Australian's all let us fear this:

So Mandy wrote a song about all the things we, as Australians, value. Not sure if it's what we all value, or what most of us value, or just some of us, or if it's what we are supposed to value if we are true-blue Aussies, or if these are just the values FOB's are supposed to value, if they are for immigrants as well as refugees, darkies as well as proper people, or what. (I could go on.)

I have penned (does entering it via a keyboard count as penning it?) I have keyboarded a bit of a song, it's unfinished so far, about all the things we, as Australians, fear.

(Or are supposed to be fearful of.) Some of it rhymes already, the rest are just notes.

I call it: Nothing To Fear, But:

We have nothing to fear but:

(RHYMES:)

Airline cutlery
Heavily spectated scenes

Brownies on the beaches
Polly-fiddling preachers

Pocket knives, box knives
All a threat to your lives
Any metal - don't fly
That guys got a shifty eye

Bombs in: buses and planes,
And the Commonwealth Games, (ooh I wrote this a while back, but it was a big issue.)
Any underground trains
Wiggling plastic in the brain (with respect, I believe that's one of Vanstones...?)

(DOESN'T RHYME:)

towel heads
hermits from afghanistan
icbms
running rampant government
authoritiarian states
lost freedoms
poverty
hidden women in burkas
bulky out of season clothing
backpacks
suspicious activity
the use of a garage in strange hours
photography of buildings, bridges, statues,
North Korea (not) South Korea (but) Marilyn Manson (We Didn't Start the Fire ref.)
insurgents
extremists
queue jumpers
etc..

and maybe, if there's any left, you might just fear fear itself.

That's all so far, I'm sure there's more we need to fear. Hopefully it will be completed one day, and it can be a matra sung at schools, so that our children, and our children's children, can be constantly reminded of what we are supposed to fear. Lest they forget, and grow relaxed and content.