DICK SMITH HAS IDEAS ON POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION: Anything new? Or more of the same?
Australian businessman Dick Smith likes to keep a high profile.
On Wednesday he posed for media photographers with a suitcase full of money — to publicise his offer of $1 million to the young Australian with the brightest ideas about curbing population growth.
He says that if something isn’t done soon Australia’s population will grow to one billion.
First up, Mr Smith wants to slash numbers of immigrants to Australia.
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He calls his so-called Wilberforce Award a “global” award.
Perhaps he plans to curb world population as well?
You can’t achieve that by adjusting immigration numbers.
Cutting world population requires either preventing births or increasing deaths.
Is this whole project, then, just another vehicle for promoting same old sub-human cure-alls — sterilisation, contraception, abortion and euthanasia?
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Australia’s troubles and the world’s troubles do NOT derive from there being too many people.
Cut the world’s population by half tomorrow . . . .
Would wars cease? Would casinos go out of business? Would people stop gossiping about each other, exploiting each other, bullying each other . . . ?
Not likely.
Mankind’s problems are spiritual problems. Attitude problems.
Humans are proud and money-hungry and envious and lazy and lustful and gluttonous and angry – that’s right, they’re in the grip of the seven deadly sins.
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The answer to sin is not political programs.
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Director-General, Dr. Jacques Diouf, said last year:
“On the earth there is a sufficient number of financial means, effective technologies, natural and human resources, to eliminate hunger in the world once and for all.”
So why don’t we do it then?
Pope Benedict XVI says:
“The world has enough food for all its inhabitants, provided selfishness does not lead some to hoard the goods which are intended for all.”
He says the causes of the world’s injustices are “of the moral order”.
He has called for the creating of “a great program of education” to promote a change of thinking and “new lifestyles”.
To do this, he says, the “secularist mentality” — the excluding of religious ideas from efforts to reshape the world — must be eliminated.
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Dick Smith and others involved in this debate ignore facts in plain sight that will make these population concerns pale into insignificance within decades.
I refer to our growing Islamic population. Islamic leaders have a vision of Australia as an Islamic Caliphate under Shari’a law by as early as 2050. This has been openly proposed on national television as an achievable goal.
This would mean an end to democracy, and the conversion of the non-Islamic population to Islam, or else the disenfranchisement of dhimmitude for those who do not convert.
To anyone who thinks it couldn’t happen, I have two points to make. Firstly it is a publicly stated objective of Islam which they believe is achievable. Secondly they reproduce at a much higher rate than the non-Islamic population, and they do not practice abortion. It is only a matter of time until they outnumber the remainder of the population.
Finally, for the usual unthinking people who will criticize these comments as racist, may I point out that Islam is not a race, but a religion with adherents from every race on earth.