50 Years- Aussie Absorbed!!!

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 16:30:29 MDT

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    I don't believe this for a minute, but I found this article,
    thought-provoking, and might be good for few email laughs. The assertions listed below are
    debatable (even for a US nationalist like myself). Enjoy.

    http://www.news.com.au/common/printpage/0,6093,6760977,00.html

    Australia primed to be yanked into US
    By Tess Livingstone
    16Jul03

    AUSTRALIA has been urged to seriously consider becoming the 51st state of the
    US.

    And American-born historian Dr David Mosler told a Brisbane audience
    yesterday there was a 20 per cent chance of Australia becoming an American state in
    the next 50 years. The visiting research fellow at Adelaide University, who has
    lived in Australia since 1971, said the chances would increase significantly
    in the event of a major Al-Qaeda attack on Australia or if Indonesia became a
    fundamentalist Islamic republic.

    Dr Mosler told the 2003 Fulbright Symposium at Griffith University yesterday
    that he decided Australia was "an unreformable society" after the loss of the
    1999 republic referendum.

    Australians, he said, had no flag of their own; a weak sense of nationhood;
    no prime minister in the Lodge, with John Howard living in Sydney; no national
    bushfire or water plans, even with the worst drought in history; and no "broad
    knowledge of nation in public discourse or popular culture". Australians had
    replaced "Empire with Yanks" after 1942, and the country retained a
    "quasi-colonial status".

    He said Australian governments, attuned to the British, Americans, Japanese
    and global capital markets, had "sold off the farm" - electricity, water,
    ports, airports, resources - while Australians weren't offended by such "treasonous
    behaviour".

    He said Australia's passage to American statehood would not be difficult
    under its Constitution.

    He listed the advantages of American statehood for Australia as:

    * Access to the world's best higher education system.

    * Large savings on embassies.

    * Being part of the world's most effective defence system.

    * Merger with the world's strongest currency.

    * Being part of the world's biggest economy.

    * A constitution bringing a republic and a Bill of Rights.

    * Fielding teams in the US national basketball, baseball and gridiron
    competitions.

    This report appears on news.com.au.

        



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