Time for the Revolution!

There is a rally outside Parliament House at 7pm on Tuesday 8th April. The more people there, the stronger the message - but this is just the start.

Loud voices raised together in protest at Colin Barnett's denial of democracy will be needed if he is to hear us. In a slight rewriting of the 1964 civil rights protest song:

They destroy us without blinking
They shot Vincent* in the back.
Did you say it wasn't proper,
Did you stand upon the track?

You were quiet just like mice,

Now you say we aren't nice,

And if that's Freedom's price,

We don't mind.

* Substitute your own community name as you wish.

Now is the time not to be quiet but to be heard - our own Eureka Stockade moment.

Emperor Col Pot is trying to force on us local governments that we do not want. Revolutions have been sparked by this type of imperial arrogance. 

If we are denied the right to a say in how we are governed, those local governments will have no legitimacy. Perhaps it's time to start thinking about how each of us as individuals might respond if the worst comes to the worst.