The cowardly and inhuman trait of the Australian character is reflected in the reluctance to take Guantanamo refugees. These were the poor bastards that were rendered by the US covert agencies and their affiliates and were imprisoned and tortured illegally.
Mostly they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were adolescent adventurers, like the two Australians, who blundered their way into the area. Hey, they joined the Taliban, who were trained and supported by the CIA, remember? What a blast for testosterone addicted kids. However although the Australians were close to action, there were many who were arrested on no grounds whatsoever, perhaps having the wrong sounding name. Also remember that the CIA didn't have any members who spoke Islamic until quite recently. Those who spoke the language were not to be trusted.
So, how should we treat those who are innocent: the authorities didn't even have enough evidence to charge them with anything, and of course most never went to Bush's illegal trials. Evidence taken under torture is not valid in civilised countries. Bush personally took it upon himself to attempt to legalise it. What a fucking clown. Slowly but inexorably the legal system will run him down. If he's not indicted he will at least be the laughing stock of history. Problem is Australians are so closely linked to the administration of we will be smeared by it.
How did Australians develop the cowardly positions they now take. Could it be that the population has grown up whorshipping the failures of ANZACS and so retreat at the first moment they see that courage may be required? Can't be, could it?
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The cowardly and inhuman trait of the Australian character is reflected in the reluctance to take Guantanamo refugees. These were the poor bastards that were rendered by the US covert agencies and their affiliates and were imprisoned and tortured illegally.
Mostly they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were adolescent adventurers, like the two Australians, who blundered their way into the area. Hey, they joined the Taliban, who were trained and supported by the CIA, remember? What a blast for testosterone addicted kids. However although the Australians were close to action, there were many who were arrested on no grounds whatsoever, perhaps having the wrong sounding name. Also remember that the CIA didn't have any members who spoke Islamic until quite recently. Those who spoke the language were not to be trusted.
So, how should we treat those who are innocent: the authorities didn't even have enough evidence to charge them with anything, and of course most never went to Bush's illegal trials. Evidence taken under torture is not valid in civilised countries. Bush personally took it upon himself to attempt to legalise it. What a fucking clown. Slowly but inexorably the legal system will run him down. If he's not indicted he will at least be the laughing stock of history. Problem is Australians are so closely linked to the administration of we will be smeared by it.
How did Australians develop the cowardly positions they now take. Could it be that the population has grown up whorshipping the failures of ANZACS and so retreat at the first moment they see that courage may be required? Can't be, could it?
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Germaine has been in training all her life to blast Baz’s Australia off the face of the earth. She has done it with such consummate style and telling content. It made me laugh ( I laugh with writers who nail those who deliberately contort “facts” in an attempt to create persuasive excrement) for she knew the culture from the hell of aboriginal life, the bull of cattle overlanding, to the pathetic attempts of some actors to know their characters - with the exception of David Wenham and Bryan Brown. The only thing she didn’t mention was the trickery of outback magic. Bryan Brown’s movie Dead Heart revealed this in one of the most accurate portrayals of outback Australia. Why didn’t Baz watch it?
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US Intelligence agencies have finally confessed that Pakistan's military is cooperating with terrorists, even giving them training and support (Today's Australian, PAGE 9). I reported in September that this was happening, and even earlier on another blog, Exposing Humour. It was easy to read the situation but once a blundering bureaucracy gets into the habit of handing out hundreds of millions of dollars they believe, like th US in this example, that they are controlling things. Naive guys.
Maybe ABC News, who I castigated some days ago for not having a journalist capable of reporting the facts of Pakistan and the terrorists, will begin to get the reality. Actually I was wrong on that matter. The ABC have plenty of journalists capable of squirreling this information out, just not the capacity or influence to guide ABC News hierarchy on the true course of objective journalism. Objectivity is not reporting official comments and announcements for they are never without spin for a docile media.
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