Reference:- The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, young Adrian Schrinner, has cancelled funding for the Queensland Music Awards .
These days we are running that keto diet thing here at The Sky Reply . What with all the sausages and bacon we are frying , breakfast takes a lot longer than it did when we used to chow down on Weet-Bix and milk piled with sugar . That gives us more time to watch the news on the tele , especially while washing up the greasy utensils .
Anyway , Ken junior was surprised to see that Brisbane's Mayor , young Adrian Schrinner , had cancelled funding for the Queensland Music Awards because he considered that a young musician called Kellie Green , who won the Jazz Award , was antisemitic .
Ken junior , who quite liked her song , was puzzled .
" What makes her antisemitic ? " , Ken junior said .
" According to the Mayor , it was her vile hate speech " , I said .
" Is singing a song about not killing people in Palestine vile hate speech ? " , Ken junior said .
" It is now . ", I said .
" Well that is hardly fair . What about international law ? " , Ken junior said .
" All that United Nations stuff , and International Law , and all the Geneva Convention malarkey has been phased out now . " , I said .
" What replaced it ? " , Ken junior said .
" We now have a thing called " The Rules Based Order " , I said .
" Who makes the rules ?' Ken junior said .
" Mostly the USA , via Israel of course , and the UK " , I said .
" What about all the other countries ? " , Ken junior said .
" They don't get a look in , it keeps things simple . " , I said
" Well if this Kellie lady has been banned for hate speech , why punish all the other musicians by defunding the awards ? Isn't that group punishment ? " . Ken junior said .
" Group punishment is acceptable these days too , just look at Gaza . " , I said .
" But by defunding all the musicians , any Jewish musicians in Queensland will also suffer . " , I said .
" Yeah . Well that comes under a provision called the Hannibal Directive . In order to crush antisemitism it is sometimes necessary to crush a few of your own people at the same time . " , I said .
" What ? " , Ken junior said .
" Some of those who died during the terrible assault on October 7 in Israel were killed by their own army . Investigations to determine the numbers are still in progress . That's your Hannibal Directive . It's why the hostages in Gaza get bombed and killed by their own army sometimes . " , I said .
Anyway , Ken junior was having trouble processing all this . I decided to change the subject a bit .
" Kellie's song was called " The River to the Sea " , I said .
" That will be the Jordan . ", Ken junior said .
" Never heard of it . " , I said .
My favourite song about a river is called " Old Man River " . That song is close to one hundred years old . I saw a black man sing it in a musical called "Showboat " back when we had a drive-in theatre on the edge of town . It is a sad song , all about oppressed racially segregated folk with no rights and nothing to live for . Thankfully those days are long passed . I think it starts like this
" Old man river , that old man river ,
He must know something , but don't say nothing ,
He just keeps rolling ,
He keeps on rolling along . "
Time to scrub the frying pan .
Your comrade ,
Ken
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