Lucky We Didn’t Go For Nuclear…

Regular readers may have noticed that I try and stay out of the Middle East and there’s a good reason for that… apart from the potential Weapons of Mass Destruction which sometimes fall into the hand of people who don’t own the copyright and who won’t pay the USA for bombs, planes, bullets or submarines.

Apparently the Middle East is where modern civilisation started and I fear that it’s where it may end…

Anyway, people are very wedded to their particular views and I’d like to say that I’m definitely not taking the sort of view that anyone can accuse me of being anything… I’m completely neutral on all of it and if I use the word “genocide” I’m talking about in general terms and I’m neither being anti-semitic nor anti-Aryan…

When it comes to bombs hitting hospitals – whether it’s in Gaza, Israel or Iran – I blame the country itself for building them too close to the country itself and we must expect a certain amount of collateral damage in any war…

The point I’m trying to make has nothing to do with the Middle East but it’s more do with our own situation in Australia where it was suggested that it would be good to go nuclear in order to generate power…

Now I know some of you are going to try and link this to Iran who are only claiming to build nuclear power stations and we all know that they’ve been on the verge of creating a nuclear bomb since Reagan got the US president role that should have earned him an Oscar, so it’s clear that they must really be on the verge by now and not something that people make up because we don’t like countries that oppress women and gay people… unless they also make movies about how terrible it is to do such a thing and give Oscars to people who play them on…

I mean, look, why would Iran need nuclear power when they have plenty of oil. No, don’t try and make the point that we have plenty of gas and sunshine because John Howard sold our gas for a really good deal and Tony Abbott took our sunshine away and…

I digress! Sorry.

I was just trying to make the point that if we had gone down the nuclear path we’d have never been able to beat New Zealand at anything like cricket again because they would have surely argued that they have a right to defend themselves and that we probably only a few months away from bowling underarm or developing a nuclear weapon and we’d be a legitimate target.

Mm, I am wondering whether anyone would have made some sort of statement arguing that New Zealand had a right to defend itself because it always strikes me that whenever anyone says something like that, one has to wonder who is arguing against it. I mean nobody actually says that people don’t have a right to defend themselves, they just argue that Llap Goch…

Oh, Llap Goch. It was in Monty Python’s “Big Red Book” and it was the Welsh Art of Self Defence which in summary suggested that the best self-defence was attack and that the art of surprise was attack and that the best way to surprise was to attack BEFORE your opponent had even thought of attacking you.

Whatever, if you need your lawyer to tell the jury that you have a right to defend yourself it’s almost like the police have already decided it wasn’t self defence or you wouldn’t be on trial because it’s a generally accepted thing that one has that right and…

Oh, I guess this why you should never take the stand as the defendant!

 

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