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Muslim friends have been
quick to defend their friend and colleague Jack Thomas, who has been arrested
in Pakistan on suspicion of Al Qaeda involvement. It's good to see the Muslim community call for a fair trail, but Jack Thomas is
a Muslim convert who chose 'Jihad' as his Muslim name. The sound-bytes from his religious colleagues have been too attractive for
the media to pass
up. 'I don't think that Jihad has anything to do with Al Qaeda',
'Jihad must be given a fair hearing', and 'Bring Jihad to
Australia'. Of course the politically-correct
ABC has been quick to point out
that technically Jihad means
'struggle'. But didn't say what with. 'The infidel' might not have been
politically expedient. Needless to say, neither the Australian government or the
mainstream community has been up in arms about this. A Muslim calling himself 'Jihad', and expecting sympathy from mainstream
Australia is a bit like a redneck calling himself 'The Rapist' and expecting a warm
welcome from a feminist
group - or a Negro choosing to join the KKK, and expecting to be promoted to
Chief Wizard. It ain't going to happen anytime soon.
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| Kim Says No to Non-proliferation Treaty | |
Playboy dictator Kim Jong Il, of the People's Paradise Utopian Republic of North Korea has pulled out
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This is arguably the most honest thing he has done in his entire career. Mostly the left is staying silent about recent developments on the Korean
Peninsula, being unable to blame the US for the developments without
using the kind of bent logic
that would embarrass even a self-justifying Cheryl Kernot. But others are carrying on about North Korea breaking international law by
pulling out of the treaty. This has to be expected of people who are naive or
dishonest enough to believe in the existence of international law - a
fundamental contradiction in itself. Treaties are not
enduring. Unless the treaty specifies a given expiration date, participants can
pull out of them when they choose. North Korea agreed to be a signatory to the
treaty - and have now announced that they no longer are. The fundamental dishonesty in the actions of North Korea was in continuing to
develop the nukes while they were still signatories. But did anyone think
the Korean government was honest? [OK, thanks Bill - put your hand down now,
and do up your trousers too, and can you stop that young woman doing that
until we are finished ..?]. Does the North Korean government have the right
to abandon the treaty. Well, they have the same rights to abandon it as they
had to sign it in the first place - none. The North Korean government is not a
legitimate government in that it gives its people neither democracy or freedom. When the US, and the corrupt undemocratic rabble
in the UN accepted
the late Kim Il Sung's signature on the treaty, they accepted his regime as the
legitimate government. They have little choice now, but to accept as
legitimate Kim Jong Il's right to abandon it. Dubya kind of inherited this from
Bill, just as KJI inherited rights from KIS. Of course the US are also quite within their rights to take pre-emptive
defensive action. Whether the threat is great enough to nuke Pyongyang is a
question that we will be debating for a very long time - regardless of whether
it happens or not. But the Korean peninsula is a bit cold this time of year (that's must be
why so many North Koreans are freezing and starving to death, while the South
Koreans are doing so well). The Americans are going to spend this winter
someone a little warmer. Somewhere where there's more .. sun.
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| The common castor oil plant | |
They say resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person
to die. But Muslim resentment
of the West is
manifesting itself in more direct ways in mother England. A bunch of North African nut-cases have been caught manufacturing Ricin in
their flat in North London. Ricin is a more toxic poison than cyanide - a
salt-grain sized dose will kill a person - and there is no cure for it. At the risk of giving fundamentalist Muslims dangerous ideas, it is common
knowledge that ricin occurs naturally in the beans of castor oil plants, which
grow in the wild in many parts of the world including Australia. That fundamentalist Muslims would purify ricin shouldn't surprise anyone.
Experiences in the NY-WTC and Bali have shown
they have a propensity for psychosis and murder. What may embarrass some
lefties is that some of
the people arrested for this are asylum seekers. After years of protests from the left that asylum seekers are no threat,
that these are the people who are fleeing repression, and therefore
couldn't possibly be bringing it with them, politically correct
attitudes towards asylum seekers may now need more defense than the usual
slogans about compassion and equality. The politically correct English practice of not only letting asylum seekers out
into the community, but also paying for their rent, food, and allowances looks
like it may have come back to poison them. The raids discovered only a small
quantity of ricin, but police suspect a considerable quantity was produced. How
does the average English taxpayer feel about being forced to pay taxes to fund
fundamentalist Muslims to plot to kill them? Unfortunately it will be very difficult for the English to do anything
about it. Asylum seeking arrivals number hundreds per week, and they have been
arriving for years. The English have been simply accepting their applications,
and putting them on welfare, and hoping that the
problem won't come to a head until after the next election. Rejectees (those
who have their applications refused) simply don't make themselves available for
removal, and vanish into the rest of the immigrant population. The English simply don't have the resources to detain them all. They can't
even build detention centers fast enough for the new arrivals - let alone start
clearing the backlog. It will take a brave and determined government to tackle the
problem, and moderate leftie Tony (don't-mention-my-missus)
Blair is too busy playing war games in the Middle East to tackle the
far more serious issues on the home front. He is trying to maintain the empire,
when the enemy is already in the walls of Rome. There is little point taking out a potential WMD source
from overseas when the WMDs can be created locally so easily. Insanity can be hereditary but this is one idiocy that Australia seems set to avoid
catching from the mother country. Australia's mandatory detention
policy seems more robust than ever.
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| Nauru - Australia's Detention Outhouse | |
Members of the the ALP have been desperate to link Nauru's recent political coup
with Australia's 'Pacific Solution', involving over 1000 asylumseekers on the
small island nation. The usual weasel words were emanating from the ALP's Kevin
(never-commit-to-anything)
Rudd about the pacific solution being 'controversial', and Australia being responsible
for 'contributing to instability in the Pacific', but beyond that, couldn't
actually link the two. His implication is that Australia's pressuring Nauru to
accept the asylum seekers has caused a leadership spill. The truth is quite different. Nauru is much like the rest of the Pacific
islands - run by a corrupt
and incompetent government. The difference
is that Nauru used to be rich, and none of the other islands were. Nauru had
reserves of $AU2Billion dollars from its now exhausted phosphate mining
operation. The money has been
squandered by corruption and incompetence, and the mining operations have
stripped the entire island to the point where nothing can now be grown on it. All of this is rather sad, but not as sad as the fact that even now, the
country's leaders won't tell the people the true state of their financial affairs, so
they just limp from debt repayment to debt repayment. The government has
changed nine times in six years, and each successive administration knows that as
soon as they make the information public they will be thrown out. So the people put up with being kept in the dark, because maybe it's better not
to know. The arrival of 1050-odd asylum seekers to the island brought a badly needed
$AU30Million in aid, and allowed the government to limp along some more.
It also brought in other money, as Australian government officials, detention
center workers and ever the occasional journalist came to Nauru and spent
money. And apart from the occasional tantrum from former president Rene Harris who ranted
about the asylum seekers being a 'Pacific Nightmare', things have run pretty
well. The tantrum was basically about the arrangement being open-ended, and
Rene needed to know how long his desperately needed drip-feed was going to
last. So little pork - so many barrels. But currently, public servants are 4 weeks behind on their pay, there is no
cash on the islasnd, and the asylum seekers are eating better than the Naruans.
Nauruans have gotten restless again, and governments have to look like they
are doing something. The Nauruans thinks that if they continually change
governments they will find one who will make them rich again. So in fact Australia's pacific solution didn't cause instability at all - it
allowed Rene Harris to keep power longer than he otherwise would have. But as usual, the ALP never
let the truth stand in the way of their 8 second political sound-byte. They
have no alternative, just a 'non-specific solution'.
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| Smokin' | |
The UN WMD
inspection team in Iraq has
admitted that they have found no smoking gun. Either Saddam's game of hide the
poison-gas has worked, or there is actually nothing to find. Smoking guns seem inevitable though as the US and UK deploy more and more troops in
the MiddleEast 'as a
precautionary measure'. They are hardly likely to have spent all that money gearing up for the war just to pack up and go
home. They are gambling on either WMDs being used in the war, of finding some
after the war. Either would justify the war in the eyes of their swinging
constituents. Iraqi officials have said there is a gun in every household in Iraq, and
people have a willingness to use them. The question is - against who?
George (with-us-or-against-us) Dubya and Tony
(my-wife-is-a-nut-case) Blair are hoping that Iraqis will use the guns to
effect regime change in Baghdad themselves. The best kind of war to have is
the one is someone else's country. Even better if you don't even have to be
there. Of course this military buildup is largely designed to un-nerve
Saddam. Rattling the bars of their cage disorients most savage animals, and
Saddam is no exception. However he is pretty ensconced in Iraqi politics, and he has survived
extreme pressure before - usually just by shooting a few more people. It looks like the Texan cowboy and his faithful dog-of-war are going to have
to confront the despot. Dogs normally go mad on a full moon, but the 1991
bombing campaign started when there was a 'new' moon. The thought
of their stealth bombers being shot down in the light of a full moon was too
embarrassing for the US, so they waited until there was no moon. This would
suggest February first 2003 as a good time to start the Gulf War III. It's not just the West that was wild - now it's the Middle East as
well. Saddam! Draw!
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| Chinese Censorship | |
Blogger Jon Jay Ray claims that
The Chinese have blocked domestic access to the popular blogging site
blogspot.com. This should come as no surprise to China watches. No government likes being
criticized, but democratic governments are more likely to lose power if they repress criticism,
whereas dictatorships
are more likely to retain power by doing so. However it is mistake to assume that the Chinese leadership has directly
ordered this, or even that the leadership knows what is going on.
Dictatorships, like democracies, have ill-defined power-blocks, and complex
power structures. Middle Level Agents (MLAs) are people who aren't part of the
central power block, but enjoy some power and privilege, which they would
likely lose it in a change to democracy. These MLAs often take it upon themselves to enforce censorship, largely in
anticipation of orders coming from above. Orders from above are scary in any bureaucracy, but even more
so in a dictatorship because they may contain orders like replacement, or
arbitrary execution. The Internet, however,
was designed to be decentralized, and survive all kinds of attacks, and partial
unavailability. If part of it is taken out, the information routes around it -
in effect it is 'self healing'. As the enthusiasts say: 'the Internet
interprets censorship as damage and routes around it'. The Chinese
government can slow the dissemination of information, but ultimately the
realities of the laws of information flow will make it available. The Chinese government still don't understand the relationship between freedom of expression and
creation of wealth, and they
will continue this hypocrisy for some time yet. In the meantime, people will just have to be more innovative. The glory of
the Internet protocols is that most of them can encapsulate the others. Anyone
want to set up an auto mailer, which mails the HTTP for given pages
periodically to residents of the People's Democratic Utopian Paradise Republic
of China? Or How about an an HTTP proxy embedded in an SMTP server with
encrypted attachments? The genie is out of the bottle. Ultimately information will be free
... it's just a matter of time before someone with a lot of free time does
these things.
UPDATE 2003-01-17: JonJayRay
says the siege has now been lifted. It is not uncommon for the Chinese to do these things and reverse them a
few days later. They did this for google.com a few months back. What is going on is that the Chinese are testing their ability to clamp down on
sites if necessary. If there is another US spy-plane incident, or Belgrade
embassy bombing something or similar, they can control the population, and
prevent a possible revolution. After the
spy-plane incident, Chinese authorities closed down the cyber-cafes to
avoid a repeat of the out-of-control demonstrations which occurred after the
US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Bosnian conflict. Sudden mass protests could produce calls for a change of government. China is a political tinder box.
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| A good example | |
The Australian Islamic spiritual chief has
claimed that he is a victim
of racism after he was
arrested in Sydney. In one of the few occasions where he has actually condescended to speaking
English, Sheik Taj El Din
Al Hilaly took a leaf out of John (multicultural)
Howard's book and described the actions of police as 'not the Australian way of
doing things'. Presumably the ALP-imported
Hilaly thinks that driving an unregistered, uninsured car with a metal object
sticking out of the window before resisting arrest was quite Australian. He was
also quite happy with (what eyewitnesses described as) a passerby attacking the
policemen conducting the arrest. What an excellent way to provide spiritual leadership to a minority increasingly
criticized for violence,
lawlessness and intolerance -
by breaking the law and resisting arrest. Even better was his lawyer's claim that he
was considering taking legal action against the the police. And after agreeing
that the car was unregistered 'at the time', he said this had since been
rectified. Apparently driving an unregistered car is OK, provided you get it
registered after you are caught. Perhaps this principle also applies to
getting insurance? It is a little hard to understand what makes Hilaly an expert on the
'Australian way of doing things' - speaking only very broken English with
verbal prompts from his aides, and having previously preached that Jews were 'the cause of
all wars and problems which threaten the peace and stability of the
world'. He is hardly an role model on integration. Perhaps Hilaly is confusing Australian law with the corrupt lawlessness in his
native Egypt, where being caught risking the lives of fellow
motorists would be easily solved with a modest 'donation' to the police. Not here, Sheik. Welcome to Australia, now please leave.
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| Whose ABC? | |
The great Stalinist symbol of the state-controlled media enterprise, the ABC, has quietly changed their
slogan. It used to belong to you - you paid the taxes, and it was
(appropriately) Your ABC. Of course some taxpayers didn't want to own a media enterprise, and
couldn't really see the justice in being forced to pay 10c a day for
something they didn't ask for or want, but the collectivist coalitions in society won the day, and the
leftist propaganda machine
still thrives to this day. But it no longer belongs to you. It is now Everybody's
ABC. Presumably it now also belongs to everyone in the entire world -
regardless of their nationality, and regardless of whether they have any obligation to pay for it. Of course it is still only on the Australian taxpayer who is
still forced to pay the 10c a day - so most of the Friends of the ABC can be
comforted to know they are successfully forcing every Australian
taxpayer to subsidize their chosen lifestyle - watching the lowest rating Australian
network after SBS. All in the name of greater choice.
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| Casualty: Credibility | |
The first casualty of any war, they say, is the truth. In
the case of the Russia's Chechen conflict, the second seems to have been their
credibility. ABC 2002-01-03
reports that a Russian officer has been acquitted of murdering a young Chechen woman
in March 2000. The officer was acquitted on the grounds of suffering 'temporary
insanity'. The officer was apparently so insane that he abducted the 18 year old woman
and strangled her during interrogation. We was also insane enough to rape and sodomize her. And the
insanity must have been contagious because other reports reveal that his
colleagues had tried to incinerate the woman's body to hide the evidence. Sadly, rape, torture
and murder occur in nearly every war, and by soldiers (and civilians) on nearly
every side. Sadly too, military officials try to
cover them up. The more undisciplined and corrupt the soldiers (yes, they were
Russian) the more it happens. But the real test of a nation's character is what
happens when the cases go to trial. It is a little hard to sympathize with a people who elect a government which appoints a
judiciary which acquits murdering rapists. Russia has just lost any credibility it had as the legitimate
government of Chechnya - it will simply be regarded as an invading and
pillaging force. After the theatrical, and tragic, hostage drama late last
year, Chechen rebels are unlikely to make the mistake of taking hostages again,
but the Russian people can expect the less-than-temporary-insanity of more
suicide bombings in Moscow.
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| Your taxes at work | |
Bushfires are known to spread rapidly, but over the last three days fires have
been spreading between detention centers in Baxter, Woomera, Port Hedland,
Villawood and even Christmas Island! Initially rejectee-apologists were
claiming that it could be accidental - a claim that even the Baktiaris would be
reluctant to put their visa application. But now the rejectee-apologists have
changed tack, and are blaming the government's policy detention policy. Detainees, they say, have been reduced to this because of the inhumane policy
of rejecting their applications and sending them home. In other words, one fire
would have been accidental, but nine are justified. It's easy to believe that these detainees are thugs who believe that the best
way to get what they want is through threats, intimidation, violence and arson,
but that would be ignoring the facts. These people have already had their
applications refused. They have gone through the entire appeal process, and
lost at every stage. They have no chance of staying in Australia, and fully
understand they are going to be sent home. These are not people who just use violence and arson for a
purpose - they are people who use violence and arson even when there is no
purpose. This is just Payback: payback to the Australian people; payback to the taxpayer; payback for saying "we
don't want people like you in our country"; payback for making a judgment which
now seems to have been vindicated.
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