Whuh?!!?
February 13, 2006My Doctor says I have pretty low blood pressure, but there are times when it can rise quite a bit. Nowadays, its the antics of politicians in Canberra that makes my blood boil - on both sides of Parliament. Sometimes their actions make absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
For instance, we have ex-Veteran Affair Minister Donna Vale’s remarks that Australia will become a Muslim Nation in fifty years if we don’t ban abortion.
LIBERAL MP Danna Vale has raised the prospect of Australia becoming a Muslim nation, warning “we are aborting ourselves almost out of existence”. As five conservative Coalition women promoted a compromise amendment to keep the fate of abortion drug RU486 in politicians’ hands, Mrs Vale said she had read that the Imam at Sydney’s Lakemba mosque had predicted Australia would be Muslim in half a century.
“I didn’t believe him at the time. But … when you actually look at the birthrate, when you look at the fact that we are … aborting ourselves almost out of existence by 100,000 a year — a guesstimate,” Mrs Vale said.
Whuh?!!?
Australia has always been (and will continue to be) a secular democracy with democratic freedoms. Australians had the same fear only five years ago in regards to Asian nations - fears that Pauline Hanson unfairly took advantage of. It turns out that fear of “the yellow peril” was completely unfounded. So just what exactly does fanning unfounded xenophobic fears against an ethnic minority have to do with abortion?!!?
And then there’s this -
With the House of Representatives due to vote on Thursday on whether to strip Health Minister Tony Abbott of his powers over the drug, Ballarat University lecturer David Stratton wrote to his local MP, Steve Gibbons, urging him to vote on the issue of medical approval, not abortion.
“I trust that you will treat the upcoming vote as one on the appropriate process for approval of medication, and not a backdoor vote about abortion,” Dr Stratton wrote in an email. Mr Gibbons, the Labor member for Bendigo, was angered by the email, and replied: “I don’t need advice from halfwits that have been educated beyond their intelligence!”
And I’m giving much thanks that Duncan Kerr is the Local Member in our area, and that this under-educated halfwit isn’t. I wouldn’t vote for that idiot in a million years.
