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miriam_e ([personal profile] miriam_e) wrote2005-10-10 06:03 pm

the pacifist our government mugged and booted out

Dissent isn't taken lightly Down Under
by Scott Parkin

Historian Michael Foley said during times of war pacifists often get mugged. As a nonviolent
activist working to end the war in Iraq and the corporate war profiteering that comes with it,
September 2005 has been the most surreal time of my life and I definitely feel like I got mugged
by Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock and the Australian government....

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1006-27.htm


Our government is such a grubby pack of jerks.

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Our government is such a grubby pack of jerks."




Our government too

[identity profile] revbob2.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
I'll bet you any amount of money that somebody in the Australian government called somebody in the U.S. government -- our government is absolutely infested by right wingers -- and our guy said he was a threat because he didn't worship the ground Chimpy walked on.

Re: Our government too

[identity profile] miriam-e.livejournal.com 2005-10-11 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Either that, or someone at Halliburton whined to someone and got him thrown out.

Bastards!