Legatus Pro Praetore Cosgrove

As Australia enters into the second decade of the 21st century it, like most other places on the planet, seems to be slipping back at an accelerating rate towards a new dark age. It would appear that the forces of some sort of Counter Reformation, or counter Enlightenment movement, are waging total war against the nations of the planet. Here in Australia this is evidenced nowhere more clearly, than in the selection of our new representative who speaks, on our behalf, to our head of state. 

This appointment raises all the classic soul searching, which has long plagued the Australian nation, about its concept of sovereignty. There is already a deeply divisive argument on this point anyway in the land, due to the attempted, forced removal of the sovereignty of the original inhabitants, at the beginning of the new “nations” existence. Even without this argument considered however, the Australian experience with sovereignty has been one of the least capable, for a supposed modern nation, on the planet today.

These usual arguments and questions are compounded even more, by the shocking nature of this new appointee. The new Governor-General of the nation is none other than General Peter Cosgrove. Instantly this throws up the connotations of Australia as little more than a militarily occupied vassal state of a foreign power. This indeed is basically what it is. However to restore the imagery, of a Military Governor controlling the outer colonies, is surely one that would be distasteful to many. Indeed one can argue that this scenario also begins to allow a dangerous creep away from the central Enlightenment tenant of; Civilian Control of the Military. Although of course the argument that he merely represents the ‘civilian’ Queen, who is the true controller, can be offered as a counter. 

This has not been the first time in modern history that such an unpleasant choice has been made. When we last had an openly neo-fascist body politic in power, during the Howard years, the same choice was made with a Major General holding the position. It would seem the Abbott fruit does not fall far from the tree. What makes this current appointment, of a military man to the position, even more distasteful however is that this is not merely some career soldier who has worked his way to the top spot. This man has very recently been involved in direct military conflict. He was the Chief of Defence who oversaw Australia’s involvement in the war with Iraq.

As this was quite clearly a highly illegal conflict, from any sort of international law norms, this therefore makes any leadership who were involved in this operation potential War Criminals, who could still at some point be called on to stand for trial, in international courts, for these crimes. One wonders at the audacity of openly appointing War Criminals to head the nation, whilst at the same time continuously bleating about other countries ‘stained’ human rights records. 

The legal arguments aside, if we just take the Iraq conflict on face value, it has been one of the most spectacular failures that the Australian army has ever been involved in. Ostensibly we were involved in a coalition invasion to project our force and ensure our nations safety from the supposedly mortal enemies of our way of life, Al Q. Instead we set in chain a series of events, whereby we destroyed a regime and an army that were sworn enemies of Al Q and who ensured their total suppression in the region. By doing this we paved the way for a power vacuum that allowed thousands and thousands of these self same, sworn enemies, to flood into the country, until they eventually became the main power bloc of the eastern provinces and their flag flies above many cities today. 

This was, at best, gross negligence and an act by the Australian army that drastically endangered Australian security. One would have thought leadership involved in such a blunder would have been punished, or at least censured. The idea that they would receive PROMOTIONS for this outrage boggles the mind. At worst, this was the Australian army engaging in a direct NATO plot to spread Al CIAda throughout the region, as a series of irregular militias, to ensure the entire region was plunged into permanent internecine warfare and that a complete destabilisation of the area could ensue, to provide better conditions for rampant resource extraction. Subsequent events in Syria would suggest this indeed was the case and therefore the promotion then makes sense. However from a citizen’s point of view, if this is the case, then this is one of the most highly treasonous acts, perpetrated against Australia, in hundreds of years and again warrants Mr Cosgrove standing in some sort of punitive trial and not receiving the top job of the land.

As well as blurring the lines of the Enlightenment concepts, of the separation of the military and civilian arms of the state, the secular concepts, which were so hard fought for, are also brought into question by this appointment. The idea of the separation of Church and State is a highly flawed and struggling one, at the best of times, in the realms of the Commonwealth. Despite John Locke’s best efforts and some greater successes on the continent, the fact that the Sovereign head of state, of the United Kingdom, is in fact also the religiously recognised head, of the Church of England, surely calls this whole concept into question from the get go. This is made even murkier, by the presence of Anglican bishops holding seats in the House of Lords!!

The gross irony of all this of course, is laid bare when one considers that, in the “Western” realms, we are told almost daily that we must launch a holy and apocalyptic war against the Iranians and genocide every last Persian off the face of the planet because they are an evil Theocracy, that has an unelected Executive branch and are therefore a, *gasp*, DICTATORSHIP!!! So it would seem is the United Kingdom and every nation of the Stolenwealth, which has yet to manage to free itself from its imperial yoke. One wonders why the Murdoch rags never call for the wholesale carpet bombing of the United Kingdom, to liberate Earth from yet more of these ‘fundies’. Who knows, maybe enough hacking inquiries may motivate the old reprobate yet!!

I digress, back to our current Governor-Generals issues. Again, under the jack boot of the Howard years, we had a gross blurring of this separation of powers when an Anglican bishop was made one of our Governor-Generals. I guess this kept our experience in line with the state of affairs in London. Of course that ended in unmitigated scandal. Now, with our new Governor-General, we also run into these problems, as he is a current holder of a Knighthood of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great.

This again can be taken as a problem from several angles. Of course, in a secular state, the positions of any branches of the Government are, by definition, open to any members of any faith. So if it happened that our Governor-General just happens to be a Roman Catholic, who holds a Knighthood in the Catholic faith, that would be between him and his faith and should have no bearing on how he executes his office. However, in the current climate we can not just let this slide. Currently there is a royal commission being heard into misdeeds of this very same faith. Thus the possibility of a conflict of interest at this point in time drastically increases. 

Whilst it may be argued that it would be very hard for a Governor-General to intervene in an already convened commission, it does bear some thought that we now have a Jesuit trained Prime Minister in charge of one branch of the government, who no doubt still bears much loyalty to the current Jesuit Pope, who has a Cardinal from our lands on HIS board of inquiry into the same affair. Now we also have a holder of a Papal order being appointed to the head of a second branch of the Government, at the same time. It does bear some cautious scrutiny.

This should definitely raise questions, in this context, when one considers the Governor-Generals current Knighthood is also held by the likes of Jimmy Savile. Now of course an entire order can not be held responsible for the actions of individual members within it, however it is odd that this Knightly order has yet to strike him from the rolls and various letters of petition to have him annulled from the order are being written back and forward. One would have thought that would have just been a first port of call, when the revelations about him came out. Again, when one considers this against a backdrop of a commission ACTIVELY accusing many of these orders of a CULTURE of this activity, it does bear some scrutiny. As mentioned before we have already lost another Governor-General over similar issues.

However, there is an even deeper argument, which I think arises from this Knight holding this office, which is one that is always completely overlooked in the modern era. This is the fact that these Papal Equestrian Knighthoods, are not handed out from a Pope as a spiritual leader, of a particular faith, to members of his flock, for their work within the faith. All the Papal Knighthoods are, in fact, handed out by the Pope in his capacity as the temporal monarch of the Holy See. They are given to individuals who are “gentlemen of proven loyalty to the Holy See who, by reason of their nobility of birth and the renown of their deeds or the degree of their munificence, are deemed worthy to be honoured by a public expression of esteem on the part of the Holy See”. Therefore, they are being given out by a SOVEREIGN NATION STATE, the remnant body of the PAPAL STATES, for loyalty to the states and to the Pope as a sovereign world leader.

This brings into play a massive conflict of interest. How can one have, as ones head of state, someone who has clearly sworn allegiance to another world leader and nation? Of course this brings us into the question of why, as Australia, we have a Sovereign of another nation as our head of state to begin with. But after the years of Protestant and Catholic conflicts across the continent, to resolve the questions of where true authority lies in the European experience, one would think these questions had been answered. Does it lie with the body politics of peoples of various lands, or with the Pope as the supreme Emperor (or at least King MAKER) of the continent? Clearly this argument is rearing its ugly head again, as we move into a 21^st century that resembles the 12^th with each passing day.

  

As we can see with the United Kingdom experience a détente, after years of conflict between the Protestant and Catholic realms, has seen many of these “Protestant” monarchs, once more recognise the supreme authority of the Pope. We can see this in the current reunification, of the various Catholic and Protestant orders, of the Knights of Malta. Of course the Queen of England being a Knight of Malta, leaves the Anglicans and the Papists once more happily on the same page and the City of London, the intriguing outpost of Templar, Vatican, power which never left the isles, cements this marriage. So on that level, it would seem, that there is no conflict of interest for a Papist to hold a position, which swears fealty to the Anglican Monarch of the Stolenwealth. However, for anyone who hopes to one day see Australia as a fully sovereign, independent republic, of its people, for its people and by its people, these are all highly concerning issues that must be tackled.

In some ways this appointment is actually opportune, as it defines most clearly the total destruction, of what little sovereignty Australia ever had, in a neat, single, package. No longer a problem vexing just the original inhabitants, whose grievances about sovereignty are largely unresolved, the subsequent waves of immigrants to this land, have now also been comprehensively fleeced of any local sovereignty at all. Instead we are left with a triple layer of sovereignty extraction taking place.

First and foremost, of course, is our loss of sovereignty to the United Kingdom. We still claim an unelected, hereditary, monarch as our head of state. It is ridiculous to suggest that she is just a ‘figure head’, as she is still a massively wealthy individual, who can no doubt hold clout on the markets of the world, not to mention she has shown time and again she still has real power. She sacked an entire, elected, Legislative branch, famously in Australia once. The question must also still be asked when her representative Governor-General, in Canada, deployed troops to Afghanistan without a majority of the Legislative there being aware, what phone calls would have had to be made first before that little trick could be authorised? Of course it is ridiculous to suppose that as the Executive branch of Government she sits around completely powerless. She would have been long gone by now, out of a great many parts of the world and indeed parts of the UK itself, if she was just some ‘tourist attraction’. 

If nothing else, so many oaths are sworn in her name, she could very readily call on any number of factions of orders to do her bidding, should she want. So this leaves Australia in the ridiculous situation whereby, in the 21^st Century, our nation is not ruled by the concept of meritocracy but by a hereditary blood line, based on the luck of birth. The fact that these Monarchs we swear fealty too also happen to be German and aren’t actually even British, makes the whole scam even more ridiculous.

The second layer of sovereignty is then stripped from us by the “Crown Corporation”. The odd and autonomous domain, of the City of London, has gone through varying degrees of strengths over the years. From its heyday as Roman capital of Britain, Londinium, through to its restored glory days as the Templar outpost in the isles, it has always tied Britain to its German/Latin, Roman Empire, connections. In the aftermath of the GFC, it suddenly was thrust startlingly back into the light and we realised quite how much power it wields over institutions across the Stolenwealth. As more and more people feel the disempowering squeeze of the so called Corporatist renaissance, it has become clear that one of the grand daddies of this concept is still a major player here.

Lastly, it would seem that some wave of neo ultramontanism has swept the globe very, very, quietly. We now see the curious situation of Jesuits, SMOM, the Papal Knights and other Counter Reformationist factions, gaining positions of power across the western world. Even here, in the outer fringes of the Stolenwealth, it would seem to be the case. What this movement is trying to achieve seems to be nothing less than the so called New World Order, or more correctly a restoration of the “glory days” of the Holy Roman Empire, as they see them.

The history making power struggles, inside the Vatican itself, seem to lay this bare more frequently. So too, do the numerous documents that come to light, produced by the various think tanks driving this push, like the Club of Rome and the Bilderberg Group. We also note the curious phenomenon of more and more individuals, in positions of power, eagerly snapping up these Knighthoods, dished out by the Pope, as if we were once more in the 12^th century and it was the heyday of the crusades. Given our behaviour in the Middle East and Eastern Europe of late, it would indeed appear that many do actually believe this to be the case.

All three of these scenarios are then enshrined into a law that usurps any hope of a local, ‘law of the land’, or natural law, through the endless signing of the so called “Globalisation” treaties. The most modern of these treaties, that many can see this total assault on our sovereignty quite clearly in, is of course the TPPA.

So herein lies the great challenge facing Australia and most nations on the planet, currently, it would seem. How to restore Sovereignty to this land or lands, what shape that sovereignty will take and how it will be distributed amongst the many sovereign individuals of these lands!

Many may be concerned currently with our present Prime Minister but remember he was an elected individual. I think we should be better spent, in the next few years, keeping an eagle eye on this troublesome new Governor-General of ours, as we forge ahead to answer these deeper, vexing, questions as to where our sovereignty truly lies.