Happy Australia Day?

[dales]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... afety.html

[Lord Jim]

Wow...that's a little undignified...

And in one picture, she looks genuinely terrified...

I don't understand why her security handled it this way....Why didn't they have the cops clear the demonstrators out before they escorted her out? Or why didn't they take her out through a different exit?

[Gob]

She, and the opposition leader, were at an awards ceremony. There would ave been little security presence, just her own small personal protection entourage. The wankers from the"tent embassy"ambushed what should have been a pleasant event, and as usual, brought nothing but hate and shame on themselves.

[Sean]

Maybe surprisingly, there has been virtually universal condemnation of the protesters. They may have just set their cause back a long way. Shamefully, no arrests were made. Many people are wondering aloud how many arrests would have been made if a similar situation had occurred with the non-indigenous 'Occupy' protesters.
The general feeling amongst Aussies seems to be horror... not so much that they attacked the PM but that they attacked a woman.

Personally, I think Abbott got this one spot on! The tent embassy needs to be removed. It is nothing more than an obstruction to reconciliation. And if the people in the tents have such a problem with the 'illegal and invading government' then the first thing they should do is to stop taking fucking handouts from that Government!

[Lord Jim]

Maybe surprisingly, there has been virtually universal condemnation of the protesters.

That's as maybe, but you don't allow your Head of Government to be embarrassed this way

[Sean]

I agree 100% Jim. The reason I wrote 'surprisingly' is because a lot of Australians tend to be over-tolerant when it comes to indigenous people. Maybe it's a national sense of guilt but I firmly believe that in situations like this (and in all situations) they should be treated the same as any other Australian.

Indulgence is not the same as equality.

[Gob]

That's as maybe, but you don't allow your head of Government to be embarrassed this way

We should do it the American way!

[Lord Jim]

Well Old Darling, as a result of those events, this sort of thing would never happen to an American President....

The Secret Service would have insisted that the local coppers disperse the mob before The President was escorted through that exit, and if they didn't have confidence in the ability of the locals to do that, they would have called in an armored helicopter to take him out from the roof....

[Lord Jim]

Could you imagine John Howard being dragged through an unruly mob by his security folks in this humiliating fashion?

He'd have had the wogs machine gunned....

[Sean]

No no no Jim, they weren't Wogs, they were Abos!*

When Howard was PM he would go for a very public jog every morning. No security detail as such, just a bloke in a tracksuit running with him. Because of this incident we may never see scenes like that again with any PM and that alone is quite saddening.



*Whoops! I was channelling Major Gowan for a moment there...

[dales]

No Secret Service here....wait who's that guy in the trench coat?

[Sean]

Tchah! You expect me to believe that those women are real fast food servers Dales?

And who's the suspicious looking character peeping over the display cabinet?

[Gob]

Could you imagine John Howard being dragged through an unruly mob by his security folks in this humiliating fashion?

On 2 August 2006, Reucassel responded to a news story about a private school student who had hugged former Prime Minister John Howard while holding a screwdriver during one of the PM's morning walks. To test the Prime Minister's security arrangements, he approached John Howard during a morning walk and asked for a hug while holding a large plastic battle axe. Reucassel did receive the hug, but a later approach while holding a running chainsaw was not so successful

*Whoops! I was channelling Major Gowan for a moment there...

Sean Strange creatures, women. I knew one once... striking-looking girl... tall, you know... father was a banker.
Jim : Really?
Sean : Don't remember the name of the bank.
Jim : Nevermind.
Sean : I must have been rather keen on her because I took her to see... the protests!
Jim : Protests
Sean : At the Aussie parliament... fine match, marvellous finish... now, Gillard had to hand out some medals or something... she went off to powder her... powder her hands or something... women... er... never came back.
Jim : What a shame.
Sean : And the strange thing was... throughout the morning she kept referring to the protestors as Wogs. "No no no," I said, "the Wogs are the Politicans. These people are Abos." "No, no," she said. "All protestors are wogs."
Jim : They do get awfully confused, don't they? They're not thinkers. I see it with Sybil everyday.
Sean : I do wish I could remember her name. She's still got my wallet.
Jim : As I was saying, no capacity for logical thought.
Sean : Who?
Jim : Women.
Sean : Oh yes, yes... I thought you meant protestors.

[loCAtek]

Wow...that's a little undignified...

And in one picture, she looks genuinely terrified...

I don't understand why her security handled it this way....Why didn't they have the cops clear the demonstrators out before they escorted her out? Or why didn't they take her out through a different exit?

Escorted? More like dragging her out by her heels ...while pushing old men down the stairs. Was she too terrified to move herself?
Don't they have fire drills in Oz government?
I agree, Jim this looks like a total cluster-panic with no evac plan.

[Sean]

Really? You'd twist this whole situation like that just so you can have what you think is a swipe against Australia?

Escorted? More like dragging her out by her heels ...while pushing old men down the stairs. Was she too terrified to move herself?

Which part of 'angry mob' is difficult for you to understand?

Don't they have fire drills in Oz government?

Now that's just ridiculous and doesn't deserve any more of a response.

I agree, Jim this looks like a total cluster-panic with no evac plan.

Thankfully we live in a country where our elected leader doesn't need to have an evac plan everytime she leaves her bed and doesn't need to give speeches from behind bullet proof glass. We're hoping to keep it that way.

[Gob]

She's hooked you again Sean.

[Sean]

She's gotten away with far too much shit lately and quite frankly mate, I've had a gutful.

[Gob]

Fair play.

But you know what she's going to do. She'll post shit. Refuse to substantiate or justify any of it. Act stupid. Post more shit.

The object of the exercise is just to gain attention.

[Sean]

Well hopefully she will and hopefully those here that defend her will finally see her for what shwe really is.

[loCAtek]

shwe[sic] asks you to look to the photographic evidence you've provided.

Dragged by her heels [backwards BTW, no wonder she lost a shoe];



Pushing an old man down the stairs, look right, an Abo at that;



Tell me this is anything other than cluster-forkism, 'eh?