Last week the Pope visited Syn city.
So much racket and inconvenience, just so a few Catholics can have a party.
The choppers were buzzing around till ten o’clock Saturday night.
The noise from the racecourse where the gig was being staged on the other side of the hill from my place, flooded the area for miles around.
Nice little demonstration of power and influence by the Catholics.
A huge area of the city was held captive for a week.
When I walked down to the racecourse on Saturday afternoon, I found roads closed off and fences erected.
Imagine how unlikely it would be, for the Scientologists or Buddhists to get permission and support of the government, if they wanted to stage this sort of an event.
Reminded me of the American ‘Spring Breck’ where hoards of teenagers take over a town, party hard, and then bugger off leaving the locals with the bill.
I agree, Dave T, although fortunately I don't live as close to Randwick as you and managed to take leave from work (in the city) that week. Still saw pilgrims as far afield as Wollongong. They were singing outside an expensive waterfront restaurant there and my friend commented that you would be pretty pissed off if you were paying to have lunch there only to have to listen to that for your whole (expensive) meal! At least we were only eating fish and chips on the beach but it was bad enough there.
ReplyDeletePoint taken but where the Catholics get their clout is in having one central figurehead. I mean, they're not really gonna close off the streets so the photo of Buddha can be paraded through town. :D Or Tom Cruise.
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