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| Police to charge author of call-to-brawl text |
| 2005-12-09 |
| POLICE will prosecute under racial vilification (anti-free speech) laws the author of a mass text message calling on "Aussies" to attack Lebanese on the southern Sydney beach of North Cronulla. Anyone looking at what the Lebs and Wogs have been "called upon" to do in their Madras schoools? NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney made the promise as police prepared to turn out in large numbers tomorrow in case there's a clash between locals and visitors. Lebanese youth leader Fadi Rahman told The Weekend Australian yesterday that many young people in his community were beginning to wonder if they would ever feel as though they belonged in Australia. Quick answer is NO! "There is this feeling of despair that we will ever fit in," he said. "They feel like strangers in their own country. "Let's not forget these kids are born and raised in Australia; they were not born and raised overseas. Not that it matters, still muzzies. "We're heading for disaster, as far as I'm concerned." Mr Rahman called for new sedition laws to be used to prosecute the author of the text messages which urge "Aussies to attack Lebs and wogs" tomorrow. A spokeswoman for federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the laws, which have yet to be enacted, were designed to target people who incited one group to violence against another. On the beach, suspicions continued to simmer yesterday. "They're not here to swim," said one Cronulla resident, pointing to four "ethnic looking" men fully dressed and walking down to the sand without bags or towels. Five men of Middle Eastern extraction who were enjoying the beach yesterday said they felt alienated "because of the way we look". "Everyone gives us crap because of the way we look," said one young man, who sat on the sand with shoes off but otherwise fully clothed with his five mates yesterday. Cronulla local Katrina, 16, said she was glad of the increased police presence at the beach. "Hopefully, it will stop trouble between the Aussies and the wogs," she said. "They don't understand ... no one owns the beach - everyone has the right to come here." Angry Cronulla residents shouted down NSW Premier Morris Iemma at a news conference he called yesterday to offer reassurances about public safety in the Sydney community. North Cronulla Beach has been the scene of two incidents in the past week. Two lifeguards were attacked by Wogs last Sunday and there was a brawl later in the week in which youths turned on a media crew. Residents have complained of harassment by visiting groups Lebs & Wogs of young men to the extent that some locals no longer use the beach. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Lebanese youth leader Fadi Rahman told The Weekend Australian yesterday that many young people in his community were beginning to wonder if they would ever feel as though they belonged in Australia perhaps if you dropped the "Lebanese", idjit. Unassimilated, yet stomping their little feet and demanding everyone else not judge them? FOAD |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-12-09 18:33 |
| #7 A wog is someone who identifiably 'foreign' in looks, dress or speech. An American wouldn't be a wog becuase a funny accent isn't enough to qualify. It has nothing to do with American sensitivity to race issues. BTW, the media has been dancing around this issue for several days. They can't come out and say what the problem is or that Arabs are causing it, yet still vaguely allude to an ethnic dimension and vaguely blame 'native' Australians for the problem'. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-12-09 18:13 |
| #6 In disfavor now due to lack of precision, the term doesn't discriminate enough between Arabs, Pakistanis and Chineese. More precise words have been made available thru the Amazing Anglo-Saxon Cussing Labs. Consult your local street corner. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-12-09 16:22 |
| #5 Thanks, moose. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-09 15:54 |
| #4 I hate how the Muslims perpetrate attacks and then when the retribution comes its racist or imperealist and the LLL's media and ilk just eat it up like candy. Erhhrh two incidents in the past week. Two lifeguards were attacked by Wogs last Sunday and there was a brawl later in the week in which youths turned on a media crew Why dont anyone ask this Wog Leb whatever what he thinks of the guys who did these attacks?? Will he condem them and appologize and instead of crying racist crapola stand up and complain about how a minority in his community ruin it for the good muslims. Tell the reporter that he and his group instead of crying about racism is going to go out and find them then turnover that minority that is making them look bad and suffer. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-12-09 15:50 |
| #3 And don't forget WOGettes..... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-12-09 15:50 |
| #2 The Wiki is fairly accurate: "...British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend. The origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim that it originated from acronyms for "Worthy/Wily Oriental Gentleman" or variants thereof, or for "Workers of Government" or "Wards of Government", used to refer to early immigrants into the United Kingdom. Such attempts to explain the word's origin are apocryphal at best and have no foundation in fact. The use of the word is discouraged in Britain, and most dictionaries refer to the word with the caution that it is slang, derogatory, and offensive. James Robertson & Sons, a British manufacturer of jams and preserves, discontinued use of the Golliwog as its trademark in the early 1990s for similar reasons. It is generally considered unwise to use it in modern Britain without expecting an extreme reaction. The phrase "The wogs start at Calais" is commonly used to characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the view that Britain (more commonly England) is inherently separate from (and superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog" describes any foreign, un-English person." (Wiki ends) However, Americans, North and South are never referred to as "wogs", because of the British recognition of the extreme sensititivity Americans have to racial issues. i.e., they might get their nose broken. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-12-09 15:33 |
| #1 What exactly is a "wog"? |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-09 14:36 |