Let a thousand flowers bloom

Fear and Intimidation in the ALP

Chairman Mao Zedong was attributed with this slogan as part of a critique and renewal process of the Chinese Communist Party in 1957. The intelligentsia that responded to the invitation to criticise the Communist Party were flushed out and subsequently executed.

The Desert Rat has heard many reports that most ALP members of State Parliament are an unhappy lot.

They are terrified and fearful of losing their upcoming pre-selections.

They are intimidated and scared to speak up in case offense is taken by those in the Socialist Left and their cronies who control the ALP. One false move and their pre-selection death warrant will be signed. It is the same type of fear and intimidation that lawyer Jenny Pickwork said permeates the Health Department.

The Desert Rat imagines they will soon be invited to speak up in the Caucus and put forward their ideas to renew and invigorate the tired and failing McGinty controlled Socialist Left regime. The State ALP members of parliament can't do much about it while the Socialist Left supremo has complete hegemony.

Don't expect any ideas or initiative to come forth from those silent lambs on the Hill (State Parliament). Any dissidents will be flush out and politically executed if they are critical of the regime.

Such is life in ALP politics these days - courage is scarce. As Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar:

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."