Goodbye Bronwyn

[manticle]

It does if a man got fined.

Which man? I can't find a reference to anyone being fined for using the term.

Not saying it didn't happen but are you sure it's not just another urban myth like blackboard and baa baa rainbow sheep?

 

[wide eyed and legless]

No urban myth, absolutely true even got a 12 week prison sentence suspended for 2 years.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Neighbour-row-pensioner-fears-abuse-continue/story-27505477-detail/story.html

 

[Dave70]

Adam Goodes is booed for what he is,

And thats an elite level athlete boasting a 6"4', 100 kg frame.
How many of these fat pisshead sheep do you imagine would approach Goodes in the carpark and boo him within striking distance? About ******* zero would be my guess.
They know, no matter what, Goodes isn't about to jump the fence and claw is way through the crowd to **** your **** up under the the all seeing eye of media networks and a million smartphones.
Cowardice and racism pretty much two sides of the same coin in my book. At least in the intellectual sense.

 

[Dave70]

Unlike Barry hall.
Who likely would jump the fence to hit someone.

What, me??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bylIEK0FM4A

 

[wobbly]

Back to the "nose in the trough pollies" I see Tony Burke has been stumping up over 2.2 million in travel expenses since mid 2008 to that add the "other" expenditure such as office fit outs etc then the figure becomes something like 4.6 million

Wobbly

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Never abuse anybody with one eyebrow.Especially a Frenchman.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Adam Goodes is booed for what he is, not what he does on the ground.
That's racist.

An interesting article on the booing of Adam Goodes from another aboriginal Dallas Scott.
http://theblacksteamtrain.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/the-wayland-smithers-school-of.html?m=1

 

[manticle]

No urban myth, absolutely true even got a 12 week prison sentence suspended for 2 years.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Neighbour-row-pensioner-fears-abuse-continue/story-27505477-detail/story.html

You must be reading different articles. Nothing in there about fining someone for using the word paddy to describe an irishman, nothing about freedom of speech incursion, everything about long term alcohol fuelled verbal abuse.

 

[RobW]

Never abuse anybody with one eyebrow.Especially a Frenchman.

Or John Bourke

 

[wide eyed and legless]

You must be reading different articles. Nothing in there about fining someone for using the word paddy to describe an irishman, nothing about freedom of speech incursion, everything about long term alcohol fuelled verbal abuse.

Obviously a conviction for racially aggravated harassment means he racially taunted him, here is another article.Next to last sentence.

Langley told the court that he did not think the word 'Paddy' was racist, but that he will now 'take note' that it is.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3183942/Dover-pensioner-80-banned-speaking-neighbour-75.html

 

[malt and barley blues]

Or John Bourke

What a **** head.

 

[manticle]

Obviously a conviction for racially aggravated harassment means he racially taunted him, here is another article.Next to last sentence.

Langley told the court that he did not think the word 'Paddy' was racist, but that he will now 'take note' that it is.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3183942/Dover-pensioner-80-banned-speaking-neighbour-75.html

He didn't get fines just for using the word Paddy and it's disingenuous to suggest he did. I'm sure he said and did more than that in 5 years.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

He didn't just get fined he got a 12 week jail sentence as well, suspended for 2 years, of course you wouldn't get that for just saying Paddy, if he hadn't mentioned Paddy in the tirade it would have just been a lesser charge of offensive behavior, and the magistrate had obviously told him that Paddy was a racial slur,( as it is under the racial and religious hatred act )
otherwise he wouldn't have replied that he did not think the word 'Paddy' was racist but he will now take note that it is.

The same laws apply here.

 

[technobabble66]

FWIW, there's a investigative piece on Big Bad Billy Shorten on 4 Corners right now on ABC.
Looks like it might be interesting. Touches on the control the unions have over the ALP by the sound of it.
We'll see....

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Finally found my biscuit tin

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

FWIW, there's a investigative piece on Big Bad Billy Shorten on 4 Corners right now on ABC.
Looks like it might be interesting. Touches on the control the unions have over the ALP by the sound of it.
We'll see....

Can see Tony sitting in front of the TV watching the ABC thinking " Thank You ABC..."

 

[technobabble66]

Meh - not too condemning. Basically made him out to be a somewhat shifty guy hell bent on power and the bunfight required to get it. Seems about normal for the current political climate.

Yet again, Martin Ferguson comes out looking like a vaguely decent kinda guy with some concept of what might be better for Australia; rather than the rest of the goons from both sides that just worry about what's best for them or their mates. Sad day when he walked out; and a poor indictment on the ALP how they've turned on him.

I gotta admit, Eric Abetz is one creepy guy. He really freaks me out.
Just such a truly average person whose only saving grace is also what makes him so scary - he clearly, fervently believes the zealous crap he is shovelling.
Australian politics will be better for the absence of extreme bias from people like him.

He must've pinched himself when 4 Corners asked him to express his opinion of Bill Shorten.

Hey i just realised Bill Shorten's initials are BS (Yeah, i know, I'm a bit slow). Doesn't bode well for a politician. Or maybe that means he's well qualified!

 

[manticle]

Finally found my biscuit tin

Hope there's ******' biscuits in there. I'd murder a blind, deaf negroid paddy mcskip pom for a monte carlo or one of those dark, almost black tim tams.

Although a golden gaytime would also go down a treat.

For the record WEAL, I'm an anarcho-individualistic libertarian with optimistic nihilist tendencies and I thoroughly support anyone's right to be a racist arsehole in verbal or written communication.
The same communication can and should be used to rebut, rejoinder and debate all unintelligent behaviour. Communication, rather than legislation. It can also be used simply to remind some people of the racist arseholes they really are. The fact that Andrew Bolt somehow seems genuinely hurt when someone suggests he is a racist is almost as hilarious as the fact he believes his politics are moderate or only slightly right of centre. Legislation used against these kinds of people just provides excuses for martydom.

That said, I've not been a target of racial abuse. I might feel differently if I had been.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

I thought that Bill came out of that pretty poorly, I wonder how many workers have been at the ****** end of Bills negotiating stick, now we know why his nickname is 'Slippery Shorten'
Agree with you technobabble, it seemed Martin Ferguson was the only one who knew what was going on behind the scenes, he is right the union movement does have to much power over the ALP, and he is all for the Royal Commission. I liked the comment at the end about the union candidates in the ALP, where he said they sit around waiting for the for the phone to ring so the union can tell them what to do.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/martin-ferguson-talks-union-influence-over-labor-party/6717642

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Can see WEAL sitting in front of the TV watching the ABC thinking " Thank You ABC..."

FTFY