December 12, 2005

Kristallnacht Aussie Style


Australia's Fueh... er... Prime Minister John Howard has refused to attribute the race riots to racism. Hmm... Anyway, below are some highlights of Howard's career, which may shed some light on the current events.

He predicted, in 1985, that "The times will suit me." Not that the times do suit him, but that they will. He has made his self-fulfilling prophecy come true by pursuing policies such as:

  • Opposition to multiculturalism
  • Promotion of "a shared national identity"
  • Claims that the rate of Asian immigration was too high
  • Repudiation of any accommodation with Asia or the Aborigines
  • Turning away Asian asylum seekers on the high seas
  • "Border protection" issues
  • Enthusiastic participation in the war on Iraq

    Obviously, the race riots have nothing to do with racism. If they did, John Howard would know...

  • 4 comments:

    PRan said...

    I cannot agree with you more... It's really ugly for a country with multy ethnicity to have such incidences. Howard is falling in line with leaders like Sadam...

    MarkM said...

    You certainly won't get an argument from me! I wrote a small piece on this issue too (19 Dec 2005)
    Cheers,
    MarkM

    V said...

    As PRan said, I really cannot agree with you more!
    This is just too true a fact.All of these leaders such as John Howard and Bush, illegaly snatching his own citizens' privacy.

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    ..Lucy.. said...

    Howard's policies are reprehensible, but so far I don't believe they have been illegal. Not in the way that Bush has directly flouted the constitution in holding people without charge or trial.

    In some ways what Howard is doing is even scarier - he's making human rights abuses legal. Australia has no bill of rights to fall back on.