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| Traitors in our fight for survival |
| 2004-03-13 |
| HOW evil that while Spain drags out its dead, our academics and arts bosses roll out a blood-red carpet for apologists for similar terror. From Madrid came pictures of what’s left of the trains and people who were blown up by bombers possibly from al-Qaida. "I saw a baby torn to bits," said one survivor, Ana Maria Mayor, her voice cracking. That baby was the target of these killers, and so were the thousands of innocents -- mothers, fathers, children -- who travelled with her or him. Sorry. There’s the word "innocent" that so irks Yvonne Ridley, in Melbourne this week as a guest of Monash University. You may have heard her on Jon Faine’s show on ABC 774. She’s the British journalist who converted to Islam and worked for the extremist al Jazeera Islamic news service. What you didn’t hear on the show, however, is that Ridley reportedly told a Belfast meeting of the Islamic Students Association in January there was no innocent Israeli when it came to suicide bombings. Not even children. "There are no innocents in this war," she raged, because children could grow up to be Israeli soldiers. And talk of "suicide bombers" was "insulting": "Let’s call suicide bombers by their proper name, which is martyrs." This is a woman who wed a colonel in the terrorist PLO, and who says the jailed Abu Hamza, spiritual head in Europe of al-Qaida, is "so nice" that "I don’t have a problem with him". Yet here she is as the guest of Monash University’s funky School of Social and Political Inquiry, one of those taxpayer-funded bodies devoted to the trivial and recklessly perverse -- a true sign of our decline into barbarity. The school’s head, Peter Lentini, for instance, gets big grants from the Australian Research Council to write Raging Against the Machine: Popular Music, Politics and Identity and to do a "comparative study of Australian and American soccer supporters’ cultures". That’s when he’s not working on "identity politics in the Melbourne punk community". But so many of our public institutions have this cultural death wish, thus aiding those who side with barbarians in their war against civilisation. SBS recently ran yet another "documentary" by "journalist" John Pilger in which he claims the US is far more evil than the genocidal Saddam Hussein. On Wednesday, Pilger appeared on ABC TV’s Lateline to promote his noxious views and declare it was "incredibly important" that the "resistance" in Iraq defeated the US, and so stop it from confronting, say, North Korea or Iran. Yes, true. He was asked: "Can you approve in that context the killing of American, British or Australian troops who are in the occupying forces?" His answer: "Well yes, they’re legitimate targets." What about policemen of newly liberated Iraq being blown up by suicide bombers? They were targets, too, Pilger said, because they were "collaborators" and "vicious". And what about the women and children splattered over a mosque by yet more suicide bombers, linked to al-Qaida? "Well, of course, the killing of innocent people can’t be condoned under any circumstances, but in all resistances, it happens," Pilger shrugged. This apologist for terrorists -- this moral pygmy -- is not only welcomed into an ABC studio and promoted by SBS, but is honoured with an exhibition by the Melbourne Museum. All paid for by you. Likewise, the Melbourne Writers Festival, also backed by taxpayers, last year hired as its keynote speaker Tariq Ali, the Trotskyist agitator who endorses the murder of Iraqi "collaborators" -- like, I assume, the dozens of Iraqi Red Cross workers and United Nations staff who were blown up by suicide bombers. Sydney University last year gave its Sydney Peace Prize to Hanan Ashrawi of the PLO, whose boss, Yasser Arafat, runs an Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade that bombs buses filled with Israeli women and children. And Melbourne University lecturer Janet McCalman trilled that "the shocking events of September 11 may have served some good purpose if they awakened the complacent", such as, she said, "naive" Yankee tourists. The evil Spanish bombings show we are in a war to defend civilisation -- a war that now stretches from Madrid to Melbourne and New York to Bali. But not all the enemies of our civilisation are Islamic or foreigners. Many are people we pay to defend our culture, but, we find, betray it instead. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #15 Until about half through I thought I was reading quite a good parody. I then realized Eleano actually believes this demented crap. These idiots don't seem to grasp that each new outrage brings them closer to what they claim is already happening, a war to exterminate Islam. We need to rename the WoT to the War on Islam. |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-3-13 9:10:25 PM |
| #14 I was wondering where Yvonne went. I was hoping she was some Taliban regiments' fuck toy by now. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-3-13 9:06:54 PM |
| #13 Super Hose! Super Hose! Per your request of Thursday. Eleano <----------------- it's the McCoy |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-13 7:05:47 PM |
| #12 I liked the "spaghetti twisters Italians" thing. Never heard of that one. Y'ever wonder, how it is that 300 million Arabs come to believe that all their problems are caused by a mere 6 million Jews occupying a largely worthless plot of land the size of New Jersey, and that they themselves are utterly blameless for their miserable condition? How do people end up believing a load of crap like that? What is it, something in the water over there that makes them crazy? Is it bad genes? False religion? What is it? Just for kicks, Google on the phrase "1.2 billion helpless Muslims" and read a fine article by a typical raving moonbat raghead. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-13 5:07:09 PM |
| #11 Eleano--terrorist Islamic shitheads come to Spain and the US and kill Westerners, and it's all the fault of the Jews of course. Here's hoping the next bomb falls on your mom's head. Meanwhile, enjoy your dhimmitude. |
| Posted by: BMN 2004-3-13 5:02:36 PM |
| #10 Sheesh, where to begin? Fisking such screeching is pointless - you just have to take the pkg, the message in toto, and accept that there are murderous lunatic fucktards amongst us. If I didn't know the Arabs, I might say to Eleano, "Yo, Izzoidboy, suck me!" - but he would probably be favorably inclined and call my bluff. Kill it - it's broken and it can't be fixed - sorry Ketchup Grrl - it's real blood you LLL idjit. As for Yvonne Ridley and John Pilger, their individual moments of truth will arive when their buddies bring "resistance" to their cushy complacent home territory. When they kill a few hundred Hyde Park Rangers or blow up Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera, well, I guess then we'll see if their Lunar Support Base feels quite so "progressive". Meanwhile, the Ketchup-Grrls of the world will continue to sit on boards and councils and push to fund this UnApologist Jet Set out of taxpayer pockets. Sadly, some people seem inured to the facts. I guess, in the end, there's just no substitute for finding the blood of your dead dismembered baby splattered all over your face and then hearing Yvonne (or her ilk) explaining to your neighbors that an insanely pointless slaughter was actually a glorious act of martyrdom. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-13 5:01:14 PM |
| #9 I really have to protest against the word "moral pgymy"... a grave insult to some fine African people. John Pilger is one of those guys who better pray that they never meet me. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-3-13 4:12:57 PM |
| #8 a real, live, brain-dead one. |
| Posted by: B 2004-3-13 4:10:11 PM |
| #7 There is not difference between the blood of Iraqi, afganistan, or Palestinian child blow by warmongers bastards, and the child kill in Haifa, Madrid or New York No one ever said there was |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-3-13 4:07:42 PM |
| #6 Whoa, we've got a live one here! LMAO |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-13 4:05:09 PM |
| #5 As American morons, Israeli Jews bastards, spaghetti twisters Italians, and Brits euro hillbilly, and for last the Spaniards masses are discovering. The last 25 years of oil driven Zionistic inspirited financed politics of oppression and suppression and cultural and moral degradation of financial, cultural and economic WAR waged against Arabs and Middle East people for the sole benefit of the racist and unnatural state of Israel and is vociferous supporters. Is causing is repercussions Also supported by the masses of complacent media laborers trying to please their Jew bosses The message is you vote for a Zionist thief bastard anti Arab politician you paid the consequences As this is the price to paid for voting and putting in place pro or Zionist scum. There is not difference between wage a war with trained soldiers and state of the art weapons that kill people’s civilians and or complainers in Arabs countries, and the people blow to bits in “Civilized “western world There is not difference between the blood of Iraqi, afganistan, or Palestinian child blow by warmongers bastards, and the child kill in Haifa, Madrid or New York |
| Posted by: Eleano 2004-3-13 3:52:34 PM |
| #4 There is an anti-war movement and it's actually something I respect. But the # of people that are really anti-war is a very small % of the population. They are against all violence and live by that belief. The VAST majority of the people in the "anti-war" move are communists, fascists and fundamentalists who have subverted the movement and made it their own. They hide behind an anti-war cloak but they are anything but. This is why you see so many anti-semites and anti-capitalists in the "anti-war" movement today. It's a result of their removal from power in the soviet union, germany etc... they've been forced to sink into the shadows in their attempt to achieve their goals. The true anti-war people were so excited to get this influx of capital and membership into their organizations that they were blind to what was really going on and at this point their voice in the organizations that they started is all but muted. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-13 3:31:45 PM |
| #3 Yes indeed. A small percentage of the anti-war leaders are legitimate pacifists. I repectfully disagree with them. Most are inspired by Marxism or anarchism, two of the most bloodly ideologies ever formulated. They are not, have nver been, and will never be, anti-war. They love war -- as long as its against us. |
| Posted by: closet neo-con 2004-3-13 3:30:40 PM |
| #2 I've often found that when one listens to what the "anti-war" crowd says they are often anything but. Except they thenselves are so blind to their own perceptions of the world that they can confuse themselves. We saw it in New York right after 9-11. We still see it every day |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-3-13 3:19:05 PM |
| #1 what's the problem - they are anti-war? Don't you GET IT?? They support blowing up babies and innocent people because they are for resistance, not war. They are cool - you are uncool. Be cool man!! Be the dude!! Like antiwar - he's cool, he's THE DUDE! He's, like, sooo 60's. Sssseehhhh ...supporting things like Christianity - feeding the hungry, faith, hope chairty- SCOFF - that's all bullshit - those people who feed the hungry are all phonies!! Do you think they give their evening's left over doggie bags to the homeless like antiwar does??? No way!! Supporting democracy and common sense - SOOOOO UNCOOL. Supporting Jihad - now THAT's COOl!!! Cut the head off non-believers. Join hands to support the spoiled children of tyrants who dig mass murder. Those who oppose death and destruction (to Israel and America)....they are zionist Jew loving racist pigs! Be cool man - support rape rooms, Pol Pot, Castro and genocide. Be anti-war. |
| Posted by: B 2004-3-13 3:05:38 PM |