Monday 21 October 2013

OF FACELESS MEN AND MORE!

 
 
From: g87
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 12:07 PM
Subject: OF FACELESS MEN AND MORE!
 

THE ORIGINAL FACELESS MEN!

Of faceless men and other idiocies beloved by the left
Ron Sinclair has left out salient matters in his letter No MP is faceless 21/10.In an earlier incantation of his leadership, Kevin Rudd referred  to ''Mr Crean and a number of other faceless men''?
At best it was a contradiction in terms – but worse than that.
The left  have for decades been abusing the 'faceless men' phrase and have sadly denuded it of any meaning.

In 1963 Whitlam referred to ''the 36 faceless men:''  Labor's Federal Executive adjudicating on policy. Menzies soon used it to deadly advantage.

It is bemusing that Laborites have always invented the vague and implausible, inverted and preverted words like economic rationalism, longed for true utopian socialism of the proletariat with their social inclusion ministries / codswallop - and there is more!

They never held the demonstration signs correctly - the feared Russian bombers could never have read their plaintive pleading:
This is a nuclear free zone''

They have been consultative, progressive, rambled about socialist tripe like equality of outcomes - and in this war of the rats - AKA who was disloyal to whom, how, why and when - not a word about their asinine policies that were the progenitors of their  incipient destruction at the hands of the people.
Now it is Shorten’s turn to lead these  hapless hopeless lemmings over a new cliff.

Geoff Seidner
13 Alston grove East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9399

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No MP is faceless

THE word faction in politics has become almost as pejorative as faceless men. The latter, coined by journalist Alan Reid in 1963, is hackneyed and used now as a mere term of abuse. In the modern age, no MP is faceless.
As for faction, it is a term applicable to both sides of politics, indeed to any large organisation - unions, universities and so on. It is ridiculous to expect a large group of such people not to have group sub-sets of similar interests that will inevitably unite and vote as a bloc to support other sub-group members reach positions of power.
It is unrealistic to expect all MPs to retain their individuality in such circumstances. All that might be hoped for is that public scrutiny lays bare the workings of such factions, especially where they are perceived to foster cosy self-interest rather than the greater good.
Ron Sinclair, Bathurst, NSW
- See more at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/letters/no-mp-is-faceless/story-fn558imw-1226743395899#sthash.n5VqfmsQ.dpuf

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EARLIER ITEMS EX MY BLOG RE FACELESS MEN:
 
 
 
this re wilding of press council
 
 


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