The Choice Is Up To You
When the selfish and the crazy ones took control of our government many of us had to make a decisions about our lives that we never thought we would ever have to make. Those decisions were based on what we believe to be right from the teaching of our parents and what we in turn have taught our own children.
When we saw our government turn it’s back on the aboriginal people, refusing to make a formal apology to them for the genocide conducted by our forefathers we knew that some latent immorality had surfaced in the body politic.
When the Prime Minister went out of his way to change the aboriginal land rights legislation so that their claim for the return of their own land would be virtually impossible, we knew that the bigotry of the ignorant underclass and fearful farmers was being cultivated for cheap populist political advantage.
When the prime minister ordered the SAS troops to board the Tampa and arrest the destitute asylum seekers for having the temerity to seek refuge in Australia, we knew that our national heart had hardened.
When the Minister for immigration and Ethnic Affairs ordered the would be refugees coming to our shore in leaky boats to be put into what can be described as concentration camps in the outback desert, incarcerated without charge, legal representation or trial, we knew that the rule of law had become perverted.
When the Prime Minister told the President of the United States that we would send our troops to help him attack Iraq and then lied to the people by saying no decision had been taken, we knew we could no longer trust our government.
When the “coalition of the willing” of which we were part went ahead and attacked Iraq without UN sanctions and then we found out that the purpose of the war was a pack of lies, we knew that we had become despicable as a civilised nation.
And now we are on the verge of negotiating a so-called Free Trade Agreement with the US that will utterly destroy our independent economy in favour of American interests. It seems that our Prime Minister is so in love with President Bush that he is willing to sell out our national interests (our birthright) for a bowl of pottage. That is why so many of us feel ashamed to be Australians.
We take a look around us and see everything that used to be noble and good being systematically defaced as if to mock the men and women of goodwill. We have to ask ourselves if we can live with a system that desecrates everything we know to be true and proper. And we all must ask ourselves “is this the way we want to live?”
Peace be with thee.
4:28:03 PM 
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