Posted by Mary Roddy The style of politics he has used over the last 6 years has led to abuses of human beings such as I thought we would never see in Australia, starkly so in the case of the asylum seekers. I now know how Germany came under the control of Hitler - good people were simply silenced by the way the government manipulated the laws for its own purposes and allowed the end to justify the means it used. When a government uses such totalitarian politics in order to stay in power, then the seed has already been sown for a police/military state. Your forum is an important place for little people - like me - to join in the conversation as part of my search to live truthfully. For me there is an integral link between that and being faithful to the spirit of the Kingdom Jesus proclaimed to all peoples - unconditional love, and freedom from all that keeps us captive to fear and injustive. Shalom,
on December 28, 2002, 2:23 pm, in reply to "Pre-emptive and Pre-Conditioned - See us Strike First!"
Kevin,
Your comments on Howard's style of doing politics allow some shafts of light to pierce the opaque shell of false security and decency which Howard cleverly uses to hide his machiavellian use of power and control.
Mary Roddy.
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: John Howard - you've got to love him as he has
: the well-being of all Australians at heart
: and will go the biff first if he sees
: anyone likely to cause us pain. That
: makes us all feel warm and safe, and his
: noble-sounding rhetoric sounds so
: convincing.
: What he's really doing of course is feeding
: off our fear so that we will continue to
: support his tenure in power, and keeping
: us alert and anxious is a perfect
: follow-up to the fear-based slogans of
: last year's election campaign.
: He sounds so pious, moral and a fearless
: leader. My fear is that his strategy is
: more calculated and cunning than that.
: Keeping everyone on the edge of their
: seats, he rightly reckons that no one will
: vote for an alternative group while such
: threats abound.
: No doubt there are real threats to our
: security at this time and we need to be
: vigilant. Our deeper threat is our own
: self-absorption and our fear of refugees,
: our galloping wealth and its accompanying
: unhappiness, and the despair among our
: young people as they continue to leave us
: before their time.
: Some pre-emptive strikes in these areas would
: be appropriate.
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