I... You... WTF?
Dec. 5th, 2007 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheQuickly running through some bookmarks, I have a quick look at what Peter Faris QC is up to.
It turns out, he has become even more of a complete frothing lunatic.
Why did the Liberals lose? Was it Workchoices? Was it the accumulation of lies? Was it arrogance? Was it simply having been in power for too long?¹ Might, just maybe, Labor have won in their own right, rather than merely accepting the default after the Liberals dropped the ball?
No:
The problem was that the Liberals became all Socialist, apparently. You may be wondering as to the evidence of this world-gone-mad occurrence, but you don't need any: Faris, from his lunar right viewpoint, saw the Liberals, such as Downer, Ruddock, Costello, and of course, Howard, as so insufficiently rabid as to practically be communists. And they lost not because Labor joined them heading right, but because they were joining Labor, heading left.
Or, in other words, Faris has been smoking something which really didn't agree with him, and it has set off the Delusions again.
It's only a pity that he has turned off the comments in his blog. They used to be good for some laughs, being typically even more insane than the usual offerings on the alter of Andrew Bolt. It seems that either someone said something too batshit insane for even Faris to countenance, or else the few dedicated Lefties who tried to argue with him finally had him yell shutupshutupshutup! and put his fingers in his ears permanently.
[1] This is John Roskam's view: the Liberals lost (that Labor might have won is not to be countenanced) was partially because of Workchoices, which he has belatedly realised was never popular at all, but mainly because people got bored of having Good, Just and Right people intheir rightful place in charge power. That's right, it wasn't the Liberals' fault: it was those ungrateful masses, but they'll learn, oh yes. And the Liberals' only proper response is to go further to the Right.
There, at least, Roskam and Faris join up again.
It turns out, he has become even more of a complete frothing lunatic.
Why did the Liberals lose? Was it Workchoices? Was it the accumulation of lies? Was it arrogance? Was it simply having been in power for too long?¹ Might, just maybe, Labor have won in their own right, rather than merely accepting the default after the Liberals dropped the ball?
No:
“The entirely predictable landslide to Labor has occurred because the Liberals became a soft-Left political party. They not only moved to the centre, they crossed the centre line.”
The problem was that the Liberals became all Socialist, apparently. You may be wondering as to the evidence of this world-gone-mad occurrence, but you don't need any: Faris, from his lunar right viewpoint, saw the Liberals, such as Downer, Ruddock, Costello, and of course, Howard, as so insufficiently rabid as to practically be communists. And they lost not because Labor joined them heading right, but because they were joining Labor, heading left.
Or, in other words, Faris has been smoking something which really didn't agree with him, and it has set off the Delusions again.
It's only a pity that he has turned off the comments in his blog. They used to be good for some laughs, being typically even more insane than the usual offerings on the alter of Andrew Bolt. It seems that either someone said something too batshit insane for even Faris to countenance, or else the few dedicated Lefties who tried to argue with him finally had him yell shutupshutupshutup! and put his fingers in his ears permanently.
[1] This is John Roskam's view: the Liberals lost (that Labor might have won is not to be countenanced) was partially because of Workchoices, which he has belatedly realised was never popular at all, but mainly because people got bored of having Good, Just and Right people in
There, at least, Roskam and Faris join up again.
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Date: 2007-12-05 07:38 am (UTC)I do not believe it. It beggars belief that the man who wrote this piece of flawed offal -- http://www.farisqc.observationdeck.org/?p=514 -- is a QC.
He doesn't have the wit to be a WC.
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Date: 2007-12-05 07:57 am (UTC)http://www.vicbar.com.au/c.1.3.aspx?RollNumber=931
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Faris
Maybe he took silks before the (hypothesised) brain injury.
He does have form, though:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Torture-acceptable-says-former-NCA-chief/2005/05/22/1116700585264.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/melbournes-grumpiest-man/2006/10/14/1160246368946.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s1924688.htm
http://lawyerslawyer.net/2007/11/04/peter-fariss-comments-about-drugs-and-the-bar/
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Date: 2007-12-05 08:12 am (UTC)Supports torture as well, hey? Obviously a demented and moronic maniac as well.
I see Julian Burnside called him "the most dangerous man in Australia". Doesn't surprise me. It looks like he enjoys pissing in the Australian memepool -- one wonders if he smiles as he does so.
Let's hope the new tide marginalizes him.
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Date: 2007-12-06 11:44 am (UTC)There I was at the bus stop at six AM with my copy of the Age and I was so convulsed with laughter that I nearly missed the bus to work.
If I were moved to write a letter in response to that piece, I wouldn't be capable of arguing with the thesis, I'd just be curious about what colour the sky is in John Roskam's world.
The IPA is an interesting institution, it's just a shame it hasn't got a locked ward.
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Date: 2007-12-08 03:35 am (UTC)I'm dismayed but not surprised that many other liberals are going about lamenting the fact they lost the public's confidence because they didn't sell work choices well enough. What's there to sell in a system that favours business ahead of ordinary citizens?? Last time I looked Big Business don't get to vote in elections (although that line is kind of fuzzy these days).
The Libs had a choice to accept what the majority of the country believe, and that choice seemed to be to elect Turnbull as their leader. But alas they're heading off down the same path to destruction with crap policies that saw them lose the election. Fools! I hope they stay in opposition for many years to come.
-- mpp