Concerns.

Over the last few months I have become concerned about Ken H's mental state. 

Recently in September he wished to take Tony N off his schizophrenia medication as he felt Tony was slower and more drugged mentally. He criticised the Psychiatrist who tended Tony's medication while he was in prison of not helping Tony but over medicating him to control his behaviour.

I encouraged Ken not to do this. 

During my holidays Ken sent this message via Facebook messenger. Ken has been demanding support for the Yes vote on Facebook for the Voice to Federal Parliament.  He also placed a similar statement on Facebook and also emailed it to others in our Dutch Reformed church. 

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The Voice
Well tonight's Sydney ch.7 news reported that an ironic combination has happened in politics ...
(one that took me right back to the heady days of January 2021, when Trump was riling up his supporters to 'defend' his run for Presidency) 

National Labor party president Warren Mundine and senator Lidia Thorpe (both of First Nations descent) now find themselves sharing the 'NO' ticket with Neo-Nazi organisations...!!! (yes; look it up)

"A helpful rule of thumb I borrowed from a friend:
Huge numbers of our population believe in a complete alternate reality. Alternate facts as it were.
But just as intensely as I believe they are deluded, they think I am the one who is deluded. Maybe I am. So how can I be confident in my perception? It can be quite difficult.
But, I have found that in times of political confusion, particularly when emotions are running high and creating tunnel vision, the presence of Nazis can be an extremely helpful indicator.
If I am attending a local demonstration or event and I see Nazis…neo-Nazis, casual Nazis, master race Nazis, or the latest-whatever-uber-mythology-Nazis, I figure out which side they are on. 
And if they are on my side of the demonstration? I am on the wrong side.
It is tough to argue moral equivalence when I am standing next to a Nazi. Look to my right. Is there a guy wearing a 6MWE (6 million wasn't enough) t-shirt? I am on the wrong side. Look to my left. If that guy is wearing a Camp Auschwitz t-shirt? Wrong side. Are speakers being applauded for referring to things that Hitler got right? Wrong side. 
Team-spirit face paint and hat with animal horns? This is actually an unclear indicator that could mean anything, but safest to keep my distance from that guy anyway, even at a football game.
However, I can always, always, always rely on the presence of Nazis as a guiding light through a fog of disinformation.
Some things are relative, and politics can absolutely have its opposing sides and grey areas. But evil and good are absolute.  
So, just look for the Nazis, and make your own decisions."

Matt 22:34-40"

I rang him to speak about this matter because I was aware that several of our older church members had emigrated to Australia from Holland in the post war years grieving the murders of family members killed or placed in labour camps by the Nazis during World War 2. To read themselves labelled as Nazis would be traumatic to them. 

After arguing with him for about half an hour over the trauma he was causing using this terminology, we then discussed my concerns about his ignorance as to why ATSIC had failed as a top down solution when a bottom up solution by reform of land councils by their own people would be a more supportive outcome for those experiencing pain as indigenous Australians. 

Yesterday at church I received this letter from Ken. He wished Lorelle to read it too. 

I record this here as I am concerned regarding possible physical attacks on person or property by Ken or those associated to him. 

Rev Dr Sten Grose