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/
Stop giving them publicity. Don’t waste your emotion on a theatre company that can’t pay it’s own way without some government money. It’s a catchy title and you’re all being sucked in. I mean, who goes to live theatre anymore? I’ve been dragged to some of these events years ago. All I wanted to do was vomit while mixing with the latte set. Pooncing little shits that want to break into the ‘bigtime’. ‘I am an artiste’.
Don’t give them any publicity and just laugh it off. They are irrelevant and no-one will see the show. Next year the idiots will be putting out their hand for a show called ‘The beheading of ISIS’ or some shit like that.
I kind of understand what you’re saying, but when government funds are being spent on this kind of trash, it’s time to speak up. To just “laugh it off” and do nothing is what they’re hoping you will do.
I would kinda leave it till the play comes out. It, in fact, may be satire. The whole spending of money on ‘The Arts’, I find abhorrent. 3 ppm neanderthal giving some special rights is also abhorrent. Government in Australia gives grants to sports, arts and other things.
You reckon no-one will see the show? I’ll be going for sure and now that it’s been well publicised there’ll be plenty of folks going who did not previously know about it!
Kinda my point. Regardless, try to enjoy it. I won’t be going. (big yawn)
As someone on Bishop Hill pointed out, to identify if it’s hate speech or not, simply replace the subject with an equivalent.
“kill the Aboriginese”
“kill the Woman’s Libbers”
“kill the Jews”
Yep, it’s hate speech.
There is a reason why they’re known as “the Loony Left”…..
It’s just a title.
Now check to make sure that this isn’t a lewandowsky experiment.
However as anythony points out even if the play is in jest… think the no pressure video, .. narratives have a mind of their own. In the cycle of drama we might start with tragedy and end in satire. Conversely if you enter a narrative cycle with comedy or satire the logic of genre will lead to telling tragic tales . This cycle is, some would argue,
Built into us.
When you’re right , you’re right
Just in case I have already started countermeasures
http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/how-to-survive-climate-zombie-threat.html
This guide will help those who lack experience surviving in a dangerous environment. I have given it about two hours´worth of thought and it pretty much condenses everything I know about the topic…
I’m sure we’re getting all excited over nothing! It’s probably going to be an action satire like ‘Kill Bill’. Oh, wait…
THere was a banner carried at the Climate paid volunteer pseudo-demonstration in NYC.
It proclaimed that: “Capitalism is the cause,
Socialism is the cure.”
Last I looked China was not an environmentatal paradise, nor was Russia, N Korea or Cambodia.
The truth is socialism in all its flavors from Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Or PolPat are the only builders of the Auswitz and Gulag. Socialist control warps Science irregardless of whether its Genetics like Lysenko, or a perversion of Climate like CAGW and Pachauri’s IPCC.
Every variety of Socialism from Nazi to Castroite has been a disaster for those for whom they supposedly speak. Except for the Party nouveau aristocrats, of course.
LIncoln is said to have once forlornly mused, that you can’t change a slaveholder’s mind.
The Slaver will continue believing in his right to own other human beings. You can kill him but you can’t change his mind.
Socialism like Slavery is just another pure perversion.
????? take some red ones
Well then. Prohibition must be a socialist enterprise.
Well the term climate denier excludes everyone on WUWT because all readers and commenters here know that a climate exists, moreover they know it it changes over time, that temperatures rise and fall. Huge geological epochs testify to the wonder that is the climate of earth and the ability of life to flourish in adverse and optimum conditions. It has been both warmer and cooler then the present time. The debate here is scientific and open, ideas are expounded challenged, including that of man made carbon dioxide forcing, which may be a tad over egged by some parties.
All here, I think, would like to reduce pollution, clean up the environment, reduce poverty and disease. All readers here seem to have a great love of this planet and an interest in science and a curiosity about the universe we inhabit. So I would be grateful if someone could explain what exactly are we in denial about?
Well said.
That is true. People here do not have any love for “poverty and disease.”
That is why we use fungicides, pesticides, and herbicides to control the more than 20,000 types of molds and mildews that are waiting to destroy our crops, and the hundreds of thousands of insects and weeds that make growing food nearly impossible.
And to “reduce poverty and disease,” we also grow cattle for dairy and beef. The superior proteins provided by domestic animals keep people from becoming malnourished, and provide so much food for so little land, that it nearly eliminates the need for hunting, foraging, and continued deforestation. This preserves the wilderness as well as “reducing poverty and disease.”
I often have conversations with Warmists where they display open hatred and hostility to me…I’m longing for the day when one of them is stupid enough to act out their aggression!
As if, if they got their way, there would be any money available to dole out for community theatre projects. People would be struggling just to feed themselves.
The man is a loon who probably howls at the full moon. Best ignored – as this just strikes me as being attention seeking. Therapy is needed to help him, I feel sorry for him being that angry all the time.
philjourdan
September 30, 2014 at 4:44 pm
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.
Prohibition is living breathing proof that the left is not the only side engaging in violent hate. And the Prohibitionists have the machinery of government on their side for now.
What?!
Wants his dope.
As soon as pot was legalized, libertarians moved the “prohibition” messaging to include the poor, persecuted heroin dealers in local neighborhoods, and the under-appreciated prostitutes who are still not wanted and arrested in our cities and towns. Our sheriff just busted a drug manufacturing house in a bad neighborhood. Reasons to celebrate are many, not the least of which perhaps it will stop some of the dealers from flooding the local high schools with heroin.
As the Baby Boomers well know, and seem to be quite proud of showing the world, the sexual revolution was mainly possible because of the inhibition-lowering drugs. And of course, no matter what, the Hippy paradigm of sex and drugs can never fail, and never have negative results, and can never be said to have evil consequences. Because Prohibition.
At 12:58 PM on 1 October, from Zeke is gotten:
Contrary to the sphincter-clenching social conservative cant about libertarians opposing the War on (Some) Drugs – as well as the criminalization of sexual (as opposed to political) prostitution – to libertine purposes, the simple fact of the matter is that libertarians recognize that the highly Progressive “moral equivalent of war” against the lamentable appetites intrinsic to human nature tends with hideous reliability to constitute not a helluva lot more than a government price support program for the dope dealers and the preservation of pervasive corruption among “law-enforcement officers” of all sorts and levels.
Not to mention making it extremely profitable for pimps and other “managers” of those women, boys, girls and young men reduced by force or desperation to selling their sexual services in the sordid and dangerous clandestine market the Progressives and other religious whackjobs have facilitated in our society.
It might also be observed that, unlike these dogwhistle “moral” authoritarians, libertarians tend to be aware of the fact that Heroin – diacetylmorphine – had entered the marketplace as a branded pharmaceutical produced by Bayer (“Heroin” is in fact Bayer’s trademark name for the medication), and like morphine, meperidine, oxycodone, dihydromorphone and fentanyl it’s an opioid agonist of known utility in the management of pain, marked as a Schedule I drug – fantastically labelled by the legislators (overwhelmingly a bunch of goddam lawyers) as having “no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision” – for no reason supportable by way of pharmacology or physiology.
Have any of these flaming idiot social conservatives grunted and groaned and thought about why the drug dealers have such incentives to push psychoactive chemicals among children and adolescents – to be “flooding the local high schools with heroin” – other than the fact that the present criminalization of manufacturing and selling such stuff enables the vendors to charge nosebleed-high prices for cheaply-made commodities of dubious quality?
Oh, hell, no!
Drugs are not harmful to the brain, central nervous system, personal relationships, families, schools and towns because they are illegal.
Does any one here really think that all of the horrible physical, social, and psychological consequences of mj and heroin use, and prostitution, stem solely from the fact that it is illegal? You are just in denial.
[SNIP not interested in this OFF TOPIC DIATRIBE – Anthony]
You are 80 years too late.
Hey! Talk about rush to judgment….
107 comments already, mostly full of silly indignation. Anybody think it’s likely we are being spoofed?
Seems to me we should check that this press notice is for real, first. But if this piece really does have that title, I would expect it to be a comedy or satire. If it was a serious enviro-piece I think it would have had a more subtle title.
Then again, most theatrical folk are likely to be serious warmists (maybe S Lewandowsky is at this moment applying for a grant to investigate if this is true?) so maybe I am wrong. We’ll see.
I’d be indignant, too, though, if I lived in ACT, and it was MY money that was supporting ANY theatre project, warmist or sceptical, left or right, tragedy or comedy.
I have an intelligent &. creative play in mind titled “Kill Joy Marie Burch“, in which an angry mob is depicted, discontent with the fact the loving mother of a guy charged with aggravated robbery of a fast food restaurant poses as their Art Minister. In other words it would be pure fun. Where can I apply for an artsATC grant?
I have been threatened both directly and indirectly more then once. Im not even the type to say that the theory IS wrong about dangerous levels of warming. Personally I think the idea of the C in C agw is completely un supported and wrong but really I just try to show people that the science is NOT settled, our understanding IS in major flux, and the C in C agw is certainly not a given or proven. Even when I make it very clear with published work that the field is still in flux and our understanding of most variables is far from certain I STILL am often told it is a problem to ask questions, the experts do this for us! I see this as a very dangerous mindset no matter the issue but especially when its being used to force global compliance.
Good post,, however one thought to add. The benefits of CO2 are KNOWN in hundreds of studies, in thousands of experiments, and in observations. The “C” in CAGW is clearly absent in the observations. Hell, the “G” and the “W” are all absent for well over 15 years now. In fact the G, like the C never happened,
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say – let them perform their play.
Just because I don’t like it and even threatened by it doesn’t mean I should muzzle them. They aren’t in a position of power to start a pogrom. So give then their right to free speech.
(And I suspect it’s a spoof of Richard Curtis’s red button short).
“(And I suspect it’s a spoof of Richard Curtis’s red button short).”
I don’t think so. The Alarmists have buried that attempt at humor (yes – they made it because they thought it would be hilarious). NOBODY talks about it anymore but the skeptics. Ordinary people not interested in the climate snorefest have never heard of it.
Nobody spoofes something nobody has heard of.
So I guess this play is another terribly misguided attempt at humor by liberal arts majors who think they can write a piece.
Tend to agree. And the 10:10 outing really didn’t serve the narrative quite as intended.
Next up… a reprise of the 10:10 video, told via the medium of dance (if there’s an opera on the Klinghoffer murder anything is possible in artistic expression). Seems the BBC and Guardian have had to charter an entire A380 just to accommodate essential staff to attend. Apparently (this means anything can mean anything if added somewhere in the text. Apparently).
Their reviews would be a hoot. The Graun had to pull its 10:10 CiF page crowing about their support when the comments hit about 100:1 disgusted, and mostly loyal Ciffers unclear on what was being served with this effort.
The BBC then reported this as ‘views being split’. Typical BBC; it was semantically accurate but in every other way professionally dishonest.
M Courtney, we prefer to see the shows go on. Confidentially, the Australian government will be installing climate zombie meters in all the theater entrances.
There is a key difference between “let them perform their play” and
“lets tax the public so that a private group can perform their play”.
I agree. The descriptions of this play seem no worse than standard Hollywood fare. For instance, the US TV network SHOWTIME has produced entire series devoted to such topics as the lives of prostitutes, dope dealers, serial killers and combinations of same. The things that are glorified by the arts and entertainment industry… no wonder there seems to be a cultural and moral void.
How can you judge a play before you’ve seen it, or at least seen a summary of its content? The title could mean all kinds of things, it could be irony or sarcasm. Has someone actually tried to ask the writers before publishing this criticism?
Oh yeah, nah, they would never mean it seriously, just look at the MULTIPLE layers of IRONY in the 10:10 child-sploding video; so many it looks like a Lasagne and we have to wind our post-modern brains around it for as long as it takes to sip a Chardonnay while making thoughtful gestures with our nerd-glasses. Yet again, how refreshing is the thought that we confused the enemy with the pretense of multiple layers of irony and actually managed to use taxpayer money to produce a blatant in-your-face piece of genocidal agitprop, ah the good old days, the 1920ies in Moscow, the days before the comrades cracked down on the progressive artists… Well let’s switch to Vodka, the night is young.
I followed the link to the ‘contact’ page and ended up at what suspiciously looked to be a wordpress comment form. So I left the following comment:
Posted, right into moderation.
Then I hunted around some, if there is a comment form surely there is a list of comments… No, only empty space.
It is unlikely that any of our comments are ever going to see screen time.
Amazing , If we catch a Muslim preacher encouraging killing we would have him removed from the country.
I guess the Preacher could now go to court and his defense ask whether he is doing anything different to the Theatre production.
Noticed that the 10:10 video is about more than just children – never saw the others – still disturbing and still ugly – still available on youtube (discretion advised):
In fiction genres the portrayals of two human activities are dominant: sex and killing. Ho-hum.
At issue is what is the ethical and cultural message intended by the authors of the proposed play entitled “Kill Climate Deniers”.
If the play is intended to spread even just the slightest innocent-seeming cultural suggestion that it is reasonable to consider whether there is a need to have the government or some vigilantes do something about ‘climate deniers’ then I think the play should be intellectually denounced.
John
If I was to write a play and wanted the world to notice it.
Do you think calling it by some contentious name.
Would work?
Not really. Have you ever read Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note?
That’s ok, nobody else has either. 🙂
According to their web page:
“The scenario of the work sees an Australian environment minister confront an armed siege of the Australian Parliament by a group of eco-terrorists.”
Assuming the eco-terrorists are climate alarmists looking to kill climate “deniers”, I would assume the scenario will actually denounce it’s very title.
So I don’t know… maybe you guys are jumping the gun a little, getting all worked up over the container while ignoring the content…
Did you even try tp contact them before totally flying off the handles?
No, I personally did not contact them. All I could think of were examples of hate speech I’ve seen from people in the climate fearosphere, in past, Just within the past 2 weeks, we have seen a speech from a US politician (John F. Kennedy, Jr.) calling for the imprisonment of the unfaithful and video statements from the true believers calling for burning down people’s houses and shaming and intimidating children.
We’ve also witnessed US college professors stating that our viewpoints are a mental illness and we must be institutionalized and/or re-educated. There are many such examples…
Some have remarked on the fact that this is merely the title and we don’t know what the play is. Just so.
I don’t care why they decided on ‘kill climate deniers’. Knowingly or unknowingly, they made a bad call, because as we all know it is not unheard of for supposedly intelligent, educated members of our society to call for our deaths with perfect seriousness. So, it doesn’t work. Maybe you can title a play ‘date raping Senators’ and that’s OK, you can’t title a play ‘date raping white girls’, because that actually happens and is a problem.
As always, just my view.
If you bother to go to the website and click on ‘kill the deniers’ you will see that the ‘play’ is about a group of eco terrorists who besiege the Australian Parliament. So the theatre group is not advocating killing us deniers but is about eco fascists who wish to do so.
The pathetic sociopath promoting this bit of trash, on his own blog, wants to impose his cliamte final solution with lots of guns. He fantasizes about a Chechen terorist attack style assault on a major theater or social event. He wants to take hostages and hold their lives in peril until he gets a total cessation of carbon emissions.
Hmmm… some people might list “Eco-terrorist” as a positive on their resume. The satirical point of this play may be that the Government gives the order to “Kill the climate deniers,” meaning the eco-terrorists.