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Clive Hamilton the Net Nanny : Comments
By Kerry Miller, published 24/11/2008Christian Right follows Clive Hamilton's lessons in their push for Internet censorship.
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In ‘Death Rattles of the Climate Change Skeptics’ (New Matilda, 19 May 2008), Clive criticised Don Aitkin for acknowledging my work, and described me as one of ‘Australia’s foremost climate skeptics’. He claimed I was ‘associated’ (how?) ‘with the denialists of the Lavoisier Group, an organisation that sees the Kyoto Protocol as a European plot for a “new imperial order” that would see our sovereignty “relocated from Canberra to Bonn.”
Last Saturday I said on this Forum ( http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8132&page=16 ) that “My views are as stated in the papers, submissions and blog posts that I’ve authored and to which I’ve referred. As these are quite voluminous, I continue to wonder why most of the criticism directed at me is for things I’ve never said and, in many cases, don’t believe.”
Clive was one of the critics I had in mind. He’s an economist, but hasn’t addressed any of the economic issues raised in my papers. He chooses instead to assail me for the way an organisation with which I’m allegedly associated ‘sees’ the Kyoto ProtocoI.
A recent Reuter’s report from Lima ( http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN2149971220081121 ) says that Kevin Rudd, who ‘led the left-leaning Labor Party to power last November’, had ‘urged a global response to a problem that [had] led to calls for tighter regulation and a bigger role for the International Monetary Fund.’
Left-leaning? Bigger role for the IMF? Here’s Eddie Ward, ‘the truest Labor man’, speaking on ABC Radio in1946 about the Bretton Woods Agreement that created the IMF:
“… the Agreement will enthrone a World Dictatorship of private finance, more complete and terrible than any Hitlerite dream. It will ... pervert and paganise our Christian ideals and [endanger] world peace ... World collaboration of private financial interests can only mean mass unemployment, slavery, misery, degradation and final destruction. Therefore, as freedom-loving Australians, we should reject this infamous proposal.”
The protectors of Australia’s national sovereignty are losing their punch