Ah, a proper valediction
Apr. 29th, 2005 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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lokicarbis, John Birmingham has expressed my sentiments on Joh Bjelke-Petersen (I balk at calling him 'Sir') rather well:
As long as there is a spark of life in Australian democracy, the mid 1980s, when Bjelke-Petersen ruled alone, at the very zenith of his powers, should be studied in civics courses as an object lesson in what happens when untrammelled power is gathered into the shaky, liver-spotted hands of a stuttering, proto-fascist brute with just enough rat-bastard cunning to mask his true nature behind a carefully constructed facade of endearing bumpkinry.
lokicarbis, John Birmingham has expressed my sentiments on Joh Bjelke-Petersen (I balk at calling him 'Sir') rather well:As long as there is a spark of life in Australian democracy, the mid 1980s, when Bjelke-Petersen ruled alone, at the very zenith of his powers, should be studied in civics courses as an object lesson in what happens when untrammelled power is gathered into the shaky, liver-spotted hands of a stuttering, proto-fascist brute with just enough rat-bastard cunning to mask his true nature behind a carefully constructed facade of endearing bumpkinry.
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Date: 2005-04-29 09:06 am (UTC)Took a long time for my curse to work.