Let's Sell Uranium To Indonesia!
November 19th 2006 04:23
Aloha,
This is a gem of an idea. I can't say for sure who thunk it up, but man oh man, it just cries genius to me. How about you? I'm sure there are a lot of things you do that you shouldn't, but on this sort of scale you have to ask yourself, why on Earth are people suggesting this and how on Earth can it be considered sane? It's like chopping up a line of cocaine for someone who has just crawled out of rehab and saying, "Go on, just for old time's sake", then rolling up a ten dollar note with an evil grin on your bonce and offering it to them. "Just one cheeky little line". If only I could paint you a picture. The Devil is not on John Howard's shoulder, oh no, it is deep inside him going, "Yes John, it's a winner!". Selling them this stuff is one step removed from you know what. All it takes is one ill-conceived comment and they'll kick a weapons program together in a jiffy. Thanks to us. North Korea right on our doorstep thank you nicely. They don't need a reason.
Firstly, there's talk - and it is coming out of Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's chubby face - that we are going to actually help Indonesia establish a nuclear program. I'll repeat that for you because it may sound a little baffling at first. Australia, as in the Great South Land, is going to sell uranium to Indonesia to help it establish a nuclear program. You help old ladies across the street, you don't help anyone go nuclear. Now let me get this straight, if you're Syria and you want to do this, it's abhorrent, nightmarish, Axis of Evil stuff. If you're India, who's always a hair's breadth away from a thermonuclear kick-off with its friendly neighbour Pakistan, it's cool. If you're Indo-friggin-nesia, the most populous Muslim nation in the world, it's a no-brainer, which makes sense, because anyone who conceived such an idea has no intelligence whatsover. It's like the CIA teaching Al Qeda how to fight guerilla war in the 80s. Oh, that's right, that actually did happen.
Lets see now. There are a few ethical issues our Indonesian neighbours have difficulty with that seem to get brushed off quite easily by our Government. For starters they have a thing against illicit drugs. That's reasonable isn't it? They do cause more harm than good, but there are a few Australians either in prison or about to swing (and I don't mean Glenn Miller Swing The Mood kinda swing) for stupidly taking drugs to Indonesia or trying to haul them back to Australia from Indonesia. As far as I'm concerned Schapelle Corby (whose star has cruelly faded somewhat, consigned to the media scrap heap) hasn't been clearly proven to have transgressed, but the Bali Nine are as good as dead for crimes that would have them in our Big House for only a few moons. Meanwhile those savage, wretched and vile bastards who planned and executed the Bali bombings get treated like heroes in their own country. I'm sorry, but this is more than f'ed up. Something's fishy?
What is horrifying about our relationship with Indonesia is that Alexander Downer, when called on to comment about these matters, likes to fall back on the old chestnut of "Indonesia is a sovereign country". So was Iraq before you helped America annihilate (and these figures are a bit loose due to the Americans being a little tardy in counting the civilian dead) 600,000 Iraqi civilians, all because America had nothing better to do. Such leniency on Downer and the Government's part has nothing to do with a $1 billion oil trade with the Indonesians would it? As in we buy from them. Surely not. Surely it has nothing to do with appeasing a country which, if they had their druthers, would turn us into a wasteland in a heartbeat. Either that or we'd become like West Papua on a larger scale. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Syria's Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otari (one of the international bad guys du jour) unanimously hailed in Indonesia as a righteous ambassador of Islam for standing up to America. If memory serves, he stopped by to pick up the kudos in person.
This potential uranium deal may also come very quickly on the heels of the Rohypnol Treaty we've entered into with Indonesia. Once administered they can roger us until the cows come home, then when they're finished with us, they'll roger the cows. Our closer ties with Indonesia (to help fight terrorism apparently) mean that we will no longer put up a fight when it comes to West Papua, not allow asylum seekers to seek asylum and not interfere with Indonesia's 'sovereignty' over a place that they took by force anyway. There's more where that came from too. It's like we've forgotten about what happened to East Timor. Turn a blind eye Alexander and you can be first in line to be shafted Indonesian style. To make matters worse for you, the guy who runs Indonesia already sounds like he has a pornstar name: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Pass the KY Bang Bang.
Cheers
Michael.
This is a gem of an idea. I can't say for sure who thunk it up, but man oh man, it just cries genius to me. How about you? I'm sure there are a lot of things you do that you shouldn't, but on this sort of scale you have to ask yourself, why on Earth are people suggesting this and how on Earth can it be considered sane? It's like chopping up a line of cocaine for someone who has just crawled out of rehab and saying, "Go on, just for old time's sake", then rolling up a ten dollar note with an evil grin on your bonce and offering it to them. "Just one cheeky little line". If only I could paint you a picture. The Devil is not on John Howard's shoulder, oh no, it is deep inside him going, "Yes John, it's a winner!". Selling them this stuff is one step removed from you know what. All it takes is one ill-conceived comment and they'll kick a weapons program together in a jiffy. Thanks to us. North Korea right on our doorstep thank you nicely. They don't need a reason.
Firstly, there's talk - and it is coming out of Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's chubby face - that we are going to actually help Indonesia establish a nuclear program. I'll repeat that for you because it may sound a little baffling at first. Australia, as in the Great South Land, is going to sell uranium to Indonesia to help it establish a nuclear program. You help old ladies across the street, you don't help anyone go nuclear. Now let me get this straight, if you're Syria and you want to do this, it's abhorrent, nightmarish, Axis of Evil stuff. If you're India, who's always a hair's breadth away from a thermonuclear kick-off with its friendly neighbour Pakistan, it's cool. If you're Indo-friggin-nesia, the most populous Muslim nation in the world, it's a no-brainer, which makes sense, because anyone who conceived such an idea has no intelligence whatsover. It's like the CIA teaching Al Qeda how to fight guerilla war in the 80s. Oh, that's right, that actually did happen.
Lets see now. There are a few ethical issues our Indonesian neighbours have difficulty with that seem to get brushed off quite easily by our Government. For starters they have a thing against illicit drugs. That's reasonable isn't it? They do cause more harm than good, but there are a few Australians either in prison or about to swing (and I don't mean Glenn Miller Swing The Mood kinda swing) for stupidly taking drugs to Indonesia or trying to haul them back to Australia from Indonesia. As far as I'm concerned Schapelle Corby (whose star has cruelly faded somewhat, consigned to the media scrap heap) hasn't been clearly proven to have transgressed, but the Bali Nine are as good as dead for crimes that would have them in our Big House for only a few moons. Meanwhile those savage, wretched and vile bastards who planned and executed the Bali bombings get treated like heroes in their own country. I'm sorry, but this is more than f'ed up. Something's fishy?
What is horrifying about our relationship with Indonesia is that Alexander Downer, when called on to comment about these matters, likes to fall back on the old chestnut of "Indonesia is a sovereign country". So was Iraq before you helped America annihilate (and these figures are a bit loose due to the Americans being a little tardy in counting the civilian dead) 600,000 Iraqi civilians, all because America had nothing better to do. Such leniency on Downer and the Government's part has nothing to do with a $1 billion oil trade with the Indonesians would it? As in we buy from them. Surely not. Surely it has nothing to do with appeasing a country which, if they had their druthers, would turn us into a wasteland in a heartbeat. Either that or we'd become like West Papua on a larger scale. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Syria's Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otari (one of the international bad guys du jour) unanimously hailed in Indonesia as a righteous ambassador of Islam for standing up to America. If memory serves, he stopped by to pick up the kudos in person.
This potential uranium deal may also come very quickly on the heels of the Rohypnol Treaty we've entered into with Indonesia. Once administered they can roger us until the cows come home, then when they're finished with us, they'll roger the cows. Our closer ties with Indonesia (to help fight terrorism apparently) mean that we will no longer put up a fight when it comes to West Papua, not allow asylum seekers to seek asylum and not interfere with Indonesia's 'sovereignty' over a place that they took by force anyway. There's more where that came from too. It's like we've forgotten about what happened to East Timor. Turn a blind eye Alexander and you can be first in line to be shafted Indonesian style. To make matters worse for you, the guy who runs Indonesia already sounds like he has a pornstar name: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Pass the KY Bang Bang.
Cheers
Michael.
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