Moving house - more stress than the financial market collapse

It is around a month since my last posting. The reason is that after twenty-eight years in the one house and neighbourhood I moved a little over fifty miles away to be close to the sea. Ideas of an idyllic retirement environment, inspiration from the sea air and so on.

Sorting and packing up twenty-eight years of accumulated belongings - some would say mostly rubbish - has taken just about the whole year with a crisis point reached in the four weeks before the actual move. But the good news (for me at least) is that the move is complete, we are heading into summer, and the coast is two minutes by car and around thirty minutes at a brisk walking pace. But what a lot has happened in the last four weeks, both here in Australia and overseas.

In Australia the Victorian government has delegitimised itself and become a robber parliament by voting for the unrestrained killing of unborn babies. The political might of robbers and vandals has prevailed. It should be clear to everyone that feminists and their political organisations are at the forefront of the manipulation of the democratic system to achieve this barbarity. Indeed, the influence of feminists and homosexual activists - if not the actual agitating political hack - is largely in control of the robber parliament. This is on the historical record.

In America Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, was chosen as Republican John McCain's running mate for the US presidency. The news that Palin was a Christian, a conservative, and most importantly pro-life - she is against killing the most defenceless person in human society - was enough to send the PC-class not only in the States but around the world into a gutter-sniping, smearing, character-assassinating fury, the like of which has not be seen before. The permanent orchestrated smearing and vilification of former Prime Minister John Howard by the dominant political class fades in comparison.

I continually ask myself who in his right mind could trust this class with anything, let alone the governance of a nation. But, unaccountably, the moral olfactory sense of many people seems immune to the stench of the decay the PC-class has wrought in Western society.

The modern tragedy is that not enough people in our democratic system see that this class has virtually destroyed a system of government that was not the result of some theoretician at his desk in a university department, but of centuries of incremental growth and moral adjustment. Killing the unborn and perverting the contract of union between male and female are acts of self-destruction.

Nothing could be more demonstrative of the lack of fixed moral principle than the financial crisis brought on by blind mindless greed of banks and investors. The same attitude - the total denial of fixed moral principle - kills the unborn, destroys marriage, and set up loans whose repayment, known in advance, will not be met.

But none of this matters, of course. The results of the political manipulation, I mean. Feminists and homosexual activists can be reassured. Nothing will stop their onward march. Those in the robber parliament who should object have surrendered. At the top of the agenda in Australia is legislation in the robber parliament for the verbally incoherent notion of "same-sex marriage". All this has a particular aim: the disqualification of people with religious belief. No doubt, the upper echelons of the manipulating groups are studying the British penal laws that were so effective through a couple of centuries.

My English ancestors were part of a small hard-bitten group of recusants in Wiltshire. I'm proud to carry on the tradition.

'Kingdoms without justice are like criminal gangs' - St Augustine (412 AD)

The constitution of state and society cannot be legitimate without the underpinning of The Natural Law - the laws of God

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms [states] but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention.

If this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralised that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renouncement of aggression but by the attainment of impunity. [my emphasis]

St Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, John O'Meara ed. & Tr, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth UK, 1972, p. 139

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