Ayatolla Minns
Written by Ben Boyang
Ayatolla Minns and Ayatolla Khamenei – working together to keep the streets of the world safe for us all.
Yesterday, in defence of his attempt to stifle public protest in the Sydney CBD,* Chris Minns said, “You’ve got literally thousands of NSW police that need to be deployed to marshal or protect public assemblies at the expense of investigating domestic violence offences or keeping the rest of the community safe,”
To make out that the police are neglecting their important work responding to domestic violence in order to intimidate peaceful protesters is a slight on the integrity of the entire police force.
Protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza are a response to a world ruled by violence, spearheaded by the Zionists in control of Israel at the present moment, who are showing the world what you can get away with if you are brazen enough and have the imprimatur of The Commander-Chief.
It all starts with domestic violence. We live in a patriarchal world where men are given control over the household in exchange for giving other men control of society. Here in the West, that domestic power is no longer enshrined in law, it can only be maintained by the threat of violence. Those who fail to use that threat can find it very difficult to keep their place at the head of the family, and the family has been the basic unit of all human society since we came down out of the trees. A patriarchal family structure that relies on the threat of violence to maintain control will invariably lead to a society based on the same method. On the other hand, a matriarchal family structure where any form of violence or coercion is banished from the family home, will have a flow on effect, creating a society where the threat of violence or coercion is also not countenanced. Nowadays we find it difficult to even imagine such a society, so ingrained is our faith in violence as the only way to deal with our fellow human beings. But for 200,000 years we humans managed to live our lives largely without resorting to violence to sort out our domestic disputes, as well as our internal tribal disputes, although we had less success on an inter-tribal level, resorting to violence sporadically in between long periods of peaceful coexistence.
The way we run our society nowadays is based on the way we run our households. Our methods are drilled into our offspring consciously or unconsciously, creating a fairly universal understanding that this is the way of the world, that it always has been and it always will be, it is in our DNA. But there are over 500 indigenous groups left in the world who have managed to avoid being totally extirpated. You will find they all have unique ways of organizing their societies, very few of which involve any threat of violence to any member of the community, even though some of them have violent relations with some of their neighbouring groups.
Today I cannot think of anywhere on earth, outside of the last remaining indigenous cultures, that manages to maintain social cohesion without the threat of violence hanging over our heads. We just don’t know how to do it, because we have never tried.
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*Chris says the C.B.D. is for business, not people, certainly not people who express views unacceptable to the powers-that-be.
In 1970 Prime Minister John Gorton said, “we will only tolerate dissent if it is ineffective.” Little has changed in the intervening 56 years.
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