Stupid chain email

[devolved]

or maybe not stupid?

Someone I know has posted this letter on FB and it has been followed by a cavalcade of people screaming "Yeh!", "Me too!".

My suspition is that this letter was actually written by a 43 year old man from Melton in Victoria who had just finished watching Today Tonight, and was out-raged by something he saw.

Here is is:

Make a coffee, open your mind and take 5 minutes to read this letter to our Government from a lady in South Australia...

Subject: Fw: The silent majority


This seems to put into words what I – and I am sure many others of the silent majority – think! It was written by Mrs Jenny Bell of South Australia to Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott:

To Julia Gillard (Prime Minister) & Tony Abbott (Leader of the Opposition) ...

You BOTH Worry me ! ( In fact both of your Political parties worry the hell out of me !!!)

Over the last three years, I find myself becoming more and more fearful of the pair of you, and between you, you are turning this country into a place that I no longer feel at home in, or feel a part of! I watch you in parliament, and no, not just the two of you, but every politician that I see, stand up in parliament sneering at each other, and acting like children !!! (..and if you were my children, I would be ashamed of you all ... What an example to set!)

Although you would like us all to believe that you are putting the needs of this country at the forefront, NEITHER of you are doing that, you seem more interested in "one-up-manship ", in scoring off each other, & denigrating each other, to the detriment of this country & its people !!!
It seems to be all about YOU as individuals, and not about what you can DO for this country !
It is fast becoming a place that I do not recognize, as the place I always thought, was the best place in the world to be !!!

But no longer !!!

You are not listening to the people of this country !!!
And here in South Australia , your counterparts are afflicted with the same disease - is it endemic in all politicians ?

I am watching the deterioration of living standards in this country, (and according to you, on a world stage we are doing better than most countries ... REALLY ???) ... And yet the gap is widening between the "haves" and the "have-nots" .. I see our homeless on the streets, our hospitals under-funded, and understaffed, our health system is an absolute mess and a disgrace ... And yet I see multi-millions of dollars being sent off shore, in aid to other countries, before attending to this country's needs !

I see the "selling off of the farm", in large amounts, to foreign interests, (In Every State ) including water rights to foreign interests too .... And WHY...?
Especially when you go to great lengths to tell us that water is a finite resource, & supposedly, we must ALL be careful with how we use it, so that we ensure we have it for the future ?

Foreign interests "Fracking" for coal seam gas, and riding rough shod over farmers' rights to their own land, AND USING QUESTIONABLE CHEMICALS. (You don't even KNOW what chemicals they use), and possibly causing damage to the water table in the process !!!
And those foreign interests I believe, do NOT have to pay anything in royalties back to this country, for the first five years of their tenure ... IS THIS CORRECT ???

A Carbon Tax,( which you KNOW is just another tax with a "Starting Point dollar value") which will make NO appreciable difference, to carbon emissions, AT ALL!

A tax, which in spite of all your arguments FOR it, you are doing alone, when other major countries will NOT & DO NOT embrace it, or believe in it !
All that it will do for this country is put working families and small businesses behind the eight ball, .....what planet are you on, if you think that your few hundred dollars a year, will make even a scrap of difference to the effect of the carbon tax on people ?Blind Freddy can see the holes in that argument !!! Do you really think we are that dumb ???

The CONVOY OF NO CONFIDENCE was real !!! ..and I haven't spoken to even ONE person, who would not have liked to be there if they could, but the tyranny of distance and /or work was the only thing that kept them away, ( myself included ), ... and you KNOW that only a part of the convoy was actually allowed to be in front of Parliament house and ON VIEW ... the rest were streets away, unreported by the media !

For Mr Albanese to stand up in parliament, and call it "THE CONVOY OF NO CONSEQUENCE ", in his sneering tone, shows just how out of touch with the people of Australia , you really are !!!! WE WOULD HAVE ALL LIKED TO BE THERE !!!

DEFENCE ........ Because Americans are our Allies, and we support them in Wars, ......... Korea , Vietnam , Iraq , Afghanistan , ..... and you have sent our soldiers to those places, and our soldiers fought for you, and for Australia ........ some coming home with terrible physical injuries, and some with devastating Mental Injuries as well ..... BUT WHERE ARE YOU, WHEN THEY NEED YOU ?????

Veteran's Indexation to CPI only is a disgrace ... and is something YOUR Labor party Julia, used as an election sweetener, to get the Veteran's Vote ... BUT YOU LIED (Again) ! You never had any intention of honouring your election promise to them ... and it WILL come back to bite you at the next election !!!! (And Tony, Liberals were NO BETTER, Howard had more than 10 years to "fix it " and didn't !)

Veterans are not alone, they have families, friends and supporters, who are heartily sick of the deception your party perpetrated on them ....AND THEY ALL VOTE !!!!

THEY are your obligation, first and foremost ..... and it is not your first obligation to give aid to every man and his dog overseas first !!! Look after your own FIRST !!!! Is this what you call SALUTING THEIR SERVICE ???

Have you any idea , how sickening it is for our Vets to see you both, ( Labor or Liberal ) turn up to the funerals of our current young vets for a photo opportunity, to be seen to be "caring " in the public eye, but only to turn your backs on them all, when they need you ??? (Just ask Breanna Till an Afghanistan Soldier's wife, how CARING this government is !!!)

And in light of what you DON'T do for our Vets .......Let's talk about Multiculturalism ......People have come here from other countries, for a better life, for more years than I have been alive ( I am 65 years old !) ... my own family migrated here in 1883, from Germany , and did find a better life .....
Pre & Post war immigrants have came for a better life, and settled in and became wonderful contributors to this country, as did those who came here after the Vietnam War, ... all have contributed to the rich diversity of this country, and some descendants have even fought FOR this country, and they have become Australians and were glad to be ..and they had NO handouts from our Government either, ...they worked hard for everything!

I have never before had a problem with all, or any, race of immigrants coming here ...

.......However , I DO NOW !!!

Please tell me why we have areas like Lakemba, where police do NOT, & will NOT go, for fear of their life ?
Please tell me why we can no longer have religion in schools, for fear of "OFFENDING" someone ? (The latest little gem is that they are not having, or being funded, for "chaplains " any more , but "Counsellors "?)
Please tell me why religious Christmas observances are no longer allowed in some schools for fear of OFFENDING someone ?
Please tell me HOW Christmas decorations in some stores might OFFEND someone ?
Please tell me why we have to have segregated days in some swimming centres, for fear of "OFFENDING" someone ?
Please tell me why we have some RADICAL clerics demanding Sharia Law in this country ... when if we were in THEIR country, this would NEVER be allowed ?
Please tell me why our laws need to be changed, so as not to OFFEND someone ?
Please tell me why we are fast becoming a MINORITY voice, in our own country, because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ?
Please tell me WHY Australians cannot legally wear a face covering bike helmet into a bank ..and yet it is ok to wear a Burqa which covers the whole face ?
And please tell me WHY, when those people who want asylum here, can wreck our detention centres, as in Villawood , and STILL be accepted here ?

SO , in light of the above, WILL BOTH OF YOU ......Please tell me WHY, when some of our Vietnam Veterans FINALLY received (in the last 6 months) the recognition that they should have had after the Vietnam War, (and which they received from the USA & South Vietnam, during and immediately after the Vietnam War), that the families of those Veterans, were refused assistance by this Government, to attend that award ceremony, and yet this Government ....flew , accommodated , and even took on bus tours , to the the families of asylum seekers, after the funerals of those who were killed in the boat which sunk off Christmas Island ?

What does that say, about just who are this government's priorities ?

The Australian people that I speak to have genuine concerns about becoming a second class minority in our own country, and the reasons for it, are some of the above, ..... Are you so blind that you cannot see this ?

And no , I am NOT racist !!!..(if I did not like Catholics or Protestants would I be considered racist ?) Of course not !

Why is it, that if we object to what is happening in our country ... we are immediately labelled RACIST, in an attempt to shut us up ?

We are fighting Radical Muslims, in Afghanistan & Iraq , are we not ?I hear you say, yes but the Muslims we have here are "Not like that " ... well how would we know ? ...do we hear ANY of them coming out & speaking AGAINST radicals ?? I haven't ...have you ???

Islam is not compatible with ANY of the values that we hold here in Australia ! .....Are not the experiences of Britain , France , and the Netherlands an example of that? Why do you think it would be any different here ? We even have an Australian born "radical ", whose message is that Australia WILL become a Muslim country, under Sharia Law, & that we had "better get used to it ".

Will both of you grow some "Balls ", and start sticking up for this country and its people ???

We are the people who put you where you are, and PAY you to look after our interests ! ... And you are NOT doing that, by any stretch of the imagination !!!

I would appreciate an answer, from both of you, if only to convince me that once again, I am not talking to a brick wall !!!!!

Mrs Jenny Bell
20 Helene St
Nuriootpa
S.A.

[Red_is_Best]

Bell At It Again

[Barfridge]

So why post worthless chain letters here?

You realise by being yet another link in the chain you're just perpetuating the problem?
(as am I by responding)

[devolved]

So why post worthless chain letters here?

You realise by being yet another link in the chain you're just perpetuating the problem?
(as am I by responding)

Maybe... I never thought about that. Damn.

[speed3]

Pollies playing politics instead of working for change? <insert massively sarcastic tone> NO.

Lost me when they brought religion into it. Islam is no worse than christianity et al.

I like immigrants then I hate immigrants, not the most cogent of arguments.

[devolved]

Pollies playing politics instead of working for change? <insert massively sarcastic tone> NO.

Lost me when they brought religion into it. Islam is no worse than christianity et al.

I like immigrants then I hate immigrants, not the most cogent of arguments.

And this email is followed by 60 odd comments of people saying "Yeh! This is what I think too!" blah blah blah...

Its not well thought out, its contradictory and ties all these things together without actually making a valid point.

Why are so many people attracted to stupid half-thought out ideas? When you make a comment like "This doesn't make sense, its some truth mixed with some bullshit", they get all defensive.

[Cam]

Can posting chain letters be added to the same list of fucking brain damaged posting sins as expressing speed as a dollar value?

[darkfibre]

+1 to more rules.

The nanny state should be reflected online by nanny forums.

[devolved]

Of course it can! Its always good to make boundries. That's how we learn right from wrong.

[Roger Explosion]

Caps Lock Yo.

[Gilly1]

or maybe not stupid?

Someone I know has posted this letter on FB and it has been followed by a cavalcade of people screaming "Yeh!", "Me too!".

My suspition is that this letter was actually written by a 43 year old man from Melton in Victoria who had just finished watching Today Tonight, and was out-raged by something he saw.

Here is is:

Hi! I hope that none of you real bikers object to me commenting on your site. I came across it while trying to find the origins of this repulsive chain letter. You may be interested to know that a version, suitably altered, is now circulating in the UK and has reached us in France. My husband voiced our objections to this rubbish and we may have lost some friends. Well so be it. We feel that the time has come to 'stand up and be counted' and to say what we think about this and similar letters. What I want now is an all purpose, none racist, none homophobic, none sexist letter to send to all our 'friends' which may just make some of them think with their heads if not their hearts. Any ideas?

[devolved]

Hi! I hope that none of you real bikers object to me commenting on your site. I came across it while trying to find the origins of this repulsive chain letter. You may be interested to know that a version, suitably altered, is now circulating in the UK and has reached us in France. My husband voiced our objections to this rubbish and we may have lost some friends. Well so be it. We feel that the time has come to 'stand up and be counted' and to say what we think about this and similar letters. What I want now is an all purpose, none racist, none homophobic, none sexist letter to send to all our 'friends' which may just make some of them think with their heads if not their hearts. Any ideas?

Thank you pushbike rider from France for understanding my outrage at this tiresome pass-time.

I realise I re-posted a chain letter, but the point was to open discussion about why this kind of ignorant diatribe is so popular.

As for the 'heads' & 'hearts' thing, even in my heart I can't find myself blaming any particular group for a problem. The only one entity I hold responsible for all this is God, and I'll be having a stern word with him in the afterlife, but until then I like your idea of a rebuttal letter and shall formulate a plan.

Viva la France.

[out_in_front]

To me the letter reads

" dear Julia and Tony, I am a muppet that thiks you control the whole party and that my local member is your puppet, therefore lets keep them out of this. I think that all major decisions are made by either one of you two alone. I am now going to ask a whole lot of questions and make a heap of statements that reflect this view, especially in respect to anything I disagree with. I will make no reference to the things I do agree with that you have done because I know it will be disproportionately higher and make the first set of statements not look as bad,"

As per most political chain mail emails....

[Gilly1]

Bon Jour

It is good to know that we are not alone in outrage.

I too am working on a rebuttal letter - perhaps in the form of a poem. I'll keep you posted and looking forward to seeing your 'plan'. I agree that there is no one particular group but not sure if we should blame God. She can't be responsible for everything

My husband did use to own and ride a 'real' bike. At 75 he would still like one. I'm not so sure!

Merci encore.

Sorry I can't find an equivalent to Viva la France so Viva l'Australia will have to do.

[Professor Redfern]

Jamathi?

[ReCon]

I got the shortened version of this a few months ago. For shits and giggles I google the name and address of the sender. The house had been for sale for months , so she [?] definitely doesn't live there. The name didn't tag up anywhere that I could find. Can't believe someone would use a false name and address on teh interwebby

[Deano]

I was more cringing at the poor spelling and grammar! If I wanted a pollie to take me seriously, I would first learn how to write a concise, well structured letter.

As for the content, *shakes head*... Nothing I say can adequately describe just what I think. Whilst some points if properly thought through could be articulated to actually make a little bit of sense from a practical and ethical perspective, the way "she" has put it is just typical of a redneck loudmouth.

...actually, that did a pretty good job of describing what I think, how about that.