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Issue No. 136 | 17 May 2002 |
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Modern Labour
Interview: Licking the Wounds Industrial: The Accidental Tourist Unions: Stars And Stripes International: The Un-Promised Land History: Mate Against Mate Politics: Reith's Gong Poetry: You've Got a Friend Review: War on Terror: Now Showing Satire: Burmese Regime Makes Genuine Commitment To Pretence Of Change
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Postcard Week in Review
 Gangsta RapMore May Day Hate MailWhat Women WantChucking a WobblyIs Caustic Costello the Despot of Despair?East Timor: Independent Or Mendicant?
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Letters to the Editor Is Caustic Costello the Despot of Despair?
Dear Sir,
Once again the conservatives of Australian politics , have reached their level of political incompetency.
Having anesthetised the Australian electorate , with lullabies reminiscent of the 1950s' and 60' , John Howard has with his usual political panache pulled the seat of leadership , from under his blissfully ignorant and ego driven Deputy, Caustic Costello , and secured another opportunity to crawl up another rung on the ladder of statesmanship. This latest budget , which some have rightly called evil , is in fact a further turn on the garrotte which has been subtlety but firmly fixed around the neck of the Poor , the Sick and the Vulnerable in our society , and with the approval of the nonveau middle class.These parasites who have hijacked all but the flotsam and jetsam of the Welfare Budgets for use in their creation of a new class bourgeoisie, a mob of belligerents already clamouring on the doors and climbing over the walls like migrating cockroaches from behind the fridge ,using those who they don't need and refuse to feed as rungs on their ladder to their assumed Aristocracy. This is the unspoiled Maggie Thatcher template of the eighties , and it is even more attractive to these Australians who still bear the mark of Cain , and continue to display it through a cultural cringe. A cringe so blatantly exposed by their denial of an "Australian Culture" , and their fluttering from culture to culture in an attempt to escape their own abominable self hate.
The only antidote to the political symptom to this disease was "Blairism" , a comprise of values , but a necessity to remove the evil.
The rejection of these truths : Is the rejection of the electorate , and is the only reason this continued nightmare journey on the ship of the dammedL
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
I have attended meetings ,controlled by branch stacks (no more) , to listen to regurgitated cant and crap from the 50s' and 60s' with much talk of the second coming . No! Not Jesus !
"Whitlam"
These wankers actually think the rest of the electorate care about the "Big Ego". This budget is the first major chink in the Armour of the Howard government , and Simon Crean as leader , should attempt to open this chink further with a passionate piercing of this chink ,with his 'Sgian Dubh', metaphorically speaking , off course!
Can Simon Crean , convince contemporary Australia that he is up to the job?
The answer must be a resounding Yes , but not in the company of those whom the electorate despises.
Tom Collins P.O.Box304
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