The Stalk Watcher becomes the stalker and pwns himself big time.

How appropriate is it that the author of Stalk Watch would hide behind an alias based on the psycho played by De Niro in Taxi Driver?

Hello again to the psycho running the so-called Stalk Watch blog and other interested parties. I am writing this post to bring to wider attention the slimy and almost criminal aspects of the blog known as Stalk Watch.

Stalk Watch is an anonymously authored blog. The owner, who calls himself Travis Bickle (see above), claims to have set up the Stalk Watch blog in an attempt to rid the Internet of stalkers, however, it is quite clear that he is nothing but a hypocrite and a dangerous, vindictive stalker himself who acts in a threatening and cowardly manner to those he simply dislikes. These quotes and comments from Bickle’s latest post (relating to yours truly) speak volumes of the sinister side of this craphouse blog:

… this blog (Stalk Watch) has received a highly credible tip-off from a member of Iain’s inner sanctum as to the identity (of SockPuppet). We are in the process of verifying it, but can tell you the news is explosive and potentially very embarrassing for the person involved.

Should StalkWatch publish this person’s identity, any reasonable people out there (and perhaps even a few of this person’s professional associates) might justifiably be led to wonder why someone in her/his position has nothing better to do …

The ball is in your court, Iain: delete the post in question (by SockPuppet) and StalkWatch will refrain from publishing the person in question’s details.

Anyone caught associating with Iain Hall might find themselves in some deep shit, career-wise. There’s a fucking thick dossier of cuntery under that man’s name. People might underestimate, at their peril, the networks Stalkwatch has at its disposal. Would an amusing story like this be good fare for readers of Sydney broadsheets? Possibly. Should we see?

Too right Betsy. It’d be a mite embarassing for someone employed in a serious field – say, media law – to be exposed as an idiotic sockpuppet on a site run by a misogynistic dole-bludging ex-biker. One’s credibility would hardly be enhanced by this kind of connection. Assuming one had any credibility to begin with, that is.

These are clear and blatant threats to both Iain Hall and myself, but what is the basis for making them? What was the ‘crime’ that has so riled the anonymous ‘Bickle’ to go to such an extreme and demand the post be deleted or else ….? What exactly did SockPuppet do to warrant Stalk Watch threatening to damage my career unless Iain removes my recent post about the new blog ‘Groupthink’? It must have been pretty bad. It must have been very creepy, very stalkerish, I suppose. Yeah? Well this it. Here it comes. This is the ‘crime’ SockPuppet committed that justifies the arsehole running Stalk Watch to threaten to expose my identity and contact my employers:

I said that Groupthink is a shithouse blog.

Yes, that is it. That, in essence, is all that was said in the post - an opinion about a new blog started by people who the author of Stalk Watch obviously knows, likes and associates with. And for that heinous act, Bickle et al make blatant threats far worse than anything than what they accuse Iain of doing all those years ago. Does the word hypocrite come to mind? I think so.

What we have here in ‘Bickle’ and his shit blog is an Internet creep and stalker of the highest order, who is far worse than the people he targets. If any blog deserves to be deleted surely it is his.  And if anyone deserves to be outed it is the author of this appalling piece of Internet thuggery, whose name is …………… well, we all know, don’t we?

Double or denial

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KEVIN Rudd is preparing to double the size of Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre in a stark confirmation that his government expects a continuing flood of asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka.

The multi-million-dollar upgrade, sparked by a sharp increase in boatpeople arrivals in the past month, is expected to lift the facility’s capacity to as much as 2300

I bet that Brother Number One never imagined that his decision to pander to the hard left on immigration policy would come back to savage him as much as it has in the last few weeks. Today’s revelation that the capacity of the Christmas Island facility is to be doubled is a more than tacit admission that they have got it oh so very wrong.
Border protection and immigration is going to be a big issue at the next election and even at this early stage you can see Brother Number One squirming as he tries to please two very different parts of his electoral base and he succeeds only in alienating both.
Hmm now if only the coalition can get across the message that they have a fair and workable policy in this area then we may be in for an interesting election with the district possibility that Brother number one may not have his tenancy at the lodge renewed.
Cheers Comrades

A glimmer of hope that the opposition will actually oppose

As a life long atheist I have had a very long-standing interest in the religious faith of others . No belief in the supernatural out shines the nuttiness of the Warministas these days.The chock-full-of-nuts believers in AGW are amazing because they just seem to believe in  “solutions” that do absolutely squat to change anything, So  despite having a “believer” as their leader the federal opposition is finally coming around to the notion that falling into line behind Brother Number One on the ETS is a very bad idea and that opposing the ETS outright on the basis of its excessive cost to consumers has more value at the ballot box.

The shift has been on for the past few weeks and has gained pace since Liberal MPs were briefed on Tuesday on party research indicating voters overwhelmingly want action on climate change but do not understand the detail of the ETS proposals.

Several sources said party director Brian Loughnane told the meeting that when interviewers explained the implications of an ETS to survey respondents, they were negative about the proposed scheme.

News of the shift emerged yesterday before today’s launch by Liberal ETS opponent Cory Bernardi of a highly critical assessment of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme which estimates it has cost consumers up to E116billion ($190bn) since 2005, with little environmental benefit.

The study, prepared by Britain’s Taxpayers’ Alliance, says climate change policies there form 14 per cent of household electricity prices and that electricity generators have made windfall profits at the expense of low-income earners and the elderly.

Being totally pragmatic it is good to see any move that improves the efficiency of our energy use  but frankly if it is only a by product of enriching a whole class of spivs and carbon trading racketeers, then I for one would prefer a slightly  more  energy inefficient future to one built upon a religious fraud and false prophecy.

Cheers Comrades

“They don’t need to integrate if they don’t want to or find it difficult.”

While the world burns under the pressure of mass migration the Latte sippers chill out believing in a “we are all one ” paradigm that will be laughed at (with more than a few tears) by the future generations who will face a world where  Europeans become a minority people  in their own countries…

How did this mass immigration of people with few relevant job or language skills, and a culture deeply alien to Europe, come about? Caldwell argues that the post-World War II period saw a radical disjuncture in European attitudes. Europe had just been wrecked by an enemy, the Nazis, who were avowedly racist. The unimaginable disaster of the Holocaust haunted every discussion of morality or policy. Europe was in the throes of decolonisation and felt guilty about its relations with non-white people.

This made an ideology of anti-racism – which itself became extreme and distorted, detached from reality and in many cases downright intolerant – the more or less official state religion of Europe. This had little to do with really combating racism.

In one of history’s countless ironies, Muslim immigrants benefited from the legacy of the Jewish Holocaust. The determination initially to extirpate anti-Semitism didn’t help many European Jews because they were almost all gone, but it offered a template for Muslim immigrants to find and exploit an ethnic victim status. This set up profoundly destructive dynamics and, in another irony, reintroduced serious anti-Semitism to Europe, carried with the Muslim arrivals.

Caldwell suggests a welfare state makes a bad marriage with mass, unskilled immigration. Welfare rather than opportunity becomes the attraction. More importantly, welfare becomes a lethal poverty trap.

At the same time, satellite television, the internet and mass immigration from a few countries means the old culture is always on hand for Muslim migrants. They don’t need to integrate if they don’t want to or find it difficult.

Greg Sheridan

If we want to keep the secular state and a diverse culture then we too have to be aware of the potential problems that the more crowded western nations are beginning to face now.  We have to do the work to address the problems  before those problems make a situation that is  insoluble.

Cheers Comrades

Update

Go Here for another relevant post on this topic.

Those evil vegetarians are at it again

Is anyone actaully surprised that the most vociferous proponents of the Warminista faith are vegetarians? Now I have absolutely nothing against the idea of eating a diet that contains a high proportion of Veg. But the thought of never having a large slab of dead animal again sounds too much like some sort of “cruel and unusual ” punishment to me. Yet we see yet another prophet of the green religion come out and seriously suggest that eating meat is warming the planet.

Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases. [...]
Jonathan Scurlock, of the National Farmers Union, said: “Going vegetarian is not a worldwide solution. It’s not a view shared by the NFU. Farmers in this country are interested in evidence-based policymaking. We don’t have a methane-free cow or pig available to us.”

On average, a British person eats 50g of protein derived from meat each day — the equivalent of a chicken breast or a lamb chop. This is a relatively low level for a wealthy country but between 25 per cent and 50 per cent higher than the amount recommended by the World Health Organisation.

Su Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Vegetarian Society, welcomed Lord Stern’s remarks. “What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in our personal impact on the environment,” she said. “Meat uses up a lot of resources and a vegetarian diet consumes a lot less land and water. One of the best things you can do about climate change is reduce the amount of meat in your diet.”

There are two things to say to this sort of muddled thinking, firstly as some one commenting to the times suggests there are large areas of European farmland that is only really suitable for the raising of grazing animals, you can’t grow lentils and mung beans on the hill pastures that happily support sheep and cattle, and secondly if you address the human population issues then most if not all of the problem will disappear.

While there certainly are some people who just never have had  the taste for meat ( like a little mate of mine) but that is their choice . The problem here is that the Warministas don’t want to give the rest of us the choice and I predict that it won’t be too long before you get crazy vegetarians picketing butcher shops and harassing their customers , after all the extreme left have form for imposing their values on to those who dare to disagree with them.

Cheers Comrades

PS the Smiths song that I have at the top of the post is typical of the emotional anthropomorphism used to guilt people into disavowing the flesh foods that we find oh so tasty and nutritious.

WTF is this? A blog about having a Groupshit in a toilet?

Guest post by SockPuppet

I have to bring to youse attention the ermergerance this week of a new entrance into the ozblogofsfere that has some very shady and seemy characters and that what stinks a lot on account it’s about going to the toilet as the masthead and twitter logo here confurms.

Them logos belong on toilet doors and so does, well, most of what’s written on this new vershin of Grods reheated as a souffle but what is really toliet humour that ain’t even clever and not even funny.

Theys talking aboout drugs, poofs, vampires, Willie Nelson and some tool in a bottle. WTF? I am next to beside myself with bemoosement and bewildermint cos ain’t nuthing funny here so far and no larfs to be had and that stoned out drug adder bloke writes stuff what makes me wanna spew. Even my little mate who looks like Dermie is off the boil and seems to have lost his mojo. (a MojO is what you got when you can write like me)

I think Scooter Boy Ridge & Can’t Rogerher (ha, ha, that’s my clever cover for Scott & Ant) have really f*cked up with this one. Flush it boyos before it groupstinks out the whole Intermints. As Rex Hunt says if it smells like a fish and tastes like a vaginer … It’s shitenhauser!!!

SockPuppet

(Footnotes & pS: This is just my opinionion and not neccessary the onion of the owner of Casa de Hall so if the Scooter Boy and the Can’t wantsa sue some indervidewal for libralling youse send all your lawyer’s rits to SockPuppet c/- the post office in South Cranbourne Vic and if I am ever out that way – I never beren there before – I will pick them up)

Leftist Social Engineering stuffs the Poms

The lesson in Melanie Philips’ piece is that you deliberately try to re-engineer a whole country at your peril.

In its 1997 election manifesto, Labour promised ‘firm control over immigration’ and in 2005 it promised a ‘crackdown on abuse’. In 2001, its manifesto merely said that the immigration rules needed to reflect changes to the economy to meet skills shortages.

But all this concealed a monumental shift of policy. For Neather wrote that until ‘at least February last year’, when a new points-based system was introduced to limit foreign workers in response to increasing uproar, the purpose of the policy Roche ushered in was to open up the UK to mass immigration.

This has been achieved. Some 2.3million migrants have been added to the population since 2001. Since 1997, the number of work permits has quadrupled to 120,000 a year.

Unless policies change, over the next 25 years some seven million more will be added to Britain’s population, a rate of growth three times as fast as took place in the Eighties.

Such an increase is simply unsustainable. Britain is already one of the most overcrowded countries in Europe. But now look at the real reason why this policy was introduced, and in secret. The Government’s ‘driving political purpose’, wrote Neather, was ‘to make the UK truly multicultural’.

It was therefore a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country. It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language and traditions.

It was done to destroy for ever what it means to be culturally British and to put another ‘multicultural’ identity in its place. And it was done without telling or asking the British people whether they wanted their country and their culture to be transformed in this way.

The rise of the BNP is the clear and obvious consequence of a country where immigration has gone bonkers, where the indigenous people feel alienated in their own country, and that the mainstream parties are not even acknowledging their concerns, let alone addressing them. Sadly I can see nothing but more of the disgusting scenes out side the BBC as lefties fail to realise that the rebound from their own divisive policies is to blame rather than the “racism” that they are so keen to denounce.

For us in the antipodes there is one very big lesson to be learned here and that is if any government pushes the  immigration accelerator too hard for too long that we will end up with the same sort of backlash here . This country has a long and admirable history of accepting people from all parts of the world and making them part of a much greater whole. However if  we give in to the same sort of madness that has created  the British situation then  to quote that great philosopher , Barry McKenzie, we’re stuffed.

Cheers Comrades

8)

In the Egyptian river

"Abu Simbel is a set of two temples near the border of Egypt with Sudan. It was constructed for the pharaoh Ramesses II who reigned for 67 years during the 13th century BC (19th Dynasty)." (click image for source)

When I wrote a piece denouncing Brother Number One’s faux indignation the other day some commentators expressed disbelief that Tuckey could have a point. One even suggested that Tuckey deserved “ to be punched in the head” for his quite reasonable suggestion that it was possible for a would be terrorist to hide among the more genuine illegal immigrants/asylum seekers. So what I read in the Oz this morning about the likelihood that some of the Tamil asylum seekers having connections with the LTTE has a certain resonance that vindicates both Tuckey and myself:

Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations secretary Victor Rajakulendran said the high proportion of young men on the boats, coupled with the risks faced by the Tigers in Sri Lanka, made it certain some arrivals were members of the defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Dr Rajakulendran’s remarks came as the Australian Customs vessel Oceanic Viking prepared, after a week at sea, to land today 78 Tamils at the Indonesian detention centre in Tanjung Pinan.

There is no doubt that in the confusion following the end of any long running war that those who have reason to fear the consequences of their own history may seek to hide and travel among the dispossessed and events in this country that have seen several now rather elderly men cited as war criminals  face extradition to answer  their accusers. They arrived here as refugees after the second world war. While I would not seek to exclude any claimant from entering this country on the basis that one of their fellows might have a dodgy past. I am not going to pretend that suggesting checking claimants is a “slur” on all of his fellows as our PM has been doing. To do so is to swim in that long Egyptian river.

Egyptian  river bathing can be even more problematic  for  other members of the tribe when they let their  compassion overwhelm their reason.

If someone risks life and limb to escape persecution or poverty*, gives everything they have for an unsafe passage and finally gets to their destination and wants to start a new life, they’re welcome to come in, as far as I’m concerned.

Keri James

The thing is, the refugee convention that this country is a signatory too, is not about anyone fleeing poverty, our obligation is to help is restricted to those fleeing persecution. For the excessively compassionate though any suggestion that we should be at all discerning in who is allowed to make a new life here is all about  racism.

Seriously. If I’m the ideal candidate for immigration, if I’m the only type of person you want in this country, ask yourself why. Because I look like you? Because I sound – for the most part – like you? Because when I walk past you on the street, or work next to you I don’t make you confront your own prejudices?

Keri James

The  compassion is unquestionable, but there  just doesn’t seem to get any kind of grip on the bigger picture at all. The people in this country are obviously not perfect when it comes to  prejudice but to suggest that it is “the evil in their hearts” that drives  concerns about the illegal boat arrivals is a shallow and divisive argument, and an example of a ‘holier than thou”  mindset   that just stops any really open discussion of the issues here.

The question that “open-doorist” like Keri ignores is “where do we draw the line? “

At what point do we say that the population of this country is right for the environment that must carry it?

Clearly they are putting such question way back beyond the back burner and I tend to think that this is a very short-sighted thing to do. Then again the water of the river that they bathe in is both wide and muddy so we can understand why the fully immersed can’t see very far beyond the ends of their noses.
Cheers Comrades

8)

*my bold

Track? check! Tits? check! The main event? Doh!!!!!

The Government of Anna Bligh(t) looks pretty damn silly right now and any red blooded petrol head must be feeling rather pissed off that this government has so stuffed up the weekend of motor sport that has so enthused them over the last few years.

Well at least the pretty girls were still there... (Courier Mail photo)

A1GP last week reneged on its $11.9 million Queensland contract, forcing the State Government to hurriedly reorganise the four-day racing fest.

Organisers relied on V8 Supercars and other local content to fill out a sparse program.

Yesterday, the Government publicity machine was spinning faster than the car tyres in a bid to put positive gloss on the motorsport festival’s biggest no-show in 15 years.

In a spectacular sidestep of the off-track wreckage that is the Government’s dealings with the failed motor-racing firm, defiant Sport Minister Phil Reeves yesterday claimed the A1GP had “done us a favour” by failing to show.

But the crowd figures told a different story with numbers about 25,000 lower than the Saturday racing of last year when Indy bowed out.

A total of 58,823 attended yesterday’s event, down from 83,337 last year and the lowest crowd number since 1994.

I like to watch a bit of motor sport, open wheelers do have more appeal as far as I’m concerned because they seem just a bit more visceral that the V8′s. That is just down to personal taste. The attendance figures suggest that i am not alone though. I can’t help thinking that when the real Indy mob dropped out, tthe whole event should have been allowed to quietly die and I bet there are a lot of retailers and hoteliers who are thinking the same thing this morning as they look at their cancelled bookings, empty rooms and unsold stock.

The girls are still pretty and the track is still an amazing example of a street course but if it can’t be made to happen with a reliable racing organisation then we are better off without it.
Cheers Comrades

Electric heroin, or a fat man playing a trumpet with his arse

It is no secret that I am far from enamoured with cell phones. I realise that they do have their uses but some people get seduced by what is possible on them and end up wasting both time and money feeding a habit that they just can not afford.

"Quite" may be an understatement, with the industry watchdog admitting some monthly bills had inadvertently topped $10,000 thanks to teenagers failing to realise the consequences of exceeding their monthly cap. Massive bills like this were revealed as Ms O'Donnell released the TIO's annual report into complaints within the telco industry. The report found 230,065 complaints - up a whopping 54 per cent - had been lodged by consumers and small business in the 2008/09 financial year. Billing and payment of telephone and internet services was the main area of concern but the highest increase in complaints was among mobile phone users (79 per cent rise), internet (57 per cent), landline (40 per cent) and mobile premium services (13 per cent). (click image for the source)

I am sure that theses devices are what is feeding the rise of twitter and any one who has investigated that phenomena, as I have, will discover a whole world of inanity as obsessives post about their bowel habits and their self pleasuring, as if the world desperately needs to be told such things.

Like the purveyors of white powder drugs the pushers of this horrid addiction start their poor slaves off by offering seemingly free devices and seducing them with the stories of just how hip and cool they will be when they down load this or that “app” for their ‘smart” phones.
Yep those phones are smart OK but these devices do not serve the poor sods who carry them in the pockets. They serve their evil masters in the Telco’s board rooms. Unlike the sellers of Heroin, Speed or Cocaine the dealers of this drug don’t have law enforcement on their case. Who needs “Doug and Dinsdale” to nail someone’s head to the floor when you can get the bailiffs in to strip some poor sod of all his earthly possessions and put first their  born child into slavery  if the debt is not paid?
It really is the ultimate drug.
So I ask you to think twice when you are about to sign up for that  “amazing”device. Do you really need to download 10 gigs of crappy pop music?
Do you really need to search the net for a video clip of a fat man playing a trumpet with his arse? Because it is precisely this sort of crap that the ten thousand dollar bill represents.
What is it that they say about free lunches?

You know it makes sense Comrades

An outburst of contrived indignation

If there is one thing that anyone given the task of protecting this nation from the terrorist threat can not do it is to rule out any way  that a would be terrorist could get into the country. However if you are a minion of the left the appropriate response to the quite reasonable suggestion that such a person could hide themselves among asylum seekers/illegal immigrants is to suggest that ALL such claimants have bombs in their hand luggage. To be honest I am no great fan of Wilson Tuckey but on this occasion I am going to give him a very big thumbs up. Not because I think that it is at all  likely that there are would be terrorists among the more recent arrivals but because the contrived sanctimonious indignation from Brother Number One conclusively damns the Labor government for being more about spin that substance on this issue.

HIS SAY: Wilson Tuckey heckles during Question Time. Picture: Ray Strange

It began when the West Australian rebel said there were “narrow odds” that the “occasional terrorist” could be “in a boatload of people”.

Mr Tuckey later issued a clarifying statement claiming he had never said that unlawful entrants were terrorists, and was attempting to stress the importance of security checks.

But Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is under pressure on border protection and the use of his own hardline language on the issue, jumped on Mr Tuckey’s comments.

“To go out there and to smear asylum seekers in the way in which Mr Tuckey has done I say again is divisive. I think (it) is disgusting,” Mr Rudd said. He demanded Mr Turnbull disendorse the Liberal maverick ahead of the next federal election, but in Parliament turned his attack on the Opposition Leader.

“He knows full well that he has unleashed this debate for a base political motive, which is to inculcate a culture of fear in Australia,” Mr Rudd said.

Mr Turnbull returned fire, accusing Mr Rudd of hypocrisy and using hysterical language.

“The Prime Minister, in an outburst of contrived indignation, seeks to detract attention from the comprehensive failure of his border protection policies,” Mr Turnbull said.

It is the same M O that we see any time a conservative makes some criticism of the Jihadists. Immediately they run up the “you are smearing all Muslims” line even when a commentator like yours truly takes great pains to draw the distinction between the extremist nutters and the more reasonable mainstream followers of the faith.
Indignation and  outrage only works when it sincere and genuine I and many of my fellow Australians saw Brother Number One on the Television and he was about as sincere and genuine as a Used car salesman telling a mark that the sagging ex Taxi is a one owner low mileage car .
Cheers Comrades

Just fronting up here in a leaky boat does not make someone a “refugee”.

I have argued that the definition and administrative treatment of such claimants is far too simplistic and that if they ultimately succeed in getting residency here after a relatively short period of time it will be like putting up a large neon sign saying that Australia as a destination for people smugglers is THE place to try for.

For my trouble I have been accused of racism, hypocrisy (because I am like so many other Aussies, an immigrant myself) and told that I have no compassion, you name it and the bleeding hearts have trotted out the emotional arguments to try to avoid the truths of the situation.Which is why I found Greg Sheridan’s piece in the Oz such a good read this morning. He has enunciated the reasons why we can legitimately reject such claimants at our gates and why the prospect of long periods of immigration detention serves the greater good.

Greg Sheridan

There are hard truths in this debate. Let me confess my own sins. When the Howard government introduced the Pacific solution, I was virulently opposed to it. I thought it was inhumane and wouldn’t work. In fact, it did work. It also became clear to me the vast majority of people intercepted were not refugees but illegal immigrants.

In saying that, I make no moral criticism of the illegal immigrants. If I were living in Sri Lanka or Afghanistan and I could pay a people-smuggler $15,000 to get me to Australia, to enjoy everything from law and order and good weather to Medicare, Centrelink and good schools, I would make that effort.

But that understandable motivation does not make a person a refugee. I think Sri Lankans generally make excellent migrants to Australia. I have always favoured a larger immigration program and a larger refugee intake, but I want Australia to choose who it takes and to do so in an orderly way.

Just being a Tamil does not make you a refugee. Moreover, if you are fleeing persecution as a Tamil in Sri Lanka, why wouldn’t you go and live in Tamil Nadu, the giant Tamil state of India, just next door to Sri Lanka? India does not persecute people for being Tamils.

The reason you would prefer Australia is because life is much better in Australia. But this is not then a question of fleeing persecution. This is an immigration aspiration that should go through the normal processes Australia applies to everyone who comes lawfully through our big and successful immigration program.

My esteemed colleague Paul Kelly argues in his The March of Patriots that there is a bargain between the Australian people and their governments. The Australian people accept a big, diverse and in many respects generous immigration program, so long as it is orderly and well controlled by the government. In this bargain neither the Australian people nor their governments are racist, bigoted or narrow minded, despite the vain moral posturing of most commentators in the past couple of weeks.

Brother Number One’s Government  has now clearly recognised they are holding a live hand grenade and that they  pulled the pin on it  by softening the measures put in place by the previous government. By moving to make arrangements with Indonesia to hold and process the illegal immigrants they are trying  to replace the pin, to rebuild a viable deterrent to people smuggling and as cruel as it may seem if it means that some poor souls will spend years detained* in Indonesia the greater good will be well served by their sacrifice.

I invite the likes of Jason Wilson and Damian Doyle to address the real issues here and to make amends for their  apologia  of people smuggling, because they seem to be forgetting that sometimes the best love is tough love.

Cheers Comrades

8)

* assuming off course  that detainees are offered free repatriation to their homeland at any time staying in a detention facility is really entirely voluntary.

my bold in the quote above BTW

“The CCTV showed the sickening, brutal and repeated attack.”

As a younger man I just never heard of the sort of behaviour by women that the story I quote below reports, quite simply women did not feel emboldened enough to act the way that this “gang” did.

One man moves in to try and protect the fallen victim

The women – all from the same family – targeted Matthew Campbell, 38, at random, kicking and stamping on him as he lay prone on the pavement.

Their sickening eight-minute assault was captured on CCTV and resulted in all the women being jailed for six months.

All the women, aged between 21 and 42, are members of the same extended family and most of them are well known to the police.

They had been drinking heavily at a birthday party that evening.

Prosecutor David Cammies said they attacked Mr Campbell for no apparent reason outside the Lloyds Arms pub in Grimsby town centre at 11.30pm.

Helen Barber, 29, Rachel Barber, 31, Kelly Macdonald, 32, Belinda Tomlinson, 42, and Katie Tomlinson, 21, all admitted affray.

Recorder Rachim Singh told them: ‘The CCTV showed the sickening, brutal and repeated attack.

The notion that girls and women can do anything that men and boys can do  is one that I encourage my daughter to believe in, but that does not mean that we should encourage women in our society to take up the sorts of behaviours that civilised people would detest men doing.  the thing is that when it comes down to it being attacked by a mob of  belligerent and drunken females puts their victim at a district disadvantage quite simply because as men we have been inculcated with the “don’t ever  hit a woman” message and if you do “return fire” there is always the possibility that your self defence will be interpreted as a man being a perpetrator of violence when he is the actually the victim. Add to that the shame that many men feel if they are beaten by a woman  and you have a whole lot of reasons that female on male violence is  either ignored, down played or simply denied by so many feminists and their male apologists .

This story certainly demonstrates why CCTV in the public places of our cities is a bloody good idea though.

Cheers Comrades

Brother Number One proves that he is a “lite” version of John Howard

There is no doubt at all that Brother Number One has been caught on the back foot on the issue of illegal boat arrivals. His obvious softening of the treatment of the status of “asylum seekers” who arrive here illegally is a most obvious “pull factor” that encourages both the people smugglers and their clients. After the furious denials from all of the usual suspects  became untenable Brother Number One has done precisely what he did to gain office and that is to take a very big leaf out of John Howard’s song book by finding an off shore processing option that meets the obligations under the UN refugee Convention.

The MV Oceanic Viking.

SEVENTY-EIGHT asylum seekers who were picked up by an Australian customs ship at the weekend are likely to end up in detention in Indonesia after a diplomatic impasse over their fate was broken late yesterday.

The breakthrough came as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd left for Jakarta, where he will hold talks on people smuggling with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

He left behind a political storm in Australia, with the Opposition homing in on the issue in Parliament and a prominent trade union leader turning up the heat on Mr Rudd, urging him to show compassion and to put out the ”red carpet” for asylum seekers.

The latest arrivals were intercepted in Indonesian waters by HMAS Armidale on Sunday, and plucked from their stricken boat that night by an Australian customs vessel.

It is believed the asylum seekers initiated direct contact with authorities in Canberra on Friday night, using a mobile phone to call the international hotline featured on the website of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

After being informed of the situation, Indonesia asked Australia to come to the aid of the asylum seekers.

It has only taken the deaths of a few boat people and the disfigurement by fire of a few more for the hard reality of the situation to show that the naive playing to the hard left sympathies has  proven to be a very bad idea indeed.

Of course “open doorists” will be horrified that “asylum seekers” will have to prove their claim in Indonesia  rather than under our generous  country, but if there people are , as they claim actaully fleeing for their lives  then they should be entirely satisfied that they are being offered a place of safety and accessment of their status by the UNHCR.

On the other hand, illegal immigrants will be mad as hell to have paid for passage to Australia  and to be held indefinitely in Indonesia.

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What Brother Number One is NOT telling us about Copenhagen

Hmm I don’t have the treaty to check but it sounds believable to this sceptic…
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