Check Point Charlie

A recent visit to Berlin, Germany brought us face to face with the left overs of the cold war between east and west. What a sad situation that was. It still is evident today that East Berlin was regimented, boring, colourless and drab. (over 20 years on) We stayed in a hotel in former East Berlin and the legacy of communism and the conformity demanded by it is still evident. The waiting time for a new car was 18 years. When a child was born the parents registered the child to buy a car by the time he/she was 18. (it was a 1950's design relic from the past) People who lived near the wall were able to receive news and TV adverts from the west. The authorities told the people the adverts were lies and propaganda from the west and nothing they presented was true..... When the wall came down in 1989, a woman from the east could not believe her eyes and was overcome with emotion standing in a supermarket where there was more than one type of soap to choose from, shelves with stock and more food than people. She was used to no choice, queues at the bakery and nearly empty shelves in a supermarket only a few kilometres from where she was now standing.... the communist regime was a corrupt and impoverished social disaster.

Check Point Charlie was one of 3 checkpoints in Berlin to access the East from the West or vice versa. What was the communist obsession with forcing people to stay, conform to living in a dogbox of an apartment? Everything third world (unless you were a corrupt official) It is interesting the people who wanted to cross over overwhelmingly were to come from the East to the West.....

Nobody in their right mind from the west would willingly want to become what the eastern block countries were under communism right? poor, corrupt, boring, conformist, uncreative, resisting change, boring, boring, boring,..... But in Australia right now we have a minority Labor government driven by the Greens (camouflaged socialists) drip feeding us into a Communist state. Recall the story of the frog and a boiling pot of water? Throw the frog into the boiling water and he will jump out. Put a frog into a pot full of tepid water and put it on a hot plate and you will boil the frog to the point of death. The government and Greens will not present all of their socialist agenda in one hit, but roll it out bit by bit to an apathetic disinterested in politics Australia. Mark my words, we are currently in Australia's darkest hour and most people don't even know it.

It seems to me we are so removed from the disaster that was communism (on the other side of the world) we still have idealistic people who think that is what we need in Australia. Just visit a former communist state and you will be convinced we don't want this under any circumstances.

Check Point Charlie was one of only 3 ways out of East Berlin (except for a coffin). It is not too late in Australia to see there are more ways than that to escape the socialists desire to control everything we do (I mean everything). Speak up when you can and vote out those who want to boil you to death with socialist ideals.