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| Shane in the Slammer |
G'day possums,
Remember when Australia was a "larrikin"
nation, celebrated as a "Fair Dinkum" breed-apart from its colonial
masters, thumbing its nose at overweening authority and mythicized as the
"workers paradise of the South" where "a fair go" and a
"fair day's pay for a fair day's work" were part of an egalitarian social
contract, and "mate-ship" was real?
Well Petals,
the "thumbing your nose at authority" bit was finally put to
rest last week when Labor supported the Ruling Rabble's Foreign Influence and
Transparency Bill through the Senate.
Now, thumbing your nose at the Government of the day
( may we get one soon), by writing a researched
article critical of it, planning or participating in a demonstration
against its programs or intentions, will land you with a minimum of seven up to
25 years in jail.
Fair dinks!
For now, it is a criminal act to plan or to
demonstrate en masse and you will be deemed a threat to security and the army
can now be called in to disperse you.
Imagine, if you will, Potato-Head Dutton
taking umbrage at being criticized for lacking compassion, empathy and
understanding the rights of humanity and that his concentration camps full of
refugees, are illegal and an abomination? Can you imagine his pleasure in
sooling the dogs of war onto his own people out of sheer venal spite because he
was being held accountable for his malicious cruelty?
No? Why are we
so different to the humanity he has incarcerated illegally for so long?
Fair dinks, we are now the authoritarian state we used
smugly to point at overseas.
But wait there's more... the legislation will also
support the so-called "free trade deals" where multi-national
business can sue a country who use legislation to protect its own or where
legislation interferes with their profit. In other words your government
becomes an agent for the multi-national and will use its draconian powers to
suppress any dissent from the local populace being affected by the
multi-national.
But wait.. it goes further...concurrent with this
gross diminution of free speech and congruent to it, alleged Attorney General,
the Un-Christian Porter has sent for trial (in secret) Witness K and his lawyer
who blew-the-whistle on Australia's illegal bugging of the Timor-Leste
government offices under the aegis of Little Johnny Howard and his
cross-dressing Foreign minister Fishnets-that-Batter, Downer eleven years ago. Then, Australia diddled the Timorese out of their fair share of the oil riches
beneath the sea near their coast.
Interestingly, included in the arraigned are four ABC
journalists who reported on the nefarious actions of Howard, Downer and
ASIO at the time including one, Emma
Alberici, who currently is no pin-up gel for the Ruling Rabble.
More interesting is the fact that the Newscorp journo
who broke the story in The Ugly American's "Australian" in the first
place, has not been called. Vindictive
and petty?
Bloody oath!
Annabel Crabb was hosting “Insiders,” attempting to replicate Barrie Cassidy who is on leave. Having obviously been
fed not only food on her lunch date with Truffles earlier in the week but
Ruling Rabble talking points as well, Crabb was outplayed by Wayne Swann who
was direct and clear in his answers, something the Ruling Rabble never are and
although attempting to find division, she never followed up on a reply to tease
out more content, often cutting off the end of Swann’s answer to limit him
cementing a case different to the one she was pursuing.
Did we mention that
Hissy-Fits Sales was at the lunch with Truffles as well?
It was like reading
out a recipe of one star difficulty as the program degenerated with
hosting the politically lopsided panel of Saava, Coory and Crowe all sitting
and smugly agreeing with each other’s “talking-points” on just what a disaster
(in their Murdoched minds) Willie Shortstuff’s tax policy adjustment was and
trying to beat up a leadership challenge in the best of the Ugly American’s
tradition while ignoring the fact that it was July 1st and worker's
penalty rates were being cut again but with the Prime Miniature and all other
pollies simultaneously getting a 2% pay rise: Truffles raking in a $7,000.00
yearly increase ….
A fair Go?
What started as a pie
ended up bland right-wing blancmange.
I have to admit it did
bring back memories of the last election night and the right-wing bias of the
ABC panellists which included Crabb…
The demise of "the Larrikin" was hastened, too
when Senate clown and IPA fellow- traveller, Loopy Leyonhjelm in debate
about "respecting the safety of
women" (but really wanting them all to be able to buy 7-15 shot
Adler 's for their handbags) confused his
own more important thoughts to the words spoken by Senator Hanson-Young and in
high dudgeon retaliation, told her to "...stop shagging men"....and
when she confronted him over this, then told her to "F**K Off!" Confusing his "libertarian" cover
with being an honest larrikin, and being roundly castigated in the press and at
interview on this matter Loopy showed all the recalcitrance and indignant
outrage of a 14 yo schoolboy pretending not to know what had gone wrong...
Nahh, youse dunno anyfing.... ya pussys!
...and it seems he is obviously garnering favour with the alt-right (he likes his
Milo), Patriot Fascists
and Tru-blu's for the next senate election.... if they can locate a polling
booth, that is ....and read the voting form.
For those wanting to jump on the Ruling Rabble's Fascist,
IPA bandwagon I have spare copies of the Horst Wessel in sheet music form ....
Hoo-roo Possums,
Shane.
