Peter Garrett Not Going Away, Brothers and Sisters!

Garrett fiasco not going away
(Title of article on ABC online)
Link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/24/2829055.htm?site=thedrum

A few comments about the Peter Garrett media-feast from
Omaxa bin News-Chop


"SCALPS! SCALPS! SCALPS!"

“Ve must haff more SCALPS!” Cried Johnette Howard from the Liberal Party HQ bar.

“And who better zan zee kinders' favorite Minister of Vock n' Voll, Peter Garrett?”

Damn it! I guess many of us, on the left, were surprised and a bit shocked when Labor coerced Peter into the Party before the 2007 election?

I think I was, while happy about it, a little concerned that he was being chosen because of his “celebrity” status, albeit that his time with ACF, and his quals as a lawyer put him in good stead?

Clearly, he has struggled to stay within the trenchant “Labor line”, and, if he were able to speak his Honorable mind, would be a stronger Minister.

It does seem that such clamps on his Soul do not suit him, or his basic REALPolitik beliefs, Ideologies and Philosophy.

The unrealistic political-media-and-blog-type pressures of Australian politrix today are actually what has brought so much pressure on him, and thus on Labor.

Since their victory in '07, Labor have been going-at-it like the 'bull-at-a-gate' to keep the popularity momentum up.

This is now more false and evil-spin-driven pressure than any actual need for the urgency.

Trying to impress always leads to disaster. Something we might have expected less of from the ALP, considering they are not newbies. Possibly too much was given to the big house new-boy Rudd.

Added to that, has been the more recent stubborn determination by the Opposition to howl-down any Labor initiatives, merely, along the lines of America's bruised Republicans, to make government impossible for the “New Day” left.

To my mind, this is not only an utterly unethical way to behave, when the national interest is on the table, but REALPolitikly, it is immature in the extreme, quite disgustingly unintelligent, and in some way..., illegal!

Or it should be.....!

Pete Garrett has been at least as conscientious as any Minister, and has sought the best outcomes possible. To think he would be in the least bit interested in “cutting-a-deal” as so many of our big boy polies have done over the 109 years of a federal parliament, is folly.

He cannot be blamed for any of the unfortunate deaths, nor the unfortunate expenses now incurred, if only because he is such a new Minister, and lacks the experience of the bull-pit, so necessary in any of Australia's “Kangaroo” parliaments, to borrow a term from our filthy, lowly and seriously bent courts.

It SHOULD be clear, especially to the “Barrie Cassidy's” of our media, that today's politrix, in Canberra or Sydney, Adelaide or Perth, and down to Local Council levels, as brilliantly portrayed in the ABC spoof series “Grassroots”, is farcical-in-the-extreme, to the point of being totally unrealistic.

Indeed, the REALPolitik Truth be known - today's Australian political frontier is absolutely fraudulent - false - a total deception and a crock of shit - er - sorry - a rort and theft of and on the People's mind, heart, time and money!

As it - IN REALPolitik terms - has been since “the Rum Rebellion” of 1808!

As, it seems that our so-called political media reporters are shit-scared about going anywhere NEAR to this basic FACT, we are, or I am, brought to ask the in-mainstream unaskable question - “WHOSE PAYING YOU! Mr Cassidy?”

And all the rest of the “take the 30 pieces and say anything but the hard facts” journalists and reporters of our elite peanut gallery a la atop the House of Representatives Speaker's Chair?

Peter Garrett is an Honorable Person, and DOES NOT DESERVE this unrealistic vilification!

If our political reporters cannot make it clear to the reader/listener/watchership that this is but the more ruthless end of modern day politrix, and is thus more than likely undeserved and to a large degree untrue, then THEY should be sacked, and perhaps even STRUNG-UP, for letting Garrett be hauled over the coals, because no-one has the strength nor integrity to stop the back-room “Howard-ian” forces-that-be from getting everyone so unrealistically expectant of the impossible to be done in dangerously short time-frames!?

A rude introduction to the big house, Peter!

If there were not as much, as is played out to be, at stake, I'd recommend you simply, and with a clear Conscience, wipe the dust from your feet, Brother, and say “fuck 'em!”.

However, neither you, nor in fact I want Labor to lose this year, as they seem likely to do in the states.

And this would give the idiots on the other side of the drinks cabinet too much false momentum and fuel for the in-reality extreme right-wing Australian-er-IMF media to throw molatoffs at the so-called, not so long ago most favorite government, from which the sheep of our voters would bleet agreement and follow - to the nation's economic slaughterhouse.

Let me be clear - I want the Greens in government - but it is a long bow right now.

The best any of us can hope and vote for is a left-wing coalition between Labor and Greens, with Greens holding enough seats to SERIOUSLY Influence our national change of direction firstly in Economic Policy, which steer us down Green Street, in all other areas.

If everyone KNOWS sheer skulduggery and chicanery has, if it does, claimed a scalp, then everyone ALSO KNOWS that the one whose scalp was 'claimed', should not feel nor suffer any sense of 'defeat'.

While Australians, our political houses and our media remain as politically LAME -read-CORRUPT - as they are, and have been for 202 years, the bullshit will be allowed to fly, and anyone who enters the big house, and is slain by the throwers of the muck and twaddle, can rest assured they have not been defeated, nor even humiliated.

Mr Garrett is a Big Man, in every sense of the word - Philosophically, Intellectually, Politically, Lyrically and Musically, and of course, physically.

It will take much much more than the mice-with-mouths, and all their huff-and-puff, on the other side of the drinks-box, to make any less of a Man than Garrett is.

In the final analysis, REALPolitikly Speaking, I'd say Peter Garrett is too Good, by far, in every way, for either of today's main political parties.

Personally, while the shit is mixed with glue in the Liberal backrooms, so is made to stick, I think our current Minister for the Environment, The Right Honorable Peter Garrett, would be Better suited Standing for the Greens, come this 2010 farce we call the federal election.

THEN, with him in the House of Reps, and The Right Honorable Bob Brown in the Senate, both standing Tall for the Greens, 1, Peter Garrett would have found his Proper Place, and in a way, would have “Come Home”, and 2, the Forces of Justice might well find their Strength, and Fearless, the Voice of the desperately needed REALPolitik Environment and Economy in Australia would not be so easily howled-down.

Fuck 'em Peter!

Think, My Brother!

I'll sit back here in my reforests, and watch the “huffing-puffers”, the front-room boys' dirty-tricks and schemes of Howard's conspirators backfire - BOOM!

And there was nobody left to turn out the lights at Liberal HQ?

Fuck 'em!

You've walked The Long Road in the Oils, with their basic Cause, in the ACF, and on the Green March generally, Glocally.

You're still young, full of vigour and Righteous Enthusiasm.

It ain't over yet, Mr G!

Fear Nothing!

Abbott and co are all puff and bluff.