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Ich bin ein Amerikaner …

May 25, 2007 on 8:19 pm | In Uncategorized |

This is truly weird and more than a little bit creepy.

I got alerted to it from reading a post by an indigenous Australian who was less than impressed that a mob of god-botheres had appropriated the national Australian ‘Sorry Day’ to launch the Australian ‘National Day of Thanksgiving’. Needless to say the god-botherers were horrified at the very suggestion that they had tried to steal the Kooris’ thunder. Pure coincidence they smarmed, never crossed their minds that Australian Thanksgiving Day might clash with anyone else’s anniversary.

Except of course that one of the ‘People to be honoured and thanked‘ in 2007 are:

Indigenous People - As we focus on thanking those who have laid a foundation in our nation we will also honour and thank our First Nation people.

I see … they’re gunna thank our indigenous people at the same time as they thank the whities who have ‘laid a foundation in our nation’. Sounds like a diplomatic triumph. And they want to honour indigenous people but they are so ignorant of indigenous people’s culture that they don’t even know this is kind of a bad day to hold Australian Thanksgiving. Seems like a funny way to honour them to me, and … hang on, ‘thank our WTF people???’

Since when did Australian indigenous people take to calling themselves ‘First Nation people’? Since never as far as I know … it’s an expression used by Amerindians. In fact now I think about it, isn’t ‘Thanksgiving Day’ vaguely familiar? I seem to recall hearing about it on some American TV shows and movies.

So what do the fatuous jerks promoting ‘Australian Thanksgiving Day’ want we should do to celebrate … cook a turkey? With candied yams? Watch a football game in the afternoon while we drink a few bottles of Bud? Who are these wankers anyway?

They list themselves here. God-squadders, a great fucking bunch of god-squadders, half of them subsidiaries of Jerry Falwell type American go-to-meeting menageries. Here’s a selection:

Koorong is a 100% Australian owned, Christian, family company. Offering over 100,000 products including books and Bibles, Australia’s largest range of software titles, a huge selection of Christian music, videos, gifts and stationery.

The goal of the Fatherhood Foundation is to inspire men to a greater level of excellence as fathers, by encouraging and educating them, thereby renewing and empowering families and helping children. They produce a weekly e-magazine for fathers and run fatherhood courses to help men excel as fathers.

Vision is Australia’s national Christian radio network, connecting faith to life through a mix of great music and engaging talk across it’s vast network of 250+ relay stations. Part of UCB Australia, Vision is heard in regional areas of every state as well as some penetration into Brisbane, Perth, Hobart, and the Gold Coast.

All this would be harmless enough if it was just the Christianists pretending they were in the good ol’ USA and having fun putting religion back into public life, but they have way more influence than that. They have messages of suppport from no less than John Howard, Kim Beazley and the Governor-General, what’s-his-name. Well actually the messages of support from these dudes are from last year (and they think Kim Beazley is still leader of the opposition) so maybe that means Howard and Rudd and what’s-his-name don’t support this bullshit exercise any more but if that’s the case they should get onto the Thanksgiving Day mob and make them take down the misleading information.

I bought a packet of Arnott’s biscuits the other day and only when I opened them did I read that I was eating Arnott’s ‘Butter Crunch Cookies’. Cookies. Jesus fuckin’ Christ … since when did biscuits become cookies? Since weirdo Christianist sects got mainstream political figures to help import Thanksgiving Day I suppose.

So what you doing on 4th of July? How about we go let off some fireworks to celebrate our victory in the War of Independence? Don’t forget to bring your gun … it’s our constitutional right!