FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY
In defense of freedom, democracy and civilised humanity is an increasingly intolerant Western world.
Tim Renouf is a gifted clifftop singer of hymns in bayside Melbourne.
He lights a candle of concern for Ingram Spencer, a libertarian politician in jail in Australia.
Click above to see the lighting and hear Tim’s words.
A micro-film by Geoff Fox, 9th May, 2022, Terra Nullius
I have suffered and survived feminist police state attacks which have left me crippled by suicidal ideation for too much of the past five years.
How many vulnerable, gentle men succumb to the shame and humiliation of feminist attack?
Is this a new phenomenon in western and other societies or have men always been oppressed by unfairness?
Geoff Fox, August 4, 2021, Terra Nullius
In Java, beneath mighty Mount Semeru, I tried to make sense of the misery of life for men in The West.
I couldn’t.
According to Wikipedia a slave is someone who is forbidden to quit their service to another person.
A slave is treated like property.
Slavery relies on the enslaved person being intimidated either by the threat of violence or some other method of abuse.
I think this is at least partially a description of the lives of too many men in the West.
I have renounced that.
Not that anyone cares.
Geoff Fox, 2nd December (American time), 2020, Terra Nullius
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John Ford died on the 31st August 1973 already acclaimed as one of the great creative geniuses of cinema.
Richard Nixon considered him the best director of all-time.
His first box office smash was The Iron Horse released in 1924.
The micromovie above uses footage from this film to ponder important truths about what men need to be for their sons.
And, therefore, for our culture.
Geoff Fox, 31 August, 2020, Down Under.
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.” – Barry Goldwater, born 110 years ago, January 2nd, 1909.
We need to stand up together against spluttering, cluttering strangling flegminism.
A few days ago, when I asked my friend Natalie Connolly what was wrong with the decade that has just ended, she wrote back to me:
“Women were more ladylike in years gone by.
Men and women had more respect for each other. We had fun and we knew boundaries. Today just sneezing could land you in court. “
My initial reaction to Natalie’s comment was a desire to embrace old fashionerd values with this resolution for the New Year and New Decade: “Lets all strive to be better ladies and gentlemen.”
But on New Years Day, I just couldnt do that. The modern forces of tyranny are far too strong for me.
This is no lack of respect for the breath taking beauty of Natalie’s ideals.
But the world where people could truly live those values is gone.
The best I can hope for is that more people show awareness of what has been lost.
Geoff Fox, January 2, 2020, Terra Nullius.
I am Geoff Fox, a former midwife, and now a dissident MRA in Australia.
On June 19 this year, I renounced my Australian citizenship in writing to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. It is now late November and “ScoMo” has not yet replied.
The following is an interview about this situation with Tim Goldich, the president of the Chicago chapter of America’s National Coalition For Men.
GF: What does the fact that ScoMo has not even responded to my renunciation of Australian citizenship say to you about care for men in The West?
TG: It is in keeping with a general drought of compassion toward men.
Currently, women are so powerful, and draw so much empathy, that men’s issues are completely ignored.
In the realms of gender advocacy, gender issues, gender politics, gender anything, there is feminism on the one hand and on the other hand there is . . . . . . . . . . nothing.
GF: What would you like to say to ScoMo about his failure to respond?
TG: I would say: “I get it that you don’t want to be the sole politician in Australia that speaks of men’s issues. It may seem to you that responding to male concerns is akin to political suicide, but infinitely catering to feminism is societal suicide.
Exactly zero women out there are complaining of an over-abundance of confident, ambitious, successful, high-earning men.
Man can only pour from his glass half “full” into Woman’s glass half “empty” for so long before you get Japan—a society in which 1 in 4 below the age of forty has never once had heterosexual sex.”
GF: ScoMo has said “We want to see women rise, but we dont want to see women rise on the basis of others doing worse.” How do you rate this statement compared to other national leaders’ positions?
TG: Given the gender-political climate, I think Mr. Morrison’s sensible comment was extremely brave. I deeply hope that he can survive it. Much will depend on whether or not others back him.
I believe Mr. Morrison is attempting to draw a line on the multiple Glass Escalators feminism has put in place in their efforts to force “equality.” Which is to say, female-only “equality,” which is not equality at all.
Perhaps Mr. Morrison glimpses the big picture here and realizes that when women “have it all,” men are left with too little to be significantly and long-lastingly desirable (as lovers, as spouses, and as parents). In other words, men become increasingly superfluous and that’s how Japan ended up with a population of male “grass eaters” that ignite little passion in women.
GF: In 2016, I was arrested by police and silenced at election time while a female politician, of whom I was critical, was reelected and protected by the threat of 2 years jail from any comment by me about her.
The woman is now mayor of Maribyrnong …….. I am still suffering from subsequent PTSD ……. In your view does that constitute the rise of a woman by pushing me down?
TG: In a word, yes.
In the U.S., affirmative action quotas, 1,027 federally funded female-centric organizations of all kinds, scholarships, grants, billions of dollars devoted to the emotional, professional, domestic, and scholastic wellbeing of women plus enormous societal pressure to hire and promote women all Glass Escalator women.
Compare that with males—scholastically sabotaged, homeless, and imprisoned by the millions—and yeah, I think it’s fair to say that women are advantaged at the expense of men.
(Tim Goldich is the author of “Loving Men, Respecting Women: The Future of Gender Politics” and the president of the Chicago chapter of the National Coalition For Men. )
I have a chance of sanctuary and a meaningful life in the Republic of Indonesia.
I flee from a western world which is at war with itself and at war with human nature.
This war is a cultural war. To paraphrase and borrow from former Reagan White House Director Of Communications Patrick J Buchanan from his landmark 1992 speech in Houston:
This modern war is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe, and what we stand for as human beings. It is critical to the kinds of nations we shall be. It is a war for the soul of the world. And in this struggle, the values of the Republic of Indonesia are on my side. But the Maribyrnong and Victorian Australian Labor Party governments, in my country of birth, Australia, are on the other side.
Please pray with me for freedom, decency and civilised humanity.
They are dying in The West.
Geoff Fox, Malang, Indonesia, August 8th, 2019
For three years I have been driven towards suicide by the misuse of police services against me from within Maribyrnong City Council and the Australian Labor Party in 2016. A horrific part of this trauma for me has been the complete failure of anyone within either organisation to adequately address the questions raised by what was done to me. Only you have tried, Mr Mayor. You havent done enough to answer the questions, but you have at least made an attempt.
On June 18 2016 I sent an email, to one of your ALP colleagues in Maribyrnong beginning with this sentence, “i believe there is an undeniable presence of gender bigotry and demonisation of men in our society including in Maribyrnong” Two days later police were at my home with a warrant ready to arrest me for communicating with this politician. Is sticking up for mens rights a crime in Maribyrnong?
On July 29th, 2016, I asked this question in an email of you and all other Maribyrnong councillors, “Does Maribyrnong City Council practice gender equity with respect to physical and psychological health issues or does Maribyrnong City Council discriminate too strongly in favor of women?” On July 5th i was arrested by the police for communicating with one of the councillors to whom this question had been addressed. The question is still unanswered. I now add this question: Is Maribyrnong City Councils expenditure addressing suicide, which claims 8 lives a day, 56 times greater than its expenditure addressing domestic violence against women which you have told me several times, as memory serves, claims one woman’s life every week?
On November 18 last year I asked you early in your term as mayor, “How many men have committed suicide in Maribyrnong in the past decade and in each of the past five years and what are the equivalent figures for women in Maribyrnong?” On January 8 you responded, “I don’t have Maribyrnong figures, but nationally I believe it’s roughly the opposite of domestic violence deaths – more than twice as many men as women dying from suicide.” I dont think this is a very good answer, but it is better than none at all.
I believe, using my instincts as a Registered Midwife of 31 years standing and based on what I have seen in quite a few artistic interactions with you, you have inherited many fine qualities from your mother Senator Olive Zakharov, a pioneer in opening up the issue of domestic violence. But now it is time for those qualities to be turned to addressing the needs of men. Too many men are choosing to die and too many Australians ignore the questions which we need to ask to address this difficult problem.
Can you make a start on this and show some leadership by becoming a Mayor who is on top of the suicide figures and trends in his own municipality and who does not duck the hard questions that need to be answered if the problem is to be addressed?
Geoff Fox, Maribyrnong, May 29, 2019
PS John F Kennedy, who was born 102 years ago today, said this five months and eleven days before his death in 1963, “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” Do you, Martin Zakharov, care about the implications, for the rights of all men in Maribyrnong, of what was done to me from within your organisation in 2016?
Charlie Chaplin was a story telling genius still loved around the world.
His performance in his 1921 movie, “The Kid”, says this to modern misandrist feminism: men care and children need that care.
Geoff Fox, Java, Indonesia, January 21, 2019, the 98th anniversary of the release of “The Kid”
postscript (January 21, 2023) Love of Charlie Chaplin has spread around the world because of the caring values deeply embedded in movies like The Kid.
As Melania Trump has said, “We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children …..”
Unlike modern feminism, which demonises the caring souls of men and marginalises good mums.
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” – Bob Dylan, 1964
On December 26, 78 years ago, during the golden era of The Greatest Generation, a work of art called The Philadelphia Story was released. It told the story of a spirited, independent woman’s awakening to love. In this Katharine Hepburn vehicle, monogamous heterosexuality was seen to meet human need. The film poked fun at marriage and shows its weaknesses but does not reject the institution.
How times have changed in the western world. Marriage is not the place it was.
Heterosexuality as the norm can no longer be assumed or championed.
The story debunked the idea that the Hepburn character Tracy Lord should be treated as a goddess. Her real need was not to be worshiped but to be loved.
Hepburn’s character was shown due to marry an up and coming politician but the night before the wedding she gets very drunk with a writer she admires who is there to report the wedding. They shared two kisses and a late night swim but to some others including her fiancé it appeared like an affair.
When Hepburn said, “I was guilty straight off until I was proven innocent.” Cary Grant, playing her first husband, who still loves her, commented, “Downright un-American if you ask me.”
In the modern world of suffocating political correctness far too many men are now “guilty straight off”.
On the October 2nd, 2018, President Trump described this modern phenomenon by saying: “It’s a very scary situation when you are guilty until proven innocent. My whole life I have heard you are innocent until proven guilty. But now you are guilty until proven innocent. That is a very, very difficult standard.”
As an Aussie fan of America’s great capacity for self-criticism, the anti-male modern climate of fear sounds downright un-American to me.
Geoff Fox, East Java, Christmas Day, 2018
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