Time to Choose
08/10/2004 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaThe clock is ticking by ever so slowly. Soon we shall see. Soon we shall know. Three more years of lies, grovelling and vindictive pettiness. Lies we will get in any case. The question is only the quantity and the quality.
Izzie may soon have to consider dusting off that ickle green passport. Or rather renewing it since it expired back in 1999. This place cannot yet be compared to Nazi Germany. Things are nowhere near that bad yet. But the ways and means of power are eternal. If the only thing standing between yourself and absolute power is the rule of law then the rule of law must be perverted. There are always hordes of willing Wormtails out there ready to do the bidding of their master.
Izzie was going to say "If the 'green card' is good enough for Ken Bigley, then it's good enough for the Izzie" But it seems that he might now have been murdered after all and these killers were just playing a particularly cruel game. It is hard to know what is worse - to have no hope like the families of the American hostages who were killed or to have false hopes - continually raised and dashed again. How anyone can endure such a thing is beyond the Izzie's ability to even imagine.
But while the likes of Ken Bigley may have had to pay with his life for the indirect consequences of Tony Blair's actions in Iraq, and Mr Blair is fighting for his political life over the whole invasion business, and even King George is beginning to feel the heat, over here our prime mendacious declares that we have moved on (while continually indulging in 'glory' by association with soldiers who fought in wars before he was even born)and that he has nothing to apologize for. He made the right decision based on information available at the time. Never mind that alternative sources who questioned such information at the time were given the silent treatment, ignored, pilloried and subjected to all sorts of questions concerning their sanity and national allegience.
He is not above seeing which way the wind blows. Stealing policies from politicians who may have been narrowminded and petty but at least had guts and integrity and then getting his minders to do the dirty work and destroy them.
He is even above the ancient law of the sea. National Sovereignty (ie his chances of re-election) is considered a higher principle than the noble and ancient tradition of rescuing passengers on ships in distress. The refugees on the Tampa that did not end up in concentration camps in this country ended up shipped off to Nauru where they remain to this day. The Rodent is glad to have got them out of his back yard. Out of sight is out of mind. The Nauru government is glad to be the recipient of ridiculous quantities of cash as a bribe to keep these people.
And then there is his unending compassion. A refugee residing in Australia was told that his temporary residency permit would be revoked if he left the country. That is the usual and expected rule. But the man needed to go to Indonesia to attend the funeral of his three children who drowned in mysterious circumstances while enroute to Australia on the ill fated boat known officially as SIEV X.
King Creon would have been proud of our little Johnny. A most worthy disciple indeed.
And now the audacious little bugger is phone spamming the long suffering population in one last desperate attempt to fuel his addiction to power.
Anyone who is that desperate to maintain power is by definition, unworthy to possess it.
And the greatest insult of all is that he thinks that no one even cares about any of these outrageous abuses as long as they have an extra 30 silver sickles in their pockets at the end of the day. He thinks that we are all as mean, petty and heartless as himself. And sadly, he may just be proven yet again to be right.
Izzie may soon have to consider dusting off that ickle green passport. Or rather renewing it since it expired back in 1999. This place cannot yet be compared to Nazi Germany. Things are nowhere near that bad yet. But the ways and means of power are eternal. If the only thing standing between yourself and absolute power is the rule of law then the rule of law must be perverted. There are always hordes of willing Wormtails out there ready to do the bidding of their master.
Izzie was going to say "If the 'green card' is good enough for Ken Bigley, then it's good enough for the Izzie" But it seems that he might now have been murdered after all and these killers were just playing a particularly cruel game. It is hard to know what is worse - to have no hope like the families of the American hostages who were killed or to have false hopes - continually raised and dashed again. How anyone can endure such a thing is beyond the Izzie's ability to even imagine.
But while the likes of Ken Bigley may have had to pay with his life for the indirect consequences of Tony Blair's actions in Iraq, and Mr Blair is fighting for his political life over the whole invasion business, and even King George is beginning to feel the heat, over here our prime mendacious declares that we have moved on (while continually indulging in 'glory' by association with soldiers who fought in wars before he was even born)and that he has nothing to apologize for. He made the right decision based on information available at the time. Never mind that alternative sources who questioned such information at the time were given the silent treatment, ignored, pilloried and subjected to all sorts of questions concerning their sanity and national allegience.
He is not above seeing which way the wind blows. Stealing policies from politicians who may have been narrowminded and petty but at least had guts and integrity and then getting his minders to do the dirty work and destroy them.
He is even above the ancient law of the sea. National Sovereignty (ie his chances of re-election) is considered a higher principle than the noble and ancient tradition of rescuing passengers on ships in distress. The refugees on the Tampa that did not end up in concentration camps in this country ended up shipped off to Nauru where they remain to this day. The Rodent is glad to have got them out of his back yard. Out of sight is out of mind. The Nauru government is glad to be the recipient of ridiculous quantities of cash as a bribe to keep these people.
And then there is his unending compassion. A refugee residing in Australia was told that his temporary residency permit would be revoked if he left the country. That is the usual and expected rule. But the man needed to go to Indonesia to attend the funeral of his three children who drowned in mysterious circumstances while enroute to Australia on the ill fated boat known officially as SIEV X.
King Creon would have been proud of our little Johnny. A most worthy disciple indeed.
And now the audacious little bugger is phone spamming the long suffering population in one last desperate attempt to fuel his addiction to power.
Anyone who is that desperate to maintain power is by definition, unworthy to possess it.
And the greatest insult of all is that he thinks that no one even cares about any of these outrageous abuses as long as they have an extra 30 silver sickles in their pockets at the end of the day. He thinks that we are all as mean, petty and heartless as himself. And sadly, he may just be proven yet again to be right.
