- Moderator
- #3,701
By Abbotts "cronies" I assume you are referring to the majority of Australians who chose the Liberal party to run Australia, who support the Australian Governments efforts in the national security space? The many who's voice is seldom heard on the unrepresentative, unbalanced national broadcaster and increasingly....."here"?
No, I am referring to his efforts this sitting to play the blame game with the ALP and the ABC by trying to paint them as 'traitors'.
He is intentionally using a fear campaign to rattle the community, before draping himself with Australian flags, and then invoking 'national security' to usher in a raft of draconian laws, many of which purport to circumvent the courts in an effort to strip people of basic civil liberties (surveillance, censorship, and even the stripping of citizenship).
He's doing it in such a way that he gets to label the ALP as 'rolling out the red carpet for terrorists' despite them supporting most of what he's actually proposing (in principle) - their 'big crime' has apparently been asking to actually see the proposed legislation before they make any other comment (which of course Abbott is withholding from them - just to make them look bad).
How dare our elected representatives have the nerve to ask to see the legislation that they're being called on to support eh?
The ALP has come to this sitting actively trying to work with him to pass laws - including most budget measures - and he's gone back to his divisive populist partisan ways. The ******* doesn't care one iota about running the nation, he simply cares about staying in power.
And you're eating this s**t up.