[SOC] Fwd: [Fwd: Vote To Impeach Bush]

[Ian C. Purdie]

Lloyd Lachow wrote:

> > Now this is my idea of a great web site -- vote
> > early and vote often!
> >
> >
> > http://www.votetoimpeach.org/

Hmmm... I have recollections of seeing similar back through so many
Presidencie's [SP?], certainly back to Johnson. Every one since then?

It once again makes me wonder if you don't have a "flawed" political system,
irrespective of balances and checks.

In the UK, Tony Blair can be fired in a twinkling of an eye, ditto John Howard
in OZ. Same Canada, New Zealand...

Obviously would be very extreme events and in my country I can only recall one
occasion, a folk legend, John Gorton who had the people behind him but not "the
establishment".

He cast the deciding vote against himself in an evenly divided cabinet, I
remember it well, he was my hero.

Years later, I told him he was a fool for voting against himself, for the next
several hours I personally received the most blistering [deserved] lecture on
integrity, morality etc. on Australian politics.

I'm the better for it - I hope..

He was my kind of man, some idiots in the media mentioned at the height of his
career, about his rough features, his reply?

"Well if you had your arse sewn to your face you wouldn't look all that flash"

John, not more than a kid, had crash landed in a Spitfire in WW11 and was very
badly burned.

Opposite party, but my hero. He died last year as Sir John Gorton and Sydney's
biggest newspaper at least printed my eulogy. For that I'm eternally grateful.

Yeah, he was fired in a "twinkling of an eye", a no confidence motion. It was
suggested he was screwing his secretary, who knows?, who the hell cares?

The establishment won and Australia lost [he was on the opposite side to me
politically]. None of the opposition [my mob]  commented on those matters, just
the "establishment" with their knives and double standard morality.

See, it's all a matter of system. You also could have gotten rid of Bill
Clinton in a "twinkling of an eye".

How advanced would democracy be now?

Dubya Shrub.... that's another matter, he don't screw around, he just executes
people and wants to make war. I wonder what John Gorton would have made of him?

John was also unpopular among the establishment in his day for not genuflecting
to the then Prez of the USA [1972 I think]. Asked if he would meet with the
Prez he said:

"Shit yair mate, I'll bung on a barbie anytime he wants to rock on over here".
Like me, he was an arrogant prick.

John's rating went up another 10% with the 'little people'. History notes that
Nixon [if I'm right] never made it to that PM's BBQ, sad - he never knew what
he missed. The establishment were totally appalled.

So, in the USA you have such a convoluted drawn out system, in OZ and elsewhere
in the British system we 'execute' leaders between lunchtime and high tea.

All very democratic of course but from go to whoa, always in time for the
evening TV news. You can't say us descendants of the British Empire don't have
our priorities right, considerate, highly civilised and the utmost efficiency
in time for the evening 6 o'clock news.

Earl's Grey anyone?

72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
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