Thursday, April 01, 2004
Dumbasses
I'm in a mood for calling a spade a spade. This is addressed to the 39% of New Zealanders who say they'd vote for National. Do you actually know what National stands for?
1 - Sending NZ troops to Iraq. National would have sent troops - to fight alongside that all-embracing coalition (sic) of American, British, Australian and Polish troops. Yep, that's right, we would have been only the fifth country in the world to participate in that dubious enterprise.
2 - National would have sent troops to Iraq not because of intelligence reports (which we all know are manufactured crap) or because of any genuine fear of Saddam Hussein, but because it wants to buy a free trade agreement with the U.S. A free trade agreement which would be negotiated on the U.S.'s terms, and wouldn't include anything we could actually out-compete them on (e.g., agricultural commodities). Yes, that's right, National would send young New Zealanders to die to "buy" a pathetic free trade (sic) agreement. There's a word for that kind of behaviour - mercenary.
3 - National would allow nuclear-powered warships back into the country. As New Zealanders knew 20 years ago, that involves New Zealand buying into U.S. militarism, while accepting all the risks that go with nuclear power (low likelihood, high impact).
4 - National would sell Kiwi Bank, allowing further monopolization of banking services by a handful of corporate wankers.
More generally, National adopts the same view as conservatives in Canada - that being "friends" with the United States, and advancing trade with the United States, requires adopting U.S. foreign policy as your own, and never speaking a word of critism. Wake up, dumbasses, the only special relationship the United States has is with itself (thanks to The Guardian for pointing this out).
If you actually agree with all of the above policies, go ahead and vote National. If you don't, don't.
1 - Sending NZ troops to Iraq. National would have sent troops - to fight alongside that all-embracing coalition (sic) of American, British, Australian and Polish troops. Yep, that's right, we would have been only the fifth country in the world to participate in that dubious enterprise.
2 - National would have sent troops to Iraq not because of intelligence reports (which we all know are manufactured crap) or because of any genuine fear of Saddam Hussein, but because it wants to buy a free trade agreement with the U.S. A free trade agreement which would be negotiated on the U.S.'s terms, and wouldn't include anything we could actually out-compete them on (e.g., agricultural commodities). Yes, that's right, National would send young New Zealanders to die to "buy" a pathetic free trade (sic) agreement. There's a word for that kind of behaviour - mercenary.
3 - National would allow nuclear-powered warships back into the country. As New Zealanders knew 20 years ago, that involves New Zealand buying into U.S. militarism, while accepting all the risks that go with nuclear power (low likelihood, high impact).
4 - National would sell Kiwi Bank, allowing further monopolization of banking services by a handful of corporate wankers.
More generally, National adopts the same view as conservatives in Canada - that being "friends" with the United States, and advancing trade with the United States, requires adopting U.S. foreign policy as your own, and never speaking a word of critism. Wake up, dumbasses, the only special relationship the United States has is with itself (thanks to The Guardian for pointing this out).
If you actually agree with all of the above policies, go ahead and vote National. If you don't, don't.
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