How can anybody keep tabs on our spies? We can’t and not even the Minister knows the full extent of what’s going on.
In a way there is a scintilla of truth in those supposedly fictional adventures of Bourne and Bond as they route and root across our screens from one nail-biting moment to the next plausible impossible action. The C.I.A in the United States is a proven rogue element, working as much against its own government as it is against naughty Dictators and terrorist thugs.
But we have stupidity and ineptitude on our side when it comes to A.S.I.O or our other quasi-spy services. Who in their right mind would hold an exercise including kicking down doors and firing blanks on a whole floor of a hotel without even telliung the management it was going to happen. Several guests shat themselves when faced with armoured Ninja’s screaming hup, hup, and clear, clear bursting into their room without even crying out room service.
What spy agency advertisers in The Australian and other major classified papers that A.S.I.O is looking for new recruits to be spies. It seems they have moved from the clandestine recruitment of suitable university students (in England had already been recruited by the ‘other side’) to become a secret agent instead of a business analyst.
One wanders what skills they are looking for. Creep? Nerd? Stalker?
A.S.I.O is a seriously incompetant organisation who would be better off subscribing to the Peoples Daily or Pravda to get information. Who would outsource their communications to Optus, owned by the Singapore Government, on a promise that they wouldn’t peek.
Recently they requested a further $100 million taxpayer dollars for unspecified purposes.
‘We can’t tell you how we will spend it, that top secret’.
In reality we all know that a senior public servants salary package, of which only half we know about, is tied to the number of staff he has under his command. The more staff the higher his remuneration, and as ouyr Prime Minster is paid more than the President of the United States, our top spy is probably paid more than the Director of the C.I.A or M.I’s.5 and 6 combined. Jesus even Xinling Ping of China is only paid around AU$23,000 a year after discounting the AU$17 million in bribes.
There used to be a saying that ‘what we know won’t hurt us’ and that was true when we had a government we could trust and believe in. But in an era when the electorrate cannot be told what’s going in with the Pan-Pacific Partnership (a euphemism for fuck Australia) how can we ever believe that the likes of Clive Palmer, Kim Jung Un or Vladimir Putin have the our best interest on their mind.
By upgrading the terror alert to ‘probable’ means even more money on security as every other agency goes in for the financial kill as well. When half the terror plots and terrorists are discovered and thwarted by people pushing shopping trolley or serving coffee why should we not just offer huge rewards for finding the culprits and downgrade A.S.I.O to that of a Filing Clerk.
To make it even more difficult for us to trust our fellow citizens along come the white Australia bigots and shock jocks like Alan Jones (with a following of a massive 100,000 people out of 23 million) to beat up stories of murder and mayhem in the Islamic communities. Nothing would please these horrible humans more than a few more Cronulla riots to further divide the country.
I say lets just get rid of A.S.I.O and trust our own instincts after all A.S.I.O, in reality, is just an extension of the C.I.A and beholden to their whims since the downfall of Gough. I might end this confusing tirade by rephrasing those famous words ‘Well might we say God save the people for little will save us from the ravages of public servants’.
