Libertarian, Tiny Tim Wilson, turns Big Brother to save job – MacroBusiness

The beauty of being a card-carrying libertarian is that you can justify anything so long as it benefits numero uno.

For example, take Tiny Tim Wilson MP. The self-described libertarian that has spent much of his career fastened to the taxpayer tit.

For years, Mr Wilson bent over backward to discredit climate science at the IPA which elevated his status in the LNP while it set the species on course for extinction. A few years ago, Mr Wilson was a prominent proponent for same-sex marriage and he duly tied the knot. Yet he was recently conspicuously missing in action when five Coalition MPs crossed the floor to kill the Morrison Governments attempt to legalise the persecution of gay and trans kids by sleaze cults misrepresenting themselves as houses of worship.

Today the media reports another of Tiny Tims libertarian escapades:

[in] an email to constituents in support of local residents spying on each other at a potentially eye-watering cost.

You will now be seeing visible signs through the letterbox, he wrote to Goldstein residents about supporters of the prominent former ABC reporter and The New Daily columnist Zoe Daniel, an independent candidate who is challenging Mr Wilson in Goldstein at the upcoming election.

It is unlawful to erect signs until after the election has been called.

They are ignoring Council. They dont care if they break the law.

Mr Wilson ended his letter by inviting Goldstein residents to report those exercising their rights to freedom of political communication in, he said, contravention to local by-laws directly to him on a Parliament-provided email address.

That is despite the fact that not far from Mr Wilsons electorate, paid billboards featuring Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and announcing he is delivering for Kooyong are difficult to miss.

Contacted for comment, Mr Wilson denied he was betraying the laissez faire philosophy he has advocated so sincerely, but admitted to working with local government authorities to enforce regulations on signage.

Council has advised candidates that planning law does not permit election signage on peoples homes outside the formal campaign period, he told The New Daily.

We are complying with the law.

I feel sorry for those households about to be fined nearly $1000 each in involuntary campaign expenses because their candidate is knowingly encouraging them to break the law, but after Zali Steggall deliberately split donations to subvert electoral law no one should be surprised.

It doesnt sound like Mr Wilson feels sorry for them. It sounds like Mr Wilson is gleefully aiming to unleash Big Brother upon the front lawns of his neighbours because their views, protected by Wilsons heart-felt libertarianism, disagree with his.

Thats his right. There is no rule saying that one gay dude needs to prevent another gay dude from being burned at the stake. Nor that one citizen has to defend anothers right to freely express his political viewpoint. Nor that science should play a role in saving the species from extinction. Nor that a libertarian should be standing on his own two feet rather than sucking voraciously at the taxpayer tit.

However, what we can observe, is that none of these views anti-science climate change paranoia; the persecution of those deemed sexually deviant by sleaze cultists masquerading as clergymen, the summoning of Big Brother to crush freedom of political expression and plundering public monies are very modern, nor very liberal nor very libertarian!

So, in the name of clarity, I suggest a few slight alterations to Mr Wilsons campaign collateral for May this year:

He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.

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