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ContentsWhat is Politics?The corruption of the few against the many. Better way?Rather than invest a surplus into social infastructure they “feather the nests” of their mates and cronies. Who makes the Laws?The Rich make the laws in a Democracy. The public must content themselves with conflicting Internet Blogs. Lack of RepresentationThe “system” is corrupt. Members of Parliament or your Representative, filter or ignore public held views. Police look for excuses to fine you. The fools risk social unrest because of their insatiable appetite for revenue. Extreme dictators have historically gained power because of some political failure of the existing system. The current ‘rulers’ of the developed world risk a similar future. The public are disillusioned with the same old system with the same old failures. LazerWikiBlog: PoliticsMy Blog is full of political comment.
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ContentsPolitics Corrupt as usualI sit here reading articles all the time. I read read read.. I’m a good reader (I think..) I get a “buzz” from just finding out new things. (Thats probably why the internet is so popular?) But just about everything I read about politics. Gives me a guts ache. Everything the politicians touch or fiddle with seems to end up corrupted. (Oh its always hidden beneath a scam so the public cant see how they are being used again.. and again..) Common Good?It’s not just Australia.. All over the world. People in positions of power use their position in that society to further their own vested interests. Even at the risk of the very system that gave them power to begin with. History confirms this. Why do we have the mistaken idea that politicians today have the “common good” central to their hearts? When almost every action that they display proves that its the same as what it has always been. Actions speak louder than wordsActions speak louder than words? Well yes they do.. Politicians are particularly well versed in how to “dupe” the public with election promices that are rarely kept. While “acting” to feather their nests. I dont think the current world system is working very well. (what system??) I say that if its too hard to change the various “systems” that make our little world tick over.. Answer: TransparencyPerhaps we are long long overdue for TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT. That way corruption can be squashed. I think all the people of the world should be asking for TRANSPARENCY. NO big threat to existing systems of government.. Just clean them up. I dont know of any people in the world that wouldnt benefit from TRANSPARENCY. Up against the wall..But of course the big corrupt assholes. The ones that take so much from all of us. They would complain bitterly.. 2009-12-09 Politics
Seeking Political RepresentationI was told that I needed to contact my local Member of Parliament and State Senators if I wanted my opinion to be represented in Parliament. Unfortunately.. It looks to me like a couple of the South Australian Senators are incapable of responding to EMAIL that has been sent to them. A couple of these ELECTED Senators have decided NOT to read the waiting emails. Instead the emails are simply deleted. Here is a copy of the Email that I sent: From: "lazerzap" <lazerzap@lazerzap.com> To: <senator.xxxxxxx@aph.gov.au> Subject: IT IS MY WILL Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:27:29 +1030 Organization: ComPerSol-Au Dear Sir/Madam, I know that it is my duty to keep you informed of MY WILL on anything that comes before Parliament, or that should come before Parliament. IT IS MY WILL that you take immediate action to make sure that the new Youth Allowance criteria needs to be introduced based on geographical disadvantage.. Yours faithfully, Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Clovelly Farmhouse. Robe Penola Road, Clay Wells. 5280 Copy of email receipts : From: "McEwen, Anne (Senator)" <Senator.Mcewen@aph.gov.au> To: "lazerzap" <lazerzap@lazerzap.com> Return-path: <Senator.Mcewen@aph.gov.au> Delivery-date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:02:49 -0400 Received: from smtp2.aph.gov.au ([202.14.81.7]) Your message To: McEwen, Anne (Senator) Subject: IT IS MY WILL Sent: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:56:57 +1100 was deleted without being read on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:02:37 +1100 Copy of email receipts : From: "Elliott, Cristy (Sen N. Minchin)" <Cristy.Elliott@aph.gov.au> To: "lazerzap" <lazerzap@lazerzap.com> Return-path: <Cristy.Elliott@aph.gov.au> Delivery-date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:17:47 -0500 Received: from smtp2.aph.gov.au ([202.14.81.7]) Your message To: Minchin, Nick (Senator) Subject: IT IS MY WILL Sent: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:57:29 +1100 was deleted without being read on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:17:14 +1100 Lazerzap's Political Stupidity AwardDue to the blatent disregard that politicians show towards the electorate. I have devised this award of displeasure. Anyway… The Lazerzap Award, for Pathetic Lack of Common Sense, Inferior Service, Lack of Tansparency, and most importantly, Supreme Stupidity in the 2009 Australian Federal Politics. Goes to: Senator Nick Minchin <senator.minchin@aph.gov.au> (clap.. Nooooo.. Booo… Hisss.. ) For not only being unable to read emails that have been sent to him. But for what I see as his obviously Corporate pointed interests. I believe him to be more financially/politically motivated in his life, than wanting to be remembered as a community builder. From Wikipedia.. Check out Minchins credentials.. Telstra sell off SupporterMinchin has been a strong proponent of privatisation and wholesale labour market deregulation. He has defended the full privatisation of Telstra, and argued that the Commonwealth should sell its Telstra shares to buy a portfolio of other income-earning investments rather than spend the profits on national infrastructure. (Hmm.. Sounds like Minchin is the reason we now spend $43B on NBN?) WorkChoices SupporterIn March 2006, Minchin received extensive media coverage when he highlighted the dilemma his government faced in the field of industrial relations and aired his views about future policy proposals. Speaking at a conference of the HR Nicholls Society where he told the audience that the coalition “knew its reform to WorkChoices? were not popular but the process of change must continue”, and that “there is still a long way to go… awards, the IR commission, all the rest of it…”, he went on to say “The fact is the great majority of the Australian people do not support what we are doing on industrial relations. They violently disagree.” Tobacco scepticIn 1995 Minchin submitted a dissenting Senate report on the tobacco industry and the costs of tobacco-related illness that disputed the Committee’s statements that it believes cigarettes are addictive and that passive smoking is harmful. Minchin claimed the tobacco industry was over-regulated. He also disagreed with the conclusions about the addictiveness of nicotine and the harmfulness of passive smoking: “ Senator Minchin wishes to record his dissent from the committee’s statements that it believes cigarettes are addictive and that passive smoking causes a number of adverse health effects for non-smokers. Senator Minchin believes these claims (the harmful effects of passive smoking) are not yet conclusively proved. . . there is insufficient evidence to link passive smoking with a range of adverse health effects. ” — Nick Minchin, Senate Committee’s Minority Report on Tobacco-related Illnesses (Cough Cough Nick…) A 2009 article in The Australian drew parallels between his stance on tobacco and his stance as a climate change skeptic. Climate change scepticIn a March 2007 letter, Minchin expressed doubts that climate change is caused by human activity. Minchin would later campaign against an emission’s trading scheme (ETS) bill. Of the effectiveness and sensibility of ETS bill he has said that it is unsound and an “abomination”, and of the motives behind its tabling that “Mr Rudd’s arrogance and vanity in wanting to lead the world in cutting CO2 emissions is really sickening” On 22 September 2008, the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party Malcolm Turnbull appointed Minchin as Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Minchin had been previously Shadow Minister for Defence. On 26 November 2009, Minchin resigned from the shadow cabinet in protest of Malcolm Turnbull’s position on the government’s emission trading scheme. When Turnbull was defeated by Tony Abbott, Turnbull stated: “ As Tony [Abbott] observed on one occasion, ‘climate change is crap’, or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, it’s cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left-wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.
Comment:I think that sounds like a man who is totally bought and paid for with Corporate dollars.. What do you think?? I think the Wikipedia entry reads like a book on extreme Right Wing/Corporate Idealogy/Skulduggery. Minchin has been a Senator for South Australia since 1993. Isn’t it time to READ the emails yet Nick? Senator Anne McEwenGets my dishonerable mention. Anne McEwen? (born 3 August 1954) is an Australian politician and has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of South Australia. She was elected at the 2004 federal election. McEwen? is a deputy government whip. I think they are both perhaps too concerned with their Party Politics. As well as performing (Cough) their duties as Senators for South Australia. Minchin is also Leader of the Liberal Party in the Senate, McEwen? is Deputy Whip of the Labor party. Perhaps if they both concentrated on serving the community, rather than their political parties, they would be able to read EMAILS sent to them, and as a result, webpages like this wouldnt be created. Don’t bother sending email to congratulate them for failing to make the grade.. Just remember the names.. They eventually have to face the public… 2009-10-04 Politics
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Parliament before political partiesAlthough Parliament began in 1857, no political parties emerged until the 1890s. For 36 years, governments were formed by influential individuals who could gather a group of colleagues around them. UnstableThis system was very unstable - South Australia had 47 governments in 36 years Although this was a feature of parliaments in all the Australian colonies, South Australia’s was thought to be one of the worst. Faction ControlledUntil the 1880s, differences between the factions that formed government were not about policies, mainly because most politicians throughout those years were in agreement about what needed to be done for the State. Instead, groupings formed mainly on the basis of the influence of individual politicians. Liberals Vs ConservativesIn the 1880s, longer lasting factions began to emerge as real differences in political opinions developed. The two major groups began to be called “liberals” and “conservatives”. Their members did not belong to any formal political party, but shared similar political views. At this time, “liberals” were the group seeking some major areas of political and social change, while the “conservatives” were the group opposing what they saw as dangerous and unnecessary ideas. See: The emergence of political parties Party Politics: Unified and Coherent?Major political parties are often depicted as unified and coherent bodies of thought, in practice this is most unusual. Electorally successful political parties are broad churches of conflicting, sometimes contradictory, interests and ideologies. They are divided internally with contending factions of competing interests, political theories, and worldviews. Behind their facades of unity, there are significant differences of opinion within all of the major political parties in Australia. Minor Differences in Party PolicyMajor parties often exagerate their differences to appeal to voters, because they are both broad churches, they tend to have more in common with each other than areas of disagreement. Furthermore, the policies and priorities of both parties are constantly evolving. The Labor Party of today is markedly different to the past Labor Parties of Whitlam, Chifley, Scullin and Fisher. Similarly, the Liberal Party of today differs to the non-Labor parties of Fraser, Menzies, Lyons, Hughes, and Deakin. See: The Australian party system Political Parties Unmasked?“A political party, in fact, and in experience, is a device or mechanism designed to enable manipulators, either elected or non-elected, to obtain and exercise the maximum direct control over the destiny of the people, clichés notwithstanding, in accordance with the will of the manipulators and controllers.” Source: Arthur A. Chresby © 1979 (Research Analyst in Constitutional Law) 2009-09-16 Politics
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