Posted by Kevin Bates on March 15, 2003, 7:16 am, in reply to "John Howard"s Rigid Posture " --Previous Message--
Alan Ramsay's piece in today Sydney Morning Herald is well worth a look - he critiques John Howards speech bot in terms of it content, and in terms of if venue - and the fact that the PM "hid" in Parliament House, rather than face the music at the National Press Club, where there was a planned demonstration against his views. Ramsay's piece is a good thought-ptovoking reflection.
: Today, Australian Prime Minister John Howard
: repeated his well-worn theme of support
: from the neo-conservative push who are
: running the White House - (most of them
: not elected - including the President
: really!) (cf Mike Moore's book
: "Stupid White Men" for evidence
: of this).
: Violence and the bullying ideology behind it
: seems certain to carry the day in the next
: few weeks, and the consequences don't bear
: thinking about. What a wonderful excuse
: for Islamic Fundamentalists - they will
: have all the motivation they need to
: launch further terrorist attacks in the
: West - having themselves been targetted by
: the bizarre Christian-fundamentalist push
: who have hold of the controls in the U.S.
: Our little little "leader" follows
: on - I'm sure genuinely convinced that his
: path is the right one to take - he doesn
: not act in our name however and this
: moment we will remember with great shame -
: and I expect with considerable cost.
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