Occasionally the city of Mildura in Victoria gets into the national news

This week it is Australia’s first locality to switch to digital-only television.

Mildura residents viewing their usual analogue television set today at 9am — unless the thing has got some kind of a box thing on top of it – will suddenly find themselves looking at a blank screen.

The Mayor of Mildura, a bloke called G. Milne, is quoted as saying, “I think we’re going to end up with a better system.”

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Better?

Is he referring to those people who find themselves looking at an empty screen?

Probably not.

He must mean those people watching the same old programs, now viewable with all the technical advantages — whatever they are — of digital imaging.

If so, he is wrong.

Looking at a blank screen would be much better for your brain than watching a flickering neuron-numbing television image broadcast by no matter what signal.

The only thing that could make a “better” system, if you must go on watching television, would be for all sensationalism, violence, greed, immorality, and show-ponying to be weeded out of the programs.

That is not going to happen soon.

The so-called switch-over is no switch-over.

It’s just a strategy for taking your mind off what they are doing to you — and are going to continue to do to you.

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Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong), said, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The television tube is an electron gun . . . pointed at your child’s brain.

Australia’s children are daily exposed to hours of alien values shooting out of that electronic weapon — values incompatible with those of the parents.

Your family’s belief-system is being over-powered by an instrument you chose to install — and are now too weak-minded to throw out.

If a stranger visiting your house swore and committed adultery and did violent acts in front of your children, would you let him stay?

Well, check what is going on in your lounge room at this very moment.

Television, Australian-style, is too dangerous to tolerate in your home. 

Get rid of it.