and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Gypsy women once formed part of the Mercedes slave labour contingent.
Presumably the technology that Mercedes used to discover that Alan Jones would say something very crass about Julia’s dad a few days later came from them.
Otherwise, how else could Mercedes give notice that they would terminate their sponsorship deal because of his offensive comments three days before he made them?
In its drive to promote only the politest of speech,Mercedes has announced that it is about to reclaim Professor Bunyip’s luxury car for this outrageous piece published recently.
It would be impolite of me to ask Mercedes to comment on this …
Daimler-Benz … avidly supported Nazism and in return received arms contracts and tax breaks that enabled it to become one of the world’s leading industrial concerns. (Between 1932 and 1940 production grew by 830 percent.) During the war the company used thousands of slaves and forced laborers including Jews, foreigners, and POWs. According to historian Bernard Bellon (Mercedes in Peace and War, 1990), at least eight Jews were murdered by DB managers or SS men at a plant in occupied Poland.
Doubtless an unconscionable slur, isn’t it actually the case that they took Hitler’s car off him for suggesting six million Jews died of gas or something?
“Master, Alan Jones has said a rude thing”.
“Oh, little grasshopper”, said the Zen master glancing up from his Google News page of bushfires, plane crashes, terrorism, mayhem and murder, “What will you do?”.
“I shall take away his Mercedes“.
“Well, I’m sure that will please the Labor party. Do they purchase a lot of Mercedes, I mean, other than those that are milking their union members for all they’re worth?”
Alan Jones has shot himself in the foot and the ricochet has hurt the cause that he holds dear. What a noodle.
That the prime minister is a liar is news to no one, to bring her father into the debate is pointless. The pain of losing a loved parent is great, to trespass upon that loss is insensitive, ill-considered, bad manners and really bad strategy. I’m sure Mr Jones regrets his utterance. That he tries to shift the blame to those who recorded and disseminated his words just makes him look weaker. He is not the first person to blame others for his own stupidity, I’m sure he’ll get all the sympathy he deserves for that.
Trust the government, though, to call for his punishment, to use this issue as another excuse to attack freedom of speech.
The freedom to say only what the government wants to hear is no freedom at all.
And this would appear to be a very good case for letting free speech have its head. Intemperate and ill-considered speech rebounds on the speaker.
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