Yes - a terrible black day And guess what - very few people will now admit that they voted for Howard (our Prime Miniscule.)
Seamus At 06:35 pm 11/11/01 , you wrote: >Agreed > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Stephen Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 5:27 PM >Subject: Ashamed > > > > Today, for the first time ever, I live in a country I no longer want to >call home. For the first time, I am ashamed to call > > myself an Australian. I am ashamed to look people in the eye and know >that greater than half of them were sucked in by evil, > > untruthful, obfuscating political rhetoric spewed forth from the maw of a >nasty little man we have to call Prime Minister. > > > > Yesterday, this man, John Howard, was re-elected to the top political job >in the nation on the back of a policy platform that > > returns Australia to the 1950's. This policy platform includes a patently >racist agenda purposely designed to appeal to the > > xenophobic lowest common denominator in Australian society (using our Navy >to turn away boatloads of asylum seekers and farming > > them off to smaller Pacific nations for processing when our asylum seeker >intake is miniscule in relation to comparable nations > > worldwide), it includes a tax regime that cripples small business by >making the running of those businesses infinitely more > > difficult. His platform is anti-women (taxes on sanitary products and a >refusal to consider appropriate maternity leave > > entitlements) and anti-environment (the Australian government refuses to >sign the Kyoto Agreement). > > > > If I could renounce my citizenship now and live and work somewhere else I >would. Anybody interested in an experienced (10 > > years) IT consultant with extensive government and corporate projects in >developer, lead developer and project manager roles? > > I'll live and work ANYWHERE EXCEPT AUSTRALIA (and I'm NOT joking). > > > > Today is a dark, dark day in Australia's history. > > > > Steve > > > > ======================================================== > > Stephen Collins, Technical Consultant - ACIS (Australia) > > Allaire Certified ColdFusion 5 Developer > > > > Work : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ICQ UIN : 56321783 Yahoo! : trib > > > > "Before I got into triathlon, I was a normal person." > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
