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/
I don’t write often … but should not we just put together a “kill the Climate Liars” theatre project? Its certain that between us all, there is a lot of fodder for the script.
Killclimatedeniers.tumblr.com is a website and the same phrase has a twitter account. Its a completely ignorant website, nothing that will educate anyone, no data on climate or temperatures, just a lot of words about how bad climate change is without anything backing up any claims.
On the website, on the “about” page, it says lots of guns will be needed to stop climate change, and this:
“So this show (tentatively called Kill Climate Deniers because why not) takes this form: a group of heavily armed eco-activists break into a major Australian institution and hold the occupants hostage. Their demands are: a complete sessation of all carbon emissions, immediately, and the immediate transformation of the Australian economy away from any and all reliance on fossil fuels. Immediately.”
Relax. Tell them the carbon footprint of a bullet is 10Gt (homogenised) and she’ll be apples.
Before it is fired or afterwards?
And the government is giving them funds? Now that is frightening. A webshot of that page is what Ferret should be sending a picture of to his contacts.
Can they be sued if someone or group copycats the production and REALLY does what the play suggests??
The Australian drought ended, so who are the deniers? I rather think those down under should be happy that the warmists are wrong.
Just sent off an email to the leader of the opposition in the ACT. No point in complaining to the apparatchiks who approved this.
Some may think we should wait until we know more about the play. I don’t think that it will be a comedy. The title is what sells. I doubt it would be funded if it was called ‘Kill the Jews’ or ‘Kill the Blacks.’
Exactly so!
Once wrapped in the magical Cloak of Morality, there is no deed too evil to be rationalized from within it. But this isn’t a tool of the left or the right, it is a tool of the left AND the right. History abounds with that lesson.
That said, I’d like to see a transcript of the play if anyone has one.
Bishop Hill touched on this recently as well, here.
Is there a point when the silence of those who quietly admit that they know better in the face of the hype and madness incurs moral culpability? Perhaps not. Still, I have a hard time feeling anything but contempt towards such convenient cowardice.
The enviro-wackos are just like Islamists, aren’t they? The “good” ones will say they disapprove — if you corner them, and ask them in public.
But they never step up in public and disapprove of these threats of violence on their own. What “green” group has distanced itself from RFK jr’s demand that skeptics should be jailed, or worse?
I think the proper response is: *crickets*
There is way too much stupidity in the world – you have to pick your battles wisely. Skirmishes with lunatic fringes don’t make the grade.
I believe it’s just a matter of (short) time before environmental movements turn violent, and very extreme at that. All ingredients are already there. McKibbenities, as crazy as they are in their environmental beliefs, have already enlisted extreme groups, such as anarchists, communists, Marxists and such, as observed at the “climate march”. These guys cause trouble everywhere they show up. And such “performances” just add fuel to the fire.
Hey, they do all the time; ALF, ELF, Mr. Froggies who held up that TV station, Joe Stack, the Unabomber…
I would not rule it out, as the so-called “pause” continues and their frustrations mount. They will blame skeptics for the failure of their program. It could get pretty nasty.
How sad it is to see this behavior. It is telling of the moral decay in the US. I did not realize that immoral behavior was in the redistribution plan too!
It looks to me like an Australian satirical piece. The Australians excel at satire which might be difficult to take for those who do not appreciate biting wit. Look at the ever popular TV series ‘The Games’ about settting up the administration for the Sydney Olympics of 2000. That was very rough unless you understand Australian wit but was an excellent satire. –From New Zealand . where they do satire of a rough kind too.
Simply continuation of the stupid 10:10 video. We probably don’t have to wait longer anymore until one of these sickos attacks a so-called sceptic. Disgusting.
Found this article from CityNews.com.au
http://citynews.com.au/2014/global-climate-denial-industry-turns-sights-joy-burch/
I wonder how this stands against vilification laws here?
I have to say that recent events like this in Australia are making me very nervous. I have a friend who is ex-military and he has been offering to teach me how to shoot for several years. I have always turned him down out of principle, but now I am not so sure.
What principle are you referring to?
I don’t understand.
Learning a skill such as driving a car, using a computer, or cooking as an example, are a good thing and not much different, even if you never have to use them.
Just sayin….
Well as I see it there are three things you can do with a gun: Hunt – not my thing at all, Shoot someone – not my thing either (except perhaps in self defence) and shooting at targets, which might be fun for a while.
The important thing that you learn is what NOT to do with a gun, so take the opportunity.
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By his use of “Left”, I understand that Andrew Bolt mean socialist parties in Australia. Can we extend that context to all the self-identying / self-named socialist parties in other modern industrialized countries as well? Are any of Australia’s socialist parties unique compared to socialist parties in other countries?
Is there an underlying principle to it all?
& it does not matter what a political party’s mass media PR says about itself or what it calls itself, rather, it is what ethical acts they actually carry out that is the fundamentally defining character of the party. If a political party carries out collectivism as a principle, it is socialist whether it calls itself socialist or not.
& collectivism is a quasi-ethical principle and is also, at the same time, a quasi-political principle. It gives permission to sacrifice the liberty, property or life of one group of people to another group of people. WRT art, look for groups of people advocating collectivism and you should see in their art the portrayal of glorification of sacrificing others to their needs.
John
I’m afraid Aussie climateers have been in the news disproportionately to population. The ship of fools wasn’t the only item. The government has dealt the climate doom culture there a huge blow. They had a pretty free reign and scads of cash from a socialist government for a generation and this resulted in thousands of students enrolling in this lightly opposed discipline. Now they are desperate. A new mental illness pathology has sprung up in Australia and it will spread overseas, of course. That this kill the deniers play came out of Oz should not be surprising. I think we are getting a forecast of how this thing will pan out internationally from all this.
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/08/alarmists-and-mental-illness-climate-depression-climate-change-delusion/
Gary Pearse on September 30, 2014 at 7:16 pm
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Gary Pearse,
So, had Michael Crichton lived until now he probably would have written ‘State of Fear Downunder’ to capture the essence of Australian climate fear mongering which would complement his original ‘State of Fear’ which was basically set in the United States.
John
This is not a laughing matter at all. The doctrinaire climateers are desperate, depressed at the hiatus and lack of action on CO2 – there is a whole new mental illness playing out and some are displaying alarming symptoms. Ironically, a major symptom is denial!! They won’t let go of the floods and fire of CO2 cause.
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/08/alarmists-and-mental-illness-climate-depression-climate-change-delusion/
Listen, there are some Hinckleys out there that have had the rug pulled out from under them and with nothing to lose could be dangerous. The hot climate establishment’s silence on this is a measure of where and what these folks are. This in itself is the largest falsification of their work. They clearly are in stunned denial themselves. Note they are not publishing much, but rather are out showing the same old slides. The chances for ugly incidents are especially high in Australia – the whole climate culture and industry has had the rug pulled out from under them by the government. They are shriller than most. They see the massive redundancy in their discipline – Over several years I’ve warned would be climate scientist students (mining and oil exploration geology was going short of new blood with the massive enrollment in the geological sciences’ environmental courses in Australia and Canada -two major mining countries) to find something else because this one-trick-pony is overloaded with practioners and it was only a matter of time before they would have to seek something else.
I think a telling count down would be to gather stats on enrollment in climate science at universities. Anyone got a source for this sort of thing. The failure of forecasts and frankly, the boredom there must be when there is basically only one formula to learn.
*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?*
Never. Because those “reasonable and educated people” you refer to secretly approve of such actions, though they are not brave — or stupid — enough to say so.
The differences between those in The Cause are not philosophical, they are practical. Some will openly admit the Green/Left’s true extreme agenda; most will not, fearing a backlash. They don’t condemn projects like these, but they can’t publicly support them, so ……….. silence is the only option left.
Excellent! The meltdown continues. This shows a *pattern* of behavior over time, along with the 10:10 Climate video of blowing up school kids.
I’m disgusted beyond description. I used to call Canberra home; I lived in Gungahlin (Ngunnawal, specifically: the best part of the ACT outside of Tidbinbilla) and I truly love the ACT. The picture is of the Carillion Tower; you can see it on the Northwest coast of Lake Burley-Griffin, and you can hear it chime the hours if you sit by the water… The ACT is the only place in Australia where drug use (decriminalized marijuana) and prostitution are legal. We used to joke it was because of the presence of the politicians. We can blame the funding on drug-addled politicians, but they can’t carry sole blame for this nastiness.
Yet even with the wonderful (sarc) reputation the ACT “enjoys” over things like decriminalized “green” and prostitution, I would think that the people and politicians who live in a place that throws the grandest Jazz and music Festivals in the world, the best gardening celebration anywhere (Floriade is simply glorious), and is simply one of the most beautiful cities on planet earth (with what I always thought of as people who matched), would say no to something as vile, as rude, as un-Australian as this. Pro-environment, yes, even to a pro-AGW fault—but tacit approval for senseless violence?
This is lower than the original town of Acton, sunk beneath the lake this last century.
Marijuana in the ACT is still illegal to possess, use, administer, cultivate, or have any quantity with intent to sell.
However, possession\cultivation of a small quantity is decriminalised to the point of a simple cannabis offence with a $100 fine.
http://the-riotact.com/pot-in-canberra/44060
Prostitution is legal in pretty much all of Australia.
http://www.catwa.org.au/?q=Statelegislations
To be fair this is not the most offensive waste of public money on “art” by the Canberra Kleptocrats.
The Canberra centenary celebrations saw $334,000 blown on the unfortunate Sky-Whale* incident.
http://images-2.domain.com.au/2013/05/09/4257835/balloon729-620×349.jpg
*AKA
“Norca”
“Moby Tit”
“The Hindenboob”
However in its defence, The Hindenboob did prove a rich mine of comedy gold. I’m not sure this will ever be said of “Kill the Climate Deniers”
“Quite so. Nothing says “‘look at how many amazing people Canberra has produced” quite like a hideous airborne turtle with ten tits” – Response to curators justifications.
“oh, the huge mammaries!” – Hindenburg ref.
“It is mostly hot air coated with a thin film of pretentious nonsense” – why it represents Canberra
“But, somehow there’s something missing. The mendicants hanging off each teat.” – how it could better represent Canberra.
“Norca” has left Canberra’s skies, but the comedy lives on –
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/hail_the_whale/P20/
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/this_is_canberra/
It is doubtful that the $18,000 flushed on this latest sorry offering from Cirque Du Leftard will provide much mirth but it could have been worse, at least it didn’t cost $334,000.
Like everything the left does, silence sanity. No better example of lacking a coherent counterperspective. Typical.
We could always put on a play of our own. In our play, we could imprison climate alarmists, because they are lying to the populace, in order to push their evil agenda….They are greedy, hateful carpetbaggers, trying to control everyone and everything on the earth, so that they can dominate over all citizens. They are convicted of committing treasonous acts, and sentenced to be strapped to the blade of a 600 ft wind turbine, till they come to their senses….if ever. Much better story line, anyway! LOL!
Although I believe the theater company producing this play has every right to perform the play under Freedom of Speech, the government absolutely does not have the right to use taxpayer money to subsidize its production. Period! (TM).
Be careful about premature conclusions… What if this turned out to be another Lewandowsky research experiment? (half sarcastic, half not)
Well said, Nik.
Thanks. But eventually we need welfare for lackeys. We need a servant class. Like in the old days.
I’ve added my own thoughts here, with links back to this page and to Andrew’s blog: http://peacelegacy.org/articles/ive-just-been-rude-some-very-nice-people
So, they want to kill reality? Because that is their true enemy now. I guess putting them in a jar of urine just won’t do anymore. Gotta be edgy.
You mean my Mann dummy holding a hockey stick in a jar of boiling urine isn’t edgy enough to receive ACT funding? Darn!
Add to your grant request a plan to have your subject’s mannequin holding a cross-section slice of a genuine Yamal larch tree in his other hand, with the urine to have been solicited from Dr. Mann himself, and I think you could get the dough.
Oh, yeah; instead of boiling the liquid, have carbon dioxide bubbling up through it.
It ain’t just “edgy” you need, but authenticity.
[SNIP! one of the ugliest most racist comments I’ve ever seen – you’ve been warned, now you are BANNED – PERMANENTLY All further comments from you will go immediately to the bit bucket – Anthony Watts]