Joe,

We already know that there could be no freedom in the Left's utopia. We have seen that utopia in Russia and Eastern Europe, and we still see it in Red China. We remember. The nappy-wearing Left are not taught history.

Hi Nathan,

How do you think your thread is going so far ? Is Milo really just a joke ? Or is it that the 'Left'has no-one who can match him ? No, I don't agree with much of what I've read and heard about him, but what I've read and heard seems be put in a very 'reasonable' way which nobody on the 'Left' can counter, except by taking the fascist path and 'smashing' him any way they can.

I wonder if the 'Left' cares that their tactics are totally counter-productive except in the hipster cafes and bistros of Carlton. Do they have better arguments ? Clearly, so far, no. The 'Left' is perhaps not a joke, but it certainly can't be taken seriously, except, hopefully, by some members of the AFP.

Joe

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

As Miss Piggy once said - "Judgements are in the
eyes of the beholder and it may be necessary
from time to time to give a stupid, ignorant,
or misinformed beholder a black eye." ;-)

There is an imported culture of US 'Progressive' Left violence.

The Left as it used to be, the Sixties fighters against censorship, freedom of speech for everyone, would never have countenanced supporting the dishonourable and grubby politics of Victoria's police minister, The Hon. Lisa Neville MP, who grandstanded to publicly boast that Milo Yiannopolous would be sent a bill for police officers to attend a demonstration organised by the authoritarian Antifa and others.

Politician Lisa Neville was at pains to point out that while she should get the political credit from the leftists, according to Neville it was the police whose idea it was to send a bill (yeah, right as if the police minister wasn't involved!), so if anything backfired the chief cop could take the blame instead.

Dearest Foxy,

I'm tempted to agree, but the Right can be tackled in more peaceful ways. Such as polite discussion. I look forward to a dose of 'Left'-wing Milo, if there are any on the 'Left' with the intellect. No, I suppose not. I'm not interested in the use of brute force, it's simply counter-productive. And frankly, I suspect that the violent anarcho-nihilist groups on the 'Left', and the racist/fascist groups on the extreme Right, need each other. They're just two sides of the same proto-fascist coin, after all.

I remember, from maybe forty years ago, an episode of some British TV drama or other, in which one undercover cop casually mentions that a Trotskyite group had received its secret monthly payment from some extreme-Right group. I've never forgotten that possibility, even though it may have been not quite non-fictional.

Love,

Joe

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

Assistant Commissioner Stephen Leane put it so well
when he said :

"We live in a world of Kardashian-style popularity,
it's no different to the tactics that are being used by
the left and the right".

"I think what we're seeing in the whole world is that
if you don't have a 30 second grab of something really
exciting then you're not going to make the front page
of the news. We know that both these groups, the left
and the right will do everything they can to goad and
to attack the police to get that one shot where it looks
like our police are responding in an aggressive way".

And hundreds of left and right protesters gathered in
front of the Melbourne Pavilion on Racecourse Road and
Stubbs Street where they faced off and fought with sticks.

Riot police stormed the protest and used pepper spray to
subdue the crowd which included Reclaim Australia, the
True Blue Crew, The Freedom Party and the Campaign
Against Racism and Fascism group.

And of course Milo Y. benefited from all this free publicity.

He's not a joke.

As the American comedian George Burns once said:

"The secret of success is sincerity.
If you can fake it, you've got it made".