Recently our hand picked Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, confirmed my theory that our politicians are required to “check in their brains” at the doors of Parliament.
We know this is the case since members of either of the 2 major parties are required to vote the way that the faceless men have decided. And, to make sure that we don’t accidentally get a vote other than that decreed by same faceless men, each party enforces a practice called “pairing”. Pairing means elected Members are not permitted to enter Parliament if one of the idiots on the other side happens to be on holiday, sick or otherwise doesn’t feel up to voting that day.
So, the average backbencher is paid more than $190,000 to simply vote as he or she is told. They don’t even have to bother asking what the vote is for, just which side to stand, after confirming that they are actually permitted to vote at all.
Writing in his Thoughtlines political blog in February last year, then retired former New South Wales premier Carr was highly critical of the Swedish prosecutorial process levied against Mr Assange.
”The Swedish judge is prosecutor . . . yes, the two roles in the one officer, an outrage by Australian standards,” Mr Carr wrote. ”The charge includes rape but the sex was consensual. The victims have exchanged emails talking revenge and money.”
Senator Carr has since explained that his views as a private individual did not necessarily reflect the positions he would adopt as a member of the Federal Labor Government.
Bob Carr, the only outrage is that you seriously think that it is OK to adopt the opinions of others when you hold the second or third highest post in the land. Why bother being the Foreign Minister if you are a mere front for some nameless faceless, vote counters?
Oh, just in case you think this is an isolated case, The day that he was appointed as Foreign Minister, Bob Carr changed his mind on the War on Drugs. Again, an intelligent non Foreign Minister believed the War on Drugs had failed. The Foreign Minister believes the War Must Continue.
A spokesman for Senator Carr said …
that he supported drug law reform but as a federal minister would be supporting government policy in this area.
