Those watching the removal of a large blue crucifix from the front of Calvary Hospital, on a forlorn Sunday, winter’s morning (2nd July 23) could be forgiven for thinking, they were in Communist China when the CCP began its pogrom of oppression targeting Christian iconography on churches throughout China way back in 2014.
However, it wasn’t 2014, and they were not in China but Canberra, nonetheless the reasons for the removal of the crucifix and the dark agenda behind it stays the same, since both the ACT and Chinese governments are godless.
Now, in case you missed it, it was with a high hand that the ACT government unilaterally confiscated Calvary Hospital, on the 3rd July this year, a Catholic owned and operated hospital in Canberra.
Let’s take a look at why and how it happened and what ominous future it portends for Christian owned property held in Australia.
Here’s why it happened
Since 2009 Calvary Hospital has been a thorn in the unrighteous flesh of the ACT government. Their immovable conviction to uphold biblical values, such as the sanctity of life, fans the flames of discontent within their ranks. When the issues of abortion and euthanasia arose (aka. murder of convenience), Calvary’s unwillingness to participate in ‘easy access to equitable health outcomes’ was in the words of the ACT government ‘problematic’.
Interesting they redacted the parliamentary record to remove this clause. If you think this sounds like an Orwellian rewriting of history by the State, then you’re not wrong.
Be that as it may, since one of the underlying principles of Marxism is devaluation of life, it then follows that ‘a culture of death’ becomes a hallmark of the ACT’s Marxist government. And a pro-life hospital just doesn’t fit their agenda. It had to go.
Here’s how it happened
Here’s the thing, in a quasi-democracy like ours, the Law keeps getting in the way, it limits what our politicians can do to us. But for the Soviets and CCP there is no problem, they can just take your stuff whenever they like, because they are the Law.
The ACT government needed to act swiftly and decisively in order to overcome the problem of the Law, so that they could steal what was not theirs. Inspired by their Soviet brothers in the USSR, they changed the law, which made their theft legal.
That’s right, they over turned centuries-old property rights laws, which are constitutionally enshrined, with the stroke of a pen. Well done Comrade Andy (Andrew Barr Supreme Leader of ACT government) or was that Comrade Trotsky?
When you have an authoritarian government like the ACT government, there’s no need to comply with due process, send the legislation to a committee for review nor to negotiate the compensation for the theft, consequently they didn’t bother to do any of the aforementioned.
An appeal by the Calvary Hospital in the ACT Supreme Court failed because the ACT government acted within the Law. Hmm...think you have recourse to the Law...think again.
What does the future hold?
Martin Luther King once said that the presence of injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, consequently with a precedent now set by the ACT government the future ownership of property held by Christian Organisations is now uncertain.
The Common Law has long regarded a person’s property rights as fundamental. William Blackstone said in 1773: ‘There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property’
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) continued the philosophical argument proposed by Blackstone about property, arguing it must be embedded in Law.
“Property and law are born together, and die together. Before laws were made there was no property; take away laws, and property ceases.”
You can see where this is going: we can own property based only on the protection afforded by the Law. Without the Law, anyone can take it from you. Our problem becomes that the custodians of the Law (our elected Politicians), have decided they’re above the Law. Consequently, our Common Law right to property ownership can be trampled upon at the whim authoritarian governments, like that of the ACT.
Now we could explore some of the many grave consequences of this egregious violation of our property rights: such as the destruction of generational wealth, the dire consequence to our economy, without immutable property rights, access to credit for business start-ups and expansion would stop, which would lead to mass unemployment and the list goes on.
But let’s focus on one very alarming ramification, that of property owned by Christians. And specifically, Church Buildings and Christian Schools. It isn’t hard to imagine hostile premiers like Chairman Dan, following the ACT government’s playbook, using the pretext of homophobia or transphobia to steal our properties, simply by changing the Law.
This is yet another reason for Christians to become ‘Activists for Christ’ in politics. It behoves every Christian to get off the bench. Sitting around for the Rapture will not help.
Instead write submissions, talk to politicians, join Family First. We need to fight back.
Vic Matthews, has three degrees B.Optom, B.Arts & B. Christian Studies. Is available as a Guest Speaker for your next Church conference or camp. He is a fledgling author, and copywriter.
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