Pixelated Semantics

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A sense of Pseudo-Pro-Anti-Antagonism

Defence Minister Hill has managed to construct a triple-negative statement that supports the Government's current efforts to politically mangle Australian english at every opportunity. Today's nugget of "wisdom" is apparently designed to provide a "national rail-gauge" of compliance to citizens who are unable to think for themselves in regard to our participation in the Irak Adventure: "The soldiers that return from Iraq will be treated as heroes". Will be - no equivocation, this is what is expected. Laying the foundation for accusations of being un-australian, or pro-terrorist, should anyone choose to express a contrary belief that in fact soldiers in Irak may also be regarded as expendable participants in the illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country under false pretexts.

Hill then proceeds to the obfuscation phase with alacrity:

"I find no sense of anti-antagonism between the forces as a result of doing what the Government has asked them to do in Iraq."

No sense of anti-antagonism? That would logically equate to "no sense of co-operation" if one removes the clumsy double-negative. Trite as it may seem, a close examination of the language these highly-paid grammatical failures exercise often reveals a great deal about what is being concealed, rather than exposed.

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