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1-8-02

Iran, then Saddam

Reader Fritz Pettyjohn in California sent this interesting article from the Seattle Times, with this comment: If you could wager on Saddam being a goner a year from now you should bet the farm. It's as near a certainty as these things get.

One hopes, bwana, one sure hopes....
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Blithering Twit speaks out

In The Sydney Morning Herald they have this "Heckler" column you see, where anyone with something to say can send in a piece and get it published. Mostly trivial, sometimes amusing, and sometimes - like today - you get some real asscakes writing in

Some joker named Alex Damon writes about the fascist evils of modern Australian life in an essay subtly titled A bleeding heart is better than bloody-minded hatred. Punchy, eh? It's the usual delusional leftist pap: because Labor aren't running the country we're losing our moral fibre, becoming pariahs in the world, etc etc.

Oh Brave New World, that has such people in it. Everything we fought for from the 1960s to the 1990s - human rights, women's rights, workers' rights - is to be swept away and dismissed as "politically correct".

And tell me, oh brave dissident, which of these rights have been "swept away"?

The phrase is now a mantra trotted out contemptuously - and as though they have just invented the term - by writers of every second letter to various editors, by talkback hosts or their callers and by the burgeoning ranks of right-wing columnists, some of whom even inhabit supposedly quality papers such as the Herald.

Those bloody evil right-wing bastards, being in touch with public opinion and not using taxpayers' money to do it. Have they no shame?

Since Tampa and September 11 we have witnessed the worst form of cowardice as the ugly face of right-wing journalism, emboldened by popular opinion, has emerged from behind a screen of reasonable language to spread its poison unfettered by delicacy.

So, what is it you're complaining about exactly? If what they're saying is wrong, then prove it. But that's not it: they're saying things you don't like, most people agree with them, so you start whinging that Australia is becoming an outpost of the Third Reich.

All hail the New Morality! Now it is honourable to lock up children of asylum seekers in appalling detention centres. We are told the world secretly admires us for it.

Well, pardon me for pointing this out Einstein, but it was the progressive, enlightened souls in the Labor party who started all this.

And since Tampa, people don't even have to say "I'm not a racist, but" before they say something racist.

Classic Keating-fanboy revisionism: racism was invented during the term of the Howard government. Call me when your spaceship lands Alex.

Of course, we've chosen the right Federal Government to propagate the New Morality. At each advance made for human rights in this country - anti-discrimination legislation, equal pay, affirmative action (remember that?), land rights and so on - you could hear large chunks of the Right bleating "social engineering!".

Tell me: exactly which pieces of Howard government legislation enforce unequal pay, discrimination in the workplace and repossessing aboriginal land?

(......cue sound of crickets......)

Job security has virtually disappeared in favour of contracts and casual work

"virtual" disappearance. Heh. A perfect way of making a stupid statement which you are unable to support with evidence. Oh, Alex doesn't mention the small fact that the coalition has reduced unemployment from the double-digit Labor days.

public assets have been sold

Many of them under Labor stewardship, or have you forgotten that, you fucking prat.

a tax has been introduced that is unevenly borne by people with lower incomes

Let's see........
- poor person buys a $10 item, pays $1 GST
- rich person buys a $10 item, pays $1 GST

Doesn't look uneven to me bwana. And pardon me for asking, but didn't the "uneven" relationship apply just as much with wholesale sales tax?

.....and social cohesion abandoned in favour of Us versus Them

The terminal confusion of the infantile left. Do you crybaby wankers ever consider for one second why the Keating government was obliterated in the 1996 election? Do you think it was because people were happy with the Keating left agenda? That they wanted mass illegal immigration? That they were happy with Keating's economic management? That they were enjoying being told how "racist" they were? That they were comfortable being lectured piously that their destiny would be shared with genocidal & kleptocratic asian governments, wether they liked it or not?

Are you dweebs ever going to wake up and face reality for once in your miserable lives? What is it about Australian society that you just don't get?

where 'They' are groups such as the unemployed, single mothers, lesbians, and now refugees. But, of course, this is an elite argument.

No, it's merely a stupid one.

It's the argument of overgrown, perpetually immature student activists who cannot accept the fact that the wider community does not and never has cared about politically correct moral crusades of the left.

It's the argument of people who cannot accept that the Australian population are a peaceful, rational people who are capable of making their own choices or forming their own ideas without having been brainwashed by the Big Evil Conspiracy of The Right.

It's the argument of people who - despite their shrill protestations - have a deep contempt for the stupid, unenlightened masses who refuse to accept "correct thinking".

And most of all, it's the argument of sad, pathetic ageing juveniles who have never bothered to grow up, get a life, and join the real world, and who - till the day they die - will harbour a sick resentment against the very reality of existence in our great, peaceful, modern democracy.

Alex, on behalf of the vast majority of my fellow Australians, I say: fuck you
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