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BOB’S BAG OF MYSTERY
Bob Ellis demands constant invasive searches:
At the Sydney Writers’ Festival I entered with a big yellow cloth bag, big enough to hold a nuclear device, a crowded theatre addressed by Lewis Lapham, the dissident American editor of Harper’s. No-one searched the bag. A day later I entered with the same bag a crowded, milling Sydney airport, and no-one searched it there either.
War on terror, you say, John? It’s barely even a skirmish.
If Ellis’s bag can hold a nuclear device—more believable than flabby Ellis being able to lift it—imagine how many nukes Ellis can hide at his house! It should be searched daily; Ellis won’t complain. (By the way, if Harper’s has a “dissident American editor”, whose editorship is he opposing?) And here’s Bob on the white-powder-sent-to-Indonesian-embassy debacle:
Can Indonesia now pre-emptively bomb us, as we did Afghanistan, for harbouring a terrorist we won’t give up? Just asking.
Action against the Taliban in Afghanistan wasn’t pre-emptive. Ellis has evidently forgotten the events that provoked it.
(Via Ellis editor Raff, who also sends an earlier idiocy-riddled Bob column. I’ve just trebled your readership, Bob; PayPal is on the left.)
I’m so confused. I thought the problem with the so-called “war on terror” is that it was a sham to allow the fascist right-wing to crush individual rights. Then I see complaints that it must be a sham because there’s no crushin’ goin’ on.
It’s almost as if the left wing is so adept at complaining that they can hold two contradictory complaints at the same time.
Dave, I think the technical term for that “adeptness” is “schizophrenia”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 08 at 01:24 PM • permalinkWell, it almost makes sense…if you believe that the WOT is a sham, then the fact that the government (which says it’s not a sham) doesn’t prosecute it properly is at least grounds for calling them hypocrites. But of course, that’s if you merely want to exploit the issue as a club against a government you don’t like. If he was truly concerned about people’s rights in the context of the (so-called, he would probably say) WOT, he should also be giving the gov’t credit for their restraint.
As Tim insinuated, if Ellis had been searched on both occasions, he would have been the first to whine about it.
How would Bob feel about wearing an orange jump suit at a secret location in Iraq, under the hospitality of Zarqwai? I bet he would really be crying then, and not just his typical whinging and whining.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 08 at 03:44 PM • permalink
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o.k. Bob,bend over.