It’s just so embarassing when you throw a party to impress the boss and the entertainment lets you down.
Melbourne blogger Jeremy at An Onymous Lefty gives us a glimpse of the Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s thoughts, as riots yet again fail to develop in Sydney and the city is kept under lockdown for nothing:
Where the bloody hell are you?
I don’t understand it. Why haven’t there been any violent protests by the violent hippies being violently violent yet? I’m COUNTING ON THEM. Sure, George has given me his glowing support, but I’m beginning to think that doesn’t count for all that much with Australians any more. It’s as if they think he’s going to lose office next year and that his successor won’t give a tinker’s cuss who was George’s bestest friend in the whole southern hemisphere.
Basically, without SOMETHING we can beat up into a bit of “violence”, the entire working population of Sydney’s going to turn on us for the massively over-the-top authoritarian police state stuff that we’ve been justifying on the basis of “violence” that I’m beginning to fear isn’t actually coming. I’d thought there’d have to be at least half-a-dozen long-haired layabouts who could be counted on to throw something at police, but we haven’t even had that.
Where ARE you protesters? All we’ve had are a couple of peaceful kids. I don’t understand it. Why would you be waiting for the weekend? As far as I understand it, you’re all filthy ferals without jobs who are always up for a bit of the old senseless ultra-violence. That’s the story we’ve been telling, anyway. Either I’m wrong about that, or you should be here right now, violently being violent with violence.
Heh.
