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peace to the earthians...
from an alien-fearing Gerard Henderson...
Imagine the media reaction if the atheist Julia Gillard or the Christian Tony Abbott raised the possibility, in a major address, of extraterrestrial life on one or more planets beyond Earth.
At the very least, they would have been ridiculed. There may even have been calls for a retirement on medical grounds.
Yet this is what the Greens leader, Senator Bob Brown, did when delivering the third annual Green Oration in the Hobart Town Hall on Friday, March 23.
Early in his speech to those he called "Fellow Earthians", Brown raised the issue, "why has no one from elsewhere in the cosmos contacted us?" After claiming that "surely some people-like animals have evolved elsewhere", he asked: "Why aren't the intergalactic phones ringing?"
Not a single funny bone in Gerard, is there? What Senator Brown is rightly speaking about is that as a rampaging species we (homo imbecilus) have become custodian of our little planet by default and nothing else is stopping us in this destructive and modifying path. AND WE ALL ARE IN IT... whether we like it or not...
Possibly I missed the point that it was April fool's on Sunday and the pranks started early, that Henderson wrote his artilce on Sunday and the joke carried on till tuesday when it was published.
- By Gus Leonisky at 3 Apr 2012 - 9:33am
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Why aren't the intergalactic phones ringing?...
The Lunar Right have long complained about a conspiracy by social democrats and leftists to establish a one-world government. Well, in Hobart this is precisely what Brown advocated. He maintained that "for comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required". Namely, "a global parliament". In short, "one planet, one person, one vote, one value".
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/medias-soft-treatment-of-brown-opens-door-to-the-little-greens-men-20120402-1w8pk.html#ixzz1qvfnRvbo
Well take me away... There are plenty of organisations that act as default world government... From the United Nation, the weakest of these, to the WTO... and the other capitalist organisms that dictate strict terms under which people on this planet shall organise their affairs... These include the G7 the G8 the G20, the World Bank and the IMF... all trying to impose their will on the plebs — us. The only difference here, most of these organisms are despotic rather than democratic...