In which the pond celebrates the joy of looting with our Henry, followed by prattling Pellist devotee Polonius ...

During the week, the pond experiences powerful temptations to return to the old days, especially when the reptiles produce quaint juxtapositions, as in this most excellent contrast between the role of the church, and the role of the state deciding where the richest 250 might live …

Of course there are some tired old tropes that the pond is pleased to have left behind, the ranting and the railing at the lefties …

 

As if barking mad reptiles of the Major Mitchell and dog bothering kind represented some kind of sanity …

Whenever the pond sees this sort of stuff now, the pond merely thinks that the reptile business model must be hurting, and moves on …

Sometimes Dame Slap provides a pleasing, if confused and confusing set of columns …

An activist clown doing over a woman, but bossy feminists are the new patriarchy?

Only on Planet Janet above the faraway tree, but the pond rarely dons the MAGA cap with the Dame these days, especially as the pond is still waiting to see the UN use climate science to establish a world government by Xmas …so many Xmas deadlines they've missed, so little time ...

But if the pond can now walk on by Dame Slap, every so often a true reptile genius delivers a column which displaces anything the weekend reptiles have to offer, and so it came to pass with our Henry on Friday …

The  pond knew that our Henry had hit the nail on the head.

For years the pond has been outraged at the demand that masterworks looted by the Nazis be returned to their original owners. 

Haven't the Nazis suffered enough, without this final indignity? Oh sure, George Clooney might turn up in a wretched movie about retrieving loot, but look at all these stories about the suffering of the Nazis …

Looting is good, looting is fun, looting is right and just, though the pond hastens to add that it helps if you're on the side doing the looting. If you're being looted, you might well be a humourless sod unable to see the funny side …

So please, sit back, relax, and let our 'hole in the bucket and possibly the mind' Henry explain the joys and rewards of looting … though remember, in this case "us all" strictly means colonial white patriarchs of the elite Ergas kind ...

Shocking stuff. What next? People demanding that Nazi-looted artwork be returned? Where will all this leftist anarchy leave us? Where will it leave those great institutions and their business models, which after all, require us to hop on a plane and head over to Britain or New York to check up on various Australian artefacts?

There's far too much bleating about this, as in The Graudian here …

And now the Major Mitchell writes about leftists for the lizard Oz, and your point is?

A skull sugar bowl? Now that's a touch of class, up there with Nazi human skin lampshades … and the pond thought nothing would top turning Mad Dog Morgan's balls into a tobacco pouch …

No doubt some think there's something a little wrong here, but there are strong arguments that these national treasures should be celebrated, being masterworks belonging to us all ...

Indeed, indeed, and the pond has heard sound arguments that the slave trade took many miserable blacks from a hard time in Africa, and introduced them to a splendid lifestyle in the South working in the cotton fields …

Where's the harm in a little looting, and once the looting's done, on with the hard business of keeping ...

What? Give stuff back? Why it's wasted on them, they're just a bunch of ignorant weird savages. 

Why, Australia's showing how it should be done, as recorded at the ABC here …because if you can't loot it, why not burn it?

Yes, Satanism's rife, but what to do?

Well here's a pond suggestion. When next at your neighbour's house, and you see an artwork you like, just coolly, calmly take it, and hang it on your own wall.

You might have an excuse. They might be maltreating it, not keeping it in the right climate-controlled conditions, when you might be able to store it in your basement. 

But you don't really need an excuse. Just remember you have more need of it, you will appreciate it better and make better use of it. This is especially true if your neighbour created the said artwork. Why on earth would they have the first clue about its real significance and meaning? Why should they continue to possess it? Useless dropkicks, with their blather about ownership and copyright and intellectual property rights and civilisation and stuff ...

Remember, looting is good, right and proper. After all the Nazis did it, and did it in style, and what thanks did they get? Now they're defamed and defiled, but our Henry knows the truth of the matter …

Now this might involve a little conflation and confusion … between, say, artists who sold their work, knowing it might be scattered to the wind, and works of art that have been looted from legitimate owners, Napoleonic and Nazi style, but that's the joy of our Henry ...

Yes, let the pesky, difficult blacks learn to fly on European airlines to European destinations to learn about their past … but for the long absent lord's sake, make sure that they're on thirty day visas, because the last thing Europe needs is pesky, difficult blacks in their midst. 

Just looted artworks will do … that's all superior whites need to know, when it comes to celebrating the wonders and joys of the blacks …

Remember, looting only gets a bad name when you lose, and that's why the Nazis still suffer, while others can get away scot-free ...

And so to a more arduous Sunday duty … because the Pellist matter has risen again, as the pond expected, and the Pellists are excited and optimistic, and this weekend there were a couple of contenders for the pond's attention ...

Of course the pond went with prattling Polonius, because Polonius is more astute …

He doesn't bother arguing the case all over again, and besides, as a matter subject to appeal, what's the point of that? The pond has refused to go there, until all appeals are exhausted ...

Luckily, cannily, Polonius cuts to the heart of the matter, the deep state journalists who ruined everything for the Pellists and the Catholic church …

Polonius knows who's really to blame, and boldly and bravely he calls them out ...

Well, not precisely. The Pellists presided over a church that evaded, avoided, denied, downplayed, derided, dudded and dissed people who had suffered at the hands of priests for decades …you know …

Yes, when it came to the crunch, it's possible to discern who the Pellists stood shoulder to shoulder with … but stay, Polonius doesn't care much for that sort of talk, he's worried by these deep state journalists undermining the church, as if the church weren't capable of doing all that by itself ...

Indeed, indeed, it would be entirely wrong for the Catholic church to be blamed for the doings of Catholic priests, even while supporting, aiding and abetting them. How unfair would that be? 

Why that would be like proposing that all Nazis shared in the blame of genocide and even some of the innocuous, harmless looting, when everybody would do a little looting, given half the chance …

Besides, all the Catholic priests were doing were interfering with young children, and all the church was doing was denying that they did it, and helping them with their court cases and blaming the victims for their impudence …

So much suffering by priests and the Catholic church, and all because of those bloody impudent deep state activists, and their endless carry-on, as if there was something wrong with victim-shaming, and despite the best endeavours of the likes of Polonius to run cover ...

Yes, a noble man was done down, and besides have you seen the treasures in the Vatican museum? Has there ever been a better, grander example of world-wide looting?

Next time you're there, just pick up a piece and walk out with it … and if a guard tries to stop you, patiently explain that looting is good and useful and necessary, and besides there's an urgent need for funds in the Catholic church down under to help the Pellists maintain control of the narrative … remind him that somebody must tackle those activist journalists, and an activist Polonius, funded by unnamed sources, can't do it all on his own ...

And now, speaking of justice, an infallible Pope for a closer ...

And given that the pond still relies heavily on cartoons to lighten the load of reading the reptiles, the pond should mention to Xmas shoppers that Rowe has a stocking filler out … with details here ...