Poseurs And Power

Asylum

As a party to the Refugee Convention, Australia is bound to protect refugees in compliance with the Convention. Article 33 contains one of the key responsibilities agreed to — the principle of non-refoulement – that is, to ensure people who are found to be refugees are not sent back to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened. Australian Human Rights Commission.

Did you hear him?
That political leader condemned bad country migrants
Keep them out he said
They are deadly dangerous
Their native land is a threat to us
How strange!
What about those who flee villainy and seek asylum?
These our fellow humans
Kind, grateful seekers of a better and noble life
Freedom from pain and danger
So ready to contribute to a new and better world
That politician is seeking votes
Dog whistling to the racists in earshot
To win the next election
Gain the most sought after possession
Power
But the time has come for change
An increased awareness of essential reality
There is a law
Deeply ingrained into international reality
That prevents deportation to danger
A message for the guilty:
There but for providence go you or I

Cowardice

Listen to that politician
Banning all interviews from the national broadcaster
What is the coward afraid of?
Exposure?
Yes indeed
So take care!
Beware of those who fear the truth!
What is this wimp’s policy?
Why it’s support from the neocon media machine
No interest in reality
No genuine inquiry
No quest for evidence
No detection of lies
That’s it then
This is the way illicit popularity wins votes
Valid questioning branded as insults
Adverse findings labelled fakes
A running away from veracity
Propaganda served up as gospel truth
Where are we then?
Why deviously in La La Land
The place where mobocracy is the norm
Where emotion is used to suspend thinking
Where lawlessness is the dream
Mob rule is the theme
And conceit is the scheme
Come then citizens
Forget history
Favour mystery
And bring a nonentity into power

It’s Happened Again

“One People, One Nation, One Leader” Hitler’s motto

They’re at it once more
Fascists bending the law
Their policy is clearly not great
Based entirely on persuasive hate
No evidence, just promises of a better life
Sounding fine but courting strife
And the fawning media abruptly
Favours folly corruptly
Once more onto the air go the liars
Suavely igniting the racist fires
Harnessing the hate that sadly exists
That no misguided plebeian resists
So shut your mind to the fallible urging
Promising victory with pay dirt surging
Questions, questions are the valid regalia
To be worn by voters in gullible Australia
Gallup polls reveal a new aristocracy
That in reality is a kleptocracy
Listen to that leader spreading fake wings
Give me power is the song that she sings
Ignore my iniquity is the sordid plea
To give transgressors a victory
Yes as so often with the human race
Mindless thinkers promote disgrace
Look what those voters are doing to one nation
Believing a simpleton’s weird oration
Strange are the ways of invalid acclaim
And sad is its outcome so wreathed in shame

Shameful Advice

It’s sentimental clap trap
This concern for the socially incompetent
Why should we worry about life’s failures?
Beware! Beware! Beware!
These must be ignored by modern government:
Systemic racism
Transgender and the queer
Misogyny and power imbalance
Climate change
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Current politics must must waste no money there
Let the floundering founder
Have the needy look after themselves
Or privatise
Small government please
Balance the budget
With freedom for private enterprise
Especially the military industrial complex
Invent fake news on the danger of war
That’s a lucrative strategy
But what is the real disaster?
The threat to economic prosperity?
It’s welfare delusions
Yes. In other words it’s the woke idiots
The wasters of money
The benevolent planners
The destroyers of the free market
So to Hell with social justice
Make Australia Great Again
Follow successful xenophobes
Hail Victory! Hail Victory! Hail Victory!

Deadly Misinformation

“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.”
Napoleon

Listen to him
That cliché riven politician will save the nation
Lower the cost of energy he promises
But what is his modus operandi?
Why it’s more coal, more gas and more oil
That will bring prices down
And it will bring profits up for his rich supporters
He will not mention hidden costs however
Wildfire
Raging torrents
Destructive drought
Lost homes
Shattered existences
With that in mind
What is the true cost of that cheap power?
And the rich in their safe mansions
Don’t care for the victims in other places
So drill baby drill
Then dig, dig, dig other people’s graves
And on another point
They say that budgetary spending causes inflation
But is this a scientific observation?
Are not prices raised deliberately to maintain profit?
Is that degree of rich gain essential?
In emergency could not the returns be wisely less?
Inflation is in many ways a deliberate act
To protect and guarantee returns
Responsibility extends beyond wage earners
But this is never part of the analysis of causes
So in vain we dream of care and a helping hand

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