BellingenNSWForest wars and the angel of history
Nothing shall stand in the way of making money
"Forestry Tasmania lodged legal action seeking $6,200 damages from Ms Beltran over her disruptions to native forest logging. Her angel protest had been blocking a road, and police also wanted compensation.Tasmanian government authorities taking legal action against an angel. It was an amazing story."
"Native forest logging continues in most regions, and the Tasmanian government has introduced harsher penalties for protest activity that disrupts public roads and stops businesses from making money."
"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History," 1940
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus#cite_note-2
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