John Linton
......a world where commonsense and logic are replaced by the shrill, juvenile voices of petty self interest proclaiming that their personal advantage and avarice actually are more important than the country's greater good. Where the forces of government seek to dictate that their naked need for re-election over ride every aspect of a situation of which they have no knowledge and less ability to begin to understand. Where debate is replaced by 'sound bite' attempts at manipulation and the 'big lie' is so continuously beamed to the population that no room or time is left for common sense. You're entering a world of shadow and smoke and mirrors, of things and ideas of which the people who proclaim them barely understand the words they utter let alone their concatenated meaning.......you're crossing over into the twilight zone......
....or that's what struck me about the ad I read earlier as reported here:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Telcos-advertise-for-Telstra-separation/0,130061791,339301292,00.htm
Anyone who has ever read what I have written about Telstra would know that I am no fan of the way that company operated under the previous regime of El Sol and the bunch of American carpet baggers who screwed Australia in a reign of terror before they left with their mega millions but FGS who are these equally rapacious bunch of foreign Lilliputians (and their Australian cat's paws) to use Australian customer's money to hype their own self interests? Perhaps they didn't read enough while growing up and never learned the lessons expounded by Jonathan Swift? Perhaps, like some sort of commercial hyenas, they simply sense a weakening prey and are attempting to make the most of the current situation where, literally, nobody has a clue as to what is going on....based on the statements they make that are publicly available.
Breaking up Telstra in this imaginery world created by Krudd's bare faced lies and his terribly dangerous interference in Australian communications (of which he knows nothing and cares less) is now being compounded by his even crazier attempts to use parliament to meddle with the structure of commercial operations in Australia by attempting to use legislation against one company to further its crazy and unconsionable political position. This is now compounded by three 100% foreign owned companies (Optus, Primus and VHA) running the ad referred to in the cited article. Is everyone OK with this cloud cuckoo land scenario? Are the lunatics really now running the asylum?
Assuming that enough senators reveal their total lack of credentials to make a decision on whether or not they should tie their shoe laces by voting in favour of Krudd's latest fairy tale then it's straight to the High Court for several years to put a stop to Krudd robbing Australians to enrich Chinese, US and Singapore companies in the most blatant misuse of parliamentary power for partisan political advantage in the history of Federation. You simply can't sell Australians a product (T1, T2 and T3) and then turn around and say "oops - now we've got your money we want to make your investment worth less". Though , obviously, if you are as hubristic as Krudd, then you can attempt to do exactly that.
Should Telstra have been sold as two separate companies in the first place? Probably no-one disagrees that should have been done, now, but the fact that it wasn't done also can't be summarily changed now without returning all of the money paid by the T1/T3 buyers of the shares on a one for one basis but as the share price of $3.00 yesterday is a far cry from the prices charged originally then Krudd would have to add another $A18 billion to his deficit to fund that acquisition....I don't think he has any credit left. That is the only way that Telstra's operating future can now be determined - it can't steal from Australians by stealth or, in this case, legislation that makes over 1,000,000 Australians instantly poorer (or alternatively lose the whole value of their shareholding by being denied any future spectrum) so that a bunch of lunatics (masquerading as the Australian Federal Government) can pursue some totally idiotic socialist incredibly expensive pipe dream.
It's now long past time to call a halt to yet another Krudd Kraziness (the NBN2) before, like so many of the stupidities attempted by this nonsensical rabble it just doesn't kill Australians or burn their homes down it impoverishes a million voters and destroys the Australian communications infrastructures as well as the commercial investment system.
For what benefit?
There isn't one.