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Between the One Nation lines
Quote: "There is no more ludicrous
spectacle than that of violent, abusive mobs protesting in the name of tolerance
and reason. It's like burning down the fire station in protest against
arson."
Close - but I can think of something even more ludicrous. That is
the media inspired fallacy that Pauline Hanson's One Nation is somehow a
racist party and that those who support it immediately transform from ordinary
Australians to simple minded troglodytes whose sole aim is to rip the fabric
of Australian culture apart.
The Laboral (Labor, National and Liberal) parties supported by politism
(where the lines between politics and reporting become blurred) continue
to churn out the furphy that our northern Asian nations are "devastated"
by the rise and rise of One Nation and the "racist" implications that the
changing political landscape somehow presents.
The authors rewriting the deceit
and lies for the purpose or politism are represented by the real low life
in politics today. The likes of Lord Mayor Jim Soorley (seen right) who has
the ethics and standing of an alley cat on heat.
In his latest venture for publicity Soorley is pictured in today's Courier
Mail with Den-Yih Wu the Mayor of Kaohsiung (in Taiwan).
Wu is quoted as saying that he did not believe that Pauline Hanson's One
Nation was having a major impact on Australia's relationship with Asia, "We
need to have a deeper analysis about the support for One Nation - is it only
one incident or is it a major trend?" he said at the meeting.
"We want to work together with the local people here to bring partnership
and co-operation between the two cities and the two countries. The statements
from the One Nation party won't have any impact on the close ties between
us and Brisbane," Wu said.
For the politicians at a state level the so-called Hanson factor is
having a major spin-off with a number taking tax payer paid junkets to Asia
in the guise of "repairing the damage". The Labor politicians embarking on
politism based junkets include Premier Peter Beattie and State Development
Minister Jim Elder - a major sleeze bag in a bag full of sleezes.
There is an interesting article that I have transcribed from The Japanese
Times which reflects the lies behind the theme being issued by politism
against One Nation in Australia today.
The question should be "What is Australian culture?" and if we can define
it, which I believe we can, "Why should we not want to protect it?"
The answers are hidden behind the cloak of politism with its underlying dirty
linen being political correctness.
60 Minutes show their slight of hand
Thank God for the Internet.
With classic deceit 60 Minutes again tried to pull the wool over the eyes
of Australia last night.
With publicised letters to the programme being totally dedicated to the "abuse
and ill-mannered" One Nation mob who confronted the Laboral parties during
the debate.
The bit I enjoyed the most was the way in which they edited the sound to
portray an uncontrolled rabble when taking visual clips from last week's
programme before reading the letters.
Well 60 Minutes, for the record
here is proof on how unethical, simplistic and trashy your excuse
of a program is. And for those who stoop to report on the program - well
ladies and gentlemen your ethics are about as low as they can go... not that
would matter to you!
MD
Liberals jump from sinking ship
One Nation director David Ettridge had the opportunity to fire a broadside
at senior Liberals yesterday following the shock announcement by Defence
Minister Ian McLachlan that he is resigning.
McLachlan cited personal reasons for his decision while Ettridge had this
to say, "Maybe he didn't want the humiliation of going out in a loss to One
Nation.
"He must have decided that he couldn't be bothered and it was a cert that
he couldn't win against One Nation."
McLachlan told a Liberal party conference in Mt Gambier on Friday night,
"I pass on the seat of Barker knowing that it is in safe Liberal hands. My
decision (to quit) is entirely personal, having served three terms instead
of the two I originally planned."
McLachlan rose through the ranks through the National Farmers Federation
(NFF) - a body which represents big business and not small farmers and the
equivalent of Labor's ACTU training ground for politicians.
The big blow to his political aspirations came when he got
mixed up in the
Hindmarsh bridge fiasco.
What the Japanese papers are really saying about One
Nation
Here
is an extract from The Japanese Times:
Not just Queenslanders but most ordinary Australians
are highly conservative - gut, instinctive conservative. As such they
resemble the Japanese. They are also non-ideological. For over two decades
now they have watched patiently while Canberra and its intelligentsia have
imposed various ideological based reforms - large scale Asian immigration
in the name of multiculturalism, generous concessions to the Aboriginal
population, minimal industry protection, a decontrolled, gung ho banking
system. Almost without fail, the policies have been
botched.
Conservative nations have many things going for them.
But an intelligent intelligentsia is not one of them. Would be reformists
clutch at the latest ideological fad, or conservative wisdom, often brought
in from abroad. Even then they manage to get it wrong. Tokyos' recent inability
to work out a sensible solutions to its economic problems is a good
example.
But Tokyo cannot stray too far from grassroots
common-sense. In Canberra, where I once spent a year as a so-called policy
adviser, physical remoteness combined with recent Anglo-Saxon delusions of
intellectual and moral genius, to the government and its minions to create
policy monsters. Critics are routinely dismissed as stuck-in-the-mud,
unreconstructed troglodytes.
Poppy King on the way out
The truth had to come out sooner or later.
Poppy King the young woman who basked in the glory of lipstick cosmetics
and resulting media-adoration and talk fests is known for her dislike of
Pauline Hanson - an issue which she was once most vocal about.
Now the shoe is on the other foot with the people behind her gilded shoe
- the Frieds now speaking out after Poppy threw a public tantrum last week
about the financial state of her business.
The Frieds have apparently asked Ms King to step down so that the mess can
be sorted out.
In a letter to the Frieds Ms King wrote in reply, "Everybody knows that there
is no business of Poppy Industries without Poppy.
"My understanding is that you would rank at the bottom with trade creditors
(the Frieds lent Ms King Au$3.5 million).
"As I expect (blacked out) will tell you, even if the company was unsound
you would have very limited powers to precipitate a winding up given the
terms of your unsecured convertible note."
Mr Fried responded last night by saying, "All I am seeking to do is to verify
the status of the company so that we can act as responsible directors.
"I really need to be sure the business is fine, and we have no idea whether
it is or not, so there is an audit in place."
He again attacked Ms King for airing their private business in a public place
saying, "At the end of the day the publicity exercise does not resolve disputes
or pay the bills."
Well said sir, but you are dealing with a spoilt brat who loves publicity,
the limelight and being seen as a bastion of political correctness. Wonder
if she has fallen off the "A" list yet?
The Third Way - the "new globalisation"
Washington Post article:
At a moment when most stories of American politics
are about sex and lies, it might seem odd, even perverse, to suggest that
something serious is happening in public life. Odder still would be the assertion
that the United States and President Clinton's administration are at the
forefront of an important transformation taking hold in the wealthy democracies
of Europe and North America.
But that is exactly what is going on.
On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians and
intellectuals are debating what sort of politics should replace the traditional
liberal and social democratic doctrines of the left and the free-market ideas
of the right. The parties engaged in that quest are winning elections--in
the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Holland and, if the
polls hold up, Germany next month. The new ideas, or at least the quest for
them, are coming to be known as the politics of "The Third Way."
Just say those three words in this skeptical time and
you run into a mountain of suspicion.
The skeptics raise fair questions. They ask whether
the Third Way is a set of real ideas or an advertising slogan. They want
to know if it represents a serious effort to create new forms of progressive
politics, or is instead a capitulation to the right, the final triumph of
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Ultimately, they ask whether the Third Way is simply
a clever form of political repackaging that encapsulates approaches that
helped Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair win elections. Is it
just a ploy to distinguish yourself from some terrible "them" (the far right,
the old left, etc.) without ever having to define who "we" are?
Hold those thoughts for a moment, and consider the
new ideas and strategies that are being exchanged.
They include how democratic governments can influence
a global economy that increasingly ignores national boundaries and rules;
how to redress economic inequalities created by this bold new capitalism;
how to equip individuals to keep up in a more competitive time; how to
reconfigure social welfare programs constructed four to six decades ago;
and how to balance the dynamism of the market with the need to protect families
and local communities from its inevitable disruptions.
You could look at the victories of this movement and
say that at the moment of capitalism's high tide, voters are supporting parties
that propose to put some limits on the free market and to offset some of
the inequities it creates. Or you could say that all these parties have made
large accommodations to the marketplace and entrepreneurial capitalism over
the last half-century.
Both statements are true.
Getting a handle on the Third Way can be difficult,
though, because its supporters often define it by what it is not. In an open
letter to Prime Minister Blair published earlier this year in the New Statesman,
a British magazine at the heart of the Third Way debate, social thinker Ralf
Dahrendorf argued that this was one of the Third Way's most profound
problems.
The rhetoric of neither-this-nor-that, he wrote, "forces
you to caricature the others." Old Labor looks more socialist, Old Democrats
more statist, Reaganism/Thatcherism more coherent and, perhaps, meaner than
the reality.
"More importantly," Dahrendorf continued, "when you
define yourself in others' terms, you allow them to determine your agenda."
If the Third Way is primarily a reaction to the Old Left and the New Right,
it might be seen more as a captive of past debates than as a guide to the
future.
Nor is the Third Way even a novel phrase. Decades ago,
the American journalist Marquis Childs described Swedish social democracy
as embodying the Third Way between American capitalism and Soviet communism.
The new Third Way seems to lie somewhere between Sweden and the United States,
suggesting that the content of Third Wayism is relative, heavily determined
by who sets the intellectual and political goalposts.
"This is easily characterized as being the place
equidistant between two points," concedes Sidney Blumenthal, the White House
adviser who is the administration's leading advocate of Third Wayism.
But the current stream of Third Way thought does have
some discernible characteristics. Anthony Giddens, director of the London
School of Economics and one of Britain's leading social theorists, sees the
Third Way as responding to a decline of traditional class politics.
"With the rapid shrinking of the working class and
the disappearance of the bipolar world," he wrote this year in another of
the New Statesman's Third Way explorations, "the salience of class politics,
as well as the traditional divisions of left and right, has diminished."
One should always be wary of predictions of the decline
of class politics, if only because they are sometimes used by those at the
top of the heap to deny inequalities. In the United States, Britain and much
of the industrial world, class differences--in circumstances certainly, but
even in voting patterns--have not disappeared.
But Giddens is right that the manual working class,
the base of traditional parties of the left, is shrinking as a percentage
of the workforce and is being replaced by various kinds of service- and
white-collar workers.
As class loyalties have diminished, so have party
loyalties: Most of the parties in the West are rooted in different times
and circumstances. Few still alive in Britain have personal experience of
the socializing achievements of Clement Atlee's Labor government, elected
in 1945, and even fewer living Americans experienced the New Deal.
Thus were Blair and Clinton obsessed with the quest
for suburban voters whose political loyalties are fluid, whose move away
from urban centers weakened their ties to the traditional institutions of
their parents, and who are influenced by mass media and their own search
for information.
Giddens also distinguishes between the old left's version
of the mixed economy, which outside the United States included state ownership
of industry, and the Third Way's acceptance of state intervention to help
individuals within an economy that is privately owned and managed. (Here,
aside from a few experiments in government ownership such as the Tennessee
Valley Authority, America's Democrats were prematurely Third Way.) And whereas
the old left supported a "cradle to grave" welfare state, the Third Way
center-left looks more to social investment, especially in education and
worker training.
The Third Way is the fruit of the declining influence
of socialist, and in particular Marxist, ideology--especially after the end
of the Cold War. Intriguingly, both Clinton and Blair search backward for
inspiration to a time that predates the rise of the Soviet Union--Clinton
to our turn-of-the-century Progressive Era, Blair to the reforming 1906 Liberal
government, which ruled before his Labor movement achieved major party
status.
The heart of the Third Way's quest and dilemma is how
democratic governments are to deal with the global economy. The simple fact
is that the regulatory state championed by American liberals and European
social democrats has great difficulty working its will in a global market.
Companies and private investment are footloose. Labor and environmental
regulation is difficult to enforce across national boundaries. That,
increasingly, will be true of tax laws, too.
In an essay on Third Way economics, Diane Coyle, economics
editor of the Independent of London, notes that "although people are relatively
immobile and most employees cannot avoid paying income tax, a growing share
of transactions will take place online and will be either untrackable or
easily disguised." She concludes: "It is not that governments are powerless,
but rather that their old levers are irrelevant."
But what are the new levers? Here is one of the great
divides within the Third Way. Many of its leaders, Blair and Clinton notably,
embrace the global market and free trade The French socialists, led by Prime
Minister Lionel Jospin, are decidely more skeptical.
The free traders argue that the key to "expanding the
winners' circle," as Al From, president of the Democratic Leadership Council
and a participant in Third Way conclaves likes to put it, is education and
worker training.
The risk is that Third Wayers come to be seen as people
who think that every problem can be solved if you just throw schooling and
job training at it. Is that enough? Some advocates of the Third Way and most
of its critics on the left think not. They argue that achieving the Third
Way's stated objective of a fairer economy will demand new forms of global
regulation, especially in the areas of environmental and labor standards,
and new efforts to control the speculation in national currencies, which
can quickly undermine prosperous economies.
Also dividing Third Wayers is the proper way of reforming
the old social insurance state. Welfare reform split both the Democratic
Party here and the Labor Party in Britain. Many who share a broad sympathy
for the Third Way in the United States are divided over what to do about
Social Security. Third Wayers who gathered last month for a discussion organized
by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Blumenthal were united on many things,
but not on whether the partial privatization of Social Security would constitute
an advance or a reverse.
But that discussion, Blumenthal argues, also underscored
the extent to which a consensus has emerged in a once-fractious Democratic
Party--on balanced budgets, crime, family policy, women's rights, and the
need for new spending on education, health care, child care and
training.
That Clinton managed to achieve this consensus helps
explain why most Democrats have stuck with him through the Monica Lewinsky
scandal. As a House Democratic leader who is often critical of Clinton from
the left said recently, most in his party will support him as long as they
can. They see him, this Democrat said, as the only figure who can make the
party's case.
You could count that as the triumph of the Third Way.
You could also see it as a measure of the price Clinton has paid for the
scandal. Clinton was an inspiration for the remake of the Labor Party that
Blair undertook. But Clinton, despite his successes, has been far less able
than Blair to alter the tenor of the political debate. In Britain, they talk
about the Third Way. Here, we talk about sex and perjury.
The Third Way is not universally loved by those to
whom it is designed to appeal. "The fear," former Labor secretary Robert
Reich told the Nation's David Corn, "is that Tony Blair and Bill Clinton,
instead of charting a Third Way, will leave the progressive left in tatters
and do little to rectify the social injustices experienced by modern
capitalism.
That fear could prove justified if the Third Way turns
out to be merely a slogan. But judging by the behavior of progressive parties
around the world--and by the defeats suffered by conservative parties--there
aren't many alternatives to the efforts of Third Wayers to accommodate and
reform the free market at the same time. It's an idea whose time may have
come simply because the other ideas don't work anymore.
E.J. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post
and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Political:
You say:
Subject: A letter of support
Hello,
I am a fellow narrow minded moron, and would like to show my support for
Pauline's brainless and biggoted views. I, like my fellow main steam slack
jawed troglodites think that Pauline Hanson's Phoney Nation party deminishes
the calibre of political discussion so that even the most brain dead human
being could understand. I'm sure if the arguements were any more simplistic,
even Pauline herself could understand them.
Glen
Subject: pauline?
A lady of extreme courage ,that is willing to put her life at stake.Just
so a country of arrogant people may hear the true agendas of the real political
forces .
No wonder they have it out for this great wonderfull lady.She is upsetting
the global leaders,which i really admire ,she is disclosing the plot for
the australia take over .
I admire pauline so much that i compare others to her ,all i see is failure
,they cant compare to here.
SHE HAS A MISSION ,I HOPE WE CAN PULL IT OFF , WITH BLESSINGS FROM GOD ,IM
SURE IT CAN BE ACHIEVED,IN HIS NAME FOR TRUTH PREVAILS!
THANKS TO PAULINE THE TRUTH DOES GET TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING FOR A
REASON ON WHY WE ARE HEADING DOWN THIS GLOOMY FUTURE, MAYBE WE WILL MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN FULL SUPPORT
ANTHONY XXXX
Subject: ANOTD
to be most read news?
It was good to read Daryl's suggestion that backs up my own practice of supplying
ONP officials and a candidate in the "Deep South" with ANOTD news by faxing
them printouts.
May I suggest enhancements to this practice? The first point is that some
of our friends are interested in specific items and if they require STD faxing,
then some selection is needed. Therefore, Scott, could you please set up
the ANOTD into A4 pages so that, for example, we may print out your editorial
only, or information on gun matters, etc.? Up to now, I have cut and pasted
information into my word processor. This allows bold, point size,colour,
etc. jazzing up.... but it takes time.
I appreciate that you have probably thought of this, and recognised that
different browsers have their limitations. In that case, could you split
it up so that each A4 page has a header, so that we know where to split them
up for printing selected pages?
The next hassle is faxes. Please stick to clear backgrounds for easy and
quick faxing. Having been through the bit over many years faxing my professional
newsletters worldwide, I know only too well how frustrating this can be.
Firstly, people who wish to receive them must be told of the foibles and
how their fax should be set up. Many fax machines must be placed between
the outlet and the handpiece. Then the one phone call suffices if voice calling
first. Of course, the best system is to have a exclusive line (not dedicated
in the technical sense since that is too expensive). There is a culture in
Perth and Sydney that fax machines should be turned off over the weekend,
yet this is the cheapest time to send them. One could go on.
But the real problem is that the technophiles who read these letters would
be knowledgeable on faxes too -- and the reverse is only too true unfortunately.
That is, thems that don't know, never gets to be told, and the cycle goes
on. So there is a hole in communications which would best be plugged at the
personal level by those who wish to pass on ANOTD to friends. This cutely
parallels the cyclic conclusion of a well known West Indian folksong "...there's
a hole in the bucket, dear Scotty, dear Scotty, there's a hole".
Regards,
Barry M.
Subject: what a joke
NSW Liberal Opposition Leader Peter Collins stupidly thinks he's on a vote-winner
in planning to privatise the NSW electricity generation industry. On the
toilet door he's pinned up a map of NSW with little blue flags indicating
the major regional towns which will be re-vitalised from the expected $20
- 23 billion profits of the sale.
He has assured anybody who has doubts that "before privatising electricity
he would spell out strict regulations and guidelines owners would have to
follow. These would protect consumers, ensure compensation for redundant
workers, guarantee access and supply, set quality service standards, ensure
sustainable price reductions to consumers, and set strict environmental
regulations" (Sun-Herald). Well, don't pigs sometimes fly?
The residents of Auckland (electricity), Adelaide (sewerage), and Sydney
(water) know all about the value of the "strict regulations" that go with
privatisation and corporatisation.
It is impossible to credit that these idiots believe their own rubbish. But
it's equally impossible to credit that they cannot see they are exposing
themselves as snake-oil salesmen. I am perplexed. Can anybody help?
Antonia
Subject: Migration
and Taxation
First, thanks to Antonia for the info on MacKerras. The newsprint article
I read, whilst heralding MacKerras's predictions for the forthcoming federal
poll, omitted to make any reference to the Qld election. Probably just an
innocent oversight on their part...not! I am also in complete agreement with
Antonia's comments on migration and government social policy. I chose to
spend eight years at home, until my two children reached school age. Thanks
to Mr Hawke the tax rebate my husband was able to claim during that peiod
has been eliminated, which means women are now unable to make that choice.
Instead, for the same period, many of them take on lower status, lower paid,
part time jobs, thereby displacing the people who used to hold those jobs.
The gain to government revenue from eliminating this rebate has not only
contributed to family breakdown, but also has to be offset by the increased
unemployment and child care subsidies payments it has created..
The patronising John Laws told listeners this week he's sick and tired of
Pauline Hanson trying to stop legal immigration by telling us migrants take
our jobs, because the only jobs migrants take are the kind of low level hard
working jobs Australians are too proud to take, and that, of course, she
had nothing constructive at all to say about the only real problem we have,
which is illegal migration!!!!
It is precisely because enclaves like Cabrammatta exist, that illegal migrants
can hide and thrive. This is a direct result both of the Labor policy to
bring in high levels of unskilled, non English speaking migrants, and
indoctrinate them, in order to shore up Labor seats, and the political
correctness pushed by people like John Laws that forbids general public
recognition this occured, whilst continuing to portray any opposition to
(M)ulticulturalism as red neck racism and xenophobia.
The latest attempt to increase government revenue is going to be the Coalition's
smoke and mirrors tax reform. And there will be LOTS of smoke and mirrors
to disguise the fact that there will be a NEW tax on rafts of things that
currently are NOT taxed at all. Apart from goods - like meat, fish and milk,
fruit and vegetables, that means SERVICES, rarely mentioned in The Great
Tax Reform Debate, except to tell us that education, health and financial
services will be exempted. Well that still leaves (just to mention a few
that quickly come to mind) things like: Telephone; electricity, gas, water
- Garbage removal and sewage services
Legal services - Real Estate agents - Stock and Station agents - Financial
Advisers - Postal services - Internet service providers - taxis, buses, trams,
trains, planes services - freight services - hotel accommodation - restaurants,
including McDonalds and fast food - home delivery of anything - video hire
- movies - car services - tyres fitted - NRMA roadside service - tow truck
service - films developed - professional photographers at weddings etc, -
drycleaning - hair dressers/barbers - repairs to services like phones, faxes
- any appliance repairs - i.t. services - shoe repairs - watch repairs -
newspapers - all home repairs and improvements like getting new carpet laid,
painting, tiling, etc., child care, furniture removals, plumber and/or drains
cleared - the service of registration of your car and insurance of your car
and property. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but it gives the
general idea.
I have already set against a potential 15% tax cut, a 10% tax on a lot of
these things that I regularly use, and, even if the 10% rate is never increased,
which is not very likely, I would be decidedly worse off. If I am going to
be worse off, then struggling families, pensioners and retirees on fixed
incomes are going to be completely stuffed!!
Carol Kavanagh
To Antonia in yesterday's letter in anotd
If what you say is true, that assimilation is accepting the legal and political
systems of Australia, and being proud to be Australian, and speaking English
to other English-speaking Australians, then it looks like the immigrants
are assimilating well! This is happening naturally - of course immigrants
will want to fit in with their new country's citizens. So what are you
complaining about? That multiculturalism promotes division? Perhaps I should
suggest why the Chinese community 'united' to fight Hanson. Pauline, in her
maiden speech, said the following:
"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and
1995, 40% of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin.
They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate."
She is picking on Asian people, saying they all do not assimilate, as if
their race had some kind of anti-assimilation gene or something. Then she
goes on to say she's not racist...well perhaps not by the definition, but
generalising about one race with negative connotations isn't far from racism.
Well I have to say, that simply the myth that Asians do not assimilate is
not true, by your definition. First of all, I thought it would be part of
Australian culture to have religious freedom of thought. So what if some
people have a different religion to Christianity. Of course they have their
own culture, but only at homes, like the Hungarian-descended person you were
talking about. And also, who cares how many immigrants are Asian in the first
place? I certainly am not going to be like Pauline and say there are too
many Asian people in Australia, because I thought we were all Australian.
Now who's dividing Australia according to race?
And about the ghettos: sorry, but not all Asians form some part of a ghetto
just so they don't have to assimilate. You say it's fine for immigrants to
keep their cuisine, for instance - so where do people who want traditional
Chinese food go to get the ingredients for their cuisine (note: Chinese
restaurants aren't serving entirely traditional Chinese food)? Hmmm, supermarkets
don't stock them (and I don't think its possible for them to), and neither
do many other places, so to cater for this demand, there are 'hotspots' of
Chinese cuisine outlets. Of cousre, there are other shops there as well.
Now mostly Chinese-descended people will want to buy these foodstuffs, hence
the 'Chinese' language usage. Of course, English is also used. Wouldn't you
rather use the language you are most comfortable with, though?
For Asian immigrants who come over say over 30 years of age, it can take
a while to lose your accent, although you can speak English. When speaking
an Asian language at home, it is hard to lose it at all. So sometimes these
people are difficult to understand. Hence, they prefer to speak an Asian
language, hence the 'Chinese' signs advertising their shops, etc. It's common
sense. These are not ghettos, because certainly other Australians can live
there / shop there without any trouble. And because there seem to be many
Asians there at once, or because there you can see a Chinese language written
on a shop window, does not mean they don't see themselves as Australian.
And not ALL Asians live this way anyway. In fact, not that many.
J. Shinkfield
Subject: scraping the bottom of the barrel
I don't know if this journalistic gem made the other states so I'll spread
the news just in case. Today's Sydney Sun-Herald carried an article with
the heading: THE FACE WE SHOULD FEAR. The article featured an obviously
computer-enhanced picture of Pauline which made her look really bad. The
reporting continued thus: '"Pauline Hanson is an angry and vengeful pretender
to the throne" according to a leading American face reader, Cheryl Lee Terry'.
Come again? Yes you read right. The media are so desperate to discredit Pauline
Hanson that since the charge of 'racism' is fizzling out due to a passed
use-by date, they have engaged the services of "face-reader" Ms Terry, who
looks like a classic American blonde bimbo complete with piano keyboard perfect
teeth.
According to Ms Terry:
1. Hanson's cheekbones show strong views and opinions.
In an age of poltical correctness I would think such a quality is praiseworthy.
2. Hanson's nose shows her to be cold, calculating and
domineering.
How come then that she has fired the nation?
3. Hanson's cheek lines show a bitter struggle in life.
Actually such lines simply appear in all people after forty.
4. Hanson's mouth shows a dangerous violent temperament.
Then how come she has shown such dignity in the face of the most extreme
provocation I have ever seen or even read about in Australian political history?
Even the mild-mannered Professor Blainey never suffered the level of abuse
that she has had to endure.
They are really getting desperate, readers. Tell your friends. As a dutiful
daughter I rang my mother today and she said she can't wait for the next
election to vote for One Nation. She has been a Labor Party voter all her
long life. If the likes of my mother are willing to change, Australia has
hope yet.
Antonia
Subject: Comment in Sunday Sun
Dear Scott,
please to get latest update. Whilst perusing the "Sunday Sun" today, noticed
an excellent comment by a thinking person (in Letters to the Editor). Quote:
"There is no more ludicrous spectacle than that of violent, abusive mobs
protesting in the name of tolerance and reason. It's like burning down the
fire station in protest against arson." My sentiments precisely. Would dearly
love to know if one of the other political parties are behind these "rent-a-mob"
types - but of course this could not be for, after all, they are all "honorable
men" are they not? Hmmmmm!
Kindest regards,
Yvonne Dighton
Subject: re: Tony's letter
I was once questioned by a 1/8th Aboriginal person. (Oh, excuse my political
incorrectness. I should have said "a person of Aboriginal and/or Torres Islander
descent".)
I was asked where I "stood" on Aboriginal culture. I simply replied that
it is not my culture and I don't really care for it at all.
To this I was greeted with, "You f###ing Gubbahs don't even have a culture
and your history is only 200 years old."
(If anyone is interested, the word "gubbah" is best translated as "evil,
pale or white ghost/spirit". This has been confirmed by people from at least
three tribes in the area that I live in. So please don't let any do-gooder
tell you it is a term of endearment used to describe "whitey".)
So there you go Tony. According to some Aboriginals, the Anglo/Celtic/Saxon
descendents DO NOT have a culture. (Unless, of course, we have a smidgeon
of Aboriginal blood in us.)
On a final note, think about this one;
"A person gets Abstudy but does not go to college anymore. You see, this
person has got so much time invested in running his business that college
is becoming a bit of a barrier. God help anyone who might question this for
the result is to be branded a rascist. The silly old Gubbahs, however, have
to go to college/school or they'll lose their Austudy.
I can't sign this letter due to the area I live in. If I'm able to get the
physical evidence related to the above abuse of Abstudy, I will send it to
this on-line service.
Terri
Subject: Bone-heads
Some bone-head-rock-star-cum-Greenie bumping his gums on Aunties Radio National
today, reckoned the young Oz is driven by anti-racist (whatever that might
mean) sentiments to protest at ON meetings, and that the idea came from their
own heads. Bollocks; anyone watching the crowd mentality of the students
after exam time, herding off to Rottnest Island like Lemmings, shows that
crowds do not think, but are led by emotion. Fortunately most will grow up
and, finally realise that old age and treachery will beat youth and exuberance
any day. Marriage kids and Mortgages very quickly hoists them in to the real
world, where ideological dreamers find it hard to get a toe hold.
Omega
Subject: THE GREATEST AUSTRALIAN
MINING COVERED UP SWINDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Dear Omega,
Just a though, if someone would like to express his opinion on the subject
of either the Swindle or the Promised Royal Inquiry, I could add it in the
correspondance document.
Howevern, since a mistake is always possible, it would be under assumed name
and under a false login. Although I would make sure this time to delete any
marks of recognition.
It's an offer... however the views expressed should remain in direct relation
to the affaire or in relation to related subjects: The Court Dynasty of
Corruption, The BHP 1046 millions loss, the President Sheppard's address
in the Datum Post etc...
Good bye,
Lancelot Jean-Paul, France
Business:
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