Sydney Meanstreet … Or, The Kangaroo Court Of Public Opinion
September 5, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Check out what this Australian reporter was bitching to President Bush about.
Q: I can assure you it doesn’t always look like this, with steel fences and concrete barricades and armed guards on the street … As leader of the free world, the people of Sydney don’t see their city looking all that free at the moment. And how’s that going? We thought that we weren’t going to allow terrorists to do this to our free society.
Huh? How exactly do “we” allow terrorists to put up fences and barricades?
We’ll save the easy route of responding in kind with a Crocodile Dundee reference (Australia to terrorists: “That’s not a knife. That’s a knife!”) for another day. Instead, let’s simply enjoy President Bush’s wonderful response:
PRESIDENT BUSH: First of all, in terms of whether Sydney is going to return to normal after I leave, or after we leave, I suspect it might, don’t you? I don’t think this is a permanent condition. I think the great freedom of the city of Sydney is going to return quite rapidly, which is different from other societies in the world.
Indeed. Now let’s round up the evildoers in Gitmo and feed them all a vegemite sandwich.
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