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Post by largeham on Jun 7, 2011 7:59:30 GMT -5
While this isn't good news, fundies aren't new to Australia. Remember Pauline Hanson? And Budgie Smugglers is still prancing around as if he is the best thing since two minute noodles.
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Post by Damen on Jun 7, 2011 9:33:02 GMT -5
riseupaustraliaparty.com/Seriously, I'm reading this, and I feel like I'm reading something from America. 1. Protect freedom of speech.
2. Establish full employment and fair wages; support/re-establish manufacturing industries in Australia.
3. Reduce the cost of living by limiting the size of government and limiting the levels of taxation, with the least possible intrusion of governments into the lives of individuals and businesses.
4. Reaffirm our Constitutional right to freedom of and from religion.
5. Recognise and affirm our Judeo-Christian heritage.
6. No religion or religious practices are to be forced upon another person.
7. Faith-based schools are to have the right to employ people of their choice.
8. Schools to have faith-based chaplains.
9. School curriculums to include the teaching of the history of Western civilization and our Judeo-Christian heritage.
10. Improve discipline in our schools.
11. Protect the traditional family unit – father, mother, and children.
12. Parents have the right to discipline their children, within sensible historical, non-abusive guidelines.
13. Protect children from homosexuality as it creates health problems. Promote children’s rights – children have the right to have both male and female role models as parents (father and mother).
14. We wish to make abortion history by providing those social conditions that support women in their lives to become fulfilled and not being forced into situations where they feel there is no option but to have an abortion.
15. Protect Australia from multiculturalism. People who live in Australia should become Australian – we are multi-ethnic, not multi-cultural. We do not advocate homogenising – immigrants are free to celebrate their own backgrounds, but must respect the Australian culture. We are opposed to a dual legal system, i.e. we oppose introduction of Sharia law in Australia. We will educate people about the implications of radical Islamic teaching. We advocate no Centrelink benefits for polygamists.
16. All boats trying to enter Australian waters by illegal means should be stopped to preserve the lives put at risk by people smugglers.
17. Protect the environment, as God gave it to mankind to look after.
18. We support the right for Israel to exist with Jerusalem as its undivided capital.
19. All elected Members of Parliament for RUA Party are encouraged to donate a percentage of their salary to the poor and the needy.
20. While we recognise the Aboriginal people as the first people of Australia, we encourage them to accept our Government’s apology and invite them to issue a statement of thanks for the good that the British heritage has brought to our nation. Yeah. As a feminist bisexual Norse pagan with Aboriginal ancestry, I'd be effectively outlawed by these jerks. Fix'd. ;D |
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Post by Kisare on Jun 7, 2011 13:04:35 GMT -5
riseupaustraliaparty.com/Seriously, I'm reading this, and I feel like I'm reading something from America. 1. Protect freedom of speech.
2. Establish full employment and fair wages; support/re-establish manufacturing industries in Australia.
3. Reduce the cost of living by limiting the size of government and limiting the levels of taxation, with the least possible intrusion of governments into the lives of individuals and businesses.
4. Reaffirm our Constitutional right to freedom of and from religion.
5. Recognise and affirm our Judeo-Christian heritage.
6. No religion or religious practices are to be forced upon another person.
7. Faith-based schools are to have the right to employ people of their choice.
8. Schools to have faith-based chaplains.
9. School curriculums to include the teaching of the history of Western civilization and our Judeo-Christian heritage.
10. Improve discipline in our schools.
11. Protect the traditional family unit – father, mother, and children.
12. Parents have the right to discipline their children, within sensible historical, non-abusive guidelines.
13. Protect children from homosexuality as it creates health problems. Promote children’s rights – children have the right to have both male and female role models as parents (father and mother).
14. We wish to make abortion history by providing those social conditions that support women in their lives to become fulfilled and not being forced into situations where they feel there is no option but to have an abortion.
15. Protect Australia from multiculturalism. People who live in Australia should become Australian – we are multi-ethnic, not multi-cultural. We do not advocate homogenising – immigrants are free to celebrate their own backgrounds, but must respect the Australian culture. We are opposed to a dual legal system, i.e. we oppose introduction of Sharia law in Australia. We will educate people about the implications of radical Islamic teaching. We advocate no Centrelink benefits for polygamists.
16. All boats trying to enter Australian waters by illegal means should be stopped to preserve the lives put at risk by people smugglers.
17. Protect the environment, as God gave it to mankind to look after.
18. We support the right for Israel to exist with Jerusalem as its undivided capital.
19. All elected Members of Parliament for RUA Party are encouraged to donate a percentage of their salary to the poor and the needy.
20. While we recognise the Aboriginal people as the first people of Australia, we encourage them to accept our Government’s apology and invite them to issue a statement of thanks for the good that the British heritage has brought to our nation. Yeah. As a feminist bisexual Norse pagan with Aboriginal ancestry, I'd be effectively outlawed by these jerks. Fix'd. ;D Much more better, Damen. Much more better. |
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Post by clubmed on Jun 7, 2011 13:40:08 GMT -5
Well for starting out as libertarians, the tea party has happily moved into the authoritatian territory
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Post by Vene on Jun 7, 2011 15:06:29 GMT -5
Well for starting out as libertarians, the tea party has happily moved into the authoritatian territory lol, do you really think they were never authoritarians? |
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Post by clubmed on Jun 7, 2011 15:14:26 GMT -5
Well for starting out as libertarians, the tea party has happily moved into the authoritatian territory lol, do you really think they were never authoritarians? I guess this is refered to as "pre fox era"... or the "goddammit arseholes... we are not the usual far right" |
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Post by Vene on Jun 7, 2011 15:17:30 GMT -5
lol, do you really think they were never authoritarians? I guess this is refered to as "pre fox era"... or the "goddammit arseholes... we are not the usual far right" There wasn't a pre-Fox era. You have a few protests of a couple dozen people, and then Fox showed up and organized everything. link |
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Post by clubmed on Jun 7, 2011 15:24:44 GMT -5
There wasn't a pre-Fox era. Oh rly You have a few protests of a couple dozen people uh-hu , and then Fox showed up and organized everything.  |
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Post by Vene on Jun 7, 2011 15:27:11 GMT -5
And do you seriously think that a couple dozen people are enough to make a political movement? There are more lizardpeople out there.
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Post by clubmed on Jun 7, 2011 15:32:29 GMT -5
And do you seriously think that a couple dozen people are enough to make a political movement? There are more lizardpeople out there. The minimum requirement for counting as "political movement" is 1 person actually. Or should i say it like that: the original minor political movement of the libertarian tea party was morphed into standard far-right shitical movement. This still doesn't contradict what i orginally said. While i generally accept the original (minor) movement, i don't accept what was made of it. |
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Post by Vene on Jun 7, 2011 15:36:39 GMT -5
Which is also flawed, they were still authoritarian. Where were these people during the Bush years as he turned a surplus into a deficit? Where were these people as he raised the debt ceiling over and over again? Why did they only show up when there was a black dude?
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Post by clubmed on Jun 7, 2011 15:41:15 GMT -5
Which is also flawed, they were still authoritarian. Where were these people during the Bush years as he turned a surplus into a deficit? Where were these people as he raised the debt ceiling over and over again? Why did they only show up when there was a black dude? The original minor one did turn up due to bush bailouts. The anti-darky guys only turned up in the post fox era This was also the time when the original tea-partiers started complaining about the fox takeover. Yeah, sorry that some euro does know about this crap! |
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Post by VirtualStranger on Jun 7, 2011 15:49:01 GMT -5
Yeah, sorry that some euro does know about this crap! What the fuck is this sentence even saying? it seems to possess all of the necessary components of a coherent sentence, but falls just short of that mark. The "uncanny valley" of proper English, if that's an appropriate metaphor. |
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Post by Vene on Jun 7, 2011 15:49:59 GMT -5
Which is also flawed, they were still authoritarian. Where were these people during the Bush years as he turned a surplus into a deficit? Where were these people as he raised the debt ceiling over and over again? Why did they only show up when there was a black dude? The original minor one did turn up due to bush bailouts. The anti-darky guys only turned up in the post fox era This was also the time when the original tea-partiers started complaining about the fox takeover. Yeah, sorry that some euro does know about this crap! You mean the ones organized by the moron Republican Ron Paul? You mean the ones that only showed up well after the damage was done and after there was a chance to prevent it? They're still authoritarian, being libertarian doesn't mean they don't blindly follow their leaders. Hell, with Ron Paul it was basically a cult of personality. |
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Post by clubmed on Jun 7, 2011 16:17:35 GMT -5
You mean the ones organized by the moron Republican Ron Paul? Yeah, maybe, Ron has a lot of weirdoos. I would follow them, but lack of hermione You mean the ones that only showed up well after the damage was done and after there was a chance to prevent it? Yes! The ones that turned up for the 60th birthday of america fucking it up. They're still authoritarian, being libertarian doesn't mean they don't blindly follow their leaders. Hell, with Ron Paul it was basically a cult of personality. I do respect the libertarian movement if they follow through with their intentions, even while not being libertarian myself. There is a detached libertarian movement outside of conventional US politics. This was present even over the Bush years, but it never gained traction. It only gained traction between bush and the darky, when it was integrated into standard republican patriotic rethoric. Sorry again for not treating the US as a dual sided molass of politics. Are you actually saying there are no actual libertarians in the US? |
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