Go Aussies!
The more I read about John Howard and his Administration's no-nonsense plain talk, my heart goes all aflutter (especially since I think the cough syrup I've been using to combat this dratted cough may be cracked up to more than it should be...so much for non-drowsy).
(H/T: LGF)
Straight talk from Australian Prime Minister John Howard, about the left-wing fifth column: Howard attacks left intelligentsia. (Hat tip: Aussiemagpie.)
PRIME Minister John Howard has launched a scathing attack on Australia’s left-wing intelligentsia, questioning its loyalty to the nation over the past decades.
In a speech delivered last night for the 50th anniversary of the conservative magazine Quadrant, Mr Howard said the left had a history of denigrating the nation and was now doing the same with the war in Iraq, describing Islamic terrorism as the new tyranny.
He said Australian universities were still breeding leftists and described pro-communists of decades past as “ideological barrackers for regimes of oppression opposed to Australia and its interests”, Fairfax reports today.
Mr Howard said the left was wrong in its view that the Cold War was an equal struggle between the ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union.
“It became the height of intellectual sophistication to believe that people in the West were no less oppressed than people under the yoke of communist dictatorship,” Mr Howard said in his speech.
Preach it, Preacher, preach it! Frankly, as Doug showed in his post about what is going on at URI, I think it is time to bring in the really bright, powerful flashlights and start finding out what's in the corners.....
