Election time brings the wacky

[lizbee]

I don't know about anyone else, but I've been kind of mourning the lack of batshit in this election. Aside from the now-disendorsed Liberal candidate who declared himself the voice of God, there's been a general reluctance to break out the crazy sauce. Or even the interesting sauce.

But tonight, that all changed. As I left the station this evening, a smiling middle-aged man thrust a leaflet into my hand. The front looked like this:



With a beginning like that, I knew it had to be good, so I accepted it with thanks, quickly skimmed it, then rushed home to share it with the internet.

(...that was a couple of hours ago. I had to shower! And eat!)

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Oh, oh, I know them! They're the LaRouche people who protest Obama being President - in Melbourne. They want Australia to have some massive number of people to go along with their economic policies. Still, I'd vote for them above Family First!

[lizbee]

They ... object to Obama being ... okay, that sounds deeply stupid. I have to check out their website!

ETA: All was revealed in the closely typed pages of the CEC's monthly journal, an intimidatingly wordy organ that, between attacks on Mel Gibson and Hermann Goering, also lifted the lid on "the pro-Hitler Fascist Origins of the Liberal Party". Not that other parties were much better, all of them being controlled by some tentacle or other of global capital, even the Greens. Surely not, asked a member of the audience. Indeed, said Mr Isherwood. Didn't the Duke of Edinburgh himself create the World Wide Fund for Nature in the late '60s? What further proof do you need?

I AM SO CONFUSED!

[lilacsigil]

What further proof indeed, people, what further proof indeed.

My electorate is strongly Liberal and has been since it was Malcolm Fraser's seat. But the current MP is retiring after a billion years, and both Labor and Liberal have seen fit to send down candidates from Melbourne (the worst sin of all!) so there's buckets of Independents jumping in now. Fun times!

[nonelvis]

Ha! I was just thinking that this looked like typical LaRouche batshit! I had no idea he'd expanded his Batshit Empire outside the confines of my country. Lucky you.

[andraste]

That sure is some quality batshit you have there! Population control != culling people.

I am in Peter Costello's old seat, so all we ever get is form letters from the woman who replaced him. Nobody else even bothers.

[lizbee]

Maybe they figure that, after years of having Costello as your political face, you guys need a rest?

Anglicans: like Jesuits, only more so!

[tree_and_leaf]

"population-reduction advocates in the Queen of England-led Anglican Synod"

Oh God. I suppose it's not quite as stupid as the stuff about the Fabians, but that's still so bloody daft I don't know where to start...

Re: Anglicans: like Jesuits, only more so!

[lizbee]

My researches tell me the party is run by an American nationalist (...I know.) who is fiercely anti-monarchy. And, y'know, Henry VIII made a big deal about being made the head of the Church of England, so the Queen is like the Pope, really. Only with prettier frocks.

They also believe that the Elders of Zion and a Fascist secret society are working together, possibly in league with Paris Hilton, to conceal the evidence of the global depression now underway.

Re: Anglicans: like Jesuits, only more so!

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh dear. So the Queen's probably a lizard, too?

the Queen is like the Pope, really. Only with prettier frocks.

But he has nicer shoes!

[jaythenerdkid]

That's just...wow. Incredible.

Is it bad that after twenty years of squeeing every time someone even says the words "federal election", I just want this one to be over already? I seem to have lost my political squee. :(

[krazykitkat]

Me too :(

It's boring and I find the idea of one side the equivalent of hell, and the other isn't doing anything to inspire me.

[krazykitkat]

That is just... You should have to pass an intelligence/sanity test before being allowed to run.

We received mail from our local member today, I've wondered a couple of times during this term whether Ruddock was still alive.

[emmaco]

Ha ha, this is great! I deal with completely mad people through work who are all like WE MUST STOP THOSE SELFISH WOMEN HAVING BABIES ESPECIALLY THOSE AFRICANS WHO SHOULD JUST USE WILL POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF CONTRACEPTION, so it's good to know the other side can be crazy too!

[nixwilliams]

i think these were the ones who are really all about building a land-bridge/high speed train route to china?

[lizbee]

Yeah, one of their other platforms involves the establishment of the Australian space program.

[theworstwitch.myopenid.com]

There was a similar leaflet against the proposed Multi-Function Polis at the 1990 election - in the Division of Deakin, where my family lived at the time, the leafets said "Vote Lamb for Jap City". Tony Lamb was the Labor candidate and the leaflet contained a number of xenophobic and racist slurs.