Loose cannons

November 6, 2002
Issue 
515

Whatever happened to user-pays?

"A German intelligence-gathering operation went spectacularly wrong after bills for phone tapping services were sent to the people being bugged. About 50 people received the demands in mobile phone invoices." — report in Melbourne Age, November 2.

Still kicking the commie can

"In August 2000, not quite 10 years after Soviet communism went belly up before the eyes of the world, ... 118 people died just doing their job in a Soviet-built, torpedo-laden submarine... They ... had paid the ultimate price for the vanity of Leninism". — Monica Attard, former Moscow correspondent for the ABC, reviewing a book on the sinking of the Kursk in the October 26 Sydney Morning Herald.

Freedom

"Owning something is freedom, as far as I'm concerned." — George "The Crusader" Bush, October 15.

Wealth's all in the mind

"If you put your mind to it, the first-time home buyer, the low-income home buyer can have just as nice a house as anybody else." — George the Crusader, October 15.

From Green Left Weekly, November 6, 2002.
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