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Tomorrow I hope to load a full report with pictures on today's major "Prosper Australia" rally. Pauline Hanson will speak at the rally which is expected to attract over 1,000 supporters. Over 1,000 protesters (estimates) have been authorised (God knows by whom) to march on the rally.
Have YOU signed the petition yet? If not, please do so now.... let the Prime Minister know that being influenced by the ALP to put Hanson last on "How to Vote" cards is not a good move for his party.
One Nation is on the move.
Yesterday Pauline Hanson called for candidates.
Here is what she said yesterday:
"Today marks a truly historic occasion as I am pleased to announce Pauline Hanson's One Nation is calling for nominations for candidates for the next Federal Election which is due in 1999 but will be held in 1998.
"For the first time in many years the Australian people will finally have a real alternative to the policies of the Liberal and Labor that have sold off our country and given us high unemployment, increased poverty and crime, increased substance abuse and suicide and increased family breakdown.
"Together with these and other problems they started the de-industrialisation of our country and the destruction of our rural sector and have filled millions of Australians with hopelessness and despair.
"Today as I call for candidates, we start the fight to regain our history, our heritage, our wealth, our land, our pride, our patriotism and all that has been taken from us by successive governments.
"The day of the ballot box is coming, and I like millions of Australians welcome the outcome."
Pauline Hanson who has been at the centre of discredited claims of rorting her ministerial expenses yesterday proved a point when it was revealed that spent the least of all Federal Ministers on travel allowance claims - just Au$3,915.
The Department of Administrative Services have confirmed that Ms Hanson has been found to be squeaky clean but (News Limited's) The Courier Mail who ran extensive stories perpetrating the claim that Hanson had rorted her ministerial expenses have refused to rectify their earlier claims by reporting on this outcome.
This at a time when the Australian Labor Party are in taters after revelations
that Senator Nick Sherry had rorted tax payers of Au$40,000. What does Sherry
do, he tries to commit suicide.
Yes, that's right, one of the pack who have been involved in a vitriolic
attack on Ms Hanson for over a year tries to take his life the moment the
torch is shone back on him. Says much for the guts of Kim Beazley's so-called
front bench. Call them what they are a bunch of wimps.
In Sherry's suicide letter he wrote
"My name is now mud.
Everything dad and I stood publicly for in Tasmania
is now destroyed. So I am taking the appropriate course of action.
I don't believe the attacks will cease.
I always put my work ahead of my personal life.
I have behave (sic) stupidly and I apologise.
I feel no ill will towards my political opponents.
The hatred and bitterness disappeared in me long ago.
I was born into Australian politics and the Australian
Labor Party. Thanks to Kim and all my parliamentary colleagues for the
opportunity to work with them.
I have just left the leadership team. I want to make
it clear there was no suggestion I resign, they have been very supportive.
I decided on my course of action on Wednesday night.
The work I did and I tried to impact on - primary
industries and resources and superannuation I greatly enjoyed - please change
the administration of that silly super tax.
The description of
Bedouin to my life
is very apt. At times I feel great periods of loneliness. But it
is not a description I would enjoy carrying through my life...
I would request the public please have some sympathy
for politicians and their families. They are all fundamentally honest, dedicated
and hardworking.
Tasmania is a small and beautiful place to live. I
hope for its future and the people I have tried to represent.
Please take the opportunity to visit - check out my
home in Burnie at least!
Sherry gave the letter to a courier then slashed his wrists. Beazley sent
the police to his home. When they arrived Sherry was lying on the floor barely
conscious but will survive the ordeal. As I said before what a wimp....
Of course the tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of politics are now totally
discredited in the eyes of Australian voters.... and so they should be!
Who the hell does the Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer think
he is representing? Whacko Jacko or Australian voters? Yesterday he addressed
the UN General Assembly unveiling a campaign to change our status from the
electoral group aligned the European group of countries to the Asian block.
What if the Asian block don't want us.... what do we become the Australian
block no-one wants?
Yesterday Downer said, "The present configuration contains many conspicuous
anomalies and inequities which constitute powerful arguments and reform.
It is time we begin to think about and discuss this matter as we seek to
equip the UN for the future."
Downer said that he had briefed other Asian neighbours before his speech
but it turns out someone forgot to tell Malaysia - a sharp critic of Australia.
Downer also criticised the US which has refused to pay US$1 billion in
outstanding debts to the UN. "I think the important thing to remember is
that the UN belongs to the family of nations, it doesn't belong to the US
Congress. I make no secret of the fact that the US has international obligations
to make its payments and is in breach of those by being in arrears and that
is clearly a regrettable matter."
Subject:
Travel Allowances
Theft
The cat is out of the bag now ! Pauline, could you push for a Royal Commission
into this Crime against the Australian People, we demand to know all the
details of this despicable display of contempt for us by our Public Servants.
Nicholas
WASHINGTON, DC -- A new report revealing that almost 60,000 federal employees
now carry weapons has prompted the Libertarian Party to come out in favour
of gun control -- for the federal government.
According to a study by the General Accounting Office (GAO), an astounding
60,000 government employees in 45 different agencies now carry guns as a
routine part of their job.
And it's not just law enforcement agents: Poultry inspectors, park rangers,
and disaster aid workers are all allowed to carry weapons -- in addition
to special agents from the Small Business Administration, NASA, the Department
of Education, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and even the Department
of Veterans Affairs, noted Steve Dasbach, national chairman of the Libertarian
Party.
"Federal employees have gone nuts -- gun nuts," he said. "It's time to impose
a waiting period on the federal government, while the American people conduct
a background check on these armed and potentially dangerous bureaucrats."
According to the GAO investigation, the number of federal employees with
guns is growing rapidly -- up by 20% in the last 10 years. In fact, 2,436
armed personnel were added to the federal government's payroll last year
alone.
Even worse, federal employees are getting more powerful weapons. According
to the GAO, the Energy Department now has access to machine guns, and other
agencies can summon tanks and military helicopters. In addition, the Western
Journalism Center discovered that the National Park Service and the Department
of Health & Human Services now have their own SWAT teams.
Machines guns? Tanks? SWAT teams? What's going on?
Dasbach said he has a theory: "Congress has passed over 3,000 criminal laws,
and federal agencies have churned out hundreds of thousands of regulations
that carry criminal penalties. The result is that ordinary Americans run
a constant risk of violating laws they've never even heard of as federal
agents scramble to enforce those laws at the point of a gun."
And Libertarians aren't the only ones who have noticed this disturbing trend,
he said.
For example, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) last month blasted the "massive
buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators." Larry Pratt, head of Gun
Owners of America, described the 60,000 armed federal employees as "a standing
army -- it's outrageous." And Greg Lojein, legislative counsel for the American
Civil Liberties Union, said the acquisition of "heavy equipment" like tanks
and helicopters by federal agencies is "more characteristic of war than law
enforcement."
"No wonder Americans don't trust their government; their government doesn't
trust them," said Dasbach. "But trust doesn't grow out of the barrel of a
gun -- or from the sight of a pistol-packing poultry inspector.
"If we want to live in an America where ordinary citizens don't have to fear
their own government -- and where the government doesn't have 60,000 guns
pointed at ordinary citizens -- the solution is to demand a government that
obeys the Constitution and protects the liberties of its citizens," he said.
"And the first step: Gun control for the federal government. Let's end this
federal arms race, and turn the federal bureaucracy into a demilitarised
zone."
Our response (It appears Mr Darcy gave a false email address as a copy of this to him earlier was returned address unknown):
Letter to the Editor of the Australian, copied to John Darcy:
Dear Sir,
In response to Mr Darcy's letter.
We hear week after week of One Nation alleged scare campaigns with baseless
claims such as those of John Darcy contrived from half-truths and misinformation.
The cases I know of would fill many a newspaper, which is ironic because
Australian newspapers have been at the forefront of misreporting Ms Hanson
and her party One Nation.
This brings us to Mr Darcy's comments. It is interesting that he refers to
the One Nation web site that my company, Global Web Builders, maintains but
deliberately leaves out the URL so that people cannot go and make their own
assessment of what Ms Hanson has to say on this issue.
Let me remove that "oversight" and provide your readers with the opportunity
to view the
full Hanson press release without Darcy's carefully contrived
editing.
The issue which Ms Hanson refers to touches all Australians. To quote Piers
Ackerman of The Daily Telegraph, who said earlier this year that Australia
is on its way to "being divvyed up into a number of Aboriginal states".
Sound far fetched? The architect of Nunavut (an independent territory that
will soon take up 20% of Canada) is now in Brisbane advising the Central
Land Council. Nunavut gains its independence from Canada in 1999.
Unfortunately, unlike the Eskimos and the new Canadian state of Nunavut,
our northern territory is not bounded by ice as a natural barrier but has
been under assault from illegal immigrants for many years. You don't have
to guess who will land up having to patrol the borders of these independent
territories.... the Australian tax payer!
It was Mick Dodson who said that "The United Nations Draft Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" was "The floor not the ceiling. We are
still on the plains but hope to climb the foothills and then the mountains
in terms of our rights."
God help us from the likes of John Darcy who unlike myself hasn't got the
guts to nominate his party allegiances.
Proudly a One Nation supporter.
Scott Balson
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