Hard News: Draped in their flag
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something interesting occured to me this morning.
in a way, the white australia policy was correct. the admission of 'ethnics' into australia does result in division, non-assimilation, and social unrest.
strangely though, the instigators of these troubles (are time and again, but not always) the dinkim australians themselves.
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Redbaiter & Fred - I'm convinced now that they're a put up of some sort. No-one could really be that stupid.
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I finally watched that Donnie Davies video. Oh, it has to be a joke, surely?
I then went to lovegodsway.org - that has to be part of the joke, doesn't it? I do like the list of Gay Bands list on there, especially seeing user submissions are accepted.
Please tell me this ranks up alongside bonzaikittens and Real Ultimate Power as one of the best parodies on the net.
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Moz,
Che,
So it's clearly an "us or them" situation, and we should let the traditional owners decide who gets to stay?
To quote the chart-topping Hip-Hop artist Ozi Batla "Enough is enough, whiteys go pack your stuff, Don't wanna live in England? That's f*ing tough". http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/the_herd/
Note that you're seeing a News Limited view of the situation, but then that's what Stuff gives you these days. The original story was not very exciting at all, there was no ban so who cared. But once The Daily Terrorgraph got hold of it things heated up nice and fast.
FWIW there's a huge pile of people in Sydney who would just like the "patriots" to crawl back under their rocks, including the wonderful letter in "The Age" from a WWII veteran bemoaning the disrespect shown to the flag by the drunken thugs. There was a well-attended anti-racism day at Cronulla Beach recently, and lot of other agitation. As usual, that's not what gets the media attention. Sorry about that.
Other things not getting reported also bother me - the "middle-class white christians" who gang-raped a woman in Darling Harbour last year, then the complainant lost the will to continue the complaint... that story disappeared from the media very quickly. The ongoing battles inside Australian Muslim communities about who represents them (and who doesn't). Dog-whistling is always news though.
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i think trying to get 400,000 aboriginal people to run the entire infrastructure by themselves might be a bit of a stretch.
likely they'd have to import a bunch of honkies to do all the 'important stuff'.
OTOH, they'd be seriously wealthy now the state doesn't own all their assets.
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Completely shifting the topic to a related amusing news story:
Canadian town to immigrants: you can't stone women
Highlights:
Immigrants to the small Quebec town of Herouxville must not stone women in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules made public by the local council.
"We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here," said the declaration, which also says women are allowed to drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress how they want, work and own property.
"Therefore we consider it completely outside these norms to ... kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc."
Andre Drouin, the councillor who came up with the idea of the declaration, told the National Post newspaper that the town was not racist.
"We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live," he said.
The regulations say girls and boys can exercise together and people should only be allowed to cover their faces at Halloween. Children must not take weapons to school, although the Supreme Court of Canada has already ruled that Sikh boys have the right to carry ceremonial daggers.
Obvious questions that come to mind:
1. Is there a problem with people coming to Herouxville and stoning people? Or indeed, anywhere in Quebec?
2. If there is a problem, is posting rules saying you can't stone women and burn them in acid, likely to reduce the incidence? Are the criminals unaware of this being 'outside the norm'?
3. They've banned covering the face, such as veils, but allowed ceremonial daggers? I don't especially mind the daggers, but aren't they at least dangerous, whereas covering the face is... just cultural/religious fashion?
It's a strange world...
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