But Then It Was Too Late

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This is from the always worth reading Kaye Lee at The Australian Independent Media – I hope she will forgive me for reblogging without her express permission (and I note that several Pubkateers have commented already).

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An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free – The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer:

What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?

To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something—but then it was too late.

You see, one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

Note: Thanks to mars08 for this chilling reminder

958 thoughts on “But Then It Was Too Late”

  2. Well, we were all wrong about how much those orange lifeboats cost. It’s much worse then the $70,000 to $120,000 that was talked about. It’s $200,000 each. Yep, that’s right. Michaelia Cash revealed the true cost today when she tabled details in the senate in response to orders by the opposition to produce documents. Ms Cash refused to say exactly how many lifeboats have been bought for – you guessed it – security reasons.
    http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-spends-25m-on-lifeboats-to-return-asylum-seekers-to-indonesia-20140225-33f0n.html

  3. I liked the Nigerian law. Illegal to make beer. Illegal to import beer. But if you just happen to bump in to some it is OK to drink or buy as long as you are over 18.

  9. Obviously, no Hadley or Jones was there.

    Letter: When Pete Seeger reduced a conservative audience to silence

    In 1972 I attended a performance by Pete Seeger at a packed high school in upstate New York not far from where he lived. This performance included the most effective political and social statement I have ever witnessed.

    His final song in the show was Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, and the audience enthusiastically joined in with the well-known chorus. After three verses Seeger stopped and announced: “I’m now going to sing the verses that Woody wrote that don’t get into the school songbooks.”

    These verses deal with, among other things, poverty, property ownership and the dust bowl, each followed by the chorus:

    This land is your land, this land is my land
    From California to the New York Island
    From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
    This land was made for you and me.

    The audience, in what was a very conservative rightwing area, gradually stopped joining in between the verses. At the end of the song and the final chorus, which Seeger now sang alone, he put down his instrument, said “Thank you” and left the stage to a stunned silence. The audience of thousands had got the message.

    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/20/pete-seeger-obituary-letter

  13. This little black duck

    I’ve posted the vid before but in light of your comment here is Abbott’s attack dog visiting the TLBD residence.

  15. It’s a bit late for the press corps to whinge, they have supped at Blood Oath’s table for for five years so why are they asking me for antacids?

  16. Just wait until Transfield take over running Manus Island. you thought G4S were a bunch of incompetents? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

    My Transfield experience is a bit different – they look after maintenance for Housing NSW, so whenever my hot water service has a problem or a tap leaks or whatever I get ‘looked after’ by Transfield. Because I am a model tenant the only problems I ever have seem to involve worn out plumbing. Every single time i’ve needed a plumber someone has shown up telling me they are here to fix my kitchen taps. Hot water tap in bathroom? ‘I’m here to fix your kitchen taps’. Toilet cistern needing help? ‘I’m here to fix your kitchen taps’. You get the idea. A couple of weeks ago there was a bit of a bathroom issue so I rang the maintenance line and reported it. The person I spoke to particularly made sure I had no other problems – confirmed twice. Within two days the plumber arrived – you guessed it, to fix the kitchen taps. I sorted him out, he did the work, I signed the paperwork which said he had repaired the kitchen taps, and everything was fine. One day, maybe, someone is going to do an audit and they will want to know why my kitchen taps need repairing every six months. Such is the efficiency of Transfield….

    What they do is this – there is a Transfield office somewhere that is advised on what work needs doing by the nice people at the department. Transfield have contractors who handle the local maintenance. The Transfield office rings the contractors. Those contractors hire tradies to do the work so they ring the boss tradie. The boss tradie rings one of his underlings – only the casuals and the apprentices get the department work because Transfield pays less than peanuts. You can see why things get mangled as they go down the line, it’s very much a game of Chinese Whispers.

    All this work was once handled most efficiently by the local office. You had a problem, you rang them, they rang the tradie with the department contract and the work was done. Not any more. We are supposed to believe the current system (brought in by a Labor government, mind you) is ‘better’. Better for Transfield, I’m sure. One day I’ll tell you about the circus that was my renovations last year.

  18. BK
    Yep. And that’s how they will ‘run’ Manus Island. They won’t do any work themselves, they will contract everything out to other companies. Those contractors will bear all the costs of staff, equipment. whatever. Transfield will make a nifty profit from flogging off contracts.

  20. Well, security is definitely outsourced by Transfield – I think Wilson Security would be the contractor.

  23. BK,
    Transfield is one of the bus operators here on the flatlands that is in dispute with its drivers and constantly getting fined for buses not turning up on time or at all.

  24. 7.30 came on before I could get to the remote so I left it on & was treated to a piece by Sabra Lane so hagiographic it could’ve been a paid liberal party advertisement. All previous assurances that the milk & honey would flow again on the instant of a liberal government’s election forgotten, we now see a Churchilian Prime Minister & his Vizier as they begin to grapple with the immense problems facing the nation.
    Anyone who bothers to read my occasional missives here will realise that this is fairly standard stuff from me, whingeing about what I’ve just seen on the TV news. But Lane’s stuff was truly sickening, similar to a Uhlmann/Abbott interview or something you might see by Dennis Shanahan. They’re circling the wagons to protect their boy.
    Chris Bowen came on & I thought he did very well against a regulation issue Sarah Ferguson attack. I thought she was reasonably fair but nearly threw something at the screen when she accused Labor of playing on peoples’ fears.

  26. There’s a stink …

    Australia’s top immigration official has confirmed Papua New Guinea police dog squads were deployed to the perimeter of the Manus Island detention facility in the hours leading up to the death of an asylum seeker.

    But Martin Bowles, secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, refused to confirm contents of an eyewitness statement revealed by Guardian Australia that described how PNG dog squad officers were later invited to enter the grounds.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/png-dog-squads-deployed-manus-perimeter-official

  32. Putting on my optimist cap, if this L/NP government continues to poll this badly even with the glowing support of the media it currently enjoys, it would hopefully deliver media bosses a big kick in the backside to not hedge all their bets on one side like they are now. Although the polls would need to solidify to about 53-47+ to Labor for that to start hitting.

    Also, it’s a bit late, but the top article is excellent and is a strong indicator of exactly what can go wrong with unquestioning loyalty to a bad political party.

  33. Don’t worry, Beeza Bob….I saw it exactly like you say…I said as much to my Aunty-lovin’ Oh !…..the entire shebang media/ govt’ is nothing but a Murdoch satrap….and the MSM. cowers under his frowns or smiles….craven cowards, the lot…..Traitors, the lot……”away with all pests”.

  34. Just finding out about the sharp end of Abbott’s proposed Superannuation/Financial Adviser rules. Or, at least, my wife is. They stink to high heaven but, as usual, the millions of lemmings who voted for these criminals will look at two things. They will look firstly at their reduced investment potential and the greater risk associated with it it. They will recognise that the LNP is responsible. Then they will look at the boats issue. And see that their long held wet dreams of sending refugees to their deaths are being realised. And they will recognise that the LNP is responsible.

    And they will continue to vote LNP. Unfortunately, in this country, racial hatred is four aces and financial self interest is a pair threes. Once upon a time, elections were decided on “the hip pocket nerve”. These days they are decided on who kills the most refugees. And I am not even a refugee advocate. In fact, they shit me to tears but I don’t wish them any harm. Millions of Australian, however, do. Thanks, Howard. You released the inner monster in Bogan Australia (not to mention Mosman and Kooyong) and made them feel good about it.

  35. Roy Orbison,
    Dunno about Mosman, but there aren’t too many bogans in Kooyong. Plenty of silvertails, but also a surprising number of left-leaning (and voting) doctors, lawyers, and academics. Kooyong also recorded the highest pro-Republic vote of Coalition-held electorates in 1999, and – at least once upon a rainbow – had a pretty high Green vote.

  36. OK – so which failed Liberal MPs and hangers-on have not yet been given a lovely new job? This looks like more jobs for the boys and girls to me.
    Public service given green light for hirings
    The public service has been given the green light to hire more than 50 senior bureaucrats on annual salaries of up to $366,000 since the Abbott Government imposed its hiring clampdown last year, a Senate Estimates committee has been told.

    Permission was also given by the Public Service Commission for departments and agencies to hire 430 non-executive public servants since October, in the same period that has seen hundreds of redundancies from the service.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/public-service-given-green-light-for-hirings-20140225-33ed7.html#ixzz2uIQGZQUu

  37. The point was that although Bogan Australia is lapping it up, plenty of non Bogan Australia is doing the same. You don’t have to be rich, poor, smart or stupid to think Morrison is a hero. Highest of the coalition electorates? Isn’t that the same as three fifths of sfa?

  38. I think the refugee issue is an unexploded bomb. It’s not the intent that will do the Coalition in – the majority of Australians are broadly in favour of treating them badly as long as it’s toward some end – but the failure of the policy itself. So far they haven’t stopped boats coming. And they’re spending scads of money and putting severe pressure on our international relations. it’s also placing some intolerable pressure on our Navy, and placing us in breach of some human rights issues. Morrison’s also sinking further and further down into that morass of lies. If everything he’s done so far is the sum total of what he has to cover up, he’ll be ok. But I can’t see anything preventing more incidents and more cover-ups. And now we’re openly courting Cambodia in an attempt to offload asylum seekers somewhere – as far as that goes, we’re at the bottom of the barrel.

    So it’s more or less a race against time – crush the spirit of potential refugees before the whole thing falls in a heap. But why wouldn’t they keep coming? Indonesia’s not going to stop them. And from that angle Australia would look less of an impregnable fortress than a bucket with a whole of holes plugged up.

    If people here see it as a failed policy rather than just an inhumane one, they’ll feel differently about things.

  39. I should also say that I underestimated the Coalition pre-election. I thought their policy position on AS was just a bunch of slogans with no thought behind them. But they’re far bigger bastards than I took them for. And they’re prepared to sacrifice pretty much everything in this country for a cheap political ‘win’.

  40. Roy Orbison,
    I’m now using my little bedtime laptop that has a mind and a keyboard of its own, so I will have to research the 1999 referendum results by electorate tomorrow. From memory, however, Kooyong stacked up pretty well.

  42. http://www.smh.com.au/national/taxpayers-fund-qantas-debt-20140225-33fsm.html

    Taxpayers fund Qantas debt
    February 26, 2014
    Mark Kenny, James Massola

    The federal government is set to provide Qantas with a debt guarantee, meaning taxpayers will underwrite the airline’s push to increase its foreign ownership.

    The plan also increases pressure on the Labor opposition by making the removal of the guarantee conditional upon allowing the airline access to greater foreign capital investment.

    The move would make the public liable for Qantas borrowings in the event of default.

    It is the first part of a bigger plan to allow majority foreign ownership of the airline.
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    The Commonwealth debt guarantee would remain for as long as the national carrier remains restricted from being majority foreign-owned by the terms of its previous privatisation.

    Fairfax Media understands the government is also willing to consider relaxing stipulations in the act which require the airline to carry out the majority of repairs and maintenance in Australia.

    Qantas is set to announce major half-year losses on Thursday.

    The government is bracing for a bad result, aware that it could lead to thousands of job losses in aviation on top of a slew of recent closures in the manufacturing sector.

  43. Some might recall I posted back in early January about the large-scale deaths in flying fox colonies, on a day of extreme heat.
    The Brisbane Times has finally reported on it, re-publishing an article on The Conversation today:
    Killer climate: tens of thousands of flying foxes dead in a day

    These deaths represent about half of the black flying fox population present in the region before the January heatwave, as estimated in surveys coordinated by the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection.
    …
    Because flying foxes live in colonies, it is comparatively easy to determine the impacts of extreme heat events on the species as a whole. As such, flying foxes are excellent “bioindicators” of die-offs in species that have more cryptic or solitary lifestyles.

    It is now clear that many of the environmental, social and economic impacts of climate change will arise from shifts in the regimes of extreme weather events, rather than from gradual changes in climate means. The impacts of extreme heat events on flying foxes provide a disturbing window into the future of Australia’s wildlife in a warming climate.

  44. http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/02/25/financial-reform-shows-crafty-political-side-pope/PeipxfhuftqKNvUIGO7mKK/story.html

    Financial reform shows crafty political side of pope
    By John L. Allen Jr. Globe Staff February 25, 2014

    ROME — Pope Francis may embrace simplicity, but he’s hardly a simple man. The Jesuit pontiff is also an extraordinarily crafty politician, and a financial reform announced by the Vatican yesterday proves the point.

    In effect, Francis pulled off the equivalent in baseball of an unassisted triple play. It’s something fans know is theoretically possible, but still pretty breathtaking to actually witness.

    …………………………………..

    Third, Francis has also demonstrated a deft personnel touch by putting Pell in the one spot where the two men see completely eye-to-eye.

    On doctrinal matters Pell has a reputation as a staunch conservative, putting him a bit to the right of the pontiff. A few years ago Pell was rumored to be in line to take over the Vatican’s all-important Congregation for Bishops, responsible for naming new bishops around the world, and had that happened, it’s entirely possible Francis might today be contemplating how to get rid of him. He recently removed an American prelate with something of the same profile, Cardinal Raymond Burke, as a member of that body.

    When it comes to money management, however, Francis and Pell are entirely of one mind. Indeed, Pell was among the leaders of a guerilla insurrection against the Vatican old guard in the conclave a year ago that propelled Francis to the papacy.

    In one fell swoop, Francis has both given himself a chance to name a new leader for the church in Australia, and also placed an extremely capable ally in a spot where he’s uniquely qualified to get things done.

    For all those who wonder if change under Francis is all about tone and style, in other words, yesterday showed that there’s actually steak beneath the sizzle.

  45. Hi Pubsters,

    Leone,

    If the govt has spent 2.5m on those lifeboats at $200k a pop that makes at least 12 towbacks, no?
    Then that is 12 times the LNP have dumped people at sea.

  47. Timely words copied from a letter to the Canberra Times:
    As hysteria around the royal commission into unions gathers pace, we should not forget what Martin Luther King said: ”It is a mark of our intellectual backwardness that the achievements of unions are still dimly seen. There have been and still are wrongs in the trade unions but they were the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of their struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment benefits, old-age pensions and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it.”

    So true!

  48. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
    This debt guarantee for Qantas puts our balance sheet at serious risk. Qantas is no Westpac. It’s a broken outfit still under the control of a very flaky board.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/taxpayers-fund-qantas-debt-20140225-33fsm.html
    MUST READ! Ross Gittins says Abbott has taken us to a new all-time political low.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/under-tony-abbott-political-principles-reach-an-alltime-low-20140225-33ffk.html
    Now THAT’S what you call a sense of entitlement!
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/judge-slams-old-boy-who-sued-mother-over-estate-20140225-33fse.html
    What a shocking indictment of the society of the time!
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/inmates-at-parramatta-girls-home-subjected-to-statesanctioned-rape-20140225-33fou.html
    Channel 7 takes the gloves off and sues the AFP.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/seven-west-media-sues-police-for-raids-over-link-to-schapelle-corby-20140225-33fsu.html
    Looks science got trashed again in the Luddites’ Party Room.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/health-experts-say-food-star-rating-system-is-critical-20140225-33fsh.html
    The house of lies is tumbling down.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/deadly-clash-on-manus-island-said-to-have-begun-after-asylum-seekers-were-told-about-lies-20140225-33fsg.html
    And the press, having been treated like this, may not be there to help them.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/manus-island-how-information-is-kept-under-control-20140225-33eob.html
    The Guardian is piecing together the events on Manus Island – and it’s not pretty!
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/revealed-g4s-guard-says-he-invited-in-png-police-dog-squad-before-manus-riot
    Tony Wright is losing his patience on the matter.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/lights-out-on-manus-death-as-review-clouds-the-truth-20140225-33ft1.html

    89

  49. Section 2 . . .

    Whatever you think, this is not a pretty picture.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/construction-union-whistleblowers-warned-not-to-cooperate-with-corruption-investigators-20140225-33fsw.html
    Talk about a red rag to a bull!!
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/electrical-trades-union-seeks-18-rise-defying-abbott-government-20140225-33fsp.html
    This looks like a bit of a mess.
    http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/brunswick-businesses-hit-by-nbn-switch-20140225-33fr7.html
    Where are the jobs coming from Mr Hockey?
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/dear-joe-hockey-happy-to-keep-working–where-is-the-job-20140225-33ffj.html
    Alan Moir has Hockey seeking advice.
    http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/alan-moir-20090907-fdxk.html
    WOW! David Pope with a view of Abbott’s priorities.
    http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0.html
    David Rowe with a ripper on Health and education surgery.
    http://www.afr.com/p/national/cartoon_gallery_david_rowe_1g8WHy9urgOIQrWQ0IrkdO

  50. And from the Land of the Free –

    Arizona – the Hate State!
    http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2014/02/24/hate-cant-make-up-its-mind-in-arizona/
    Anderson Cooper demolishes a homophobic Arizonan Senator.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/anderson-cooper-arizona-anti-gay-law_n_4852674.html
    I suppose one could say this is funny.
    http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/michigan-man-shoots-himself-dead-while
    The Repugs are getting desperate.
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/25/1280270/-Okay-to-discriminate-laws-rocket-to-the-top-of-the-Republican-agenda

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