Below the fold is an email I was given. Read it and weep for what was once a tough, resilient people. Until we got off our apathetic, cowardly, lazy arses and begin confronting these bastards the madness will continue. And get steadily worse. Egyptians can brave bullets, water cannon and torture, and we can’t even risk a day in court and a fine? In that case, we deserve all we get.From someone in Dalby, Queensland: (unedited)
Hi guys, Can you believe this, this country, or might I say, the psychiatric hospital, is being run by the inmates.
There has been some amazing great story’s come out of the floods. But there are also the ones that will never be told because in this country we tolerate idiots in government jobs and no one wants to point the finger in case it somehow blows up in their face.
Sorry, but at my age, I have become totally disenchanted and someone needs to tell it like it is, so I will start the ball rolling. Please join with me to lifet the lid on idiots with uniforms.
Take Qld Transport. In Dalby district.
Dalby hit the news with a record flood in the Condamine River that damaged the water treatment plant. And water needed to be trucked in in the middle of the floods. Truck drivers worked hard to get us water.
Officers from Qld Transport booked drivers for so-called overloading….what idiots. Who pays? It’ll get squashed and probably has already, but what a waste of resources at a time when manpower was critical.
Farmers crossing a road with a tractor to feed starving, flooded stock were pulled up, the tractor measured, and they were booked because it is slightly wide. Not only that, they were forced to leave the tractor and go to town to get an over wide permit before they could move it back into the farm. And this happened on an already closed road where the farmer was the only person around. Except for the idiots.
These are not rumours. They are facts. This morning, I was booked for driving down a closed road to check livestock that was reported out on the same road, and, at the same time pick up my employee who had walked over the bridge to come to work. My house happens to be 50m past the road closed sign, so apparently I cannot even go in and out my own gate. I tried to reason with amicably with two idiots. Of course I got more than a little agitated when they refused to let me down the road to my farm. As a result they pulled a tape recorder, so I made sure that it recorded their stupidity. I even had to insist that they returned my driver’s license. I’ll definitely win the court battle as my employee witnessed the whole affair. But what a waste of time and resources.
Over the last 3 weeks, there have been Qld. Transport officers stationed outside our farm booking innocent loads for about 8 days. 2 guys sit in a vehicle with the engine idling and hazard lights on 24/7. That would be three shifts, plus motel and other costs. Now most of these guys were reasonable people. I had to chat with them every time I went out my gate. Some were idiots like my experience this morning. But the real idiots in this case are the people who sent them out here to guard an obviously flooded and closed road. And never bothered to check when the water went down, and left them there. We, the taxpayers, pay them to be there and also pay fines for trying to get on with our lives in tough times.
Wrote the above in the hour before I went to brisbane to help clean up the mess in our flooded premises there. While in Brisbane I was told a true story about the truck drivers delivering food to Gympie. As happens in times of desperate need, trucks rolled out of the Brisbane warehouses stacked with as much as they could get in. After all, the media was screaming for food for Gympie. Queensland Transport then intercepted the trucks and fined the drivers for overloading.
And did you hear about the farmer who was ferrying food and other essentials for himself and neighbours across the flooded Condamine…
Well, the SES (State Emergency Service. kg) and police decided it was their job. Apparently it is illegal for us farmers to even launch our boats to help ourselves or rescue our livestock. So they sent him home after warning him that if he continued to help they would prosecute. As he was putting his boat back on his trailer on the other side of the river, he heard horns blowing and looked back to where he had been sent away from. There were the professional idiots, in the middle of the river, sinking. And, as we normal citizens are stupid, he had to re-launch his boat and go back to rescue them.
Apparently they had forgotten to put the plugs in the bottom of the boat and their training had not taught them how to simply put them in after they discovered it and then how to bail the boat out again. He should have let them drown. That would be called “natural selection”. But again, they had been sent out with an attitude rather than real training. So who is at fault? Need I answer that?
As I said at the start, there have been many, many great deeds by the vast majority of people, but when it gets to the point that ordinary people are stopped from helping each other and are forced into submission by bureaucrats, where are we going?
Please add your stories and keep this going. Somehow, we have to reverse the stupidity that makes our nation the dumbest in the modern world.
our great gandfathers would be appalled.
Gary Briggs. Dalby.
