Besides, she sounds like the die-hard Socialist--a group that has been discredited by history.
Posted on 11/15/2004 10:55:57 AM PST by dead
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr Helen Caldicott fears US President George Bush's re-election will lead to Armageddon and she isn't sure if mankind would survive another four years.
"This is the most serious election that has ever occurred in the history of the human race, without a scrag of doubt," she told smh.com.
"I don't know if we'll survive the next four years ... I don't think the Americans have, on the whole, the faintest idea - and I have to say also I don't think most Australians do either. But it's not just the threat from nuclear war. It's the threat of what's happening to the environment, the global warming which is occurring rapidly now, to ozone depletion, to species extinction, to deforestation - it's the whole thing."
Speaking from her son Will's Boston home, the Australian paediatrician, who runs the Nuclear Policy Research Institute in Washington, has just spent a frantic two-and-a-half months criss-crossing America to deliver her anti-nuclear and anti-Bush message. She discovered the country was more divided than at any time since she first stepped onto American soil in 1966.
Early on election day she was convinced Democratic challenger John Kerry would win but reality soon set in.
"This is what I've been afraid of and I actually can't believe it's happening," she said. "The voter turnout was so high, which should have supported Kerry.
"I don't think I've ever felt so personally, politically devastated in my life and that includes when [former president Ronald] Reagan won a second term of office - which was pretty devastating for me as I was so heavily involved in the anti-nuclear movement in those days.
"But this is worse, these people are much worse than the Reagan people."
Dr Caldicott rose to fame in the American peace movement during the '70s and '80s, her vehement antinuclear stance earning her many enemies, some of whom saw her as an apologist for the Soviet Union. She has long warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons, America's "first strike" policy and missile defence.
In her 2002 book The New Nuclear Danger, she detailed links between the Government and weapons makers and Mr Bush's will to militarise space.
Mr Bush's win meant "endless war and I think it could mean nuclear war", she said.
"In January 1995 we got to within 10 seconds of nuclear war when [former Russian president Boris] Yeltsin and the Russians made a mistake and thought they were under attack. The Americans still have a first-strike policy to win a nuclear war against Russia. The weapons are still in place both in America and Russia. Virtually nobody knows that in this country and that a mistake or a terrorist takeover of the command system - on either side - or errors being made could lead to the end of life on earth."
In a website interview two years ago, Dr Caldicott was asked why Mr Bush remained so popular. She replied she didn't believe it - that the polls were inaccurate [although that was before the invasion of Iraq].
Now she has to face the reality that more than half of Americans want Mr Bush back, despite [or because of] his policies. She puts it down to brilliance on the part of his campaign team, in particular Karl Rove, and the ignorance of much of the population.
"They [the Bush administration] have been able to con the American people with their extremely brilliant propaganda and brainwashing, with the help of the media ... they consistently lie. On the whole the American people don't really understand the dynamics of the right at all. They don't know that Bush et al want to go into Iran next and that they want to dominate the world militarily and that they want to put weapons in space.
"I don't think they [the American public] understand. It is a mandate for Bush to do absolutely anything he wants. I know people don't like me using this word but they're fascists."
Not firing all her ammunition at Mr Bush, she saved some for Australian Prime Minister John Howard. She said Australia was now the "51st state of the US".
"I've always been so proud of my country, now I'm not just ashamed by what's happening and embarrassed ... but I really fear for the future of Australia and the previous wonderful quality of life that we've always had."
Welcome aboard, Mates! We'll finish off the Muzzy's, get your guns back and then go for a Foster's. Fair dinkum? Aye.
"They don't know that Bush et al want to go into Iran next..."
LOL yes we do. Duh.
The Nobel Peace Prize isn't worth the plastic it's stamped from.
Besides, she sounds like the die-hard Socialist--a group that has been discredited by history.
Wackolefty - "They don't know that Bush et al want to go into Iran next and that they want to dominate the world militarily and that they want to put weapons in space."
Heh, she says this like its a bad thing.....
Go away ya'old bat!
Links? Like the the Government pays the weapon makers to make weapons? Imagine that! I would never have dreamed such a thing.
Ummmm...she's been here since 1966 and she STILL hasn't gotten American Citizenship? Her opinions or analysis means nothing then.
Hehehehee...I had the misfortune of listening to this nutter one day on a radio program. Half of me was laughing hysterically at her strange delievery of rnts.....the other half just thought is was all just "noise polloooooooshunn".
Utter gas-bag....she expells so much greenhouse gas herself, she's like a slow motion car wreck.
well shes' in good company - but with her in the same class as arafat, I'd tend to doubt her credibility on any peace related issue. come to think o fit, I'd doubt her ability to perform higher reasoning.
Enough with the old bat crap----I'm a woman her age.
That said,I still can't stand her.
I don't see the problem with this. Iran is an emerging nuclear threat with decades of terrorist activity and sponsorship. All Americans should hope that we dominate the globe militarily, or else another country less benign and benevolent will. And space is simply that next battleground, so again, for us it is either dominate or be dominated.
Dr. Helen Broinowski Caldicott
Helen Broinowski was already studying medicine at the University of Adelaide when she read Nevil Shute's On the Beach. The novel told the story of five Australians witnessing a nuclear holocaust and the subsequent end of the world.
It changed her life.
So, young Miss Broinowski read a fictional book of minor note and freaked out.
She is obviously mentally disturbed.
Apologist? More like paid stooge. Her old cover, the "Physicians for Social Responsibility" was a totally financed KGB front groop. This woman is a pure commie from the get go.
Helen Caldicott - The Energizer Bunny of commie cows.
Well...
North Korea used to state that President Reagan would dine on South Korean baby livers whenever he visited South Korea.
So... I don't think much has changed. (other than the Democrats parroting Communist propanganda... wait, wait, nothing HAS changed)
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