No Go -- Zero out of Ten!

Total Rejection: Well, I thought I had something to say but "Matt the Knat" -- The Australian newpaper's man of the minor moment has seen fit to ignor profound and sharp Saturday night observation from the suburbs... so be it ... but here is my revenge. I emailed it to my usual polly "fan club" (and Phillip Adams) and so expect the governance system of Australia will now take note and appropriate action in due course from this vital strategic 'free-of-charge' feedback! ... ;-)p.

Here it is (with a few typo corrections etc)
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I think that Howard has done a Latham.

With nothing to loose (as the poles indicate) this is a classic ‘all-or-nothing’ effort to create a miasma of new meta-narrative that has little more ultimate meaning than to keep the ALP's Kevin Rudd and team off the front page and out of the media and therefore the public's 3 minute memory.

It’s more pandora’s box than cyclone. Be honest: does it not feel like a hundred years ago that Rudd and Gillard and industrial relations were on the breakfast table every single day? And I’m more concerned that Howard is sending in QLD cops … he must want a few deaths on the way to town. The question for me is: why isn’t there a general indigenous uprising at the indignities they have been suffering in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet.

I invite those who think I’m ‘out there’ [with this scenario thinking] to check the story by the ex-Governor of WA, Lt-Gen. John Sanderson titled: “WA in civil war with Aboriginals: Sanderson” (West Australian, 26 March 2007, p.2). Howard’s use of army and police forces is only a symbolic effort (10 from each State = 60-70 total! … the numbers are pathetic). Will we have conscription to arm this new military push into Australia’s heart of darkness?

Premier Carpenter said it correctly when he called it a Howard stunt and the ALP is smart for using the Sate premiers to voice this angle -- thus leaving Rudd wriggle room as Mr Conservative. Given that Rudd is prepared to say “sorry” the indigenous people of this country (West Australian, 28 May 2007, p.12) then maybe this is a good time for bipartisan leadership by 'Pastor Rudd'? Perhaps he could take little Johnny Howard’s hand and together, as leaders of government and opposition, say the “SORRY” word? Maybe Kevin’s special touch can soften Keating’s little ‘desiccated coconut’? Then they can both sit down and use the “PROMISE” word – as in: “I promise as the next prime minister to help you poor people by …”. I think we would all learn a lot about leadership and who is the bigger man, politically and spiritually.

It’s all in the higher connections I think. Now that Howard has prayed for rain and got plenty to fall in the Eastern States – perhaps he could also , along with Mr Rudd, pray for the deliverance of the indigenous peoples of Australia from this long-term systemic pestulance they are suffering in their own land. Or are they 'illegal imigrants' who should have known better that this was vacant British Crown land just waiting for Captain Cooke and co?

And obviously we now have an opportunity for the Imams of Australia to go and sit down with the indigenous peoples of the desert regions and explain why Islam prohibits alcohol and distains pornography – the former flowing strongly in the blood of the western world as we know it to today, the latter one of the biggest internet industries on the planet.

So on this future big-Ozzie ‘BROADBAND’ that’s going to be ‘99.everywhere man%’ am I going to have to logon and tick the box that says “I am not an Australian Aboriginal” before I can sit down on Saturday night with a lite-beer and go do some global ‘soft-porn’ surfing? Get in the real world! Try this popular song, it says it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo There are many graphic versions.

I read this invasion ‘exercise’ as Howard’s panic. Smoothly done, but so yesterday already. I want back to IR, union boof-heads, tax-cheating CEOs, and Phillip Adams’ general swipes at our culture of indifference. Neither this problem, nor its ‘fix’, is news. It’s a long-term national scandal and should consume the whole “Future Fund” that has been put aside for the ‘chinless tea-drinking public servants’ of Canberra. Something that Costello should be able fix with his ‘super economics’ equations!

First with Howard it was ‘children overboard’ and now it's this final ‘B-side’ flip tune: “Policy Overboard”. And just before APEC to! Run Johnny, run … like Blair and Bush, your race is almost done! Who said it was not about race! Carpenter has also done well out of this, and has a classic case-study in WA shutting down Perth indigenous camps -- while I understand Howard still supports their reestablishment thought the courts.

Where to from here? It looks like it’s ‘over to the Murdoch press’ to work it all out for our breakfast table. We know Rupert is working for George W., but who’s George working for?

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Submitted (30-07-07) to – http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mattprice/index.php/theaustralian/comments/no_doubt_carpenter_moved_by_passion_not_parsimony/ but it was started for this following blog and so is a bit of a mix -- perhaps that is what confused our poor little Matt? http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mattprice/index.php/theaustralian/comments/its_cyclone_mal_and_whose_army