Gentlemen,

We don't know what our new government will decide.
Lets wait and see. It has a lot of messes to clean up
that it inherited.

Armchair Critic,

The United States Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms each stand in protection of the
individual against the capriciousness and overwhelming
power of the state. The respective constitutions have
guaranteed the individual certain fundamental rights and
protections. The laws are based on the principle that law
serves the individual, not the state, and that state political
interests cannot outweigh the interests of the individual, who
must stand in law as a free man.

In contrast, V.I. Lenin made it clear that, in his political
philosophy, law has but one primary goal.

"A law is a political measure, it is politics."

No Soviet authority or communist leader has abandoned this
concept. It has been applied in the territories " liberated"
by the Bolsheviks during the October revolution, in the
captive nations occupied by the Red Army during World War II
and in the lands won by military force or "wars of liberation"
in Asia, Africa, the Far East, and the Caribbean.

The American Revolution was fought to establish a
man's right to liberty and to restrain
the power of his rulers. The American
Revolution thus created a concept of law which was,
and is, foreign to the system resulting from the Bolshevik
revolution in
communist controlled lands.

The distinction is one between freedom, liberty, and the right
to the pursuit of happiness as opposed to the interest, control,
and domination of the state over the individual.

Lenin's perception of law is so repulsive to the legal
traditions of Western democracies, that they
have long been complacent in the belief
that in the specter of Lenin's concept
of law was confined to the sphere of communist influence and control.

Can we run the risk of allowing them into Australia again?

Armchair Critic,

Perhaps you also need to read books by authors like:
Masha Gessen ( "The Man without a Face" ), and
Robert Conquest, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, to name just
a few.

Armchair Critic,

There's also William R. Corson and Robert T. Crowley's:
"The New KGB: Engine of Soviet Power," that's worth a
read.

Is Mise,

There are laws that can be put in place.

These people are Australian citizens.

So low, or changed, has Australia become, that a question has been asked: "Has Australia become an elective dictatorship"?

The question was raised with particular reference to the government response to Covid, which had "an overwhelming impact on the enjoyment of our basic human rights", and, given that the population meekly accepted it, it could be tried again, and not just in an epidemic. For example, increased immigration against the proven wishes of the majority; lax border control and countenance of illegal arrivals, as well as repatriation of people connected to terrorist organisations; draconian climate change laws that will impoverish us and kill small business in favour of large and global Woke enterprises always looking to influence weak governments and gain favours - there is a long list: anything to induce turmoil by highlighting differences between people, the Voice being a good example.

Given the infinitesimal difference between the only two parties able to form a government, and the total lack of choice as what used to be a centre right party tries to outleft the left, we are ripe for such a dictatorship if we aren't already there now.