Marxist Sally better slow her law-breakin’ down

Sally McManus parroting lines from her CFMEU mate on breaking the law.

Christopher Pyne spots a commie in new ACTU boss Sally McManus. ABC Adelaide radio, yesterday:

What Sally McManus has said is the kind of anarchic Marxist claptrap we used to hear from anarchists at Adelaide University in the 1980s.

Bronwyn Bishop did warn us there were still reds under that bed. Sky News, January 9:

There are socialists out there who want to attack free enterprise and anyone who sticks up for it. And I know that socialists, like alcoholics, will blame anyone but themselves. And whereas alcoholics can damage their own families, socialists can destroy the whole country

McManus, to be fair, said something pretty anarcho-Marxist. ABC 7.30, Wednesday:

I believe in the rule of law where the law is fair and the law is right … But when it’s unjust, I don’t think there’s a problem with breaking it.

Lefties gave us a history lesson we didn’t need. Huffington Post Australia reporter Josh Butler on Twitter, Wednesday:

Looking forward to conservatives spending Thursday explaining why Gandhi, Dr King, Rosa Parks were wrong in their civil disobedience.

David Crowe says “Sally McManus is not Rosa Parks”. The Australian website, yesterday:
She is the leader of one of the nation’s key institutions, an organisation with huge political power and industrial might. Consider the reaction if a corporate leader declared that there was “no problem” with breaking the law when it was unjust for his or her business. What if a retrospective mining tax was “unjust” in the eyes of a company lawyer?

CFMEU Victoria boss John Setka said something similar at a Melbourne rally, March 9 :

… bad laws throughout history have been changed by people like yourselves defying them and breaking them.

And who was standing next to him on the podium? Your gal Sal. The Australian, March 10:

ACTU vice-president Sally McManus said the government had pushed workers too far and “Australians were at breaking point”. Ms McManus, who will succeed Dave Oliver as ACTU secretary next week …

Bill Shorten wasn’t happy with Marxist Sally. The Sydney Morning Herald website, yesterday:

If you don’t like a law, if you think a law is unjust, use the democratic process to get it changed … We believe in changing bad laws, not breaking them.

Echoes of Keating from Shorten? Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader by Troy Bramston, page 89, 2016:

“Look, Jim (Cairns) … That’s the difference between you and me. I’m not here to protest, I’m here to be in charge.”

Sally sticking to her anarcho-Marxist guns. ACTU press statement, yesterday:

Every single Australian benefits from superannuation, Medicare, the weekend and minimum wages — these were all won by our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents taking nonviolent so-called illegal industrial action.

Sally wants to break industrial laws her own party wrote. ABC’s PM, November 25, 2008:

The acting prime minister, Julia Gillard, today introduced the Fair Work Bill … Gillard has hailed it as a return to the fair go …