G’day
Possums,
It’s
been a week of legacy’s, from those acknowledging Dame Margaret
Scott’s enormous contribution to Australian dance at her funeral
service, the ballet school’s memorial and yesterday’s state
government’s memorial. All celebrating a woman who had such a
positive impact on so many lives and ultimately for the nation and
which has given me much pause for thought.
The
pictures on this weeks blog are some of my photographs recently done
for Heather Anthony’s delightful children’s book, “Mouse
Sprouts” (link at bottom
of blog)
A
less positive legacy and one that the Ruling Rabble and their fellow
travellers, propagandists, trolls, spruikers and other ne'er-do-wells
are now running miles from are the consequences of their racist hate:
the murderous shootings at the Christchurch mosques.
Promulgated
over the last 20 years, initially by war criminal, Little Johnny
Howard and in large part by the IPA and The Ugly American, Murdoch’s
low-rent journals: is their so-called libertarian efforts to repeal
section 18C so that racial vilification was to be seen as “free
speech” but was in reality for partisan political gain and the
politics of divisiveness.
Suddenly
race-baiting, “dog-whistling”, Rabid-the-Hun’s catch-cry,
“Islamophobia never killed anyone...” The Deep North’s Red
Terror’s, ”Islam is an infection, a contagion that needs
elimination..” the porcine faux Attorney General, Bookshelves Brandis’ “Everyone has
the right to be a bigot” and Arsehole Anning’s “….final
solution...” speech (widely applauded by ruling rabble
parliamentarians btw) was suddenly seen for what it really is,
not “free-speech” but hate speech, fear mongering, cruelty and
outright overt racism.
The
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern has shown us what leadership looks
like and although we already knew that our emperor had no clothes,
Scummo, now totally naked, is nationally, extremely unedifying.
Trying
to salvage something from the hole his Ruling Rabble had dug, Scummo
ventured onto “The Project” and an interview with Waleed Aly who
a couple of nights before had, with controlled emotion in discussing
the mosque shootings, “belled the cat” and implicated Scummo
directly as a racist.
What
transpired was what was expected, spin, bluster, smug arrogance,
disdain, obfuscation, dissembling and, naturally, little content.
After
35 minutes, the hole was a lot bigger.
Counterattacking
from the foetid swamps of The Oz, Janus Albrechtson irrationally
opined that the “Left” are as bad as race-haters like Arsehole
Anning who literally blamed the shootings on the Muslims for being at the
mosque and like Potato-Head Dutton, calling the left out for seeking
political advantage….only indicating that this Murdoch shill has
nowhere to hide either and by trying on an argument of false
equivalency and ignoring reality, further damns herself.
Also
doing “her bit” for the Ruling Rabble cause was the hapless Linda
Reynolds who on National TV said when the bill was passed to allow
very sick refugees in our concentration camps to be transferred to
Australia for medical treatment she was, “….almost physically
ill.” Such humanitarian sentiment had her mind then wander off on a
frolic of its own to do a bit of Mussie-bashing about the Bali
bombings… but she "...wasn’t going to politicise the issues….".
I’m
not making this up, Petals.
Some
are saying that these events are now a turning point but I’m more
Cassandra-like: in that the effort to turn this nation around is
almost impossible as long as our media is in the hands of so few and those who
control so much of it and are so right wing........ or just plain fascist.
Hoo-roo
Petals,
Shane
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mouse-Sprouts-Heather-Anthony/dp/1916027601/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Mouse+Sprouts&qid=1553299547&s=book
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