{"id":959,"date":"2007-11-24T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2007-11-27T03:48:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T17:48:50","slug":"its-time-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to go…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…John HoWARd<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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PM Howard condemns fake leaflets<\/a>
\nBBC<\/strong>
\nNovember 22, 2007<\/p>\n

Australia’s prime minister has condemned members of his own party for distributing leaflets implying the Labor opposition supports terrorism…<\/p>\n

Australian PM on defensive over ‘dirty tricks’ campaign<\/a>
\nNovember 22, 2007<\/p>\n

SYDNEY (AFP) \u2014 Embattled Australian Prime Minister John HoWARd was thrown on the defensive Thursday just two days ahead of a general election after senior members of his party were implicated in a dirty tricks campaign. HoWARd’s Liberal Party admitted it had expelled two members for distributing fake flyers falsely linking the opposition Labor Party to Islamic extremist bombers…
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\nAustralian PM Condemns Election Fraud<\/a>
\nRod McGuirk
\nNovember 22, 2007<\/p>\n

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 Prime Minister John HoWARd battled Thursday to contain a last-minute scandal ahead of weekend elections, after campaigners for his Liberal Party were exposed distributing pamphlets accusing the opposition of sympathizing with terrorists…<\/p>\n

Howard election campaign hit by dirty tricks scandal<\/a>
\nBarbara McMahon
\nGuardian Unlimited
\nNovember 22, 2007<\/p>\n

Australian prime minister fends off party scandal days before election<\/a>
\nTim Johnston
\nInternational Herald Tribune<\/em>
\nNovember 22, 2007<\/p>\n

SYDNEY: Prime Minister John HoWARd’s struggling re-election campaign in Australia took another blow Thursday after a scandal over a phony pamphlet from nonexistent Islamic radicals distributed by supporters of HoWARd’s Liberal Party.<\/p>\n

Tough Race in Australia for Supporter of Bush
\nTim Johnston
\nNew York Times<\/em>
\nNovember 23, 2007<\/p>\n

SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 22 \u2014 The center-right coalition of Prime Minister John HoWARd, who has been in power for 11 years and is one of the most stalwart supporters of President Bush<\/a> in the Iraq war, faces a stiff challenge in Australia\u2019s elections on Saturday, polls indicate…<\/p>\n

The final days of the campaign have been dominated by a scandal in which the husband of a candidate for Parliament from Mr. HoWARd\u2019s Liberal Party was photographed distributing leaflets that represented themselves to be from an Islamic group \u2014 a fictitious one, it turned out \u2014 thanking the opposition Labor Party for \u201csupport to forgive our Muslim brothers who have been unjustly sentenced to death for the Bali bombings,\u201d in 2002, in which 88 Australians were killed. Mr. HoWARd said the party had not approved the leaflets, and the candidate, Karen Chijoff, knew nothing of her husband\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

Howard rocked by smear scandal as defeat looms<\/a>
\nKathy Marks
\nThe Independent<\/em>
\nNovember 23, 2007<\/p>\n

John HoWARd, Australia’s Prime Minister, was fighting for his political life yesterday as details emerged of an attempt by senior members of his Liberal Party to smear the opposition Labour Party and whip up anti-Muslim feeling in a key marginal seat…<\/p>\n

Red faces for Howard’s party over fake leaflets<\/a>
\nBarbara McMahon
\nThe Guardian<\/em>
\nNovember 23, 2007<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Fliers circulated in Sydney linked Labor to Islamists
\n\u00b7 Hoax likely to damage chances of re-election<\/p>\n

Australian prime minister John HoWARd’s faltering re-election campaign was badly damaged yesterday by a last-minute scandal in which supporters were accused of a dirty tricks campaign that sought to show the opposition as terrorist sympathisers…<\/p>\n

Howard has form in race politics<\/a>
\nIrfan Yusuf
\nCanberra Times<\/em>
\nNovember 23, 2007<\/p>\n

Many allegedly conservative commentators were amused by suggestions of former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser that Muslim Australians would be used as political wedges in the next election. Fraser’s remarks were dismissed as politically correct mumbo-jumbo. Yet for many of the 300,000-odd Australians who tick the “Muslim” box on their [census<\/a>] forms, Fraser’s claims represented the prophetic words of an insider. He had, after all, worked with John HoWARd as his treasurer. And Fraser knows a thing or two about political strategy. Just ask Gough. HoWARd has frequently used ethnic and ethno-religious minorities as wedges. In the 2001 election, he and his ministers suggested that Iraqi and Afghan asylum-seekers were just a bunch of queue-jumpers or, worse still, potential terrorists…<\/p>\n

Pamphlets bring community together<\/a>
\nKatherine Fenech
\nSt Mary’s-Mt Druitt Star<\/em>
\nNovember 23, 2007<\/p>\n

Priest Peter Confeggi has condemned the bogus Islamic pamphlets distributed by Liberal Party volunteers in Lindsay, but has thanked them for bringing the Muslim and Catholic communities closer together.<\/p>\n

Father Confeggi, the Parish Priest at Holy Family Church in Emerton, said talk at a meeting with the church’s reconciliation committee yesterday centred around the pamphlets.<\/p>\n

“We just arrived speechless in the face of what the Liberal Party had done in Lindsay, utterly disgusted that Jackie Kelly could treat it as a joke, and unbelieving that she and the candidate didn’t know that their husbands were doing it,” Fr Confeggi said…<\/p>\n

Kelly going ahead with Seven appearance<\/a>
\nAAP
\nThe Age<\/em>
\nNovember 23, 2007<\/p>\n

Embattled outgoing Liberal MP Jackie Kelly is still set to participate in the Seven Network’s election night coverage on Saturday night, despite her part in a bogus leaflet scandal…<\/p>\n

And introducing…<\/em><\/p>\n

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The stranglehold the far right has on the NSW branch of the Tories — tolerated for over a decade, with a nod and a wink, by HoWARd and the Federal branch of the Party — has finally started paying electoral dividends for “the Uglies”<\/a>, as their dirty tactics are transposed from successful internal struggles for control over branches<\/a> to the battle for seats, power, and the ability to impose their ideology through government channels. Of course, if they were smarter, the Uglies would simply allow the out-sourcing of such activity to continue to remain in the safe hands of the bizarros of the Exclusive Brethren<\/a>, the radical Christian sect only too happy to Prepare Ye, the Way of the Lords<\/em>. In the meantime, Alex Hawke, former F\u00fchrer of the Young Liberals, and loyal lapdog to David Clarke<\/a>, has branch-stacked his way to a seat in the Federal Parliament, having secured pre-selection to one of the safest Tory seats in the country: Mitchell<\/a>. In July, HoWARd stated<\/a> that “I… completely support the decision of the Liberal Party preselection committee in Mitchell, I totally support their (decision)”. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.<\/em><\/p>\n