Taxpayer funding of brainwashing?!?!

The Greens have just managed to uncover significant increases in government funding for Exclusive Brethren institutions, that are generally being referred to as schools despite a merely superficial resemblance to anything resembling education being conducted.

Apparently taxpayers are not only subsidising this cult (as designated by Kevin Rudd) to warp the minds of their young, they are doing it to an increasingly greater extent as time goes on.

Disturbingly the EB institutions get significantly more than the resources provided to public schools. Apparently under the Howard government the Exclusive Brethren somehow managed to have their schools rated at the same level of need as remote Aboriginal schools.

In unrelated news, in Tasmania the Liberal Party is facing court next week over advertisements made in conjunction with two members of the Exclusive Brethren during the last state election. The EB's fronted an attack campaign against the Greens, but the campaign was coordinated by the Liberals.

So again and again the Exclusive Brethren attack the Greens on behalf of the Liberals. At the same time the Liberals arrange millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to be diverted from public education to the Exclusive Brethren. It really seems like someone should be going to jail.

Of course of most concern is the warping of so many young minds by this cult, however the fact that this warping is being funded by taxpayers, and is coming at the expense of funding for public education does add salt to the wound.

LiPA 4 EB

It seems possible that the Liberal Party of Australia (LiPA) and the Exclusive Brethren (EB) have been caught in bed together, again.

It is possible that the Liberals have been forced to do their own dirty work in the Mayo by-election, but they are of course big believers in outsourcing.

Therefore I suspect that the Liberals are once again using the EB's as their footsoldiers in campaigns they don't want to be seen fighting.

Muslim bad, christian good, liberal, what's that?

Philip Ruddock, attorney general in the Howard government (reputedly once an actual small `l' liberal) is looking into the status of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, apparently a muslim group that advocates the introduction of sharia law and rejects liberal democracy, capitalism and Western values.

At the very same time more and more information is being unearthed about the links between the the very same Howard government plus various other Liberal Party of Australia (LiPA) types and the Exclusive Brethren, a christian group that advocates strict following of the bible and rejects liberal democracy and Western values.

Just to recap, there are only two obvious differences between Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT) and the Exclusive Brethren (EB). Firstly HUT are muslims while the EB are christians though they seem to have more in common with each other than most of their respective coreligionists.

Secondly HUT are reportedly against capitalism (not to be confused with the Hutts) whilst the EB seem to be of the opinion that the accumulation of wealth is the ultimate form of worship (not like that other EB who is a giver).

It is therefore no wonder the Howardites are looking into HUT but not EB... obviously HUT are communists. They'd be under the bed but they're not really into that type of thing, and, bed and Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn't really rhyme. Also as there are apparently only about 12 of them in the whole country they would have difficultly hiding under any significant proportion of Australian beds.

The Howardites obviously have no problem with advocating ridiculous laws or rejecting liberal democracy or western values, indeed these are defining characteristics of this government. Thus their getting into the bed with the EB was inevitable given the ability of the EB to pay and the willingness of LiPA to prostitute themselves (sincere and heartfelt apologies to any prostitutes reading this).

We can all appreciate why LiPA would want to keep private the fact that they are in bed going at it with a bunch of christian loonies. It isn't a pretty picture. Can't really blame the HUT for not wanting to be under the bed with what is apparently going on in there.

It is bad enough that the Liberals sell themselves to their regulars, a horde of corporate sponsors, but to do so to the EB is a new and disturbing perversion. These are people who are deeply suspicious of anything thought up after the Bronze Age, which includes the new testament and liberalism. Even the LiPA should have standards higher than this.