Do your supposed friends turn Judas and leave you to die bitter deaths in horrible concentration camps such as Changi and the Burmese line? The British did to thousands of our brothers, fathers, husbands and sons at Singapore in World War Two. Do comrades shelter themselves from bullets aimed at them? No? Then why was our blood used to wet the ground first in the massacre of the Gallipoli and the Some, where our brethren were used as cannon fodder in the front line? Why has our supposed independent nation sacrificed our most precious commodities for goals set by indifferent powers who have shown how highly they regard us. Why when they so openly spit in our face do we just meekly accept it and turn the other cheek?
As a nation and people Australia seems incapable of seeing a basic principle in ourselves that is history repeating itself. In the present we remain as the much he lapdog as we ever were. America, whom we are so devoted to and obsessed with their shallow culture initiates valuable trade agreements with Russia and china while we are still denied our much needed agreement, much to the ruination of Australian farmers and producers. But when it turns to whatever America fancies at the moment, we gladly spread our legs and gave them our blessing to build nuclear control stations (and probably shelters) such as pine gap, to dump radioactive waste on OUR soil, to break multimillion-dollar deals with our farmers. , To largely destabilize our economy with globalistic multi trillion dollar corporations and to BUY Australian soil, bought in blood and sweat all for multinationalist purposes. I weep for the collective suicide we impose upon ourselves.
Maybe the only politician we have ever know with intestinal fortitude, Gough Whitlam, was sacked and disgraced when he tried to stop the cycle of Australia selling itself to the world. He was overthrown by MI6 and the CIA. A democratically elected leader was kicked out of office at the hands of a foreign power; it is needless to say that this wasn’t in OUR best interests. And we did nothing. Our history is not a proud or monumental one it is a deeply sad one filled with each generation slitting theirs wrists and their children’s at the behest of higher powers. A betrayal most foul in the words of Shakespeare. Much like the Vikings of earlier days we have been despoiled, murdered and raped by the blonde haired, blue-eyed powers of the world. All the while we have been self attuned (doublethink anyone?) to stand back and focus on the insignificant such as MTV awards, OSCARS, Hip Hop, manufactured angry white trash such as Eminem to deliberately avoid seeing the big picture.
Why? Why in spite of all that history has taught us and the evidence under our eyes and in our graveyards do we still doggedly cling to their corrupt nature with zeal? Why do we mourn for an English tart in a car crash made up to be more then se is and why the hell do we allow as much reverence to a few thousand Americans as we do to our own blood, the ANZACS. Why are our children made to bear one minutes silence for them while they are referred to as our American brethren? Why are a few thousand American lives so much more important and considered a worldwide tragedy when compared to the millions of innocents that the terrorist organization known as America maim, torture and slaughter in heinous attacks each year. Why does our blood boil at the thought of attacks on America our vaunted, trustworthy friends when we could not care less about the crimes they commit to the world every year.
Australia loves all things America just as it loved all things British half a century ago it no secret we openly admit it. If we are so bound and involved with British and American imperialism socially and politically in spite of all that history and the present has failed to teach us then why cant we at least be honest with ourselves. Why don’t we call John Howard, Peter Costello and the others by their real names, Whitehouse spokesmen.
Even god cannot change the past but I ask you this Australia……….. In the 21st century will we allow history to repeat itself as it has done so many numerous times in Australian history? Australia…………. We must change from the old dog lying prostate at his master heels to become the people we truly are. We have never shown the people we are under all the layers, let us find out who we truly are or are we truly a nation of privileged slaves.
To become what we want to be involves changing from what we are. This means refusing to send our sons, brothers, fathers, husbands and women off to war in Iraq, another self-serving war for the Americans that has nothing to do with us except to confirm our position as Americas gimp.
Will we stand by and continue to commit an unforgivable slandering of our ONLY true friends - the kiwis – because they have the guts to tell America what they can do with their nuclear subs and their double standards war.
It is easy to direct ones anger at a lone politician. It is easy to say “what a fool”. It is easy to forget or conveniently ignore completely my plea. It is hard but infinitely more valuable to be able to wilfully step out of ones comfort zone and to say “My voice will be heard, I will no longer be vultured upon and I WILL NOT allow anything to despoil my children’s future like a thief in the night”. I urge…….. I implore all Australians to not let the past repeat itself and to change if only in a small way to become the nation we are, if hidden by all the layers of submission and cowardice we hide ourselves in. No war in Iraq, the US has all the oil its needs anyway.
