Remember that time activists took to Parliament House to protest our government, y’know, torturing innocent people for the past few years? And how this violent-non-violent display of democratic rights completely scorched our government and popped many a monocle across the country?
Well maybe if we’d just listened to our best, most medieval experts, Australia’s sterling democracy could have survived a little longer. Because according to the Sydney Morning Herald, we almost had a big damned moat around Parliament House AKA Camelot now we guess.
Senator David Leyonhjelm confirmed that the moat (or “berm” if you want to be a damned killjoy) was at seriously considered by security agencies prior to the July election, but was dropped in favour of the hideous, now-announced 2.6 metre fence.
Putting aside how amazing it that Leyonhjelm, of all people, confirmed the early plans for what would have to be a libertarian’s secret fantasy, he honestly sounds like he thought the idea was as stupid as we do:
“They were going to be big channels dug around Parliament House. They would have been vegetated.”
“We made jokes about them being tank traps. I think the risk they were being aimed at was truck bombs.”
PM Malcolm Turnbull has also been quoted making fun of the plan, describing earlier suggestions for a concrete ditch as “ridiculous” before binning them. Honestly, I would pay good money to have seen a bunch of stressed-out pollies joking about having to cross a moat every morning.
And naturally, Twitter is having a fucking ball.
‘People think we’re out of touch and aloof.’
‘Maybe it we build a moat around our office it’ll make them change their minds.’— Yule-assic Snark (@jurassic_snark_) December 13, 2016
build a wall
build a moat
the people who come up with this stuff surely have their chastity belt on too tight— ??Drew??White??Xmas (@andrewwhiteau) December 13, 2016
imagen if moat around APH meant Peter Dutton had to get to work by boat
— One night (@DavidParis) December 13, 2016
But while it’s real easy (and very fun) to criticise these ridiculous plans, you know what?
We didn’t listen, and now our brave politicians stand defenceless against this raging monster.
So don’t blame us when the unelected, so-called ‘Kings’ and ‘Queens’ take over.
Source: SMH.
Photo: Sony.
