Arjays national political anthem (inspiration from Frakgol)

Music: Country music /pub anthem style

My train was late again today – ““Because of Left Wing Thinking””
I lost my socks yesterday –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
My wife and kids left me this morning –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
The tax man took my last dollar –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”.
My last boss sacked me because I was 5 minutes late –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
The gross national dept is bloody high - –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
My AWA gives me no holidays - Because of Left Wing Thinking”
John and Peter are nasty men - –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
Sadam killed innocent people - –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
Pauline Hanson got nowhere in national politics –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”
My dog doesn’t’ like me anymore –”Because of Left Wing Thinking”

As one getting a bit old but maybe with a bit of life experience, have memories back when flicks were popular in our little country town, possibly because they only came once a fortnight. It just happened that we had German family neighbours on one side and a couple of Irish neighbours on the other side.

Before the silent flicks began in those days, the Anthem for King and Country was played on the corner piano, and it just happened that one picture night the German and Irish families did not stand up for the Anthem.

Naturally at school on Monday the German and Irish kids were avoided a bit, us kids telling our parents about it.

Can still hear our father's stern words. Forget it. Don't make a song and dance about it. Remember they are our neighbours. We all have to get on together.

BOAZ_David

Your nationalistic fervour has an ugly side to it at times. Immigrants are perfectly entitled to retain a loyalty to their home country. It doesn't mean they are a threat to Australia in any way. There are people all over the world who live happily and peacefully while holding loyalties to more than one country. You need to practice a little more of that Christian charity you are always preaching.

Face it rainer,you're just another little spolt child who is too afraid to venture into the real world of private enterprise for fear of failure.It is those who have the courage to produce something of real worth that sustains you.Have the courage to resign from the nipple of the public purse and actually produce something of worth,rather than appealing to the weakness of your fellow man in this perpetual cycle of using victum status as an excuse to do nothing.

You blame the white man whose genes makes up 80% of your own being but have no acknowledgement or praise for all the luxuries that our western society affords you.It didn't happen by accident.You're just a tad ungreatful.

For the record, Boaz D, Mr Arvanitakis' name is of Albanian origin as described in Greek. The word "Arvanitis" being the Greek word for Albanian. And there is no small irony in the trail that ensued because in Greece, the Arvanitis are the but of their equivalent of our Kiwi or Tasmanian jokes (two heads, watch the sheep etc). To mix the linguistic metaphors even further, "plus ca change .."

But back to the left academia, I can still recall the old trotskyite lecturer who regarded my failure to accept the self evidence of the imminent collapse of the capitalist system as proof of cognitive dearth. He has been replaced by identical thinkers but the terminology has altered just enough to cover the stain left on the floor when reality bumped him off his chair. They now regard the imminent collapse of the ecological systems as a self evident truth. And the failure to accept this is certainly seen as proof of intellectual limitation.

If you let go of the labels and stopped standing behind the flag Boaz, you would realise that everyone is generically the same - we are all simply.... just people. Each and everyone of us representing the most amazing collection of cells known to exist in the Universe. "Greek", "Australian", "British" - they are just manufactured terms to describe human power bases - the sooner there are no flags to wave, the more clearly into view will come the genuine talent of individuals who have acomplished a great deal for the rest of us to sit back and appreciate.