When are we Australians going to realise that our country is being beset by unarmed social and political agitators and propaganda ‘terrorists’ of all types and philosophies who are working within and without our borders in attempts to unsettle our normally peaceful and ‘lucky’ home State?
Not only have we recently experienced a number of anti-Western political events — including terrorist-style firebombing attacks on religious and official offices and running illegal and violent demonstrations over wars not connected with us — but our ears and eyes are now also being assaulted by subtle and not-so-subtle propaganda of one sort or another for the wrong reasons.
We have already experienced various foreign nationals being sent out of Australia for spying and working against our interests, but our personas are daily being assaulted by terrorist-style lies and ideological claims on certain media platforms within the world-wide Web.
Do readers know, for example, that we have had quite a number of foreign national political recruiting officers sent to Australia as migrants or foreign government employees to spread their political gospels personally and via the Internet?
I can personally attest to at least one of these who was deported some time ago following my detailed report to the Prime Minister of the day and to ASIO.
My attention in more recent times, however, has continually been drawn to various unhealthy propaganda programmes, videos and talks which could literally be considered as messages from groups intent on misleading and brainwashing us with statements, all too often very far from true researched facts.
There is absolutely no doubt that we ordinary people in the street are increasingly becoming victims of targeted and incorrect Web information designed to unsettle us both socially and politically.
Such campaigns are, indeed, on page one of the Communist playbook used by the Kremlin and Beijing to unsettle and unhinge Western democratic thought. The use of propaganda has already been extensively used by Putin in his military assault on Ukraine and by Communist China in its wish to influence or take over its adjacent territories and to cosy-up to certain chosen Pacific Island states.
During the early Cold War years after WWll, we saw how pro-Communist sympathisers took over some of our educational and administrative institutions and trade unions. Generally speaking, they largely failed to convince most people at that time as they had no means of easily spreading their messages on a personal basis.
When I went to university to study economics and politics, clandestine Communist literature swamped university campuses in Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, the United States and South Africa. The call was to destabilise democratic governments everywhere.
A similar tactic was adopted by Hitler’s Nazi Germany by financing a dissident British man known as “Lord Haw Haw” who broadcast serious propaganda into the Allied West to once again attempt to destabilise the British war effort.
After that war, demobilised soldiers who had fought valiantly for the Allied cause against Hitler’s Germany and Japan, were subtly encouraged to become politically disgruntled with their re-entry into civilian life and voted out of office the very politicians who had sent them to the war fronts in Europe, Africa and the East.
The intellectual ranks in some universities, in the media, the legal profession and elsewhere were invaded by a sense of Marxist or Leninist adventure to be different and to change the world. It was suddenly smart for young people of those days to talk ‘pink’ or ‘Red’ in living rooms throughout much of the industrialised Western world.
Similarly, today, the Web and some of its different platforms have become an open door for the broadcasting of dangerous anti-Western propaganda and the selling of political untruths in attempts to destabilise certain sections of our current population.
Literally every man and his dog with little political or historical background knowledge can now become a loud mouthpiece for wrong reasons. Certain qualified but failed journalists are even helping to disseminate the wrong word to unsuspecting audiences here and elsewhere throughout the Western world.
A typical example is provided by former seriously defrocked journalist, Lara Logan, who now broadcasts to the world from the U.S. via selected global Web platforms after being dumped by several former media employers for serious factual and political errors and propaganda.
As an arch conspiracy theorist, she is now famous for being the first to claim that all Ukrainians are Nazis and that their leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, follows “satanic occult practises” while Russian President, Vladimir Putin, must be “heavily congratulated” for killing Ukrainian men, women and children by cold blooded Communist means.
The sad point about Logan is that some Australians are close followers of her ill-informed rhetoric and accept her crazy accusations as being the gospel.
With so many different major, minor and threatened wars and insurrections around the world at present, the Lara Logans are destabilising dangers to peace and security.
If we wish to keep Australia safe, it is now every Australian’s responsibility to ignore all conspiracy theorists on the Web and in the street and to only believe in what we can personally prove or know to be factually correct.
Loose political talk and obvious propaganda at this juncture in our national history can only but threaten our future as the drums of Communist expansion continue to be heard. A good way to combat this intimidation is not to accept any spoken words but to rather make our minds up on actual actions made.
I leave my last words on this very ticklish but vital situation to a new Australian and medical doctor, My Le Trinh, who escaped the ravages of Communism in Vietnam and recently warned Australia to “awaken to the tyranny growing within your borders. Stand up for truth, expose the lies; the deceptions. Reclaim your nation before the dream of freedom is irrevocably lost.”