It is as equally applicable now as it was when it was first penned.
These words are very much applicable to the current issues we are facing here and throughout the Western World. The United Nations was intended to be a world forum for the suppression of war and in its formative stages was promoted by democratic countries.
Time and tolerance on the part of the democracies has seen it, and its agencies, become dominated by voices from some countries where the very antithesis of democracy is practiced.
Judicial authorities are very much aware of the violent crimes we see everyday yet unfortunately, they sometimes choose to apply “cultural differences” and we too frequently see their decisions result in innocent lives being taken or destroyed.
The judiciary, including magistrates, is too often made up of people who have rarely lived in the real world, have no knowledge of how humanity works or reacts and have a misguided belief that rehabilitation will cure their ills.
Rehabilitation is a process that is useful in cases of physical medical treatment such as mending of broken bones or recovery from a serious operation. Can it work in the case of violent crime, when we see the high proportion of convicted people who are recidivists? For example, the Australian Institute of Criminology reports a 44.8% recidivism rate within two years (2018 data),
From personal experience and meeting with people in jail I can state without fear of contradiction or qualification that many of them are capable of rehabilitation. Convicted armed robbers spend their time in prison keeping fit, and these blokes, believe me, are tremendously fit, to keep themselves in prime condition ready for the next job when they are released. I wonder if prisons have become "Schools for Scoundrels. "
A similar mindset afflicts those who are responsible for upholding our constitution. It is called the Parliament but is it little more than an expanded committee where they all condone each other knowing that they have all breached the trust endowed to them by the electorate?
The most obvious one is the failure of the responsible authorities to bring to account breaches of S.44 of the constitution requiring members to comply with allegiance exclusively to the nation.
Is nothing done by the opposition through fear that some of its members might be caught out or by the Federal Police who are beholden to the Attorney General?
The “system” provides for a solution in the post of Governor General but again, democracy fails to release this tool when needed. The ultimate solution of course is the monarch exercising prerogative to dismiss offending governments but apart from one brave GG in 1976, all others, including the monarch, have been missing in action.
Here in Australia, we are a mirror image of what happens in Britain and for very many years were proud of it. I think that increasingly large numbers of us prefer to detach themselves from our British roots. I wonder why?
We forever rely on our democratic system, hoping that somehow things will improve but in the latent knowledge that they won’t. The need for self-preservation is common to both major parties whose only solution is to pass more laws rather than follow those that exist to the limits that they initially intended.
The intent of laws against murder and rape are clear enough for the most naive person to comprehend. They should be even more obvious to the judiciary whose training and ethic is theoretically intended to administer the law as it is written and without fear or favour. They too often fail on both counts and thereby represent the weakest link in the chain of responsibilities presumed by the democratic system.
The intent of the law is that the judiciary determine guilt or innocence then administer proscribed punishment. Rehabilitation is not their role.
The NSDAP were a conservative leaning group of parties that once had majority support but lost it through its failure to address the uncontrolled violence perpetrated by the Nazis via their Brown Shirts and the SS.
Apart from their well known persecution of the Jewish people the Nazis also abolished trade unions. I find it interesting that the trade unions are often portrayed as the de facto governing body of our country. In my opinion, the Labor party is no more than the political arm of the trade unions.
Our CFMEU friends look like they are starring on Sunday night. Keep paying your taxes people there are hungry mouths to feed. https://t.co/UUEkutlvsj
— Tony Tardio (@tonytardio) September 3, 2025
Freedom of association is one of the hallmarks of democracy but union membership is not free; it is compulsory yet no government, Labor or Liberal has ever seriously tried to apply the law which guarantees freedom from compulsory union membership.
David Crisafulli is spot on, there is no place in modern Queensland for the CFMEU.
— Matthew Camenzuli (@Matt_Camenzuli) September 7, 2025
I would say they have outlived their used by date nationally.
There is no need for a corrupt, criminal organisation to remain in place.
It is just Labor's enforcement ring.
Disgusting.
Will the current action against the CFMEU change anything? I wonder. The personnel chosen for the administration are carefully selected so that the union will emerge again just like it did when it was called the Builders Labourers Federation. People talk about a revolution. That is just what it is: talk and talk is cheap. Nothing will be done. We will not see a conservative government in control of both houses in my lifetime so nothing will change.
Antifa & Pro-Palestine Counter-protests fuelled by unions such as the ETU and CFMEU were vile, stoking hatred and racist, actively looking to cause fights @couriermail #MarchForAustralia @AlboMP @Tony_Burke @JacintaAllanMP you are all on notice. You labeled AUSTRALIANS as… pic.twitter.com/KKGZQPy44X
— Aus Integrity (@QBCCIntegrity) August 31, 2025
It might seem to, but in the end, it won’t.
I am watching the @60MinutesAUS expose on the CFMEU.
— Matthew Camenzuli (@Matt_Camenzuli) September 7, 2025
Bullies thugs and obstructionist political hacks.
Close the CFMEU. https://t.co/AvKNsNKugY
History keeps repeating itself.
I have edited this post to ensure that it is not banned or flagged on social media. However, I have done my utmost to retain its message. Such is the world we live in.
Monty.
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