tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post6101980982607118224..comments2024-03-29T18:03:45.643+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which Major Mitchell and the bouffant one push hard for the 'no' vote ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-60607259480385247482017-09-26T11:27:42.518+10:002017-09-26T11:27:42.518+10:00So Shanahan pleads the media must give the No case...So Shanahan pleads the media must give the No case a chance. Strange, the Guardian mentions that the Australian Christian Lobby’s Lyle Shelton gets more media mentions than all three leading yes campaigners combined despite the no campaign claiming it has being “silenced”. Once again Shanahan won't let the facts get in the way of his story.<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/22/lyle-shelton-gets-more-media-mentions-than-all-three-leading-yes-campaignersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61983787428741361372017-09-26T08:32:36.224+10:002017-09-26T08:32:36.224+10:00If the New Guard of NSW was the closest Australia ...If the New Guard of NSW was the closest Australia ever got to a Ku Klux Klan, Anony, then we've been very fortunate. The nearest that the New Guard got to any kind of coup was when de Groot slashed the ribbon at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (ahead of Jack Lang).<br /><br />Really, the New Guard was just a bunch of colonial wannabee Colonel Blimps and it only lasted for about two years (until shortly after Jack Lang was dismissed).<br /><br />More an Insane Clown Posse than a Klan, mate.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48732763384192789892017-09-26T04:47:35.860+10:002017-09-26T04:47:35.860+10:00"Now sure, Australia hasn't ever formally..."Now sure, Australia hasn't ever formally had, for instance, a Ku Klux Klan," What about the New Guard who nearly pulled off a coup in NSW?<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_GuardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82781713598083217602017-09-25T17:57:36.784+10:002017-09-25T17:57:36.784+10:00Oh dear, DP: "What a dismal situation it is,...Oh dear, DP: "<i>What a dismal situation it is, the way the squeaking, moaning, cage-rattling reptiles keep demanding attention, and like a vexed, harassed mother, the pond must heed their cries</i>..."<br /><br />And you know, just this day I read on Kevin Drum's Mother Jones blog: "<i>I don’t know. I just don’t know. Trump speaks, and all the rest of are forced to talk about whatever he wants us to talk about</i>."<br /><br />And that's just it, isn't it. It's always the hysterical, noisy 'me me me' child that sets the agenda, isn't it. But we can't really just ignore them, can we, because then they really have succeeded in generating intolerable misery.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-26495722000219162592017-09-25T17:34:38.167+10:002017-09-25T17:34:38.167+10:00Maj Mitch: "Why do activists find it so hard...Maj Mitch: "<i>Why do activists find it so hard to understand you can't bully people into supporting your position in a democracy ?</i>"<br /><br />Probably because generations of you "Right" bastards have used violence and bullying to enforce your belief systems on the rest of us. Or really, hadn't you noticed ? Now sure, Australia hasn't ever formally had, for instance, a Ku Klux Klan, but murderous mobs of Aussies surely have committed mass murder against aboriginals. Just for an instance.<br /><br />But one that I fondly remember from the salad days of Right-wing intolerance was the Springbok rugby tour of Australia in 1971. Here's a few lines from a newspaper you might know something about, the Courier Mail [ http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sir-joh-bjelke-petersen-had-secret-deal-with-police-ahead-of-1971-springbok-tour-protest/news-story/d0d8fe62bb09fa800463e895dfe4778f ]<br /><br />"<i>Fearing riots and public violence, Bjelke-Petersen told the powerful Queensland Police Union that officers would "not be penalised for any action they take to suppress" the demonstrators during the tour in July 1971.<br /><br />In exchange for their loyalty, Bjelke-Petersen guaranteed a pay rise for officers, a claim for which was then before the Industrial Court. He also promised police a superannuation fund.<br /><br />The secret deals were revealed for the first time this week in Three Crooked Kings, an examination of crime and corruption in Queensland written by The Courier-Mail journalist and author Matthew Condon.<br /><br />A State of Emergency was declared on Tuesday, July 13, 1971, ahead of the arrival of the Springboks rugby union team in Brisbane on Thursday, July 22.<br /><br />More than 600 uniformed and senior police clashed with protesters outside the Tower Mill Motel on Wickham Tce where the team was staying.<br /><br />During the confrontation, Whitrod ordered his men to hold their ground but hundreds of police ploughed forward, herding the protesters down the steep slope of Wickham Park and off a low stone wall with a drop down to Roma St. There were several protesters injured, and a handful of arrests, including future premier Peter Beattie.</i>"<br /><br />So there ya go, Mitch. We kinda thought you might actually be proud of us for having learned from you so well. And we really liked the 'declaration of emergency' touch, didn't you ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com