Posts by Joe Wylie
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Whatever Saddam's crimes - and the plastic shredder/acid bath stuff is obviously an article of faith with those who spend half their time doubled over in self-conratulatory LOL-mode at their own imagined cleverness with such puerile licks as "Nancypants" and "hairy armpit brigade" - they were no obstacle to earning a fat handshake from Rummy back in the day.
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Most of it was pretty juvenile stuff which looked like a Palmerston North Boys High School prefect's initiation ceremony, more than anything else.
Oh sure - only with guns and attack dogs. How very droll.
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since the world demands that the US fixes the world’s problems then maybe the international community should come up with some alternatives if it dislikes the US so much.t
Tell that to the non-US forces currently serving in Afghanistan.
Or to the 1089 Chinese UN peacekeepers currently deployed in Africa:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0627/p01s05-woaf.htmVery big of you to concede that 'mistakes were made' at Abu Ghraib. A little further thinking outside of the John Wayne movie model of world affairs might reveal that things are somewhat more complex than good vs. bad guys.
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The US should be held to a high standard, but that doesn't mean that it is okay to glibbly ignore the many other horrendous acts of other countries, governments or groups around the world.
Kind of turns the argument into a pissing down the wall contest.
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Cut off Sydney's porn & booze?
Can't risk another Rum Rebellion:
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. . . perhaps am being naive. But would you rather have this issue on the agenda or off it?
Naturally something should be done with all urgency. Unfortunately Howard is unlikely to take up the offers of those such as Mick Dodson and make this a bipartisan effort. Those who unconditionally cheer him on are either cynical or naive. For an indication of how this may play out it might be worth looking at the present situations in PNG's Manus Island and Nauru, which have been reduced to squalid offshore immigration holding camps in the wake of Howard's manufactured Tampa incident.
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Howard's mission to recue the children?
Shame on these journalistic suckholes.Alan Ramsey has what is probably the longest memory in the Canberra press gallery:
Howard's national emergency is a political one.
He has an election to win. The genuine national emergency he is hiding behind is the one his Government has ignored effortlessly for 11 years. Just read the public record. -
the "got the vote in 67" meme is a myth.
From a strictly legal viewpoint, sure - but there are plenty of Australians alive today who recall the referendum of 1967 as being the watershed, and widespread aboriginal voting didn't take place until after that date.
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. . . active legislative discrimination (from the Federal Government) was only possible after 1967 - not before.
No doubt you'll also be able to invoke Terra Nullius in order to demonstrate that aboriginals never existed. Weasel words on stilts.
I haven't read the whole report yet, but I'm encouraged to hear that the Australian state and federal governments are taking action on this, whatever their motives may be.
Sorry, but isn't this the very report that Howard has gone ahead precipitately and ignored the recommendations of?
The present Territory Government, which came to power in 2001, was at least prepared to look at the problem, unlike its Country Liberal predecessor, which had shown a long-standing contempt for aboriginal welfare.
Knowing Howard's track record on aboriginal issues, his effective sidelining of the Territory Government's report hardly seems cause for optimism. -
Works for me - here's another one:
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