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Australian leftists howled with fear when the coalition led by John Howard gained a majority - legitimately - of both houses of Parliament. Here’s Greens member Adrian Glamorgan, writing after the 2004 election:
This is a dark time for progressive forces in Australia. If power corrupts, what might absolute power do? ... There were tears streaming down the cheeks of one print journalist in the tally room, as she talked about the threat to democracy this result now poses.
Absolute power is attractive to local leftoids in the case of proto-dictator Hugo Chavez, however, who is adored:
Dear President Chávez,
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
Among the signatories, some of Australia’s greatest losers:
• Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division
• Antony Loewenstein - Independent Journalist
• Casper Cumming - Swinborne Student Union President
• Charlotte Boss-Walker -Peace Activist (Tas)
• Craig Bulley - Worker’s Radio
• Dick Nichols - National Co-ordinator, Socialist Alliance
• Dr Alastair Grieg Senior Lecturer, Australian National University: Faculty of Arts
• Jakalene X - Indigenous community activist
• John Pilger - Independent Journalist
• Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Senator for NSW
• Kerryn Williams - Editor, Green Left Weekly
• Keysar Trad - Islamic Friendship Association
• Mathew Chuk - General Secretary, National Union of Students 2007
• Natasha Stott-Despoja - SA Australian Democrats Senator
• Phillip Adams - Journalist, Republican of the Year 2005
• Tim Anderson - Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney
(Via Frollicking Mole)
UPDATE. The Guardian’s Duncan Campbell believes that with his latest Bush insult Hugo Chavez has “probably written himself into the history books”. Judge for yourself.
Jesus. What a concatenation of losers. All tugging at the breeches of the latest tinpot dictator to have seized the pearl-handled revolver of power in a Latin country.
Doesn’t it bother them, even a little, that Venezuela’s legislature voted unanimously to give Chavez the power to rule by fiat? Doesn’t it bother them even a teensy-weensy bit that Chavez has declared that he intends to rule as “president for life”? Or are these people such whores that they care nothing about legitimacy, so long as the powerful smile upon them?
Christ. If Bush really did set up a dictatorship, they’d be the first to sing his praises!
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 02 03 at 11:17 AM • permalinkWhat is it about Australia that breeds the weirdest lefties.
Posted by Torontosteve on 2007 02 03 at 11:35 AM • permalinkHave any of those “fuckheads” ever been to the Venezuela of Chavez. It was the festering shithole of LatAm before he came to power.
It is now substantially worse than that. The good news is that thousands of competent oil industry workers have moved to Alberta.
As is ever the case, the commies take marginally functioning societies and fuck them up copletely.
I actually met Chavez in Peru in ‘93 when he was on the run after a failed coup.
What a mean, ugly, pock-marked son-of-a-bitch.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 03 at 11:36 AM • permalinkAndrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division
What the fuck? Venezuelan trade unions are Chavez’s most implacable opponents and will soon endure the consequences of their opposition.
Posted by James Waterton on 2007 02 03 at 11:39 AM • permalinkChavez is flying on the Allende Plan.
The minute he got that “Rule by Decree” passed, you KNOW six Venezuelan colonels went “hmmmmm...”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 03 at 11:40 AM • permalinkThey’ll stop fawning on Chavez eventually. When holes wear through their tongues.
Posted by Don't Bogart that Midget, Comrade! on 2007 02 03 at 11:42 AM • permalinkA list of the pitiful and ‘useful fools’, and the always present dose of ‘wanabes’. Bet you anything, not one of these ideological heroes would like to live in Venezuala. Do they have Chardonnay available in their country. Australian democracy really is great, but the downside, is the ‘production’ of these loons.
RM #9 - sorry, won’t happen. Remember Chavez came from the military. Venez mil is commie paradise,
Re list: what a wankfest - Not one of them has a non-subsidised day job (well, maybe pilbreath).
Indisputably, their combined contribution to the common weal has been negative.
I have lived and worked in Venez before and after Chavez.
I would strongly encourage the list signers to apply early to emigrate to the socialist paradise of Vz and escape the cappo oppression of Oz.
Their loss would be our gain
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 02 03 at 12:03 PM • permalinkJack from Montreal ... Tell that to the guy Flight Sergeant Jerry Rawlings deposed… or ask Bad Billy Rankin what those evil military types are capable of…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 03 at 12:12 PM • permalinkOh dear, where to start?
What can one say? They are leftists. Here they are worshipping a classic South American Cordillo
"shared ideals of social justice and democracy"!???? He’s just had himself voted the power to rule by decree and will soon be making himself Presidente for life.
"a new sidewipe at his US counterpart George Bush"
Chavez is hardly the counterpart of Bush.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 03 at 12:28 PM • permalink#2 Sorry for the repetition repetition. I post immediately then read the comments :^)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 03 at 12:30 PM • permalinkIt’s been said before, but far from being progressive, as they fancy themselves, the left is actually quite regressive. A lot of them still live in the age of heroes (in the original Greek sense).
Our current age, with its parliaments, corporations, and sitcoms, has no more heroes in the old sense, and no heroic movements. And globalization is turning the world into what Hitler condemned Britain as: a nation of shopkeepers.
So the left is counter-enlightenment (romantic and irrational), and are always grabbing for the next great counter-revolution: communist, socialist, multiculturalist, islamic, green. As long as the new revolution is opposed to the dominant liberal rationalism, and it’s got a compelling, heroic back-story, they’ll fall for it.
Likewise they appreciate their heroes on a romantic basis. Lenin, Stalin, Che, Castro, Saddam, and Chavez have all been or are currently adored by the left. You can criticize this from a rational perspective, but it won’t do any good, since the appeal is irrational. The hero is invested with the left’s hopes and dreams, and not a little myth.
(Sorry for the big speech- I’ve been thinking on this lately.)
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2007 02 03 at 01:05 PM • permalink#23. For the same reason that all the fingernail scratches and bullet holes were exclusively on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall.
And the Cuba-Florida makeshift boat traffic is one-way only.
Leftists in the west are self-aggrandising hypocrites, vociferously anti-western and concerned with human rights only in the abstract.
But they do dearly love the benefits of living in a free-market liberal democracy themselves. And they do kinda understand that totalitarian regimes are all basketcases. And not at all nice to live in.
As Brian says in #21, it’s all romanticised posturing. And to hell with the poor, when it really comes down to it."Natasha Stott-Despoja - SA Australian Democrats Senator.”
Hmm… Despoja? In Spanish “despojar” means “to deprive a person of what he has or what he enjoys, especially if is done with violence.”
Therefore, when used as a name “despoja” means “the holder of this name is a person who deprives other persons of what they have or what they enjoy and he especially likes to do it with violence.”
Now I read somewhere that many names were derived from the profession the person practiced. I wonder what Natasha’s ancestors did to make a living.
Whatever they did, most probably they left a very big carbon footprint.
Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 02 03 at 02:14 PM • permalinkI understand that Chavez already had the oil industry in trouble through lack of maintenance. The economy should collapse even further is the coming months (and years) and he’ll run out of money with which to buy off the ‘street’ and even the Commie Army will find a way to get rid of him. Probably violently, since he shows little sign of being smart enough to run with the money.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 03 at 02:52 PM • permalinkOlrence—good catch, but it just proves my point. Once you get ‘em thinking that way, there’s no limit to how far down the rot will go.
Remember, that Austrian housepainter never got higher than corporal…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 03 at 03:14 PM • permalinkWe have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
So by having himself appointed dictator-for-life, he’s increasing “popular participation”? Do these fuckheads realize what Chavez would do if there were another popular vote that went against him?
He’d sit right where he is, the appointed fuhrer of Venezuela.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 02 03 at 03:17 PM • permalinkHugo’s statement - that Bush is “as dangerous as a monkey with a razor blade” - is a pretty good insult, but extremely hypocritical, coming, as it does, from a gorilla with a chain saw. I don’t think there’s much chance that the U.S. Congress is going to give Bush the power to rule by edict, which is an honor that the Venezuelan congress unanimously gave to Chavez, a certifiable lunatic. Also, I find it interesting that Chavez, a week or so after one of the most massive anti-government demonstrations in Venezuela’s history, won election by something resembling a landslide, if I recall correctly. Also, with hundreds of thousands of people in Caracas taking to the streets against him, how is it that the country wound up with such a supine congress?
In countries like that - oil seems to be a curse not a blessing. The recent high prices and the like will bankroll his agenda for a while yet but just like Iran. The longer it is run without competent technicians and *gasp* proper maintenance those pumps and refineries tend to die a slow horrible death. Just like the mine I am working at now hmmmm.
I think this is very bad news for John Howard. It is clear from the list that the current low unemployment rate in Australia is caused by the Government allowing any idiot to define any crazy pastime or even a mental illness as a ‘job’.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 02 03 at 03:55 PM • permalinkpaco: Part of the reason is that the (serious) opposition boycotted the last election. They may come to regret that- not that they would have won.
Venezuela isn’t the first place, and it won’t be the last, where an electorate makes a terrible decision.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2007 02 03 at 04:09 PM • permalinkThis is interesting news: Senator Warner is voting to block his own half-assed resolution criticising President Bush’s planned troop surge.
There was a an e: petition going around threatening to pull support from Republicans who voted for ANY defeatist resolution, no matter how watered down. Signed it myself, along with the missus. I like to think that it had some influence on the wet wing of the Republican Party. Of course, I probably won’t be voting for any knock-kneed Republican who publicly supported one or other of the resolutions anyway, even if he has backed away from them.
more dangerous than a monkey with a razorblade
er...zing...I think?
Posted by James Waterton on 2007 02 03 at 07:33 PM • permalinkIt really is the Blair Effect again. The Greens support Chavez despite the fact his country is the world’s 5th largest oil producer and oil is what props up his regime. Chavez wants to nationalise the oil industry, which would make him the head of it. Doesn’t that make him just another Exxon CEO? Why is Chavez’s oil OK to burn, but not Alaska’s or Australia’s coal for that matter? We need answers, Bobbie Brown!!
The answer is simple of course. The left is a union of people who hate the US, Israel and Australia. They have no other beliefs.
About as useful as a c*nt full of cold water
Dumb as a box of rocks
Thicker than pigshit
uglier than the east end of a west bound mule
More chins than a Chinese telephone directory
Face like a twisted sandshoe
If brains were semtex he couldnt blow his nose.
A living example of why cousins shouldnt marry.
Looks like something that crawled out of a petri dish and taught itself to walk.Gee I hope one of them is clever enough to get me a mention in that esteemed journal the gruinard.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 03 at 07:53 PM • permalinkIt would be nice if we could send these fuckwits on a one way trip to visit Chávez.
Posted by curious george on 2007 02 03 at 08:41 PM • permalinkChávez’s approach to trade unions and the press (amongst others) is interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hugo_Chávez#Free_speechWell, as insults go, I don’t think that was so hot. ‘Course I’m not British. Just how dangerous is a monkey with a razor blade?
A while back I spent an interesting, informative hour or so reading at
this web site. It has analytical pieces on all aspects of the Chavez “revolution” (and each has at least a token slam of the USA--lol). Quite fascinating really. Can’t wait to see how it all turns out.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 03 at 08:57 PM • permalinkTim Anderson of Hilton fame?
Ms Nettle stings?Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 02 03 at 09:15 PM • permalinkIs this some sort of looney tunes moonbattery Roll Call of Honor or something?
John Pilger, Keysar Trad, Natasha Stott-Despoja, Phillip Adams - Journalist, and hey, Republican of the Year 2005; Antony Loewenstein, Kerry Nettle....What a pathetic bunch of group think drop kicks. Pleased to see Phil The Dill has finally found some sort of distinction to append to his name.
A pathetic joke… but what’s this? No Terry lane or Mike Carlton? They must have been on holidays at some cosy lttle but extravagently expensive eco-joint.
What’s next for this twisted bunch? Letters of support for Castro and Dear Leader?
#53 McAnzac,
Oh, I’ve kept the list, on the day of reckoning it will come in handy. very handy. Mwahahahahaha…Posted by Daniel San on 2007 02 03 at 10:43 PM • permalink"the acronymist in me snickers”
Australian National University System: Faculty of ARTS
I see what you mean.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 03 at 10:53 PM • permalinkDon’t forget everybody, there is a Federal Election this year, and some on the list may get voted in. Combine that with deals done with the ALP, we could see Hugo Chevez here on an official visit. Along with the fawning and groveling usually associated with these ideological drop kicks. A friend of mine said that he could not see Kevin Rudd being a part of that. I said, he does not have a say, it is the backroom comrades who call the shots, he is leader in name only, and must, in matters of ideology follow the party line. After all, they still refer to each other as ‘comrade’ this or that. They don’t even use that tired old address in Russia anymore.
Maintain the rage comerades
Cant resist putting out this extract from the link.
“The first airplanes didn’t work, the pilots died, but the principles of the first flying machines were excellent.” says delegate Antonio Artuso, 61, by way of explaining communism’s failure to thrive in the 20th Century, and his continuing belief that it will one day triumph.“It takes time for systems to work,” he adds.
Bwwwhahahahahahahaha
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 04 at 12:56 AM • permalink#21, “Regressive” (into primitivism) is always the automatic edit I make when I read “Progressive.” They never define the nature of kind of progression they advocate. There is the progress achieved by hard thinking and hard work to produce life fulfilling values. Then there is that horrid progression of an avalanche overtaking and destroying everything in its path. Like most of the words they use, they prefer to leave “Progessive” as a floating abstraction rather than define what they mean. It makes it easier to muddle those naive minds that can’t imagine the kind of evil they represent.
If you are talking about philosophical Romanticism, then I take your meaning. Romanticism is nothing but Platonism in hippy dress. (Romantic art is a whole nuther thing, though.) But don’t denigrate the terms “hero” and “heroism” by allowing them to steal the concept for their own knee-jerk love of the perceived underdog, right or wrong. The Greeks didn’t use the terms that way, and we shouldn’t allow the honor to be debased.
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network is behind the list of “signatories” above. Have fun signing up for one of the three Solidarity Brigades to Venezuela they’re organising this year. I signed up as Zha Weisi (查韦斯 - Chavez in Mandarin), the young revolutionary leader of a group called Workers Against Neo-Kapitalism Endangering Revolutionary Socialists (WANKERS).
Has the Left become so delusional that they’re conflating “brutal thuggery” with “noble savage”? In order to burnish their Bush-bashing bona fides, they lovingly embrace an honest-to-gawd fascist dictator? It’s no surprise these fuckwits think Iraq was better off with Saddam and his hell-spawn progeny.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 04 at 03:24 AM • permalinkthe list reads like a politburo for a future Australian soviet.
there’s no problem facing this country that couldn’t be improved by rounding these very usual suspects up and dumping them on Nauru- i hear they’re running out of guano so it would be a win/win situation
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 02 04 at 03:52 AM • permalinkJust signed up for December Brigade as ‘The Killer of Communist Comrades’. Told them I’d rock up with my own guns and use ‘em for target practise.
WOnder if they read the language I submitted it in?
Wonder what the military police HQ I gave ‘em the phone number for will make of this?
Should be good for shits and giggles, anyway.
MarkL
CanberraIt’s obvious that Chavez and his cohorts are setting up a military dictatorship in Venezuela.
It’s also obvious that he and his boys are rabid enemies of the United States and Israel...and the latter is all that counts with the kind of trash that signed the invitation.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 04 at 12:38 PM • permalink#69 You know , he could do a whole series of Question books - they could become the idioideologicontrapolitico equivalent of Lonely Planet books if they were well-researched, well-written and entertain- well, so much for that .
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 02 05 at 01:09 AM • permalink
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’Among the signatories, some of Australia’s greatest losers:’
No surprise that shit draws flies.