Australia: Why Alarmist Clive Hamilton Wants To Shut Down The Net

[Hamilton:] “The internet has spawned a community of devotees who operate in a cow-boy culture that thinks itself beyond the normal reach of social control, as if they inhabit an independent cyber-nation that applies it own laws in the form of voluntary protocols for those who choose to accept them.”

Note the term ’social control’. Even though the majority of Australians don’t realize it over the past 2 decades Clive Hamilton through his leftist intellectual think tanks The Australia Institute & The Climate Institute have had a not inconsequential impact on Australian society.

Hamilton and the intellectual left have focused on 2 modes of operation: ‘social engineering’ brought about by ’social control’.

Social Engineering:

Clive Hamilton through his left winged Think Tanks, The Australia Institute and The Climate Institute have spent an enormous amount of time developing ‘leftist social engineering’ manifestos.

From the Climate Institute web site, here's the title of their July '08 newsletter

"Leaving the fatal shores of the high carbon economy"

July '08: Climate too hot for Clive | Herald Sun

CLIVE Hamilton had an excellent plan last month when Charles Sturt University made this green preacher its Professor of Public Ethics.

"Over the last 20 or 30 years . . . academics have been less willing to engage in public debate," the former Australia Institute boss said.

That had to change, and by Gaia, Hamilton was the man to change it.

So how odd to see Hamilton a fortnight later telling a popular discussion website, On Line Opinion, he's no longer going to debate there.

"I will not be contributing any further pieces to the site because it has been captured by climate change denialists," he huffed.

Hamilton conceded he actually didn't know the science he's defended: "I do not presume to engage in arguments about climate science because I do not have the expertise to do so without making a fool of myself."

But, as with other such preachers, this didn't stop him from vilifying the "denialists" who disagreed with him as "loopy and deceptive" - the sort who'd accuse "the Royal Family (of) being in cahoots with global Jewry".

Actually, Hamilton's retreat is part of a pattern...