On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:07:29 UTC, wrote:

We host the fellow and then he denigrates our country! If it was a
dictatorship we could ban the ill-mannered windbag from entering again.
Albert

Badwater Bill Dec 17, 7:39 pm Subject: Australia
Your government is half way between a democracy and a dictatorship blah
blah ..
BWB


Now, now, Albert, you have to remember he's a septic. They think
everything is better there and that their model is democracy, so
anything different isn't.

I know you and I would find it puzzling that a person can get elected
'president' by less than half the people voting at an election,
especially when only about 30% of the electorate even bother to vote,
and we might might feel the need to point out the dictatorial aspects
of said 'president' being able to declare war on the rest of the world
without first getting approval from a parliament, let alone the
populace, his use of propaganda to control public sentiment ... but
we must constrain ourselves and remember that they don't know any
better.....


Chris

besides which, he has a point - I mean, John Howard!
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