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!
