[BITList] THE SILENT MAJORITY
franka
franka at iinet.net.au
Wed Feb 29 07:18:29 GMT 2012
Don't know for sure who wrote this but I most certainly agree with the
contents and sentiments
frank
*Subject:* THE SILENT MAJORITY
This seems to put into words what I ˆ and I am sure many others of the
silent majority ˆ think! It was written by Mrs Jenny Bell of South
Australia to Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott:
To Julia Gillard (Prime Minister) & Tony Abbott (Leader of the
Opposition) ...
You BOTH Worry me ! ( In fact both of your Political parties worry the
hell out of me !!!)
Over the last three years, I find myself becoming more and more fearful
of the pair of you, and between you, you are turning this country into
a place that I no longer feel at home in, or feel a part of! I watch
you in parliament, and no, not just the two of you, but every
politician that I see, stand up in parliament sneering at each other,
and acting like children !!! (..and if you were my children, I would
be ashamed of you all ... What an example to set!)
Although you would like us all to believe that you are putting the
needs of this country at the forefront, NEITHER of you are doing that,
you seem more interested in "one-up-manship ", in scoring off each
otherand denigrating each other, to the detriment of this country & its
people !!!
It seems to be all about YOU as individuals, and not about what you can
DO for this country !It is fast becoming a place that I do not
recognize, as the place I always thought, was the best place in the
world to be !!!
But no longer !!! You are not listening to the people of this country
!!!Here in South Australia , your counterparts are afflicted with the
same disease - is it endemic in all politicians ?
I am watching the deterioration of living standards in this country,
(and according to you, on a world stage we are doing better than most
countries ... REALLY ???) ... And yet the gap is widening between the
"haves" and the "have-nots" . I see our homeless on the streets, our
hospitals under-funded and understaffed, our health system is an
absolute mess and a disgrace ... And yet I see multi-millions of
dollars being sent off shore in aid to other countries, before
attending to this country's needs !
I see the "selling off of the farm", in large amounts, to foreign
interests, (In Every State ) including water rights to foreign
interests as well. WHY???
Especially when you go to great lengths to tell us that water is a
finite resource and supposedly, we must ALL be careful how we use it,
so that we ensure we have it for the future ?
Foreign interests "Fracking" for coal seam gas and riding rough shod
over farmers' rights to their own land, AND USING QUESTIONABLE
CHEMICALS. (You don't even KNOW what chemicals they use), possibly
causing damage to the water table in the process !!!
These foreign interests I believe, do NOT have to pay anything in
royalties back to this country for the first five years of their
tenure ... IS THIS CORRECT ???
A Carbon Tax,(which you KNOW is just another tax with a "Starting
Point dollar value") which will make NO appreciable difference to
carbon emissions, AT ALL!
A tax, which in spite of all your arguments for it, you are doing
alone, when other major countries will NOT & DO NOT embrace it, or
believe in it !
All that it will do for this country is put working families and small
businesses behind the eight ball, .....what planet are you on, if you
think that your few hundred dollars a year, will make even a scrap of
difference to the effect of the carbon tax on people ?Blind Freddy can
see the holes in that argument !!! Do you _really _think we are that
dumb ???
The CONVOY OF NO CONFIDENCE was real !!! ..and I haven't spoken to
even ONE person, who would not have liked to be there if they could,
but the tyranny of distance and/or work was the only thing that kept
them away, ( myself included ), .. and you KNOW that only a part of
the convoy was actually allowed to be in front of Parliament house and
ON VIEW ... the rest were streets away, unreported by the media !
For Mr Albanese to stand up in parliament, and call it "THE CONVOY OF
NO CONSEQUENCE ", in his sneering tone, shows just how out of touch
with the people of Australia , you really are !!!! WE WOULD HAVE _ALL
LIKED TO HAVE____BE THERE !!!
_
_DEFENCE ........_ Because Americans are our Allies, and we support
them in Wars, ......... Korea , Vietnam , Iraq , Afghanistan , .....
and you have sent our soldiers to those places, and our soldiers fought
for you, and for Australia ........ some coming home with terrible
physical injuries, and some with devastating Mental Injuries as well
..... BUT WHERE ARE YOU, WHEN _THEY NEED YOU ?????
_
Veteran's Indexation to CPI only is a disgrace ... and is something
YOUR Labor party Julia, used as an election sweetener, to get the
Veteran's Vote ... BUT YOU LIED (Again) ! You never had any intention
of honouring your election promise to them ... and it WILL come back to
bite you at the next election !!!! (And Tony, Liberals were NO BETTER,
Howard had more than 10 years to "fix it " and didn't !)
Veterans are not alone, they have families, friends and supporters, who
are heartily sick of the deception your party perpetrated on them
....AND THEY ALL VOTE !!!!
THEY are your obligation, first and foremost ..... and it is not your
first obligation to give aid to every man and his dog fromoverseas
first !!! Look after your own FIRST !!!! Is this what you call
SALUTING THEIR SERVICE ???
Have you any idea , how sickening it is for our Vets to see you both, (
Labor or Liberal ) turn up to the funerals of our current young vets
for a photo opportunity, to be seen to be "caring " in the public
eye, but only to turn your backs on them all when they need you ???
(Just ask Breanna Till an Afghanistan Soldier's wife, how CARING
this government is !!!)
And in light of what you DON'T do for our Vets .......Let's talk
about Multiculturalism ......People have come here from other
countries, for a better life, for more years than I have been alive (
I am 65 years old !) ... my own family migrated here in 1883, from
Germany, and did find a better life ...
Pre & Post war immigrants have came for a better life, and settled in
and become wonderful contributors to this country, as did those who
came here after the Vietnam War, ... all have contributed to the rich
diversity of this country, and some descendants have even fought FOR
this country, and they have become Australians and were glad to be
..and they had NO handouts from our Government either, ...they worked
hard for everything!
I have never before had a problem with all, or any race of immigrants
coming here ... However , I DO NOW !!!
Please tell me why we have areas like Lakemba, where police do NOT,
& will NOT go, for fear of their life ?
Please tell me why we can no longer have religion in schools, for fear
of "OFFENDING" someone ? (The latest little gem is that they are not
having, or being funded, for "Chaplains " any more , but "Counsellors "?)
Please tell me why religious Christmas observances are no longer
allowed in some schools for fear of OFFENDING someone ?
Please tell me HOW Christmas decorations in some stores might OFFEND
someone ?
Please tell me why we have to have segregated days in some swimming
centres, for fear of "OFFENDING" someone ?
Please tell me why we have some RADICAL clerics demanding Sharia Law in
this country ... when if we were in THEIR country, this would NEVER be
allowed ?
Please tell me why our laws need to be changed, so as not to OFFEND
someone ?
Please tell me why we are fast becoming a MINORITY voice, in our own
country, because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ?
Please tell me WHY Australians cannot legally wear a face covering
bike helmet into a bank ..and yet it is ok to wear a Burqa which covers
the whole face ?
And please tell me WHY, when those people who want asylum here, can
wreck our detention centres, as in Villawood and STILL be accepted here ?
SO , in light of the above, WILL BOTH OF YOU ......Please tell me WHY,
when some of our Vietnam Veterans FINALLY received (in the last 6
months) the recognition that they should have had after the Vietnam
War, (and which they received from the USA & South Vietnam, during and
immediately after the Vietnam War), that the families of those
Veterans, were refused assistance by this Government, to attend that
award ceremony, and yet this Government ...._flew, accommodated_ _and
even took on bus tours _, the families of asylum seekers, after the
funerals of those who were killed in the boat which sunk off Christmas
Island ?
What does that say, about just who are this government's priorities ?
The Australian people that I speak to have genuine concerns about
becoming a second class minority in our own country and the reasons
for it, are some of the above, ..... Are you so blind that you
cannot see this ?
And no , I am NOT racist !!!..(if I did not like Catholics or
Protestants would I be considered racist ?) Of course not !
Why is it, that if we object to what is happening in our country ... we
are immediately labelled RACIST, in an attempt to shut us up ?
We are fighting Radical Muslims, in Afghanistan & Iraq, are we not ?I
hear you say, yes but the Muslims we have here are "Not like that " ..
well how would we know ? ...do we hear ANY of them coming out &
speaking AGAINST radicals ?? I haven't ...have you ???
Islam is not compatible with ANY of the values that we hold here in
Australia ! .....Are not the experiences of Britain , France , and the
Netherlands an example of that? Why do you think it would be any
different here ? We even have an Australian born "radical ", whose
message is that Australia WILL become a Muslim country, under Sharia
Law, & that we had "better get used to it ".
Will both of you grow some "Balls ", and start sticking up for this
country and its people ???
We are the people who put you where you are, and PAY you to look after
our interests ! ... And you are NOT doing that by any stretch of the
imagination !!!
I would appreciate an answer from both of you, if only to convince me
that once again, I am not talking to a brick wall !!!!!
In case it has escaped both of you ...I would like to remind you that
in Australia the Government ... is FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THEPEOPLE, AND
BY THE PEOPLE ...Never forget that......because you sure have up till
now !!!
Mrs Jenny Bell
20 Helene St
Nuriootpa
S.A.
0885623753
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