The Tampa Ship Anchored Off Christmas Island
What if a new world war broke out and Australia was the central culprit? How will this five-day-old breaking drama up at Christmas Island conclude?
Yesterday it was, or the day before, that a newspaper clipping had someone saying in it, “sell off Christmas island.” This hard stance against alleged illegal immigrants (as well as refugees) is seen negatively around the world, but yet Australian polls are strongly in favor of our keeping our sovereignty and sticking to our guns, while England (as seen to us being the old tossers) is throwing on a bumbling attempt at the need to show compassion and humanity. The world scorns at our contempt for people that abuse our laws, and in so doing, break that chain of respect for another country.
It seems that Australia was caught between a rock and a hard place after John Howard’s urgent (but Draconian law) never made it through The Senate. Our polls were strongly in favor of his tough stance against illegal immigrants, as shows like Beauty and the Beast(as well as news coverage) spun their opinions, and in turn, turned the cogs of propaganda.
Australia’s Political Limelight
Australians in general aren’t the sort to talk amongst circles about politics, but unmistakably, it seems to me that Australians now want that sense of silent observation, as if we were now the new thing in the limelight.
Imagine our proud boost when hearing the Olympics were the most successful, and then when Australia became a great tourist destination, how the Crocodile Hunter was real, and more so, made famous for what he was. The world would have wanted to focus away from an American overkill, and away from a laughable President Bush, and onto the new fad around, Australians.
However, have we as a nation taken that to our heads and thought without it when it came to this boatload of people brushed away from our Australian waters? Have we taken this cocky bravado too far, or will there be more competition from a nation proudly against an invidious world-view?
Australians are on their own, or that is, until New Zealand stepped in to become a backdoor that for so long, most Australians, in the back of their mind, would have been hoping. In truth, New Zealand never sprung to mind as a dignified escape route from the intense standoff Australia has gotten itself into, not so, until the New Zealand head of Parliament came up on the news and backed up Australia’s actions on the Tampa ship.
To me, it seems that Australia overall is getting cocky about what it can do if it was ever given the chance. We laugh about the fact that we are such a tactile defense force and can outdo anyone in war games. Like my pride allows, we are even willing to entertain the idea of going to war, but no more than mere entertainment amongst this quiescent media around the crisis.
Notice Australia doesn’t allow media to board the ship so that when seeing those faces on television, we don’t make it an emotive decision, one that could affect the sovereignty of government?
Governments React To Australia’s Response To Tampa Ship
Anyway, this whole thought was only supposed to be one thing but we all know how these one things can inadvertently drag out, my need to examine, scrutinize, sidetrack, and then finally crochet the facts together into some sort of apogee.
Well, to put things into perspective tonight, Australia, if it doesn’t get help from the UN, with America remaining quiet, and with England, as they would, doing their best to disagree with our actions, then we seem to be on our own. With New Zealand backing us and the rest of the world turning a blind eye, a simple prolonging could turn into an act of aggression, which would then set off a chain reaction leading to war. The polls are with Howard, so it seems that most people would have no problem fighting for their rights to be heard, and for the pride of their country, for being right and deemed wrong in action.
With East Timor winning their chance of Democracy, and voting for one at this very moment, it could seem that tensions between them and West Timor, or even Jakarta, could inflame if provoked. New Zealand feel a sense of obligation to back us up, and now, with Afghanistan threatening to kill off two aid workers persecuted for spreading church propaganda, a greater standoff seems eminent.
Possible Australian War Games
Australia, as a strategic plan, would seek to travel up past East Timor and make it through that area of water towards Afghanistan where they could start landing, if ever they were provoked. This would mean we would have to ally with East Timor, and we may even send troops there, to fight for Western Timor freedom as a tradeoff that we could defend our port of entry against any attempts of Jakarta ambushing our attacks. Our beef would be with Afghanistan and Middle Eastern countries, which could bring the UN into action, since their troops are already situated in there. However, to stay out of it, the UN could in fact order their troops out of the area, hiding behind the premise that they are there for humanitarian reasons, and Australians are there just for vengeful ones.
There could be other angles to diplomacy yet uncovered but it could either be a simple success or with world opinion leaving us to dust, to a complete surrendering of our sovereignty.
If Australian Sovereignty Is Carved Up
Imagine Australians ever being so assailed that they were forced to retreat further and further southward, until eventually, they were forced to retreat into Tasmania.
Imagine once the threat was over, Middle Eastern countries carving up Australia with Indonesian ones, and this causing a huge sway in the way the world evolves through the next millennia. New Zealand would be spared by opposing forces while Australians would feel the scathing irony of being trampled in an overcrowded small nation in tatters, with cramped up living conditions and nowhere to go.
Imagine our irony then as immigrants hoping to flee our suppressed country for something better, something more worthy of us, something more liberating. Nevertheless, Australia, in fact, could prevail if these countries in question ever decided to invade our lands. Beware, for in our tanks, proudly blazed, we have, and have, forevermore.
Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written from March 1996 until today, of which individual books and book series have been created, namely “The Lost Years” an exploration of young, entwined love, the “Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘)” book series which provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, and the book titled “Foreigner (华人)” an exploration of race relations in Australia.
