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A Sign of the Times

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Coming into mid-election week in Australia this sign was just too juicy to pass up. Did they mean KEEP OUT dangerous terrorists? It kind of reads like a John Howard election slogan.

As a first time ever in my life voter this week I’ll be voting against our current Prime Minister, John Howard. There’s no secret there. I won’t be voting Greens like I should be (because BOTH parties approve of that friggen pulp mill in the Tamar Valley) simply because every vote taken away from ousting Howard is a stronger chance he’ll remain Prime Minister out of sheer apathy.

Actually its beyond even comment. In Australia you only need 1 hours work in the given week to be classed as employed. We are hooked into numerous foreign war zones to support an even bigger asshole on the other side of the world. Free Trade Agreement. Australian Workplace Agreements and anti-unionism. Spiralling cost of living with 2 major supermarket chains choking us all. How about signing the Kyoto Agreement?

Then there are the lies every election. Weapons of mass destruction? Children overboard?

So when I saw this sign I immediately thought of Howard and Bush and their war against terror. Maybe it could be an airport sign or from one of Australia’s notorious detention centres?

DEEP OUT dangerous terrace

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