The Citizenship Debacle

This post has been reprinted from my blog Pathetic Politicians of Australia.

In recent times we have seen a number of elected politicians being forced to resign due to having dual citizenship, in many cases unknowingly.

I'm not sure where or how this absolutely stupid witch hunt started, but a smug Shorten, who is resisting members of his own party being investigated, smells pretty bad.

Australia is one of the most successful multicultural countries in the world. This multiculturalism is one of things that makes this country such a wonderful place to live. And it is not a new thing. Our country has been home to people from different countries, races and cultures for over two hundred years.

Since Federation, you can safely bet that many of our elected officials, from Local Government through to the Prime Minister, by accident of birth, have been dual citizens. Has this been detrimental to Australia? Not one bit!
If that is the case, why are we having this seemingly well orchestrated witch hunt now? Who is going to benefit from it? Certainly not Australia.

To our current crop of seriously pathetic politicians, I say, " Do the job you were elected to do and nothing else!"

If they proceed with the witch hunt, then at some point, they are going to have check the background of all previously elected politicians and, just possibly, nullify every piece of legislation, submitted by a  dual citizen, that was ever passed into law. Sadly, some of the morons we elected will probably want to follow that path.

Scary, isn't it?