Teabagger Dundee: America Exports Libertarian Revolution To Australia

PERTH, AUSTRALIA – After two years of preparation, Australian Teabaggers are finally out in force and they look positively gruesome over here, though they’ll look familiar to American readers. Climate-denying factory farmers? Check. Friends of convicted child-killers? Got em. A Pinochet-style fascist who wants to “inflict maximum pain” on the Australian economy by causing artificial famines? Yes, Sir! – ¡VIVA EL GENERALISSIMO!

As I write, these mercenary orcs are massing in Canberra (our national capital), holding rallies against Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax. A few ‘bagger-squads have already arrived; the rest are trucking across the country as part of a “Convoy of No Confidence,” expected to reach Parliament on Monday.

And the Murdoch press (remember, Rupert got his start here) hasn’t spared a moment trying to canonize them as regular folks. Earlier this week, The Australian ran a front-page story claiming these Teabaggers were just ordinary Australians, “an amalgam of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers who are mad as hell and not going to take it any more.” Nowhere in the article does the word “libertarian” occur. Murdoch really expects us to believe the Convoy’s just a bunch of random people, united by a “burning conviction that politicians of all persuasions have lost touch” with their constituents’ “real-life needs.”


http://exiledonline.com/teabagger-dundee-america-exports-libertarian-revolution-to-australia/

and when is the "peak" expected?

Perth to Canberra is a long way to join up with a couple of other cowboys.