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TRUE BELIEVERS MUST BELIEVE IN NOTHING! -WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A TOWNSVILLE LABOR POLITICIAN AND WANT TO BE ELECTED ON 21/3/09

Mon, 16/03/2009 - 20:24 — Pat Coleman

http://cynicismcentral.org/node/60
TRUE BELIEVERS MUST BELIEVE IN NOTHING! -WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A TOWNSVILLE LABOR POLITICIAN AND WANT TO BE ELECTED ON 21/3/09

I’d just like to fill the “vacuum” here before the election and point out what it takes for someone supposedly a lefty to stand for the Labor Party .

To be preselected or appointed, first of all you have to be prepared:
• To give up all self respect and act in an unprincipled manner when called upon;

• To repeat the mantra “the past is a foreign country” and develop a short memory like Peter Garret;

• To forget that a number of federal Labor Ministers upheld the party’s position that no matter how many would die or be tortured – that East Timor should not be free. That like Rudd did here in Townsville, you may have to shake hands with the “Butcher of Dili” Gen. Ret. Herman Mantiri if your party wants it (1) ;

• To forget the complete dodgyness of taking developer donations and then try to ram their developments down the publics throats if your party wants it (2) ;

• To forget that the statement “you can only change it from within” is a time honoured Labor lie. It changes YOU -former individual!

This being said, both Labor and the liberals took donations from Laurence Lancini, and both the ALP and LNP have promised funding to ram a road through the publicly owned Flinders Pedestrian Mall on his behalf (3). I have it on good authority that no-one on the left of politics outside the ALP would SELL OUT and allow a road through the mall.

It’s only Labor and their developer donors that want the “Townsville Pier” canal estate/ marina and its environmental impacts.

Only fools would want to reopen the Ben Lomond uranium mine 50ks (4) up the road or the Gympie and Scylla Prospects within 35ks (5) , or to have Greenvale’s (Oasis) uranium (6) trucked to and transported through our port. The LNP will do this and impliedly Labor will because they are handing out the exploration permits. Some choice!

(1) The Butcher of Dili Herman Mantiri:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=herman+mantiri&btnG=Search&meta=...
Rudd and Mantiri (Townsville Bulletin 10/9/08) at the Townsville RSL:
http://cynicismcentral.nigelsim.org/tsvbulletin10908ruddmantrirsl.jpg

(2) www.cynicismcentral.org/node/58 and www.cynicismcentral.org/node/44

(3) Parties finally support Townsville mall upgrade ,Townsville Bulletin ,TONY RAGGATT
March 14th, 2009 , http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2009/03/14/44655_news.html

(4) Ben Lomond Uranium Mine location:
http://www.sea-us.org.au/uran-res.html
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Ben+Lomond+Uranium+Mine&btnG=Goo...

(5) Gympie and Scylla
http://www.uel.com.au/pages/projects/queensland/narraweena.php

(6) Oasis prospect
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:qNe4M4P7jGgJ:www.ngmresources.com.a...

Comments

Mon, 16/03/2009 - 22:17 — Pat Coleman

Personal explanation

If anyone was wondering why the Mantiri business was not on my website , the photo was seen by the readership of the bully on the day, about 60 000 people. However Mantiri's history was not reported.

I contacted all Townsville media to no avail. Obviously niether the RSL or Rudd would have liked this to be publicised anywhere let alone Townsville.

I got nowhere on the matter with Townsville media. But it cost me about $50 in mobile calls that day and the days following to try to get the southern media onto it .

A journo always wants to be the one to break the story. I had to hold off to give someone the oppurtunity. Someone, anyone with a bit of clout.

I was told by a number of people that they could not obtain any info about it .

This includes senators offices.

I hope I was the cause of the southern media stories, or at the very least one or more that did not know of the visit or the photo.

Pat Coleman