In 1757, King George II refused to pardon Admiral John Byng for the crime of failing to do his upmost in his duty, resulting in his execution by firing squad on the deck of his own command ship. His death served as an encouragement to others of his rank and station. It also served as a reassurance for the English people, that their leaders were being held to account by their king.
I have written about the diabolic state of Australia’s energy security for over ten years. As refinery after refinery was closed down, and as the Australian parliament embraced a suicidal love affair with intermittent energy beholden to variances of the weather, I pointed out time and again the neglection of even a basic strategy to hold the nation over in a time of crisis, let alone a long term conflict that would make sea transport unviable.
A mere three weeks after the outbreak of war in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Australia is facing severe fuel shortages. It has got so bad that farmers are having to guard their diesel storage throughout the day and night, or risk having their fuel stolen by thieves.
Which is beyond ironic seeing as there is a real possibility of food shortages. Australia uses diesel to sow crops, to fertilise crops, to harvest crops, to process crops, and to transport those crops to market. The last major conflict that threatened Australia’s sea lanes was the Second World War. In that time the agricultural areas were serviced by a vast network of small coal trains. The coal was mined in Australia. The farms relied on horsepower to do the planting and harvesting. The end result was that Australia did not starve.
But this article is not going to be of the kind that preaches the old, I told you so. What confounds me is that every major news organisation in Australia is now ranting about Australia’s lack of fuel security. Where was the chorus from them over the last ten years? There wasn’t a peep from the media. Instead they gushed about wind turbines and solar panels, while exhorting the wonders of multiculturalism and the mutilation of children.
But worst of all are the Australian political class. This is a crisis of their own making. They had no strategy for Australia’s fuel security, let alone a coherent one. The very best that can be said of them is that they were asleep on the job. The worst accusation is that they are traitors and that they did this on prupose. Wherever the needle rests between those two extremes, what is obvious is that their democracies exhibit a chronic absence of accountability for their actions. Whatever happens, they will have a lifelong parliamentary pension, all the perks that go with it, and all of the private networking that they benefit from while holding power and which they can utilise when they leave office.
The system does not allow us to hold our leaders to account for their massive failings regarding the security of the nation. They are not held to account for anything. They can flood the nation with foreigners; close down entire cities and bankrupt countless businesses on the word of globalist powers; artificially inflate housing prices so that entire generations are priced out of the market; imprison those that are loyal to the nation for daring to speak their mind; encourage ethno-tribalism while actively discouraging native Australians from doing the same; the list is almost endless.
Australia is a nation of under the table bureaucratic graft, endless corruption, and a ruling elite entirely devoid of a moral compass, let alone one rooted in God, our traditions and our history.
This self created fuel crisis is a symptom of the problem. It is not the problem itself. If our leaders are so inept at this task, just imagine how bad things would get in a war that threatened the nation’s borders. Every former prime minister still living is enjoying a life high on the hog, while the nation rots under the consequences of their policies and actions, or lack of them. Our leaders do not serve us the people; they serve themselves and the interests of those that have purchased their souls.
The country will have to starve or be invaded before anything changes. Democracy is the very worst form of government ever tried. If you want to understand just how badly democracy and liberalism have failed, just look at the birthrate. We’re on a steep downward trend, and we’re not even close to the bottom. Getting our people elected isn’t going to change a damn thing. King George II had the right of it.
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