Tuesday 18 March 2008

John Howard's political love child lives!

Just when I think that we've finally seen the back of that ultra right-wing warrior, John W Howard, something crops up to remind me that his political love children are still sitting on the Opposition benches of Federal Parliament.
 
Showing a hint that Australia may yet be bludgeoned by the dying gasps of Howard's cultural vendetta against everything except a blinkered, timeline view of history and rampant ethnocentric 
nationalism, little Brennie Nelson put this out in the media: "The concept of "defence of the realm" should be expanded beyond border control and fighter planes to embrace "defence of values". Dr Nelson wants to initiate what could be a politically volatile public discussion about what Australians stand for beyond universal values."
 
Oi, Brenn old china, didn't you notice the disruptive racist and xenophobic drivel which welled to the surface when Howard tried his hand at "defence of values"? 
Have you ever stopped for a minute to consider that ordinary Aussies might have been defending their personal and universal values when they kicked your mob out of government last November?
Or were you knee-deep in the jungle juice when you thought up the little bewdy above. 
 
 

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