mann-is-an-island
Ha!
But I wouldn’t be too hard on the arts community. Whenever government money is available they be [first] in line, with their hands out. It’s kind of a conditioned reflex.
Beside the totalitarian aspect, and besides it being very wrong, and besides the scientific cluelessness, is their fantastic idea that a just a handful of “deniers” are in their way. A handful who can be done away with, and then everything will be hunky-dory.
There is no reality with these people, no there there, one might communicate with.
Oops, that’s “first in line”, not “fuirst”
Just days ago, the Green apologists were out in full force decrying the videos of nutjobs at the NY Climate marches, telling us that it was unseemly for WUWT to point out the darker side of the climate fearosphere.
Come back, you Greenies and rationalize this play for us.
$18,793 to encourage murder? This is a much larger sum than the Australian federal police claim is being sent to support murderers in ISIS… https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/25139036/man-arrested-in-melbourne-terror-raids-faces-court/
People who believe in a cause are capable of rationalizing almost any horrific act ….
A long tine ago, when I was a Midshipman at USNA, I went home with my best friend (who was also a Midshipman) over Xmas break. His sister was a wild eyed anti-war (Vietnam War) college kid who belonged to the Weather Underground. She signed all her letters to her brother ‘The Revolution is coming’ and other pithy sayings. she would attempt to convert us to her way of thinking, but had a great deal of trouble when we failed to ‘see the light’. She railed about ‘police brutality’ and the government’s use of violence to ‘suppress them’ and seemed to think it was perfectly okay for them to kill police & others. when my best friend asked her why it was okay for her to use violence and not okay for the government, her response was. “because we’re right and they are wrong”
If you think you’re right, you can justify almost any act as long as it contributes to the ‘just cause’.
Molon Labe.
Start with an extreme position and end up with a program that sounds reasonable in comparison … a re-education camp to help all skeptics see the errors of their ways.
The Aspen Island site doesn’t have a synopsis of their plot. Maybe the play is a biting satire about frenzied greens and rhetorical excesses. I know it’s a low-probability option, but we wouldn’t want a no-information rush to judgment.
They made a movie about assassinating President Bush! But sneeze at a picture of Obama and you are charged with treason.
Bolt is right. The hate exudes from the left, and they no longer feel a need to hide it.
Kind of an empty threat since there isn’t anyone claiming the climate doesn’t change, isn’t it?
Or, are they “labelling” people first, then killing them, and then finding out what the person’s opinion was?
2 responses to this:
1. “The Left is the natural home of the modern totalitarian”. Wrong. Extremes in many areas including politics (far left and far right) and religion (ISIS) can be overtly totalitarian. ISIS are fascists whose methods would be recognised by the Nazis.
2. As someone who is convinced that the planet is warming due to increases in GHG concentrations (though there is a debate about how much), I am happy to condemn people who use art as an excuse for calls to violence against sceptics or anyone else. There is more than enough violence in the world as it is.
I’ve had people call me a climate denier simply because I showed them a plot of global average temperatures on a scale where you can actually see the trend over the last 20 years, instead of a scale of over 100 years. I didn’t realize some people think the penalty for showing data should be death.
Haven’t quite got those twin desires for universal peace and human butchery completely sorted out, as of yet. Fortunately these guys couldn’t successfully attack a weakened chipmunk.With a axe.
This is Hate Speech pure and simple. They should be arrested, tried and put away for good.
I am an Australian citizen so I have started making some calls and emails about it. I am being polite but firm about the offense of the title. I know this game so I am seeking clarification and trying to obtain the application of the grant to see what the play intends.
Emailed the Aspen Island Theatre Company asking for clarification about the play and tried ringing the ArtsACT but went to their messagebank (or so I think). I will ring later to try and get more details from ArtsACT. If they do not give up anything I will pursue a FOI on the application. Public money so the details of applications and approval should be fully public.
Also emailing the Minister for the Arts, Joy Bruch. I do not expect much from this angle as she is a ALP member (left wing for non Australians).
Watch this space!
They’re Australian. Totally harmless. The only thing Australians have killed recently is a reduction in coal exports. Go Oz!
It gets tiresome after awhile. If progressives are going to come for me with pitchforks and torches, get on with it I say. Better that they just get over it, cause such violence would profit nobody, but if they’re coming for me bring it on already. Either that or shut up about it.
I left the following comment on their contact page – I doubt it will pass moderation.
“I’m seriously disturbed by news that your organisation is going to be involved in a theatrical production “kill climate deniers”. As a regular guest author on http://wattsupwiththat.com I am a target for hate speech from those who think I am a “climate denier”.
A government sponsored project which might encourage such divisive barbarity and possible threats to my safety and the safety of my family is utterly abhorrent. I’m sure I don’t need to draw your attention to the historical precedent.”
Agree with Pat. We don’t know what it’s about yet. They describe the island as “mounted by an imperial organ”. It might turn out to be a wry exposition of crowd mentality and populist dogma
The following link (intentionally lacking a (t)) htp://killclimatedeniers.tumblr.com/ has information about these loons including a disclaimer they don’t want to encourage anyone to kill deniers ‘either by shooting (,) drowning or hanging.’ This has to be hate speech and some Aussie needs to push it.
There are “reasonable and educated people in the warmer side of climate debate”?
Who knew?