| A second brief letter to an incompetent excuse for a Prime Minister |
[4 February 2007|11:23 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | afghanistan, australia, australian politics, david hicks, guantanamo, human rights, incompetence, injustice, john howard, politicians i abhor, united states, war on terror | ] |
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John Howard,
Imagine the following scenario. An Australian serving in Afghanistan to aid the Global Spread Of DemocracyTM is captured by the Taliban. They believe he is a threat to their existence and throw him in jail, pending a trial to determine whether he is guilty of criminal conduct. They then hold him in miserable conditions without trial for five whole years, and without charge for the majority of this time. He is treated appallingly during his imprisonment and denied basic legal and human rights, though the Taliban claim otherwise. What do you do, Mr Howard? What do you do? Do you just take the Taliban's word that they're treating him OK and that everything is proceeding as swiftly as possible and he will receive a fair trial? Or do you call bullshit and do everything within your power to secure fair treatment and trial?
Yeah, that's pretty much the David Hicks example flipped. I'm using it to make a point. I'm calling you out on being a complete hypocrite, you disgusting little man. You want to know something funny about human rights? The point is that they apply to everyone, including the people you don't like. The point is that you don't allow Australian citizens to be thrown in a miserable jail for five years without trial, even if the jailor is supposedly our ally. The point is that it's fucking inhumane to lock someone up for five years with the barest of contact with the outside world when they haven't even been put on trial, let alone found guilty of anything! The point is that you don't fucking do that, you don't! Especially not when this US government has been proven time and time again to be completely incompetent, completely full of shit, completely untrustworthy, and completely unconcerned with upholding international law or the Geneva Conventions or basic human rights when it isn't convenient for them to do so!
David Hicks is a citizen of the country you were elected to lead, Mr Howard. He has been mistreated and denied basic human rights by a country deemed to be our ally. What are you going to do about it, huh? Stop sitting on your hands and stop responding with meaningless blather. If you don't get off your hands, just fucking resign and let someone with a sense of compassion and a modicum of intelligence do the job.
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
Intelligent People of Australia
PS If anyone thinks my profanity in this entry is excessive, just imagine if your father was held in miserable conditions without trial by a foreign country for over five years. Bloody hell, the David Hicks issue makes me angry and I think I've remained remarkably composed in this entry. |
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| A brief letter to an incompetent excuse for a Prime Minister |
[3 February 2007|07:44 pm] |
John Howard,
Please, stop being such an anti-intellectual. First you had a problem with historians, and now you're going to stick your fingers in your ears and shout "la la la NUCLEAR POWAH la la la I'm not listening la la la NUCLEAR POWAAAAAHHHH!" while ignoring scientific data on global warming? You're an absolute disgrace to this country and thoroughly impossible to take seriously.
Sincerely,
Intelligent People of Australia
PS I am not inherently opposed to nuclear power, I just think it's laughable that John Howard routinely sticks his head in the sand when the issue of global warming comes up, no matter how many scientists present verifiable data and debunk the claims of the crackpots who say things that Mr Howard likes, or when he does bother to somewhat acknowledge the scientists and their data, he just uses the opportunity as a means to push his nuclear power agenda. |
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[29 January 2007|11:53 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | alexander downer, amanda vanstone, australia, black books, british comedy, dylan moran, george bush, john howard, peter costello, philip ruddock, politicians, politicians i abhor, politics, state of the union, tony abbott, united states | ] |
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( (Axver's Lack Of Feelings About) The State Of The Union. )
( A quick comparison of the current US and Australian governments. Guess which I dislike more! )
So there's a brief return to my politically themed writing. On a lighter note, this evening, I watched the TV show Black Books for the first time. I'd previously caught a couple of Dylan Moran's stand-up comedy gigs on TV and he amused me a good deal, so when I saw that Black Books was going to be on, I made a point of checking it out. That was some pretty funny stuff; the Brits and Irish certainly know how to do comedy better than anyone else. Now if only I had the money to buy some Blackadder DVDs ... |
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