Agreed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 5:27 PM Subject: Ashamed
> Today, for the first time ever, I live in a country I no longer want to call home. For the first time, I am ashamed to call > myself an Australian. I am ashamed to look people in the eye and know that greater than half of them were sucked in by evil, > untruthful, obfuscating political rhetoric spewed forth from the maw of a nasty little man we have to call Prime Minister. > > Yesterday, this man, John Howard, was re-elected to the top political job in the nation on the back of a policy platform that > returns Australia to the 1950's. This policy platform includes a patently racist agenda purposely designed to appeal to the > xenophobic lowest common denominator in Australian society (using our Navy to turn away boatloads of asylum seekers and farming > them off to smaller Pacific nations for processing when our asylum seeker intake is miniscule in relation to comparable nations > worldwide), it includes a tax regime that cripples small business by making the running of those businesses infinitely more > difficult. His platform is anti-women (taxes on sanitary products and a refusal to consider appropriate maternity leave > entitlements) and anti-environment (the Australian government refuses to sign the Kyoto Agreement). > > If I could renounce my citizenship now and live and work somewhere else I would. Anybody interested in an experienced (10 > years) IT consultant with extensive government and corporate projects in developer, lead developer and project manager roles? > I'll live and work ANYWHERE EXCEPT AUSTRALIA (and I'm NOT joking). > > Today is a dark, dark day in Australia's history. > > Steve > > ======================================================== > Stephen Collins, Technical Consultant - ACIS (Australia) > Allaire Certified ColdFusion 5 Developer > > Work : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ UIN : 56321783 Yahoo! : trib > > "Before I got into triathlon, I was a normal person." > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
