2015-9-27 Open Letter to PM Malcolm Turnbull re government violent extremism & anti-Green propaganda: https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/2015-9-27 .
Dear Prime Minister,
The Attorney General’s Department has issued a profoundly dishonest, anti-environmentalist and dangerous document called “Preventing violent extremism and radicalisation in Australia” [1].
Radicalisation is not just good but is vital for Humanity. I believe in Gandhian non-violence but also in Gandhian radicalisation. As a scientist and academic my professional ethos is one of science-based radicalising, using facts and reason to enable students, fellow scientists and others to see things in a radically new and useful way. Indeed preventing radicalisation will lead to irrational policy and violent extremism.
The extraordinary technology-based advance of humanity derives from the scientific process that involves the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses as opposed the entrenched Mainstream anti-science spin that involves the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position.
“Preventing violent extremism and radicalisation in Australia” is profoundly dangerous because it wants to prevent radicalisation (the very basis of radical, science-based human advance) and is profoundly anti-environmentalist and dishonest because, while falsely slagging a nobly-motivated young woman, Karen, for wanting to save the environment from ecocidal and speciescidal climate criminals, it totally ignores the reality of active or passive Australian government violent extremism, state terrorism, warmongering, war making and climate criminality involving the following:
(1) Australia has invaded 85 countries (as compared to the British 193, France 80, the US 70 , Germany 38 , Japan 30, Canada 24, Russia 24, Apartheid Israel 12 , and China 2), with 30 of these Australian invasions involving genocidal atrocities [2, 3] .
(2) Australia is currently war criminally invading Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and through Pine Gap critically targets illegal US drone attacks on Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan (13 million Muslims have died from Western violence or imposed deprivation since 1990 in the Australia-complicit US War on Muslims; there are now over 30 million Muslim refugees) [2, 4].
(3) 7 million people die from air pollution each year, this including 10,000 Australians and 75,000 people world-wide dying each year via pollutants from the burning of exported Australian coal [5].
(4) 83,000 Australians die preventably each year (passive mass murder by uncaring governments), 17 million people die from deprivation each year on Spaceship Earth (with the US and other rich countries like Australia in charge of the flight deck), and it is estimated that 10 billion may die from unaddressed climate change this century, noting that Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and in climate change inaction [6, 7, 8] .
(5) 25% of adult Australians have been sexually abused as children and about 24,000 suffer premature deaths each year linked to their childhood sexual abuse [8].
(6). Over 40% of Australian women have experienced violence since age 15, 0.5 million experience physical violence or sexual assault each year, and about 80 Australian women are killed each year in domestic/family homicides [9-11].
(7) Despite zero (0) Australian deaths ever in Australia at the hands of a Muslim terrorist organization, Australian governments have imposed draconian anti-terrorism laws involving violently-enforced custodial punishment of up to life imprisonment for Australians seeing, reading, saying, reporting or supporting things the government does not like [8, 12].
(8) Australia has been complicit in the violent generation of 30 million Muslim refugees and highly-abusively and indefinitely imprisons water-borne refugees (including children, and without charge or trial) in remote concentration camps [4, 8].
(9) Australia supports and is critically involved in the ultimate violent extremism and state terrorism of US nuclear terrorism and opposes nuclear disarmament, unlike 117 decent nations who support an international ban on nuclear weapons [13].
Unfortunately, prosperous, look-the-other-way Australia largely ignores these horrendous realities. As Arundhati Roy stated: “The ultimate privilege of the élite is not just their deluxe lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear conscience”. Decent Australians who are opposed to violent extremism will utterly reject the deadly, war criminal, climate criminal and violent extremism of successive Australian governments, vote 1 Green, demand climate revolution now, and urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, countries, companies and corporations complicit in violent extremism [14, 15].
Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya (300.org; [contact details]).
[1]. Australian Government Attorney General’s Department, Living Safe Together, “Preventing violent extremism and radicalisation in Australia”: http://www.livingsafetogether.gov.au/informationadvice/Documents/preventing-violent-extremism-and-radicalisation-in-australia.pdf .
[2]. Gideon Polya , “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm .
[3]. Gideon Polya, “ Review: “The Cambridge History of Australia” ignores Australian involvement in 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm .
[4]. “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .
[5]. “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths .
[6]. “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
[7]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the Web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ .
[8]. Gideon Polya, “Australian Coalition Government & Labor Opposition Trash Human Rights, Child Rights, Free Speech & Medical Ethics”, Countercurrents, 15 July, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150715.htm
[9]. Domestic Violence Prevention Centre, Gold Coast, “Domestic violence statistics”: http://www.domesticviolence.com.au/pages/domestic-violence-statistics.php .
[10]. Australian Government, “Domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia: an overview of the issues”, 14 October 2014: http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1415/ViolenceAust .
[11]. Australian Government, “Domestic/family violence in Australia”, May 2015: http://aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/rip/21-40/rip38.html .
[12]. Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm .
[13]. “Nuclear weapons ban, end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban .
[14]. Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian, “The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile”, Harper Perennial, New York, 2004.
[15]. "Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution .