Most of us probably experienced the odd bully during our schooldays. Some of us would even have had the experience of having some kid who was a foot (by that, I mean approximately thirty centimeters) taller than us, coming up to us in the playground and demanding our treasured peanut butter sandwich or our rare sultana cupcake, backed up by the threat that “My farver’s a policeman, an’ he’ll get you, uvverwise.”
Usually, this sort of bully grew out of this attitude to life when one or all of the following things happened: 1) somewhere along the line you became a foot taller than them; 2) you came to the defiant stance that their father could do nothing to you if you were in the right; 3) they came to the realization that their father was not going to use his position to bail them out on ill-founded trivialities; 4) a few quick left hooks to the snozzle made them re-think their tactic; or 5) they just grew up into socially responsible young adults.
The sad part is that not all bullies grow out of it, and not all older bullies started their bullying careers as young bullies. Some older bullies develop their tactics because they become greedy, avaricious or power hungry. Others develop their bullying stances because of some developing delusion that they are somehow smarter and more powerful than anyone else and/or that their own particular brand of god has, in his or her wisdom, personally invested in them an inviolable right to supremacy.
We’ve all had the misfortune to see the results that adult bullies have reeked. History has filled its pages with such fiends. In more modern times, we have had Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin and Pol Pot, just to mention a few. In present times, we have had the southern hemisphere tainted. This southern hemisphere, which was always ranked in the top two hemispheres of this great planet, has been stained by the likes of Augusto Pinochet and Robert Mugabe.
Not all stains upon our great hemisphere, though, come from world renowned despotic bullies, and some of the stains are locally produced. As an example, we have the current case of two elected representatives taking on the mantel of political priests who have been ordained to command their flocks to obey their orders that have been ratified by godly processes, and to punish disobedience by having transgressors banished from their shelters against the fiery ravages of hell. At great fear of having my tongue excised from my ugly, but still serviceable head, I name these two bullies as Jack FellaBoxer and Belittler Genuflect.
It behoves all of us cranky Aussies, whether we be old cranks or young cranks, to carefully watch the developments flowing from the alleged bullying tactics of this pair. It is important to do so for numerous reasons, three of which are: to nip in the bud, another potentially dangerous political rampage by elected representatives; to shout loudly and clearly the message that we will not tolerate liars, thugs and bullies in our parliaments; and to afford justice to the victimised staff of the Goanna Night Club.
Our schools, our communities, our parliaments and our world need no bullies.
Usually, this sort of bully grew out of this attitude to life when one or all of the following things happened: 1) somewhere along the line you became a foot taller than them; 2) you came to the defiant stance that their father could do nothing to you if you were in the right; 3) they came to the realization that their father was not going to use his position to bail them out on ill-founded trivialities; 4) a few quick left hooks to the snozzle made them re-think their tactic; or 5) they just grew up into socially responsible young adults.
The sad part is that not all bullies grow out of it, and not all older bullies started their bullying careers as young bullies. Some older bullies develop their tactics because they become greedy, avaricious or power hungry. Others develop their bullying stances because of some developing delusion that they are somehow smarter and more powerful than anyone else and/or that their own particular brand of god has, in his or her wisdom, personally invested in them an inviolable right to supremacy.
We’ve all had the misfortune to see the results that adult bullies have reeked. History has filled its pages with such fiends. In more modern times, we have had Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin and Pol Pot, just to mention a few. In present times, we have had the southern hemisphere tainted. This southern hemisphere, which was always ranked in the top two hemispheres of this great planet, has been stained by the likes of Augusto Pinochet and Robert Mugabe.
Not all stains upon our great hemisphere, though, come from world renowned despotic bullies, and some of the stains are locally produced. As an example, we have the current case of two elected representatives taking on the mantel of political priests who have been ordained to command their flocks to obey their orders that have been ratified by godly processes, and to punish disobedience by having transgressors banished from their shelters against the fiery ravages of hell. At great fear of having my tongue excised from my ugly, but still serviceable head, I name these two bullies as Jack FellaBoxer and Belittler Genuflect.
It behoves all of us cranky Aussies, whether we be old cranks or young cranks, to carefully watch the developments flowing from the alleged bullying tactics of this pair. It is important to do so for numerous reasons, three of which are: to nip in the bud, another potentially dangerous political rampage by elected representatives; to shout loudly and clearly the message that we will not tolerate liars, thugs and bullies in our parliaments; and to afford justice to the victimised staff of the Goanna Night Club.
Our schools, our communities, our parliaments and our world need no bullies.
Crankyfella
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