"Now, in a fit of collective madness"

He doesn't deserve a minute of your time
dailytelegraph.news.com.au
By PIERS AKERMAN November 29, 2005 - "THE nation pauses for a minute on Remembrance Day to remember the Armistice called at 11am, on November 11, 1918, bringing an end to World War I. On Anzac Day people stand at ceremonies, in schools, in offices and in their own homes, as the Ode, the fourth stanza of British poet Laurence Binyon poem To the Fallen is recited, refreshing the memories of the great sacrifices that have been made to keep this country free. Now, in a fit of collective madness, advocates of lunar politics such as the Democrats' perennial undergraduate Natasha Stott Despoja, the Greens' inner-urban conspiracist Senator Kerry Nettles, and the wetter-than-water Liberal Bruce Baird, are demanding a national minute of silence to mark the expected execution of the convicted drug smuggler Nguyen Tuong Van in Singapore this Friday. They are effectively placing Remembrance Day and Anzac Day on par with the execution of a heroin smuggler."