Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A joke is a very serious thing.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
If we don't plan for the future that we want, then we will have to take the future that others will allow us to have.
Corruption flourishes when the brave fail to act.
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Courtesy  of Community Voice Coalition

No one ever said freedom was free. It is purchased at enormous cost every day by people prepared to stand up to tyranny, oppression, and terror.

Societies are judged, not by what they do for the powerful and the mighty, but rather by what they do to ensure justice and compassion for those least fortunate and least advantaged.

What sort of society are we building when we spend more money erecting Coliseums to watch our modern day gladiators, than we are prepared to spend on providing adequate shelter for our mentally ill.

If we don't plan for the future that we want,
then we will have to take the future that others will allow us to have.

Corruption flourishes when the brave fail to act.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.  - Jeremy Bentham

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This Article was POSTED on 26/02/2010 .

Joe Rossi former Liberal member of SA. Parliament 1993 to 1997 for the seat of Lee.
Now in the March 2010 state election is a Independent Liberal candidate for the seat of Lee.
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Article  POSTED on 30/04/2009. Take Note

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The media independence and freedom is the freedom of the civilians. Government control of the media is government control of its citizens.

Name and shame is the only non-violent control of morally and bad behavior of humans.No pain , no Gain. Make your voice be heard.

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Some more versions exist of this famous poem, but that was the one that Niemoller himself favored.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

http://www.serendipity.li/cda/niemoll.html

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007392

Another poem with similar intent:

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/articles6/hangman_by_maurice_o.htm

THE HANGMAN 
          
By Maurice Ogden

               Into our town the hangman came,
               smelling of gold and blood and flame.
               He paced our bricks with a different air,
               and built his frame on the courthouse square.

               The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,
               only as wide as the door was wide
               with a frame as tall, or a little more,
               than the capping sill of the courthouse door.

               And we wondered whenever we had the time,
               Who the criminal? What the crime?
               The hangman judged with the yellow twist
               of knotted hemp in his busy fist.

               And innocent though we were with dread,
               we passed those eyes of buckshot lead.
               Till one cried, "Hangman, who is he,
               for whom you raised the gallows-tree?"

               Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye
               and he gave a riddle instead of reply.
               "He who serves me best," said he
               "Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree."

               And he stepped down and laid his hand
               on a man who came from another land.
               And we breathed again, for another's grief
               at the hangman's hand, was our relief.

               And the gallows frame on the courthouse lawn
               by tomorrow's sun would be struck and gone.
               So we gave him way and no one spoke
               out of respect for his hangman's cloak.

               The next day's sun looked mildly down
               on roof and street in our quiet town;
               and stark and black in the morning air
               the gallows-tree on the courthouse square.

               And the hangman stood at his usual stand
               with the yellow hemp in his busy hand.
               With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike,
               and his air so knowing and business-like.

               And we cried, "Hangman, have you not done,
               yesterday with the alien one?"
               Then we fell silent and stood amazed.
               "Oh, not for him was the gallows raised."

               He laughed a laugh as he looked at us,
               "Do you think I've gone to all this fuss,
               To hang one man? That's the thing I do.
               To stretch the rope when the rope is new."

               Above our silence a voice cried "Shame!"
               and into our midst the hangman came;
               to that mans place, "Do you hold," said he,
               "With him that was meat for the gallows-tree?"

               He laid his hand on that one's arm
               and we shrank back in quick alarm.
               We gave him way, and no one spoke,
               out of fear of the hangman's cloak.

               That night we saw with dread surprise
               the hangman's scaffold had grown in size.
               Fed by the blood beneath the chute,
               the gallows-tree had taken root.

               Now as wide, or a little more
               than the steps that led to the courthouse door.
               As tall as the writing, or nearly as tall,
               half way up on the courthouse wall.

               The third he took, we had all heard tell,
               was a usurer..., an infidel.
               And "What" said the hangman, "Have you to do
               with the gallows-bound..., and he a Jew?"

               And we cried out, "Is this one he
               who has served you well and faithfully?"
               The hangman smiled, "It's a clever scheme
               to try the strength of the gallows beam."

               The fourth man's dark accusing song
               had scratched our comfort hard and long.
               "And what concern," he gave us back,
               "Have you ... for  the doomed and black?"

               The fifth, the sixth, and we cried again,
               "Hangman, hangman, is this the man?"
               "It's a trick", said he, "that we hangman know
               for easing the trap when the trap springs slow."

               And so we ceased and asked now more
               as the hangman tallied his bloody score.
               And sun by sun, and night by night
               the gallows grew to monstrous height.

               The wings of the scaffold opened wide
               until they covered the square from side to side.
               And the monster cross beam looking down,
               cast its shadow across the town.

               Then through the town the hangman came
               and called through the empty streets...my name.
               I looked at the gallows soaring tall
               and thought ... there's no one left at all

               for hanging ...  and so he called to me
               to help take down the gallows-tree.
               And I went out with right good hope
               to the hangman's tree and the hangman's rope.

               He smiled at me as I came down
               to the courthouse square...through the silent town.
               Supple and stretched in his busy hand,
               was the yellow twist of hempen strand.

               He whistled his tune as he tried the trap
               and it sprang down with a ready snap.
               Then with a smile of awful command,
               He laid his hand upon my hand.

               "You tricked me Hangman." I shouted then,
               "That your scaffold was built for other men,
               and I'm no henchman of yours." I cried.
               "You lied to me Hangman, foully lied."

               Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye,
               "Lied to you...tricked you?" He said "Not I...
               for I answered straight and told you true.
               The scaffold was raised for none but you."

               "For who has served more faithfully?
               With your coward's hope." said He,
               "And where are the others that might have stood
               side by your side, in the common good?"

               "Dead!" I answered, and amiably
               "Murdered," the Hangman corrected me.
               "First the alien ...  then the Jew.
               I did no more than you let me do."

               Beneath the beam that blocked the sky
               none before stood so alone as I.
               The Hangman then strapped me...with no voice there
               to cry "Stay!" ... for me in the empty square.

THE BOTTOM LINE: "...I did no more than you let me do."

Excited readers wanting to be a critic, identical to hypocritical journalist.

Be politically constructive, not petty. What would you do if you were Premier or Prime Minister for 100 days to improve the state?  Add substance to the debate.

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 1)     So far there are 18 English dictionaries on computer Microsoft Word, any more bidders?)

Confusing words for migrants

                                  i.          Weather, climate, erode, live through>

                                  ii.          whether, either possibilities,

                                  iii.          Wither, shrivel, fade, and droop>

                                  iv.          Wether, male sheep>

                                  v.          Eight, 8>-Ate, eat, >

                                  vi.          Putt, gentle hit>

                                 vii.           Put, place, deposit>

                                 viii.          Shone, shine, inflection

 2)     There is no Irish English. Sean, not found in neither 4 dictionary.>

                                  i.           Sean, not found in neither 4 dictionary.> (Phonic  sound Shorn)

                                  ii.          Most of the time CH in European countries replaces the K

                    But in UK English it has no rule for example Chaperon is SH.

                                  iii.           What about Mobile Text u for you, 4 for for (etcetera.)

 3)     English language is derived from adopting words from countries of convenience.

                                   i.           France, Germany, Latin, Greek, Australian Aboriginal. North America and the like.

                                   ii.          The many types of English found from> Microsoft English Dictionary

                                  Are Australian, & US. & UK. & Encarta UK. .

 4)      Most of the inconsistent words come from Premier Rann land. (The century old inter family war loving Irish).
            The spell check does not recognize the difference in grammar meanings.

         5)     .Like the Australian decimal currency conversion in the 1960’s from pound. shillings and pence. (inches. foot and yards) Australia should change
                and simplify  the English to write the words the way they sound.

         6)     There are at present a total of 18 English dictionaries on computer Microsoft Word, any more bidders?)

                        Item 19 Version of English should be added to Microsoft Word called English Politician Dictionary meaning and interpretations
                        Such as follows.

                                  i.          Honesty means, deceit, manipulation, fudging, read my lips, never, never did

                              But slipped my mind, will but will not listen,

                                   ii.          Words “Shall not” in the Catholic 10 Commandment does mean shall.

                                  iii.          Atheist> agnostic but God Bless.

                                  iv.          Transparency Campaign funds, means brown paper bags, free dinners,

                    Taxpayer pays.

                                   v.          Democracy. Rann way or the highway.

                                  vi.          Extra Hospital Funding means Long waiting list to see specialists.

                                  vii.         No Capital Punishment means send army to another country to kill.

                                  viii.         Government Tobacco Health warnings means Do not harm your self or your children at your pace let me do it
                                    with fluoride in drinking water which will effect you and generations to come by DNA invisible chemical castinoginic mutations.

 7)     Loose:

                                  i.          Loose with manners as a child at meal table,

                                   ii.          Loose of respect towards school teachers

                                  iii.          Loose with morals when hunting for a partner in teenage years

                                  iv.          Loose with honesty and listening abilities towards sexual partner once, Easier with next partner.

                                  v.          Loose with honesty towards sexual partner twice

                                  vi.          Loose with honesty in more than 6 categories

                                 Definitely easier to be loose with the electorate voters.

                        Definitely easier to lose ability to listen to the electorate voters.

                                  i.          Lying so often becomes a custom that the perpetrator believes in Himself being honest. (The Norm,)

                     Leopard never changes its spots only when you skin it.

 9)     Lose.

                                  i.          Lose, escape, drop, and be beaten.>

                                  ii.          Loose, slack, sloppy, free, flowing>

                                  iii.         Politicians Loose honesty, lose integrity, lost the plot.

 10)  Government policies.

                                  i.          Invisible, what chemicals you can not see in drinking water it can not harm you.

                                  ii.         What you are not told by the government can not affect your brain.

                                  iii.        Privacy Laws. The politicians should know everything about you. Your children are not. Allowed to know.

11)  Goods Import Fair level playing field

                                  i.          Invisible, what chemicals you can not see in drinking water it can not harm you.

                                  ii.          What you are not told by the government can not affect your brain.

                                  iii.          Privacy Laws. The politicians should know everything about you.

12)  Government regulated poisons of the past.

                                  i.          DDT garden spray.

                                  ii.          Asbestos for building, car breaks.

                                  iii.          Compulsory Fluoride in city drinking water.
        Chemicals in the body accumulate over a life time causing mutation of the chromosomes.

13)  Major Party political speeches.

                                  i.          If not in writing it is hot air and not biding.

                                  ii.          If written down refer the dictionary of Antonym. > Word with opposite meaning>

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Can you the reader help add more examples below.

Submit them by email and I shall include them.

Thanks