> > The Libs
Oh I can. Came in handy during my university politics days, when a bunch of us
got fed up by the antics of the looney and rather violent left who were
running the local student union (and running it into the ground).
I won't go into the details - just that Tony Abbot's
ultra-conservative but conventional Liberal party machine
(the main opposition to them) was left out in the cold, and the Tolkein
Society staged a putsch. Ah, the days of getting the Maoists to fight
(sometimes literally) the
Spartacists, while the Tolkein-George Formby-Formalin-Gay Lib
secret alliance quietly gathered the numbers...
Truth is stranger even than SJ's Illuminati game when lots of otherwise
apathetic people get prodded into action.
Gotta love campus politics. Like the Student Union being declared a Nuclear
Free Zone.
Michael Brown
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From: "Michael Brown" <mwbrown@sonic.net>
> Gotta love campus politics. Like the Student Union being declared a
We basically ignored student politics, until our (compulsory) union fees
started being diverted to the PLO to buy guns. The Student's Union had
a turnover of about $6 million at the time - big bucks in the mid 70s.
And who cared what they said, as long as the student facilities weren't
allowed to fall into disrepair. But soon they were. The money was going
elsewhere, in large amounts. Well, maybe OK, as long as it was to a good
cause, like students welfare.
But when they proudly announced the proportion going to the PLO and
INLA...
no. No longer a joke. Time to act. It wasn't just the AJS (Australian Jewish
Students) who were unimpressed.
The Goon Squad the Trots sent to "make sure the people's voice was heard" by
the electoral returning officer were physically blocked by a much, much
larger crowd of Gay Activists, Militant Ukelele-players singing "When
I'm