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| Ozzie Young Libs (!!!) Call for Terror 'Hit Squads' |
| 2005-08-03 |
| Now that's what I call liberal thinking... h/t LGF Young Libs' terror hit squad Victoria's Young Liberals have called on the Howard Government to train hit squads to track down those behind the Bali bombing. The "war on terror" motion was adopted with a two-thirds majority at a Young Liberal Movement meeting on Monday night. "The YLM calls on the Australian Government to train undercover agents to kidnap or kill those responsible for the Bali bombing," the resolution reads. Supporters of the motion argued the disparity between the 20-year sentence for drug smuggler Schapelle Corby and the two-year sentence for radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakir Bashir justified kidnapping terrorist suspects overseas and bringing them to trial in Australia. The motion was moved by YLM policy vice-president and Melbourne University Liberal Club member Alex Lew. The resolution is not binding on the Liberal Party. There's definitely a different flavor of Kool Aid available Down Under, heh. Let's import some of that, plz. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #13 Yes, we understand these things. When the fools did their Bali evil. They pissed off the "wrong lot of young lads"... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-03 17:36 |
| #12 As others have pointed out, the Oz Liberals are quite different from American libs. Even so, at least one card-carrying American liberal, CBS correspondent Bob Simon, has endorsed a similar approach on a global scale. Simon's ideas go far beyond what the young Liberals in Oz have suggested, however. He has cited a crucial but often overlooked advantage of this "Gideon-Phoenix" approach: nobody even claims that it is legal. How is this an advantage? It avoids changes in statutory law or Constitutional interpretation that could be exploited by oppressors in the future. Incidentally, Bob Simon was captured by the Saddamites and held prisoner for several weeks during DS1. It is just possible that this might have colored his thinking on this. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-03 17:04 |
| #11 The reason for the move from 'liberal' to 'progessive' is the same as the move from 'prune' to 'dried plum'. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-08-03 14:32 |
| #10 From my days of ranting against Aris, I learned that the word "liberal" as a different meaning outside the U.S. Maybe that's why the U.S. liberals want to now call themselves "progressive". One never knows, the phrase "Progressive Leftist" may catch on, after all. The major benefit in the term "Progressive Leftist" would be that there will never again be a confusion in terminology, anywhere in the world. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-03 13:01 |
| #9 Great sentiment but it'd never fly in this country. Too many whiners. |
| Posted by: anon1 2005-08-03 11:16 |
| #8 Phil's right - it's puerile. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-08-03 10:36 |
| #7 Steve: I'm pretty sure most of the world uses "Liberal" in the more classical sense and uses "Social Democrat" for the not-quite-communists. Only in North America (and maybe Britain) have the two been confused. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-03 09:44 |
| #6 damn phil pop a valium this morning |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-08-03 08:56 |
| #5 Sounds like a page out of Mossad and the Munich Olympics. Track 'em down, one by one. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-08-03 08:23 |
| #4 Nice to see that someone is trying to return to a more classical meaning of the word 'liberal'. I'm getting rather tired of the word being a synonym for dictator-worshiping, nanny-state socialism. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2005-08-03 05:35 |
| #3 smn can you stop with the juvenile and moronic inneundos. You come across like you are 14 years old and copying the grownups, except you an adolescents idea of how grownups behave. If you have something to say, then say it. Otherwise STFU. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-08-03 04:47 |
| #2 Wow!! Aussie Young Guns__have balls...will travel! You just know, "W" is smiling and 'Winking' over this one! |
| Posted by: smn 2005-08-03 02:36 |
| #1 Actually, the Australian Liberal Party is Howard's party, while the Labour Party is more akin to the lefties. But DAMN, his party never fails to amaze me. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-08-03 01:46 |