John Linton Woke to the news that Nature's cyclones, bush fires, earthquakes and tsunamis were not enough misery and destruction to be wreaked on humanity over the past two months but the major war mongering people of the world had persuaded their governments to use the latest high tech weaponry to destroy more people - this time in Libya. Doubtless Haliburton, Litton Industries et all will be awarded the 'post conflict contracts' to supply the weaponry and rebuild the facilities for what they are currently destroying in Libya and, of course, to replenish the missiles and other armaments lost by the US, UK, France et all in their prosecution of this meaningless and cynical action. So now the major warmongers have managed to start a third concurrent war to enrich themselves - where would they be without "democracy"?...their catch cry for all of the misery they have conjured up year after year over the past 65 years?
Perhaps its the rain pouring down in Sydney for the second successive day of the weekend but it seems very depressing to realise, yet again, how venal the world has become in the name of "democracy" over my personal lifetime. We live in era of that makes Josef Goebbels concepts and Eric Blair's bleaker views of the stupidity of humanity quite modest and crude when compared to the actuality of living in 2011. As someone who had a very good grounding in 'history' and a lifelong interest in pursuing a better understanding in the events and reasoning that have created the world I grew up in and have since lived in I do understand the basic fact that humanity is doomed by its genetics and its 'learned behaviour' to conduct individual and group 'lives' by preying on the weak and taking as much as possible from any person or group of people they can mount superior 'power' against and that this is how a world dominated by humans will exist and always has existed.
So, in my case, I get a woman without a soul or even a scintilla of ethics as the Federal prime minister in a cabinet whose combined morals add up to a negative and a State Premier whose naked ambition and lack of intellectual or ethical understanding of ANY issue causes her to look more and more like a pit bull salivating over a pile of skinned rabbits every time she speaks....and my life has been made progressively more difficult (as has that of every other citizen in this State) by that piece of arrant nonsense and the preceding con men, sleaze bags, rip off merchants and just plain criminals for the past 16 years.
An election in Australia (State, Territory, Local or Federal) bears no resemblance to a democratic process. It compares almost exactly to the panem et circenses approach in Rome's declining years. It allows Ms Faustus to claim she "won" the last Federal Election when the fact was the Labor party (now what amazingly inciteful ironist first thought up that word and then made it common usage for the venal rabble that seek political power? - and how right he was to choose it) achieved less than 40% of the primary vote and then had to sell the souls of her unborn children (her own long gone) to cobble together a coalition of two rabid hayseeds and three other nincompoops so that she could continue to screw up everything she touches.
So - warmongers make themselves even richer as the missiles shower down on Libya and soulless opportunists given power by the mindless mob send Australians to be killed in remote areas of the world that have nothing whatsoever to do with Australians (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) because they can.
"Australian democracy"; even the stupid adulteration of the word as it currently exists, is an oxymoron.
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