An Open Letter to Tony Abbott

Subject: An Open Letter to Tony Abbott
From: Victoria Rollison
Date: 29 Jun 2015

Dear Tony Abbott,

I will try to keep this letter brief as I know you have a short attention span and since you've never responded to my previous correspondence, I can only guess it was because they were longer than your brain capacity could absorb.

The main topic of this letter is to let you know that I think you're an opportunistic, petty, vindictive creep and that you're running the country as if you would like to imagine that all Australians are equally as petty and vindictive as you. But we're not. And you're not going to win your soon-to-be announced election because we're better than that.

Over the last 24 hours, Barack Obama – the greatest President America has ever had and possibly the best leader the world has ever seen – has once again shown what it is to be a visionary, compassionate, highly intelligent, gracious, composed and dignified statesman. He sang Amazing Grace at the funeral of Charleston murder victim Rev. Clementa Pinckney as if it was the most natural thing in the world for him to lead the chorus. He celebrated the decision by the US Supreme Court to recognise the constitutional legality of gay marriage by tweeting with hashtag #LoveWins.

Obama is a giant of our world, whether you agree with his politics or not. And next to him, your pettiness, your aggression, your predilection for the path of least residence to the lowest common denominator makes you a meaningless flea. A blip that will be forgotten by history as a negative, sloganeering, fear-inducing, mean spirited low point of Australia's history.

In the last 24 hours, you and your government have shown your true colours. With three terrorism attacks overseas in France, Kuwait and Tunisia, the pleasure in your eyes, the excitement at having a scare mechanism, the opportunity for you to use these events politically, make me feel ill.

You've said the death cult is coming for Australians. You're ramping up the rhetoric on threat levels which have absolutely no grounding in reality. You're using the deaths of innocent people at the hands of barbaric, violent, evil, yet distant, criminals to further your own political cause.

If you can't see how low it is that you enjoy, and take pleasure out of these opportunities to be a scaremonger, let me tell you, it's unedifying to the extreme. We know you're only talking about national security because you've comprehensively failed to deliver vision, policies, negotiation, competency and functional government in any policy area so far in your dysfunctional term as Prime Minister. You therefore rely on plane crashes, on sieges carried out by mentally-ill lone-wolves, and on the tragedies of people in far-away places to make yourself feel better about yourself. To keep your flag collection multiplying. For opportunistic photo stunts. Petty. Vindictive. Creepy.

And of course, everything you do, everything you have ever done in opposition and seamlessly into government is just about wrecking progressive policies with your negative "always on" election campaign.

We hear this morning that you've already produced negative attack ads about Bill Shorten. Is Shorten the first thing you think about when you wake up? I bet he is. You are the Prime Minister of arguably the best country in the world and all you care about is bashing your political rivals. Of giving jobs to your boys. You want to unpick every good progressive policy this country has ever delivered and take us back to a yesterday that none of us are interested in revisiting. Wrecking health and education funding. Destroying technological advancement. Wrecking environmental policy. Wrecking whole industries and destroying thousands of jobs. Depressing consumer confidence and in turn destroying economic growth. Wrecking social security. Dog whistling about asylum seekers while they are treated in detention centres no better than captives of the ISIS 'death cult'.

Attacking the union movement. Your nasty little thought bubbles on user-pays public education and wielding your wrecking ball into highly successful industry super funds are just the latest of the daily onslaught of terror you wreck on ordinary Australians. And why do you do it? For the same reason as a dog licks his balls. Because he can.

I dare you to go to an early election Tony. I dare you to believe that Australia wants to give you another chance to do even more damage to the fabric of our community. While you use national security as your play thing, we can see what you're trying to do. Your leaked memo made that very clear.

And when I compare you, the petty, vindictive, creepy flea, to the likes of Barack Obama, I want to cry with frustration. The sooner you give me and the rest of Australia the chance to vote you out, the better.

Yours sincerely

Victoria Rollison

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