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Post by glendo on Mar 26, 2003 20:22:15 GMT -5
a poster i saw at a anti-war protest in Sydney:
Attacking for Freedom
is like
Fucking for Virginity
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creative use of a metaphor huh?
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Post by daSilva on Mar 27, 2003 11:30:51 GMT -5
Very nice violent protest you had there.  Too bad your message got lost in the melee. |
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Post by pabs on Mar 27, 2003 14:19:51 GMT -5
I am sure that's what Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin had in mind when they freed South America from Spain.
Maybe they weren't virgins?
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Post by glendo on Mar 27, 2003 16:01:04 GMT -5
to dasilva: sydney has a large arab community. i personally connect them to the violence in sydney every other day. there is proof. anyways, they had there go at protesting. look what happens? |
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Post by daSilva on Mar 27, 2003 18:05:12 GMT -5
Wow, I can't believe you blamed the violence on the Arabs.  In all the pictures I've seen the mob looked like Australians to me. |
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Post by CFF on Mar 27, 2003 23:26:07 GMT -5
In all the pictures I've seen the mob looked like Australians to me. daSilva: I agree ... on my TV as well (not only did they look like Australians ... they sounded like Australians too). Me thinks we best ask some Australians .... Rick ? Comments ?? CFF |
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Post by glendo on Mar 30, 2003 13:58:01 GMT -5
as any western world... we have huge multi-cultural communities that are 1st and 2nd generation born in austrailia. they have australian accents etc. but they also still "hang out" within their own communities.
as for "looking" like australians.... please explain? we should all look english/european, just like our Nth american padres. there is no Australian in appearance that stand out, say like asian people do. we are anglo.
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Post by ozcar on Mar 30, 2003 23:16:07 GMT -5
the protests in syndey, melbourne and wider australia were a disgrace...no question.
doesnt mean the rest of us are proud of how our fellow citizens choose to execute their democratic freedoms and the free speech we enjoy in this country...as opposed to the plain execution for free speech which most other countries administer.
although i seem to recall a high degree of unethical, violent and disturbing scenes all over the world..(and i am not talking about Iraq.)
im happy to castigate and denounce the behaviour of our protesters, but to those who chastise australia as being the main protagonists...thats bullshit.
to paraphrase the classic fosters ad - we fight wars, we dont start them.
peace.
for fucks sake....
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Post by daSilva on Mar 31, 2003 10:42:08 GMT -5
I don't think anyone pointed at Australia as being the main protaganist of violent protests.
Glendo, Oz is very like Canada, a multicultural country but with the majority of its citizens still being of Euro descent. The problem with your comment is that you blamed the violence on the Arabs when in all the clips I saw the violence was perpetrated by euro descended Ozzies.
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Post by glendo on Mar 31, 2003 12:31:16 GMT -5
DaSilva.... we must of watched different news articles.
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Post by CFF on Mar 31, 2003 16:53:11 GMT -5
as for "looking" like australians.... please explain? we should all look english/european, just like our Nth american padres. there is no Australian in appearance that stand out, say like asian people do. we are anglo. Glendo: If you go back and check out the 4th post of this thread (your's, where you suggested "sydney has a large arab community. i personally connect them to the violence"), that is what I was referring to. *Not that Arab Australians are any less Australian than indiginous Australians, but in order to clarify MY remarks, I meant the television coverage I saw showed NON-ARAB persons speaking with an Australian accent.* CFF |
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Post by glendo on Apr 1, 2003 16:59:59 GMT -5
enuff said. we have sorted it out.  |
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