Real Liberty

 

It is not an accident that the government which has ramped up immigration more than any other government in our history, also has brought in the most restrictive speech laws in our history.

1)     They have already shown by their actions that they want to radically change this country.

2)     They know that most Australians, even people who have emigrated from other countries recently, don't like how quickly they are changing this country.

So, there was a need to make it harder for people to oppose their policies. As far as I know it is still allowable to criticize government policy. But the trajectory is towards less and less ability or freedom to do so.

Freedom or liberty, despite what some constitutions and philosophers say, is not really a human right. It is not something that most peoples have experienced in history, or even something that most peoples have conceived of, really. It is not something that many peoples in the world today have experienced, either. 

Liberty, rather, is a fruit, specifically a fruit of righteousness. Psalm 119:45 shows us this, "And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts." There is the kind of liberty to do what you want, which is really libertinism, which is really just anarchy. And there is the liberty to live as we were intended to, which is true liberty. Righteous liberty. This liberty means to live free from the constrain of evil.  

The problem we have today is that we forgot the difference, and the more our society moves away from its Christian foundations the more we are losing the liberty to live as we were intended to, by our creator. You can still do basically whatever you want, in many ways our society is still libertine, even more libertine really. But true liberty is shrinking. The ability to live free from the constraints of evil is disappearing.  

We forgot where our liberty really came from as a people, and hence we are losing it. I suspect most Australians won't care too much until they are no longer able to afford to do the things they want. That day is approaching, but we have so much slack and wealth in our society, that it has not hit people hard yet. At least not most people. Though younger Australians are already feeling it harder. And some others are starting to fall off the treadmill, it will be some time before this increases to where it effects most people in significant ways. But that day will come.  

Our nation is going through a process of refinement. Are you looking to God, or to politicians to bring us out of this? Are the politicians you think can help bring us out of this looking to God? If not, I don't see how they can bring back liberty. They would not really even understand what liberty actually is.