In Australia: MassResistance helps bold activist take on nation’s library system over graphic books

 In Australia: MassResistance helps bold activist take on nation’s library system over graphic books

Despite growing LGBT tyranny across Australia, local police get involved on pro-family side.

Victories come, but still pressing for larger wins.

March 4, 2024

 It shocked the establishment that the police agreed with the bold pro-family activist!

MassResistance continues to work with pro-family activists around the world as they reach out to us for help. These people are usually organized and dedicated, but are lacking the strategy, tactics, talking points, and other materials necessary to take on these battles.

Back in 2012, MassResistance had a vigorous chapter in Australia with activists across the country. That year the Australian Parliament rejected “gay marriage” – despite intense LGBT pressure – after pressure from our activists who lobbied hard and mailed copies of our booklet “What Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Has Done to Massachusetts” to every member. Three days later, the Tasmanian Parliament also rejected “gay marriage” and the LGBT groups were livid.

But eventually the powerful international LGBT movement prevailed there. And since then Australia has become (along with Canada) one of the most tyrannical pro-LGBT and anti-family places in the world. By 2015, for example, a Catholic Archbishop in Australia faced fines and punishment over a marriage pamphlet that LGBT activists claimed was “insulting.”

MassResistance gets back into the fight

In late 2022, an Australian activist named Bernard Gaynor, a fervent Christian and pro-family activist, contacted MassResistance for help. Gaynor is an Iraq war veteran who faced court martial from the Australian military reserve for saying on social media that he did not want homosexuals teaching his children. He has since faced harsh persecution for discussing the truth about homosexual and transgender behaviors.

Australia is also a very litigious society, so offended groups often sue others who are critical of their beliefs or behaviors. Aggressive homosexual activists have sued Bernard Gaynor a number of times for his views. But he has not backed down, and has succeeded so far in fighting off these unfair lawsuits.

 Bernard is not afraid to stand up and fight on these issues!

Gaynor was shocked and outraged at the sickening pornography available for children and teenagers at his local library in Logan, a suburb of Brisbane (in the state of Queensland) where he lives – as well as other libraries in the region.

Among those were Gender Queer, a transgender-themed book for teenagers featuring masturbation, sex toys, oral sex, and a person being impaled by a spear. There was also an illustrated series of books with pornographic homosexual scenes, and a Japanese cartoon-style book depicting naked people engaging in explicit sexual and homosexual acts.

 The set of explicit sex books for children that Bernard targeted - successfully!

Bernard wanted to get these removed from the local libraries in Queensland – and hopefully all of Australia – but didn’t know where to start. He knew he needed advice and direction.

So Arthur Schaper, our MassResistance Field Director, advised him. Arthur gave him actions to take, and things got moving.

1. Bernard asked to meet with the Library Director of the Logan Library to discuss the books. But she refused to meet with him. Instead, she directed him to submit “book challenges” through their bureaucratic process. He submitted the challenges.
2. Bernard filed the Australia version of a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) public records request for information regarding the books in the local library systems. He found out when the books in question were purchased and which libraries they were in. He learned that Gender Queer had been purchased by the Library Director.
3. Bernard contacted local conservative churches and other venues where families gather. He created a petition that got over 1,000 signatures. People picketed the Logan library demanding that the pornography be removed.
   
   
    The group that Bernard got together made sure that the public officials get the message!
4. Bernard met with his City Councilor in Logan. She was important to this effort because she was in charge of the committee that oversees the libraries. According to Bernard, she and other Councilors wanted those books gone, particularly Gender Queer. But she did not have any plans to act. However, the fact that Councilors supported Bernard was significant for what was to come.
5. Arthur told Bernard to research the statutes for a legal line of action. Bernard found a statute in Queensland law which could be used to prosecute regarding child exploitation and exposing children to sexually explicit material.
6. When confronted with that statute, the Logan Library officials agreed to remove the Japanese cartoon-style book and the illustrated porn book series from the collection. This was a victory. But the Logan Library officials refused to remove Gender Queer. Instead, they moved it from the shelves, but people could still go to the circulation desk and get it if they wanted to borrow it.
7. Bernard contacted the Logan Police Department and filed complaints about Gender Queer, referencing that statute.
8. The Logan Police agreed with Bernard. And knowing that they had they had the support of the City Council, they determined that Gender Queer is likely a violation of the statute. The police officially referred the book to the Australia Classification Board (ACB), which has the power to remove books from libraries nationwide. This made the news in Australia - see here and here.
9. Shockingly, after several weeks of deliberation, the ACB decided not to restrict Gender Queer. But they placed an “advisory” on the book saying that it was “not recommended for young readers.” It wasn’t a total victory, but in Australia it was an important start.

Bernard and his group of pro-family activists are continuing this fight. They have filed an appeal and will continue to push to have that book removed throughout the country. They are building momentum to fight back on a nationwide level!

Final thoughts

Making progress in countries like Australia that have become tyrannical on the LGBT issue isn’t easy, but is necessary. MassResistance is thrilled to be able to give pro-family activists around the world the tools, experience, and knowledge to take on these fights.

   

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About Those Australian Gun Laws ... How ARE They Working Out, MATES?!

Australian Gun Law Update;

Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts..  ....From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia

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Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,

Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;

Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of Victoria.....alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent.(Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.  There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.

Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns....'

You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information!

The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note Americans, before it's too late!

Anti-White Persecution in South Africa: Where's the Outrage?

Last year, I learned that South African farmers are under attack. They are being persecuted in the most horrific manner, and the international press doesn't care. One man was demonstrating in favor of President Trump with the rest of LA County for Trump and the United Patriot National Front, headed by Antonio Foreman. The problem that so many (mostly young) people have is that this push for diversity and racial harmony and tolerance has turned into anti-white, anti-male sentiment. Any discussion of the Enlightenment culture and Judeo-Christian values is now met with the baseless, fatuous, and ultimately fascist charge that it's a form of "white supremacy."

This thinking is heinous, racist, and shameful.

Yes, all lives matter, including white South Africans

Now attacks are ramping up against white farmers in South Africa, or more specifically the South Africans of European descent. The notion of "white" is too simplistic, and dishonors the amazing culture vibrancy and diversity within Europe and throughout the Norther Mediterranean region.

White lives matter, too, yet where is the outrage from the collective anti-racists who stand up for minorities? The regressive left and their accommodating academic institutions automatically charge that protecting white lives amounts to racism. That is evil, that is wrong, and no one should tolerate it. I have been refreshed and relieved by friends of mine of different ethnic backgrounds who declare: "I love my white friends!" Laughing out loud, I am so glad to see men and women of one color reaching out and defending people of different colors.

For the record, men and women of European backgrounds have color in their skin, too. A black professor with Chinese ancestry taught me that: Dr. Piper Mandy of Cal State Long Beach. I still remember her engaging talk with the entire sophomore class of Torrance High School in 1997, and she smashed all kinds of anti-European stereotypes. She had no problem calling herself black, too!

But back to the rising anti-white sentiment overwhelming South Africa.

This devastating racism must be exposed and confronted.

It has manifested itself in some pretty sick and pitiful ways before. An arrogant academic depending on a Rhodes Scholarship went out of his way to smear and shame a white waitress, saying that he would only provide her a tip when she "went back to her own land."

She's a waitress from South Africa. That country is her land, and she has no need nor reason to leave. What shameful bigotry.

Here's a section from the full report (in the center-left Guardian, no less):

As the Mail reported on Saturday, this young woman — serving in a restaurant in the Western Cape — was reduced to tears when Qwabe and his dining companion wrote on the bill that they would give her a tip only ‘when you return the land’.

He presumably meant this white South African and all others of her kin should give up their homes and leave the country, since at a governmental level it is already under the control of the African National Congress.

Unsurprisingly, the waitress at the Obz Cafe was shaken by this, a fact that amused Mr Qwabe. He wrote on Facebook that he had been ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black and wonderful had happened . . . she sees the note and starts shaking. She leaves us and bursts into typical white tears’.

He went on to say that a white male waiter approached the table to ‘annoy us more with his own white tears telling us that he finds our act racist’.

Good for him. It's welcome news that white people in South Africa are not putting up with that rampant, racist nonsense.

Of course, The Guardian remains center-left, and justify the black racism:

Of course, the treatment of blacks in apartheid South Africa was altogether different to the childish vindictiveness of this Rhodes Scholar. Qwabe’s parents would not even have been allowed to sit down in the same restaurant as white South Africans a generation ago.

The victims of a remorseless system of segregation, which banned personal relationships (above all, marriage) between races, they had no vote and no chance.

So I don’t blame Qwabe for his feelings of hatred for whites, even if it was cruel of him to take them out on a blameless young woman in a position of servant rather than master.

It's time for men and women of all backgrounds to stand up to racism of all kinds, even against white people. Racism is racism. Need I write more? Just because black people under Apartheid suffered terribly under previous racism white regimes, that does not justify shaming all white people for the crimes of those leaders.

Let's talk about black privilege for a change, shall we? Mr. Qwabe is receiving a Rhodes Scholarship, and has the opportunity (and impunity) to do well.

Another academic played the race card and "white privilege" card, too:

'Whites “built this country,” they like to say; they ran the country “well” before 1994, when “everything worked,” and they were safe on their farms and in their suburbs.'

The same narrative is quite popular in #Zimbabwe, simply replace 1994 with 1980. https://t.co/8eGZUU3hl7

— Tinashe Jakwa (@TinasheJakwa) March 8, 2018

Check out this story on this terrible tragedy:

Jobs for white people were also becoming harder to obtain, she said, with affirmative action favouring black people — a point she didn’t necessarily disagree with.

However, she pointed out many would leave the country taking expertise in areas such as farming with them.

First of all, notice how essentially racist "affirmative action" has become, and this disgusting display is not an isolated problem. In the United States, affirmative action was initially intended to ensure that no person was denied an opportunity for a job simply because of race. Then it turned into an undue benefit for individuals of a "minority" race

The white guilt is astounding. There is no justification for racism ... ever. The white farmers in South Africa do not deserve to be treated with such horrendous dishonor. This is evil, black supremacy which teaches that some people are "more equal" than others.

The rampant abuses against white farmers is no game.

It has become official South African Government policy.

You have to read the passage to believe it:

SOUTH Africa’s parliament has voted in favour of a motion that will begin the process of amending the country’s Constitution to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation.

The motion was brought by Julius Malema, leader of the radical Marxist opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters, and passed overwhelmingly by 241 votes to 83 against. The only parties who did not support the motion were the Democratic Alliance, Freedom Front Plus, Cope and the African Christian Democratic Party.

It was amended but supported by the ruling African National Congress and new president Cyril Ramaphosa, who made land expropriation a key pillar of his policy platform after taking over from ousted PM Jacob Zuma earlier this month.

This is rampant wickedness. This is worse than a spirit of lawlessness. This is a form of state-sponsored domestic terrorism. What happened to the rule of law in this country? Since when did anybody get the notion that theft or confiscation of anything was acceptable?

This must a dream, but in reality it's an in-print, flesh and blood nightmare.

Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota said there was a “danger that those who think equality in our lifetime equates that we must dominate whites”, News24 reported.

"Animal Farm" has gone from parable to real-life horror movie. Instead of pigs and two-legged beasts with wings, we have a black majority now persecuting a white minority: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

Indeed. 

The shocking abuses perpetrated against South African whites cannot go ignored.

Afrikaners (White farmer descended from Dutch settlers)
have been murdered in alarming numbers.
Click here for more information.

What's worse, South Africa is not the first African country to discriminate against white farmers so viciously:

Earlier this month, Louis Meintjes, president of the farmers’ group the Transvaal Agricultural Union, warned the country risked going down the same route as Zimbabwe, which plunged into famine after a government-sanctioned purge of white farmers in the 2000s.

Racism is folly on many levels, but many researchers neglect the economic costs of confiscation, theft, and government-sponsored criminality. These perverse acts harm everyone. So far, the Australian government has offered to fast-track VISAs for South African farmers. As expected, charges of racism abound. Such hypocrisy must be exposed.

Where is the outrage from the rest of the Western World? The entire world?! When will we put aside the skin-color guilt and entitlement mentalities? This is a story which must be told, and the international communities around the world should soundly condemn these actions and sanction the South African government. The anti-white destruction is current and devastating. It is wrong, and we just cannot have this!

Project Veritas Exposes Bernie Sanders, Who Was Forced to Pay Campaign Violation Fine

Dear [Friend/FNAME] The Bernie Sanders campaign has agreed to pay $14,500 in a civil penalty to the FEC as a result of the 2016 hidden-camera videos by Project Veritas Action.  WMUR's John DiStaso wrote about the agreement: "In separate agreements filed on Feb. 14, the FEC writes that by paying the youths’ transportation costs and stipends, the party made an illegal contribution to a U.S. political campaign and the Sanders campaign broke the law by accepting paid services by the Australians." The 2016 videos were widely covered by Australian media outlets, but – predictably –  were ignored by mainstream US outlets. Two years later, and the mainstream media is just starting to catch up. Project Veritas Action has exposed actual election meddling by a foreign government. Australian nationals paid for by the Australian government worked for the Bernie Sanders Presidential campaign, notably, driving around New Hampshire and vandalizing Donald Trump lawn signs. Time and time again, citizen journalists at Veritas have worked to investigate the stories the mainstream media refuses to touch. The full story is on our website.  In Truth, James O'Keefe President Project Veritas Action