http://sydwalker.info/blog/2010/07/24/time-for-the-camel-to-kick/ Just another blog about achieving global peace, prosperity and sustainability Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:28:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sydwalker.info/blog/2010/07/24/time-for-the-camel-to-kick/comment-page-1/#comment-4965 MERC Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:36:34 +0000 http://sydwalker.info/blog/?p=9844#comment-4965 An excellent idea. The problem is how to make a foreign policy issue relevant to voters used to parliamentary bipartisanship on such issues. AFOPA mounted an awareness campaign against vocal Zionist Christopher Pyne at the 2007 election, but with what tangible result I'm not sure. He was chosen over Downer as a target because of his bigger mouth and his narrower margin. I rather liked their message to his electorate at the time: "Hello, there is a major issue here. Perhaps you should be interested in what is happening in Palestine. Perhaps there is some connection between it and what happens each time you are forced to take your shoes off when you go through a security screen at an airport. Perhaps there is some connection between it and your disquiet when your son or daughter goes off for a holiday in Bali... Perhaps there is some connection when your son is sent off to Iraq in the Armed Forces." Maybe much could be made about the $4 billion per year we currently lavish on our security agencies, plus the billions more we spend acting as mercenaries for the US. An excellent idea. The problem is how to make a foreign policy issue relevant to voters used to parliamentary bipartisanship on such issues. AFOPA mounted an awareness campaign against vocal Zionist Christopher Pyne at the 2007 election, but with what tangible result I’m not sure. He was chosen over Downer as a target because of his bigger mouth and his narrower margin. I rather liked their message to his electorate at the time: “Hello, there is a major issue here. Perhaps you should be interested in what is happening in Palestine. Perhaps there is some connection between it and what happens each time you are forced to take your shoes off when you go through a security screen at an airport. Perhaps there is some connection between it and your disquiet when your son or daughter goes off for a holiday in Bali… Perhaps there is some connection when your son is sent off to Iraq in the Armed Forces.” Maybe much could be made about the $4 billion per year we currently lavish on our security agencies, plus the billions more we spend acting as mercenaries for the US.

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