Rally
Protest rallies are never occasions for finessed policy expositions, but increasingly they seem to be about kicking the man or woman, rather than kicking along debate.
That was made obvious by a quick scan of the forest of home-made placards raised at the No Carbon Tax rally in Canberra today.
The personal bitterness was summed up neatly by the chap with the large sign reading: “JuLIAR…Bob Browns BITCH.” For some reason the word “bitch” was encased in a drawing of flames.
It was all his own work—although JuLIAR might have been borrowed from broadcaster Alan Jones—including the absence of an apostrophe in “Browns”, and he was somewhat proud of it.
Updated: The strange thing about big historical events, the really big stories, is that they creep up on you in increments.
They bubble away in your head as you flash a glance at the news or take a longer than usual look at the international headlines.
Like little pop-up icons in our collective consciousness, bits and pieces of news on an issue begin to coalesce and we begin to take notice.
Then it reaches its crescendo and everything changes: the wall goes down, Suharto is gone, Milosevic is ousted and Obama is elected.
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