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Issue No. 139 | 07 June 2002 |
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With Prejudice
Interview: Class Action Safety: A Mother's Tale Unions: The Hottest Seat in Town International: Defensive Enterprise Economics: A Super Deal? History: A Radical Life Media: Cross Purposes Review: When the Force Is Unconscious Poetry: Wouldn't It Be Loverly
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Week in Review
 Romeo and Juliet?Robbo's RaveLatham Ad NauseumOur Home Is Girt By WireHands Off Hooligans!
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Letters to the Editor Romeo and Juliet?
Dear Sir, Was this an excellent article akin to Shakespeare's' Romeo and Juliet , a true life story on reconciliation between two factional Warriors or just a public exposure of your comrades betrayal and political debauchery "The Odd Couple" By Jim Marr, in issue 138 of WOL? As a born again Pollyanna, who through the eating of boiled lollies, still believes in the tooth fairy. I thought, if only Federal and State labour could embrace each other in a similar fashion, and then there might just be an opportunity to regain government and implement some policies which include even a veneer of social justice. This unfortunately appears not to be; with the eye of the federal Labour politicians clearly on an election victory through attending to and dealing with the issues of which the electorate have clearly indicated is their desire. While State Branches, particularly Queensland and New South Wales appear to be under the influence of the "Pied Piper" of Pyrrhus and victory being rewarded with martyrdom and "A sacred Heart of Jesus" lapel badge retrieved from the archives/garbage of the DLP. But after reading the macabre political agenda of the "Odd Couple", I thought? Is there some basket factory in Balmain that mass produces these wannabe wankers? Wankers who obviously cannot add up figures, or is it that they have they been educated at a New South Wales TAFE , and want the next generation to suffer the same disadvantages that they have suffered through the wasteful expenditure of public monies on these community centres posing as institutions of learning, or perhaps they are employed in these educational sheltered workshops and see this perversion of democracy as a way of protecting their disability allowance. As for mandatory detention, even a TAFE educated moron could figure out that in a democracy, 85% approval rating on Mandatory Detention, is a majority - that is unless you are a Trade Union member of the Queensland or New South Wales Branch of the ALP, under the illusion of your own personal infallibility, then you are always right and you know what is best for everyone else, well in your own minds and at a branch meeting if not at an election. This demand, to open access to health and other services for wealthy foreign predators is outrageous, when we cannot look after the sick in our community, the inability of "DOCS" to protect abused children, the aged being deprived of basic necessities , or even the criminal locked in cells for eighteen hours a day, with queues in our public hospitals getting longer and longer, and waiting lists for surgery lingering into the years and almost decades for our Grandparents , and our Children having to wait for hours in emergency departments ,with 80% of child abuse cases swept under the carpet , the prisons overflowing with fine defaulters , and Bob Carr determined to increase this with new legislation giving Police discretion to impose fines. Has this man been asleep through all these police corruption hearings? I've heard of kids in the lolly shop, but this takes the candy! Will that be the new question? "The money or the Box"? It doesn't take an Einstein to work out why; people like Jackie Kelly get elected in the seat of Lindsay? And this behaviour giving Jim Aitken an opportunity at winning the state seat of Penrith, it certainly was not, through the "forte" of some ALP candidates, in treating the electors as idiots. It just might be that the Howard Government, no matter how unpalatable it may seem to some, it acquiesces to the wishes of the electorate. Now no matter how repulsive Democracy appears to this appendix of the ALP, the redundant parasitical bourgeoisie who somehow evaded the tumbrel, this is how you get people to vote for you! Getting back to the "Howe & Tattersall relationship and the support base for this "Romeo & Juliet" scenario is certainly comprised of some influential figures; it's just great to see the Secretary of the Labour Council at the vanguard of these supporters, obviously "a man of all seasons". Particularly in their understanding of politics reflected through their concise statement: "The ALP is vulnerable at the moment because its policies are poll driven rather than membership driven. This exercise was promising because it showed how members, and important party institutions, could come together to demand better policy." This is a complete denial of the philosophy Democracy and this arrogance manifested by righteous wilfulness will ensure years in the wilderness, but then the electorate of "The Secretary", is a mere cabal more cunningly sanctimonious than the Jesuits , and more pragmatically ritualistic than the Masons, and certainly not a reflection of the Australian People. One must stand agape at arrogant statements such as this, "Policies are poll driven", and could this possibly be because you want the votes of those that go to the polls or is this some secret just discovered by "Test Tube Australians"? I can recall many many years ago receiving from the church and wearing a little badge with a bleeding heart, claiming adherence to the "Society of the Sacred Heart", which was run by professed bleeding hearts, and of course this was and is in many cases just a fa�ade to cover up the many abuses by these hypocrites, is there a similarity here? The ALP like any fractured group is vulnerable, not through any external threat, but from the greedy little maggots who with changes in leadership, are only interested in personal enmities being settled, or on expelling anyone who has a natural ability and appears to be a threat. It is embarrassing to watch the drubbing given to these amateurs by liberal clowns, the uninformed and unintelligible waffle along with the contorted facial expressions, of McMullan, must make the party cringe, the adolescent bovver boy antics of Latham only serve the purpose of Abbot and Costello, even attracting the ridicule of Downer and his buffoonery, the bleating of a Swan who should be honking, the pseudo-intelligent posturing of a bespectacled dynasty dinosaur , Ferguson ,and the collective disgraceful attacks on the speaker ,all contribute to this inappropriate self debasement. At least when the ALP was controlled by adherents to the church a moral code was binding. Not so today, as these numerically challenged but noisy special interest group activists, who represent no-one but themselves and encouraged by an haughty government, flit from ear to ear in the opposition benches whispering their venomous spite while dribbling spittle, into the ears of weak politicians who think that integrity, is an energy company and principle is capital investment that comes in brown paper bags. Its time to deliver what the people want, not what the branch secretary or his/her little clique want, Simon Crean has not only been elected the Leader of the party, he has listened to what the people want, and to regain lost credibility, we must get behind him and get a Labour Government re-elected, then and only then can the party mercenaries and union bosses get back to their backstabbing and their silver coin collections. And don't forget; those that feel a vocational need for a bleeding Heart this is the contact address. http://www.ozvocations.catholic.org.au/directory/religious/msc.html Or just do every one a favour and fall on your sword and create your own bleeding heart. Tom CollinsNSW
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