CLIMATE OF PANIC IS THE REAL FEAR

IT’S insane. We have hysterics sobbing on TV, gluing themselves to our roads and spitting on people going to a mining conference. We have wild-eyed people so bizarrely convinced that global warming will kill us all that children are skipping school and adults are fighting police in our streets.

And what’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response to this mass madness?

No, it’s not to explain why there’s actually no climate catastrophe. Not once has Morrison dared say that.

Instead, he now proposes laws against people acting exactly as you’d expect if they thought we really did face mass deaths and the end of civilisation.

Morrison said on Friday he’d consider new laws to stop protesters who “disrupt people’s jobs and their livelihoods”.

“I think we’re really starting to push the envelope when we’ve got people getting spat at just because they’re wearing a business shirt on their way to work in Melbourne,” he said.

Well, actually, Prime Minister, we already have laws against spitting on people.

We also have laws against everything else we’ve seen lately from environmental and Marxist protesters — blocking the traffic, hitting police horses, fighting police, trespassing, pushing people and physically blocking them from going about their lawful business. What we don’t have is the political and judicial will to properly enforce those laws. Just ask Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. He had far-Left protesters on the roof of his office, scaring his staff and unfurling a banner calling him an “international criminal”.

But what did the magistrate say to the protesters? That he’d be proud if his daughter had been part of that protest.

Or take the magistrate who refused last month to jail Extinction Rebellion organiser Eric Herbert for locking himself to a car in the street, even though it was his eighth time in court on protest-related offences in just four months, most involving blocking Brisbane’s roads at peak hour.

We have the laws already, Prime Minister, and passing more will just restrict our freedoms, and without guaranteeing that our politicised bureaucrats and judiciary will enforce those new laws as you intend.

Check the spectacular backfiring of the Morrison Government’s new laws demanding that agents of foreign governments and entities register themselves to save our democracy from their shadowy influence. Guess who is the only person who the federal AttorneyGeneral’s Integrity and International Group has since demanded produce documents — or else? It’s no one acting for the Chinese dictatorship. No one like Hizb ut-Tahrir, defending foreign jihadists. Nor is it a group like the far-Left GetUp, which got its start with foreign donations.

Instead, it’s gone after a bloke in Queensland who runs the one-man LibertyWorks, which held a conference in Sydney with conservative and libertarian speakers.

Even madder, this Integrity and International Group wrote to former prime minister Tony Abbott, who spoke at the conference, informing him of his “obligation to register any activity you undertake on behalf of a foreign principal”.

What an indictment of Morrison’s security-obsessed government. It really should trust less in laws to control us and try harder to fight the cultural forces that are causing people to act like lunatics.

Indeed, I have a much cheaper and safer alternative to deal with the weeping, screaming, brawling and spitting hysterics who have so alarmed the Prime Minister.

See, the truth is that if I were as convinced as they are that our children were about to die in a global warming apocalypse, I’d be right with them out in the street, brawling and screaming to force politicians to shut down the businesses I thought were dooming us to such terror.

So how dare the Prime Minister pass a law to stop people from saving their children and our civilisation?

But the plain fact — as Morrison privately knows — is that we face no global warming apocalypse.

Almost all the propaganda pumped out by the ABC, our national broadcaster, is false. No, islands aren’t drowning, global warming doesn’t cause drought, world grain crops aren’t failing, and wildfires aren’t bigger.

And, no, natural disasters aren’t deadlier. In fact, our chances of dying in climaterelated catastrophes have fallen 99 per cent over the past century, according to the International Disaster Database.

So, Prime Minister. Why don’t you say so? Why don’t you and your ministers stop being so damned scared to speak such truths?

Just open your mouths. It costs nothing to simply tell the hysterics they’re wrong to be so scared.

Don’t pass laws banning panic. Explain instead why there’s nothing to panic about.