Everyday brings more stupidity. Heck, not content with the abject Stupidity of an Abbott Government in 2013, we-the-people opted to vote back in the same bunch of stupid politicians from the Coalition but also three (not, one, not just the red-headed flaming political retard that is Pauline Hanson but THREE flaming political retards) OneNation senators.
Today was Pauline Hanson's maiden speech in the Senate which bore a striking similarity in tone and classlessness and crassness that marked her maiden speech in the Lower House twenty years ago. I guess the more things change, the more we find out they really don't.
Twenty years and four days after claiming the nation was in danger of being "swamped by Asians" in her maiden speech as the independent Member for Oxley, Senator Hanson revived and updated her original warning, telling her Senate colleagues she "was back", warmly thanking a packed public gallery, and claiming she was there to help a nation "in fear".
"…Australia is now seeing changes in suburbs predominantly Muslim," she said. "Tolerance towards other Australians is no longer the case. Our law courts are disrespected and our prisons have become breeding grounds for Muslims to radicalise inmates.
"Muslims are imprisoned at almost three times the average rate. The rate of unemployed and public dependency is two to three times greater than the national average.
"Muslims are prominent in organised crime with associated violence and drug dealing.
"Anti-social behaviour is rampant, fuelled by hyper-masculine and misogynist culture.
Multiple social surveys find that neighbours of Muslim settlement are suffering from collapsing social cohesion and fear of crime.
"Australians in general are more fearful."
It was then that the Greens Senators began leaving the chamber, but Senator Hanson, who had began her speech with a shaky voice, was undeterred.
"Islam can not have a significant presence in Australia, if we are to live in an open, secular and cohesive society," she said.
"Never before in Australia's history have we seen civil unrest and terror associated with a so-called religion and followers of that faith.
"We have seen the destruction we have seen it is causing around the world. If we don't make changes now, there will be no hope in the future.
"Have no doubt that we will be living under Sharia law and treated as second-class citizens with second-class rights, if we keep heading down the path with the attitude, 'She'll be right, mate'."That the Green senators walked out is not surprising. I'm trying to imagine myself as a senator listening to this tripe, and I have to admit it would be hard not to walk out, but a rational side in me says you kind of have to stay in the ring for the good fight. Leaving the battlefield is defeat.
The SMH ran their little poll at the bottom of that article asking whether we think it was right for the Greens senators to do as they did. So far the response i split 52-48. It's a good question, one which I struggle to answer decisively. On the one hand I think a senator of the land deserves to be heard out, but on the other, there is a limit to the stupid prejudice one can lend one's credibility to, in listening (or even pretending to listen). It's an ethical dilemma.
One view is that by walking out, it gives validation to the undeserving Pauline Hanson. Yet sometimes there are showings so bad, you just have to walk out. Like Malcolm Roberts.
'Tis Spring, The Stupid Is In Full Bloom
I didn't blog this yesterday because well, where do you start with this massive tumult of stupid that has suddenly walked into our Senate. Not since Incitatus in ancient Rome's senate have we witnessed anything so spectacularly dumb as Malcolm Roberts.
Praising Britain's recent decision to leave the European Union, which had the power to set laws and regulations affecting domestic laws in member countries, Senator Roberts called on Australians to launch an "Aus-exit" from institutions including the UN and International Monetary Fund. "Australia's values and way of life are also at risk from insidious institutions such as the unelected swill that is the United Nations," he said.
"The EU is a template for total socialist domination of Europe through unelected bodies, such as the IMF, forcing their frightening agenda on the people. It is also the UN's template, and Australia must leave the UN."He might not be the full horse but he certainly is the horse's ass. Really, Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition were so distraught with having to deal with Ricky Muir and Glenn Lazarus, they've fiddled the rules and thus allowed back in this spectre of idiocy we had hoped to consign to history. Truly, this is pathetic.
"We need an Aus-exit," he declared.
Senator Roberts profusely praised his mentor Pauline Hanson as "Our Pauline". Video footage shows the One Nation leader repeatedly shaking her head and rolling her eyes.
Jesus Fucking Christ what have we come to in this country?
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