Why the voters of Wagga Wagga have good news for Bush and Blair

The Times ^ | October 11, 2004 | Tim Hames

[shhrubbery!]

Latham grabbed Howard's hand and would not let him go, he almost overpowered him and made Howard look as if he was off-balance. I recognised the Kerry tactic immediately from the debate incident

Amazing! Do you know if there's there a video of that posted anywhere on the internet? A still photo of that could make a good ad, side-by-side with Kerry's trying the same trick on Bush.

Btw, thanks for the great news from Down Under.

[Fred Nerks]

It's a fascinating case, but I noticed after I posted the link, the site is 'under construction' - I suggest you save the link and try again at a later time. All they did was hold a seminar for their own folks to read from the koran and compare it's message with the New Testament. The meeting was infiltrated by two stooges from an orginisation funded by the left-wing state government in Victoria, one Brack, himself of Lebanese descent. Thus charges were brought against two lay-preachers...whose defence rests totally upon the very verses they read to the audience at the meeting. No judgement had been handed down last time I checked the site, just a few weeks ago.
I don't wonder why it's taken so long! To hand down a guilty verdict (hate speech) the magistrate would literally have to conclude that reading from the koran is in itself hate-speech!
I can't wait for the outcome!

[Fred Nerks]

No, there's only the cartoon that was published in The Australian newspaper. No one here would have made the connection, only a FReeper who watched the debate and who reads Freerepublic would have noticed!
I'll check The Australian netsite and see if they have it up - but I doubt it. Will forward a link if it's there.

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks Ivan for the thread.

[shhrubbery!]

Thanks. I'll try checking The Australian's website too and will check back tomorrow.

[shhrubbery!]

Is this the cartoon? (I'm not sure which would be Prime Minister Howard and which would be Mr. Latham -- lower right and upper left respectively? )

[mrsmel]

I will pray that they're acquitted. All common sense demands it. That's a good point-if reading from the Koran is "hete speech", will it be outlawed for Muslims to read/teach from it also? Will the Bible be banned? It teaches that homosexuality and abortion are wrong.

In all truth,I believe that the day for all this is coming. I just hope I'm gone from here by then.

[Fred Nerks]

No, but this should do it:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/photogallery/0,9493,2^82^24636,00.html

Hey, I missed the two you found! (Our guy is the one with the glasses and the eye-brows!)

[shhrubbery!]

Hahaha, that's great!

Well, I'm sure some other FReeper could do a lot better a posting a side-by-side than I can, but here's my try:

[Fred Nerks]

Yep, Latham definitely watched that debate and tried the same tactic...but managed to pull Howard so close to himself Howard looked really shocked. Just proves that a lefty never had an original idea, they feed off each other like the parasites they are. Bet you Howard went home and had a shower and GWB washed his hands with antiseptic soap!

Bullies never learn that size doesn't count, do they? I can't wait for November 2nd. Kerry might as well be crafting his We was Robbed speech already. Landslide coming. GO BUSH!

[Piefloater]

The biased MSM in Australia are looking rather stupid and serves them right.

To quote Paul Sheehan in (of all places) today's Sydney Morning Herald -

"On Saturday night the giant, lumbering road train known as the will of the people, aka the democratic process, smashed through the pretensions, delusions and manipulations of the unelected and unaccountable who presume to tell Australians what to think and who to be."

[Fred Nerks]

WOW! I'm gunna print that out, have it enlarged (hugely) and give it to a certain family member who keeps quoting me left wing rubbish.

Has a nice way with words, doesn't he? tee hee hee....

[MadIvan]

But one major difference is Australia isn't under direct attack like we are.

Actually, they are. Remember the Bali bombings?

Regards, Ivan

[mrsmel]

There's a gem of a post by one Steven Spielberg(not the director I'm sure) on Margo Kingston's Web Diary that says "the people" need to educated on how to think,so that they don't simply "receive" information. I was astounded to read that,so I replied(it hasn't been posted),what did he have in mind,re-education camps a la Chairman Mao?

And another idiot there claims that they lurk on US political websites,and that the conservatives do all the name-calling,and the 'rats engage in "analysis". I can only say,they obviously haven't been to Free Republic and DUhmmies under the ground('rats),or they couldn't say that. They'd have read where a Dummy a couple of weeks ago posted that they hoped the terrorists won and destoyed America.

[Fred Nerks]

Hey, obviously, the kind of analysis that the RATS engage in leads them to the conclusion that America deserves to be destroyed by terrorists.
Did you ever think of that? It's easy. Just put your RAT hat on for a moment and the mystery is solved.
(It helps living 'down under' you know. We CAN see all from an upside down perspective.) RATS are primarily interested in destruction. That's why they sh*t in their own nest!

[mrsmel]

Good point,LOL. The kicker was,he'd rather we lost the WOT than that President Bush got re-elected!!! I'd say that's taking Bush-hate to an extremist length-that you'd rather see your fellow citizens,children,etc,killed by over your political ideology! HOW can people think that conservatives are the extremists? I never wished anything like that,never thought of it,on my worst day of despising Clinton.They forget the adage that politics must stop at our borders.

[Piefloater]

......Margo Kingston's Web Diary .....

Poor Margo and her cheer squad of merry idiots.

All those months of spewing out endless venom for nothing.

Apparenly she is taking a month off now that the election is over. With any luck she will decide to move to France or New Zealand where she will feel much more at home amonst the more enlightened populace. /sarcasm>

[mrsmel]

She's declared that it's her duty to stay and fight the coming totalitarian government,LOL.

She also claims that she sacrificed money,job security,and her "partner" (bells going off) for writing her anti-Howard screed "Not Happy John". Oh the martyrdom of being a (small l) liberal!

[GVnana]

it seem to me that being dead is an objective truth and not an ambiguous condition produced by time and language

Why would a Frenchman be worried about such things? /sarcasm>

[Swiss]

****French philosophy - with the exception of the excellent work of Jean Francois Revel - it is code for articulate stupidity.****

What little I have studied of philosophy I got the feeling that liberalism is an outgrowth of french philosophy and thinking.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau should be called the Godfather of the Left and much of what he preached would later influance both communism and fasicism.

Marx and Engels met and worked out the ideas of Communism in Paris.

While England was holding up the ideas of economic and political freedom and limited goverment the french created the first modern totalitarian state under Napoleon Bonaparte.

From the XYZ Affair to the current UN Food for Oil scandal the french has always been corrupt and arrogant.

It seems that the Anglo-Saxons will continue to be on the right side of history.