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Australian Prime-Minister Sends Spam
Boricle writes "The Australian Prime Minister has been personally funding the sending of political spam to the members of his electorate. The spam has been sent under contract by his son's company of whom he is 'very proud.' Political Spam is permitted under Australian Spam Legislation."
After all, you have a pre-existing business relationship with them, right? You do pay your taxes, don't you citizen? ;)
But is it legal for the labor party to send spam?
Subject: Fr33 V!/\Gr4 V0te for $president 4|\|D r3c!3\/e l!f3t!m3 s[_]pp!y
Homer: "Stand back, or I'll boot your Prime Minister! I'll do it, so help me God I'll boot him!"
Environmentalism is the new Victorianism. Everyone ties on a green corset and pretends we're virtuous.
I prefer to listen to satirical Howard quotes rather than the real ones. They make more sense.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Make sure you get one of these "Not Happy John" stickers :-)
bash$
You Sir, get the grammar-nazi award of 2004! Congrats
*applause*
Life is not for the lazy.
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Of American what? 'American' means ... nah forgit it
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
for those Sydneysiders who feel like 'dropping in' but don't know where that is, Lime Street is down by King Street Wharf.
recommended action? annoying, non-destructive stuff, no superglue in the locks or permanent scarring of the building. flyers would be good
Here's a good idea : if anyone works nearby, indulge in the good old Sydney tradition of street chalking and write a neat 'Netharbour = Spammer', with an arrow pointing to their door each morning for a week or two.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
So start your own party, I think just about all democracies allow this :)
Good day,
I am contacting you because of a business concerning a huge sum of money stashed away in the treasury of the government where I work here in Australia. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I actually decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
I discovered a large sum moneys owned by the Australian taxpayers, but I could not bring myself to return it to those who did not have families or incomes above $50,000 per annum. The funds have been accumulated by excessive taxation and aggressive economic rationalist policy including the sale of essential public infrastructure and amounts to over AU$2,000,000,000.00 (two billiun Australian dollars). Data collected and stored in secret Liberal party files inaccessible through FOI channels shows that the public would prefer it to be returned to the ailing health care and public education systems but we feel that only the privileged classes should be able to enjoy the full benefits of these systems.
As such, I am willing to share the spoils of this enormous sums of money with my fellow Australians. I will send you $600 per dependant child under the age of 18, and a further $3000 if you are due to have a child in the next month. All that I ask in return is that you provide your FULL NAME, FULL ADDRESS, DIRECT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, OCCUPATION AND POSITION, NATIONALITY, DATE OF BIRTH and VOTING INTENTION to your nearest electoral official at a date yet to be named but we assure you could happen at any stage, even this very weekend!
These requirements will enable me to be continue my endeavours to subvert the democratic process in Australia and to heighten the classes distinction between privileged and working classes, and in addition to the sum of moneys already mentioned, I shall be compensating you further with very generous political and financial advantages should you meet my criteria of what an Australian should be.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail. Please reply to my private and confidential email: john.howard.mp@aph.gov.au
Best Regards,
Mr. John Howard,
Prime Minister of Australia
Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Apostrophe!
Sieg Hyphen!
Punctuation uber alles!
Australia, being in the southern hemisphere, has no spam. It has maps.