anti-war march again

[miriam_e]

Just found out there will be another demonstration here in Melbourne against the looming war.
Today (Friday 14th) at 5pm in front of the State Library.
Let's make it bigger and better than the last one.
Maybe we can make little Johnny realise how alone he is.

Comments

[guyminuslife.livejournal.com]

Something I find interesting is that thought the Australian government supports the US in it's hawkish efforts, I have never heard of Australia being mentioned in American journalism or media. Not once. You'd thin we'd have few enough allies that we would want to enumerate them all...

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Oh that's just hysterical. Over here all we ever hear about is why this country needs to help you invade Iraq, and how valued we are by the big kids. If nothing else it got us 24 seconds of attention in bin Laden's last public statement. So, not only are we now implicated with this pending atrocity, we're targeted as being US-by-proxy and it still doesn't get John Howard the recognition he's so obviously craving.

Even the Iraqi delgate can't remember the guy's name.

The world's in the hands of spoilt, priveleged children.

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[guyminuslife.livejournal.com]

John Howard? I can't remember that name either. Is he a Prime Minister or a President?

No, for the most part nobody in the US even thinks of Australia. When I think of English-speaking countries I think...well, there's US, Canada, England, Ireland, the Falkland Islands (are those still British?) and...oh yeah, the Land Down Under. Do they really speak like Crocodile Dundee? I even forget it's a continent sometimes.

We really do tend to forget you guys. You're not Europe, you're not Asia, you don't have oil (do you?), you don't grow drugs (do you?), and we didn't enslave you.

Think of the bright side of things: Everyone (except the Irish, who are alcoholics -- I can say that because I have the same ethanol running through my veins) who speaks English and isn't an American is automatically considered lame. Canadians are made fun of all the time (51st staters!). The British are tea-drinking pansies who haven't been able to get their shit together since Churchill. We hardly ever think of the Aussies, and when we do, it's "Shrimp on the Barbie" or some stupid "Crocodile Dundee" thing (so many stereotypes come from that movie). Be glad we don't think about you. We'd probably make fun of you.

I'm sure it would make John Howard feel a lot better to know that Bush incorrectly promounces Aznar's, the Spanish leader's, name.