2007/12/12

treason and traitors, agenda monkeys;


 Subtitle: hypocritical liars, anything else?

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G'day again Daniel,

I see the URL title of your piece differs from your headline; let's talk about hypocrisy[1]. 'Say one thing and do another' would be an accurate paraphrasing of hypocrisy vis-à-vis Howard&Co, 'How does he get away with it?' Latham's plaintive cry; your suggestion involves a lack of education in the sheople® and although I tend to agree, I'd say it's worse than that.

I only started to hear "All politicians lie!" after it became obvious that Howard was, still is and will be known for evermore as an inveterate liar, but despite being *known* to be such a filthy liar, he was multiply re-elected; why that? The sheople were convinced, via but not only, with an active assist from the (venal!) MSM, that under Howard, they never had it so good(?!)

But instead of an honest polity whereby our so-called leaders worked openly to improve our lot (or at least trying do the least damage), we had Howard&Co lying, threatening and fear (terror! War!) mongering. Work (Chump! - No) Choices might'a been the final straw, but the rot truly was endemic.

Even so it all worked for a while, but only so long as the sheople went along; we thank our lucky stars that - however briefly - the sheople woke up.

A properly functioning democracy requires at least these attributes, a) an involved and aware electorate, b) a fair and varied choice of honest(!) candidates, and c) a full and fair reporting of the situation. This last requires an honest(!) MSM; that we just don't have. There is a vile nest of traitors, right there in our (venal!) MSM. Worst of course are the public broadcasters AusBC and SBS, that they retail some'a the same lies as the 'private' MSM is a true scandal: SHAME!

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Ref(s):

[1] hypocrisy n. (pl. -ies) 1 false claim to virtue; insincerity, pretence. 2 instance of this. [Greek, = acting, feigning] [POD]

hypocrite n. person given to hypocrisy.  hypocritical adj. hypocritically adv. [ibid.]

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2 comments:

Daniel said...

Phil, where are we going to find fair and honest political candidates? Do they exist?

And while the MSM is run by Media Moguls (who care only about profit) there's not much hope for truthful reporting either.

But that aside, somehow we did get rid of Howard so there some basis for hope in our democracy.

Cheers.

Friedham I. Whont said...

G'day Daniel,

The 1st shall be last: Yes, it's great that Howard was thrashed. It was in fact a pre-requisite for progress.

The MSM *must* be shown up for what it is, i.e. a vile and venal propaganda organ of the kleptocrats. Pointing out MSM errors and outright lies is what you, I and other *honest* bloggers are doing, must do, never stop. Then,

There's a German saying:

"Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!"

"Trust is good, checking is better."

There's a Merkin(spit!) saying:

"In g*d we trust; all others pay cash."

You seek Utopia and me too; and while there would be no need for Cops in the best of all possible worlds, we've got to be practical.

Here's a mixed Bavarian/English saying:

"Im Himmel gibt's kein Bier, that's why we have to drink it here."

Sooo: we don't need to trust our politicians, just gaol miscreants. Like, say: B, B & H belong in jail. If - and it's a bloody big *IF* - if the UN hadn't been corrupted - by USrael, say, then that's where B, B & H would quickly end up, along with almost every active pro-I/J/Z-plex politician, propagandist and apologist.