'government has gagged debate on the fairness test'

- is it just me or is there inherent irony in that statement?

Just for arguments sake, I made my last post at 12:30am on Tuesday morning. Here's what came out in the Sydney Morning Herald, that same day, an article about Malcom Fraser's, former Liberal Australian Prime Minister, criticism of Howard's use of fear politics.

I'de just like to make this heard...somewhere

We.

As in - you, me, your grandmother, the postman - are living in an era of global fascism.

You are living in fascist times.

I'm going to bed now. I just had to make that truth heard. Because I suddenly realised that most people don't know, or don't want to know, that they are living in backward, suppressive, dictatorial, unfair, violent times. Because they can avoid the truth.

But I can't. And this will help me sleep. More importantly, it will help my neighbours sleep, as it will prevent me from screaming my hatred and despair at the whole present State Of Things out my bedroom into the night air.

Am I happy? I'm not blindly happy, but I'm getting better.

WV

- Oh, and if you have no idea what I'm talking about, I give you a stepped plan excuse to not remain ignorant:


1. Look around your world.
2. Read George Orwell's 1984
3. Search Arundhati Roy's transcripts, speeches or books and listen to/read them
4. Look around your world again.