Additionally, in the last week or two I've been given literally boxes of stone fruit, zucchini, button squash and tomatoes by local farmers - because it would cost them more to send them to Rocklea Markets than what they would get for them.

There's something really screwy about that, I reckon.

The anti Rudd mob are resorting to farce, this thread is such.
Working on a long held conservative view if you throw enough mud some will stick, policy's and ideas are not needed.
On radio national this farmer was interviewed.
He [this man starving himself to death?]
Was asked how often he saw his doctor, he replied he had just seen him, and would not need to for another two weeks.
I rest my case.

When in a monumental example of man’s inhumanity to man, the Japanese slowly starved all the big men to death, as prisoners of war, by only allowing half a cup of rice each per day, the final accounting was at the end of a rope for those who did this.

As a child of World War II I heard all these stories at the feet of our Returned Servicemen. I also heard stories of the mercy extended by our troops, to Japanese prisoners, who expected nothing but the same treatment they had meted out. The difference is in the Holy Bible. The failure of the current generation to understand just how important its message is, is the reason Peter Spencer is up a pole.

I call upon the Christians of Australia to stand up for what you believe in: the passages of the Holy Bible that are relevant to good government. The Parliament of the Commonwealth is charged with giving us peace, order and good government, and has breached your trust. Every three years you as Christians are called upon to make a collective judgment in the big jury. Peter Spencer is protesting that as a question of fact, that the laws made by the Parliament of the Commonwealth under the Constitution, are not made for the peace order and good government of Australia, but for the express purpose of re-electing the Howard Government on Green preferences.

So that you, the silent majority, cannot express your will effectively in a jury, all States including the Commonwealth, have removed your right to participate in a Christian democracy, as grass roots judges. The puerile and ineffective High Court has failed in its trust, to preserve the Commonwealth, because it has made the decisions that would give you your rights back, but Caroline Rogers, or Matthew Grey, Clerks in that Court, in conspiracy with a Judge, have closed the door on ordinary Australians, by using Rules of Court to frustrate the Rule of Law.

In Church this Sunday, Christians, say a prayer for Peter Spencer. Ask our Magnificent God, for an answer

Before 1900, when you went to a court, as an individual you actually went to a branch of your local Anglican or Methodist or Presbyterian Church, in which two members of one of their congregations appointed as Justices of the Peace, acted as presidents. The minute any private property was involved, their authority ceased, and it was mandatory that it be referred to a committee of the whole, a Justice and twelve ordinary Christians like yourselves, for a trial and binding decision. Until 1900, Roman Catholics were second class citizens.

This annoyed them, and when the politicians wanted to ask England for self government, they employed the old Irish and Highland Scots remedy of a boycott. The politicians failed in their first attempt, and had to do it again. On their second attempt, to get the referendum passed by the big jury in a ballot, they first asked the Roman Catholics what they wanted. The simple answer: equality. You think I am talking B**lsh*t go read a transcript of the speeches in the House of Commons, here: http://www.community-law.info/?page_id=81

Unfortunately the divisions among Christians remained deep. The Northern Irish Protestant Australians and lowland Scots, mostly Presbyterian, were wildly untrusting of their Roman Catholic neighbours, and politicians and lawyers have been exploiting these divisions, despite the fact of massive intermarriage between the two. This division caused the Australian Labor Party enormous problems, and it decided to promote itself as a secular Party. The Liberals also embraced this policy, and lawyers have been promoting what is called the Doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy. This is not the law.

As Christians, in Church every Sunday Almighty God is Sovereign. No matter who your pastor or priest is he or she will be teaching you that Almighty God through Jesus Christ reigns. You will if you regularly attend a church, know as fact that there are only two Christian Commandments. Love your nieghbor as yourself, and have no God but Almighty God. Every time a Judge sits he is usurping the role of Almighty God, unless he sits with a jury, or has consent freely given

It is ironic that much of our food produce is exported while at the same time food is imported into our country - possibly our garlic going OS crossing paths with the garlic coming in. Ludicrous.

I would hate to see the downfall of Australian agriculture due to back government practices (by both Libs and Labs) that might see more food coming in from OS due to lack of viability here.

There are many reasons for countries to encourage local food production including biosecurity and a dependent food supply.

The Peter Spencer situation is not just about food production but about who is responsible for producing or maintaining carbon sinks and how will it be valued in economic and other terms.

If we are to transition to a more sustainable lifestyle in the (far) future there has to be discussions about food production, exports, sustainable land use and populations.

People like CJ Morgan are deluded fools who know not what their governments are doing or, are part of this corruption.

This land lock going to stop farming. We are now seeing people like Spencer no longer allowed to farm on their land. They are not the environmental vandals. This environmental destruction is caused by over developing, by clearing the forests to build houses for uncontrolled immigration.

We have farmers, etc who due to Krudd's way, are not allowed to clear their land of regrowth for bushfire prevention. Yes, the blazes of the Blue Mountains, in Canberra and, most recently, the devastating fires in Victoria, have not woken up this stupid nation. I can't wait for the whole nation to explode now.

We LABOR Governments such as in Queensland where farming land is turned into mining land. We have, due to stupid Greenies and gutless Labor people, the banning for removing introduced feral pests such as pigs even though they're destroying native flora and fauna.

You can't tell fundamental Greenies though. They're just too stupid.