National IDea
it is awe inspiring, the nationalism that australians show for their country. considering that so few australians are landowners, and that there are some that will never have jobs. that we are represented by a goverment who locks children seeking asylum into private prisons; uses manipulated images of children being thrown overboard a sinking vessel in high seas to political advantage; aligns their political thought to the past and warmongerers in the U.S.A; declare war on two countries that do not have the arsenal to threaten our lands nor the economic power to support their own people directly disobeying the United Nations, thus belittling their power.
the displays of nationalism are largely misdirected and fruitless. the overbearing presence at Australia Day events followed from the 'spur of the moment' cronulla riots. the advent of the Australian Values syllabus - compulsory classes for all schools in NSW; consideration has been taken by other states.
persistent attacks on religious and cultural grounds, upon people and families who have lived longer within Australian lands than some considered "Australian's". Many families of chinese descent migrated to Australia during the first gold-rush, and many of these families outstrip the lineage of others bearing a european descent.
what bollocks is it to assume that one's heritage makes you Australian. it pays to remember that we are a nation founded on the petty criminals of jolly old England. yet we are happy to see any of their faces as long as we beat them in cricket. that the Australian Anthem was written by a Scot, whom one an English songwriting competition. The anthem has three verses, and an Australian shouldn't even know all the words to the first verse, let alone attempt to sing the second. our inability to remember the words allows us to sing such rot, and British back-patting, with pride and fervour.
an australian is someone who would rather sit on the couch drinking beer and watching sport than go out and bash up his neighbours because he worships God with a different name.
the proposition of a national identity card should be put on hold. nay, it should be forgotten about. it should be discarded like the outdated and dangerous abstracts of nationalism itself. no longer should we be encoraged to tie ourselves to a country with mindless indecency. the fervours of nationalism begin wars with bloody consequences. it is time we all began thinking like people and not a mindless gang hellbent on the protection of land that should be open to all people of the world. that the world she be open in trade and movement. that these arbituary boundaries of nations have restricted us for far too long, and the national id card is yet another way in which the governments of today may impose and restrict us in their fading truths. no longer are their concerns a true worry to us. they must go to great lengths to confuse and muddle issues to persuade people into letting them once again have control of the ship. to assume the position.
more and more, people realise that they want to control their lives and the way they live. individuals need to begin to examine the reasons and needs behind the political decisions that are being made on their behalf. it is time that people take responsibility for political decisions. within a democracy the people are the checks and balances. they need to ammend systems to work for them. accountability is to the voters. the people are responsible for war crimes committed by nations operating under a democracy. the onus on them is to prove that the democracy is corrupt, and if this true, there must be an ascertainable and reasonable conclusion as to why the people did not ammend their corrupt governmental system.