it could be worse much worse

Imagine the bulk of Australians were unhappy
with the policies of the Howard government.

Imagine they voted on Saturday to elect
more Labor than Coaliiton MPs to
the House of Representatives.

Imagine they voted on Saturday to elect
more Labor than Coaliiton Senators
to the Australian Senate.

Imagine we woke up on Sunday morning
and John Howard said to voters:

"I'm the Lord High Muckey-Muck
around here and my policies
shall prevail!"

Well that, folks, is how they do
politics in the United States
and why President Bush
drives around in an
massive armoured
limousine with a
bullet-proof
everything!

And that ghastly US pseudo-monarchy
where Ministers of the Crown are
not elected MPs or Senators who
are answerable to Parliament but
are Bush-appointed royal courtiers
(known as 'Secretaries' in the US)
who are answerable to the pseudo-
monarch who appoined them
- a pseudo-monarchy that
went so close to the real thing
(in President Clinton's case) as having a
palace concubine with semen stains
on her lovely satin dress - that silly
system is being rammed down Iraqi
and Afghan throats (at the point of a
gun) as the 'Paragon of Democracy'
that they must emulate or get
blown to smithereens!

BTW:

The Anzus Treaty that Howard pays homage
to (on bended knee) as the Bulwark of
Australia's Defence - do you know
what it actually says?

That America will come rushing to
Australia's assistance if we
are ever attacked?

Nope!

After all the 'insurance' payments
(in grovelling syncophancy) and
in troops sent anywhere to
help US imperial plans,
all the Anzus Treaty
says is the US will
'consult' about
sending help
if we're ever
attacked!

Remember the First World War.

America only sent troops after
the 'Lusitania' was attacked off
Iraland by a German sub
and some AMERICANS
were killed.

Remember the Second World War.

America only sent troops after
Pearl Harour was attacked
and some AMERICANS
were killed.

So if we are ever attacked
expect lots of consultions,
bi-lateral discussions and
long chats on the phone
*but* unless some
AMERICANS are
killed, we could
be waiting and
waiting and
waiting
until...

It's in AMERICA's interest
to come our rescue!

I would much prefer the
Australian government to
raise taxes to build our
own aircraft carrriers
than to be humiliated iike
we were when Harrold Holt
(during the Vietnam Invasion)
said "All The Way With LBJ".

All the way into what?

Being the only American state
with a kangaroo and an emu
on its coat of arms?

Not only is it time for a change
of government, it's time for
Australia to stand on its own
feet and stopped bludging
on and grovelling towards a
ghastly pseudo-monarchy
that *thinks* it's a
democracy!