Posum Mutiny
Many newspaper headlines irritate me. It seems journalists have an unspoken game going on to try and turn every story headline into something ‘clever’. If Mr Black goes bankrupt we need a quip like “Black no longer in the black”. Consequently, only the occasional headline draws my attention anymore. One that did today was on page two of the Sydney Morning Herald, where buried in the short news articles at the bottom I read:
What Terrorist Risk?
Being someone who fundamentally disagrees that strip searching everyone at an airport increases my security, this was of interest.
Apparently a new study has been done pointing out that in the eleven years since the bombing in New York, no terror attack had taken place on Australian soil. This ground breaking discovery coming on the back of the previous eleven years - which as curious circumstance would have it were also terror attack free. Come to think of it so were the eleven years before that.
We know this is politically sensitive topic because instead of simply stating the blindingly obvious we had to have a study done, so the results could be quietly slipped into the press without too much fanfare or embarrassment to those who spent all that money making us warm and secure. I mean those full body porno scanners for the airport are probably already ordered and if word got out the threat they were supposed to protect us from does not exist, well. It wouldn’t be good.
If we’re very lucky someone will run what I call the ‘Posum Mutiny’ argument up the public flagpole in an effort to counter this disturbing move towards publishing the obvious. They might suggest the fact that terror attacks didn’t happen is only because we spent all that money to stop it. And the absence of terror goes to prove what a jolly good job we did.
Of course, if we’d spent the same amount of money on stopping the imminent Posum Mutiny we would have been just as jolly effective because that hasn’t happened either. And that’s a more important objective I would argue, because the posum threat is so much closer to home!
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