This will be the only political post on this blog.... unless I get detained for reasons of national security.
Recently parliament was presented with two bills. The bills are Anti-terror legislation (or should I say terror legislation) and Industrial relations reform. Both are to be rushed through without any real chance to debate them. The terror legislation reminds me of the Patriot act in the US. There seems to be a very real threat of the legislation being used to shut down protest or anti government groups as being terrorists. Recently one US activist, Scott Parkin, was detained and evicted from Australia for reasons of national security.... He is a friggin peace activist. No reason was given as it was ‘national security’. Don’t get me wrong, this was before the terror legislation, what the hell are they going to do after the legislation is passed. Even the definitions of terrorist activities are really broad….. Shouldn’t it say something about trying to kill someone rather than a general statement that no one understands. They got rid of 'sedition' and added ‘incite violence’... does this entry incite violence? If they locked down what incite violence means I would be a little happier.
If you want to create a climate where people really start to have issues with the country they are living in, start arresting them without explaining why and prevent them from being able to defend themselves against claims that will never be validated. We don’t have a terrorism problem now but I fear we soon will have one. Currently Little Johnny is saying the bill needs to be rushed through because we have a group of terrorists here now planning an attack. It seems very convenient, can anyone say children overboard, WMD’s, GST or peace activists hell bent on destruction of our way of life. Johnny is a lying little prick at the heart of it, and we are suppose to trust him?
An excert from an interview with John Howard http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/political_transcripts/article_1889.asp
In the interests of copyright I won't paste it here.... but he never really answers the question, was Scott Parkin a threat to national security.
The industrial relations reform looks like a pain in the ass to. The “Workchoices” document cites an imaginary case of a young job seeker, Billy. It declares, “Billy wants to get a foothold in the jobs market, he agrees to the AWA”, which removes public holidays, rest breaks, bonuses, leave loading, penalty rates and shift and overtime loading. Let’s see the person willing to accept the lowest conditions would be most likely to get a job, until someone who is willing to go lower turns up, then you can sack your current monkey and employ an even cheaper monkey. Of course your working conditions won’t suffer, business owners aren’t just interested in making money, they care about you, really they do.
The funniest part about the whole thing is the ‘workers’ on the TV ads weren’t told what it was really about. Some of them thought it was an OH&S add others some trainee incentive scheme. The real question is would people rather see an interest rate rise rather than this type of reform?
I realize that this rant is a bile release and I’m bingo on facts, but google this stuff if you’re an Australian. You should also think about how good we have it now.... soon the man is going to own your ass and then it will be too late.
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