Posted on 05/22/2006 7:23:42 PM PDT by Murtyo
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TORONTO, Canada (Toronto Star) - So Australian Prime Minister John Howard is counselling Stephen Harper on how to run a country? Howard is the soul of American outreach and its spokesman. He has abandoned Australia to American influence and to American interests. With the Australian voting system of proportional representation, he will stay in power and Australia will irretrievably become a U.S. satellite doing the big brother's bidding.
Australians can't seem to figure out how to get rid of him so they have learned to live with him and apologize to the world for him. Howard sees himself as a great leader and Australians see him as an embarrassing U.S. parasite. His foreign and domestic policy are firmly in the hands of Washington.
Whatever you do, Canada, avoid this at all costs. Losing one's identity for the economic crumbs thrown by the big brother impoverishes the spirit and impoverishes the will of the people to seek viable alternatives. We are on the same road Australia took some eight years ago and as we in Canada are not yet drowning, we have to extricate ourselves.
Losing our sovereignty makes us subject to others' desires and whims — like having to put our people in harm's way because their troubles are forcibly made ours. Their propaganda becomes our thoughts; their rhetoric becomes our policy. We have time to stop it.
Lol. Ya got that right!
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Pure drivel, without argument or evidence or thought. Schon Golgerth is a pathetic propagandist, and the fact that this little smear was picked up by the "Tehran Times" shows where she should be publishing her diatribes in the future. In fact, maybe she would be happier living in some Islamo-fascist hellhole, since clearly she does not understand anything about the defense of freedom.
canada - america's bad toupee.
Australians know very well how to get rid of John Howard. We have an election roughly every three years and it's quite a simple process. He remains Prime Minister not because we don't know how to replace him. But because we choose not to.
I can understand Iranians finding this concept difficult to understand. But a Canadian newspaper should certainly know better - Canadians themselves obviously do, having recently taking the necessary steps to replace a government.
One Canadian view of war on terror. It's all America's fault and Canada can survive without America if push comes to shove with America's enemies. How typical is this position?
Puzzled why Howard got elected. Reminds me of Demontrat puzzlement at two Bush victories.
Canadians do understand democracy and their recent exercise of it is what this dipwad is complaining about when he says "We are on the same road Australia took some eight years ago..."
Whether this "Schon Golgerth" is actually a Canadian or merely a wretch is an open question.
At the very least he is not a particularly clear thinker and seems incapable of seeing the dripping ironies in his own scribblings.
This article is absolute nonsense. The motive and inclination of the author are quite dubious.
"With the Australian voting system of proportional representation, he will stay in power..."
What on earth does proportional representation mean?! In order to have any credibility, the author, at least, must have some fundamental understanding of the Australian Voting System.
As the FReeper naturalman1975 said, Australians choose to vote for John Howard, and we are well aware of how to get rid of a government - we have done so many times in the past (both Federal and State governments).
"they have learned to live with him and apologize to the world for him."
I haven't met any Australian who would 'apologise' to the world for having John Howard as a Prime Minister. However, someone should apologise for having a so-called journalist such as Schon Golgerth (at least for being somewhat intellectually challenged).
"Tehran Times republishes the Toronto Star - says it all."
Quite right.
Perhaps the author would like to see Canada as a province of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
When there are anti-American points to be made, the Left suddenly is in favor of sovereignty.
Every other waking moment the Left demands the surrender of sovereignty to the UN, the ICC, the Kyoto accords, and other global "authorities."
Wow! Who wrote that article, Fidel Castro? Same old socialist tripe.
Cough, cough, Canadian Liberal tripe on Australia, cough, cough.
Schon Golgerth in clearly an idiot. He should be embarrassed by his ignorance and the Toronto Star should be just as embarrassed for publishing this rot.
I have read the Toronto Star when I visited Toronto in 03. It is so left-leaning that it literally makes The Age read like a conservative publication. If I'm correct it is the most left-leaning newspaper in the whole North America (US and Canada) and the reason Canadians call it the Toronto Red Star behind its back.
Sadly, this doesn't stop it being the largest and most circulated newspaper in Canada.
What a complete load of garbage. No wonder there are so many confused and demented Liberals in places like Ontario. Their newspapers are nothing more than propaganda outlets for the Liberal Party of Canada. They know absolutely nothing about Australia or Australians.
Well that’s frightening.
At least the lefties who write for the Fairfax Press generally have some basic understanding of the subject matter. This guy doesn’t have a clue and yet he sets forth to speak on behalf of Australians everywhere.
What a dickhead!
I'm surprised it's not in French.
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