Uh oh!!! is this the beginning of the end for Waleed Aly?! A matter of white and brown!

I’m sure everyone’s seen the Aly- Price discussion. But what are the implications of Aly’s actions?

It’s not a matter of right and wrong – it never is. It’s a matter of white and brown! As Aly himself has implied before, the Gungho Saxon White Supremacist Crusader (GSWSC) mob will tolerate inferior coloured folks as long as they stay in their submissive little corner and continue making the mob fatter and richer. The last thing they want is a Muslim (synonymous to terrorist in Aussie) to have the cheek of cutting off one of the mouth pieces of the neo-con faction of the mob!

Price would never be able to spa with Aly on the basis of intelligence or knowledge on this or perhaps any issue at all. But with Price’s adoring mob dumbly following him, Aly does not stand a chance! Price will not let it stop here. It is a matter of time before the next salvo is fired.

Aly has usually been very cautious about being confrontational and it’s worked well for him with even some white Aussies being able to appreciate his intelligence. His technique has been to ask questions rather than drum points of view.

But with this action, has Aly stepped too far out of his allocated little corner and will all sanity be wiped-out by the overwhelming tribal instincts of the mob and Aly soon be missing from any mainstream media?!

My prediction is that it will start with some pictures of Aly with crazy twisted facial expressions (Alan Jones like) and possibly a picture with him dressed in Islamic attire and brandishing a machine gun (Saddam like!). C’mon Telegraph, get the creative team on to it – let’s see what you can do!

I guess, time will tell!

Is the Australian electorate the most dumb in the world?!

Australia is widely considered as the “Lucky” country. And the “Lucky” country it truly is. A miniscule population sparsely populating the East coast, a few “rich fat white men”greedily and inhumanely protecting “ownership” of this mineral rich continent.

Many Prime Ministers, mostly Labor, have had visions of transforming the nation from simply being a lucky nation to one that is considered an intelligent equal at the global conference – not simply the arse-end hole in the ground providing resources and canon fodder for the wars of the “real” nations. Hawke referred to the “Clever country”, Keating the “creative” country and Gillard the educated country. All of these are great visions, but has Australia actually achieved any of this?

There are many “scientific” ways of analysing this and many of the indicators suggest that we punch way below our weight on measures relating to intelligence. But lets humour ourselves by looking at it from a perspective that’s never been done before!! – that is from the perspective of the Australian electorate's ability to elect intelligent capable people to lead the nation. The proof of such an assessment would suggest that we are rapidly travelling in the opposite direction to the vision.

In recent times, there have been two rather telling arguments being presented in the media about the quality of the current mob in government.

1. Is Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott the most incompetent leader of any industrialized democracy?
2. Is Tony Abbott’s regime the worst federal government ever?

The first argument was presented by none other than a non-Australian think tank focussed on the Asia Pacific region. The assessment of the PM came rather late – many had made this judgement even before Phony was elected let alone a year and a bit after. The Joshua Kurlantzick’s view was a refreshing outsider perspective that cut above the usual blinkered, inward-looking squabbling that one finds in the comments of the Sydney Morning Herald.

What is ironic is that we had the clear opportunity to elect arguably the most intelligent PM that we (or any country) ever had in Malcolm Turnbull, but we declined this. Malcolm is considered un-electable by his own party. Why, you may ask?!! Sadly the answer is that he is seen as too smart for the job!

OK, voting Phony to be the “captain” could be seen as an oversight by the electorate. After all, the electorate does not select it’s PM, it simply elects members of Parliament and it is the Liberal party that choses it’s leader. But the electorate has no excuse for electing the government – that lies fairly and squarely in the hands and mind (however little) of the electorate.

The electorate kicked out one government due to a single so called “lie” for a government that was lies, lies and nothing but lies!! The Australian public have had to deal with so many lies over the last year or so that we are completely insensitive to it – a far cry from where they were when the previous government was in power. Where Australia felt that Julia should be kicked out purely due to a half lie (yes, a half lie because the party had never shied away from a carbon price and whilst a market based system was it’s preference, due to the Green’s, Labor had to compromise and have a Tax/ levy – whatever one wants to call it - for a limited period, prior to moving to a Market base solution), but a tsunami of lies has done little to Phony’s position in the polls.

The sudden change in the electorate’s appetite for lies is obvious. I guess it’s a bit like rain – when there is a drought, even a slight sprinkle is noticed but during a monsoon, we simply don’t care about each shower of rain! Undoubtedly, Phony and his merry men have conditioned the Aussie electorate and are capitalising on the insensitivity of the electorate to broken promises.

The lack of capability of this government to achieve anything visionary or otherwise is astounding – the statistics show that as highlighted in the second article. To the part-time observer, it appears that the government has given up and the individuals are now looking at how they can feather their nests for the future.

Getting back to my key argument, the question has to be asked, who is responsible for electing the worst government led by the dumbest PM? Yes, it is the Australian electorate! Does that not imply that the electorate that choses the worst government led by the dumbest PM - yes, you got it -  must be the dumbest electorate in the world?!!!

Has Iran just signed it’s own Death Warrant?

The possible agreement between Iran and the “Western world” relating to Iran’s nuclear industry is very much in the news right now. The extent of the discussion in the Western media is in it’s usual self-serving manner, limited to whether it’s a good or bad thing for the West and so simply is an argument as to whether the West should lift the trade embargo or simply blast Iran to smithereens.

Looking at it from a different perspective, one has to question how sensible an agreement which would allow the West to inspect the nuclear facilities when ever they should so please, is for Iran! Do you get a sense of deja vous?!

No country that values it’s own independence would ever give into such terms. Countries that understand that the great equaliser in the global power struggle is nuclear power. Countries like India and Pakistan would never have achieved their nuclear status, if they had submitted to the west’s demands. The only real out from continued bullying from the West, is nuclear weapons.

Of course, from the Gangho- Saxon-White-supremacy-Crusader (GSWSC – US, UK, AUS) mob’s point of view, there is a difference between India and Iran (other than the letters following ‘I’) and that is that Iran is in the midst of the crusader battle for the  “promised land”.

The last country that submitted itself into such a controlling regime was Iraq. We all now know where that ended up!

It simply makes the country vulnerable to the opportunistic vultures that are the GSWSC mob. The mob and their Lacky Israel must be licking there lips as they get the opportunity to fully assess Iran’s nuclear capability.

No country in their right senses would declare war against a nation that had nuclear capability. That is why, it was so bleedingly obvious to anyone who was not willing to be duped by the leadership of GSWSC mob that the “weapons of mass destruction”  argument was nothing but fabrication. After the whipping that the mob had in Vietnam, there was no way that the mob was going to take on a country which had nuclear arms. Through their inspections, the mob were absolutely certain that there were no such weapons in Iraq.

When the mob refused to pay attention to the UN officials tasked with the inspections and decide to plonk Richard Butler, a puppet bureaucrat from Australia, who purposely broke the rules of the agreement with Iraq, simply to build a argument for invading the country, any questioning individual had to suspect that there was something fishy going on. The thinking nations of the world held back and let the mob unilaterally invade Iraq. Once buried to their necks in the quagmire, the mob was able to plead for assistance from some of the other western countries.

There are few Australian bureaucrats with any credibility – they simple dance to the tune of their masters. The few who do (a la Andrew Wilkie), give up their careers and are seen as failures or acting against Team Australia. Richard Butler simply wasn’t one of them.

The Australian public’s acceptance of the puppet Howard’s (remember the anti war protest with the effigy of Howard on all fours, licking the Bush derriere) position was a confliction between their sense of fairness against the anti-Muslim crusader mentality of a mob, whose dominance was being threatened from may fronts. As was the case with Nazi Germany (Hitler) and still is with Israel (all the prime ministers of Israel), people conduct atrocities when feeling threatened. Clearly the anti-Muslim sentiment won over any sense of fairness and the brown-nosed puppet won elections even after the continuing massacre of innocent people on the back of a fabrication. As General Tommy Franks so eloquently put it – “we don’t do body counts”!

Of course, as long as the mob are in control of world affairs, we will never see any of the leadership convicted of war crimes, no matter how many millions they may slaughter. Were Bush, Howard and Blair murderous villains who should be convicted for war crimes? Well, the answer to that simply depends on who the dominant power in the world order at the time is.

In half a century from now, I dread to think what Iran may look like. Will it be a delightful potpourri of innovative ideas and ideals, leading the fastest growing religious following or will it be another Iraq?!

Attack the ABC, it’s a great diversion to dupe the mob!

The Fiberals strategist have done it again. This is a display of the “Attack is the best form of defence” strategy at it’s best. The hoo-ha relating to the bias and the questioning on “whose side are you on” of the ABC has worked to a tee. See, the flack has all been directed at the ABC and Zacky Mallah and not one of the mainstream media outlets have addressed the the fascist, racist nature of some of members of the Fiberal party.

Clearly the Fibs’ control centre would have been in a total fluster and in overdrive after the arrogant, fascist, racist behaviour of the Steve Ciobo. A quick look at the party tactics manual and the decision clearly was to go on the attack – divert the focus – fill the media with terror and there is nothing like a Muslim target to enrage the mob.

Most right-wing parties are infiltrated by ultra right-wing, fascists, often referred to as neo-cons, but the smarter parties keep these guys locked away, hidden from the public eye. Bush was no different – his regime was completely governed by the neo-con faction, but he was very careful to keep these fascists hidden – the likes of Richard Pearle, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey and John Bolton. These guys were locked away churning out vile anti-Islam, racist policy with the notion of white Christian supremacy. Hence the Iraq war and the drastic loss of civil liberties over that period.

Ciobo was mostly unheard of before this program (though it’s likely he would have made some vile comments before this) and surprisingly he is an elected member of parliament!!!! Well, not totally surprising, since it was from Queensland (Tasmania might have been another possibility). Whilst this sort of extremists are elected in the US and some parts of Europe, typically they get weeded out in Aussie politics with a few exceptions in the Fiberal party. Clearly the Fibs had been keeping him under cover but  ooooops(!!) the monster was unleashed at the public and we had a real insight to how fascist minds work.

The topic under discussion was threatening some of the fundamentals of a democratic free society including the separation of judicial system and politics, free speech, anti-discrimination and human rights. It appears that the Fibs believe that matters of criminality should be taken away from the courts and given to a single minister. After much argument, with reluctance they have included the right to appeal in a court of law (ridiculous because it will be strange to see even one matter not turn up in court if the “convicted” really does want to maintain citizenship(!) and if they don’t, then it might makes us feel good about taking a strong position, but it really would be irrelevant!). But this would turn our legal system upside down – guilty until proven innocent!

The policy is racist

Clearly this policy is targeted at Muslims or any group that we don’t “like” (which really includes any non-white, non-Christian and to a lesser extent non-Anglo Saxon). It is hard to codify laws that apply selectively to those you don’t like, particularly if you are under the delusion that racism is not an issue in your country and you want to portrait an image of high ideals relating to discrimination. The best way to do it is to simply take it away from the institutions that would have to apply it fairly and non-discriminatorily and let a politician make the call. Then, the decision could be made in anyway that would benefit the party at the next election.

It is also clear that the policy is not meant to target Australians involved in blasting innocent women and children on the beaches of Palestine nor the blasting of millions of Iraqi’s (they are lower level humans anyway).

Apart from the old adage that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” the very interpretation of the term terrorist is extremely subjective. In Australia we have chosen to use it only in the context of legitimising our discomfort with Muslims. State sponsored terrorism is usually not considered terrorism, particularly if we support it – as is the case with Israel.

The policy is discriminatory

A law that applies only to people with dual citizenship, clearly is discriminatory and ridiculous. How can a law punish someone only if you have 2 citizenships but not if you only have one?! So, if you only have an Australian citizenship and you fight in the middle east, then, we give you special treatment! The number of citizenships one has should be irrelevant to the punishment.

Next we will have traffic fines that vary depending on whether one has 1 or many citizenships! They will be decided by the local member, based on what’s going to get the most votes in the next election!

The separation of the judicial system and politics is paramount

The Magna Carta set some basic principles that have served Australia and other countries well. The separation of the judicial system from politics is one of the fundamental principles. It was to prevent abuse of political power. The whole concept of a member of parliament having power to determine who is a criminal and who isn’t is terrifying – particularly if you are not White and of Anglo Saxon heritage.

The Q&A program proved the value of the Magna Carta. It showed how easily power could end up in the hands of someone, such as Ciobo, who was quite happy and “proud” to take away the citizenship of a Muslim, who had been proven to be innocent of terrorism by a court of law, without the slightest hesitation – don’t bother to get the facts or let the facts get in the way of being a racist.

The question put forward by Zacky was right at the heart of this issue. The point that was missed by most commentators and the public (as they were sucked in to the quagmire of accusations by the Fibs) was that a court found him innocent but Ciobo found him guilty. A court would not have taken his citizenship away but Ciobo would, based on some flimsy accusations by law enforcement agencies. Ciobo simply fabricated a story about the retrospectivity of law (pure fiction, just as the weapons of mass destruction) and decided to find Zacky guilty. Zacky was a bad, bad, baddie, in Ciobo’s mind.

This was a Kangaroo court replacing the Magna Carta – just brilliant!

There are challenges with the concept of treason

Blasting people to smithereens is never the way to solve differences, but the mob is very good at doing it – in fact, possibly still the best at it. However, when someone opposes the mob, it is acceptable to do this by peaceful means only. Fighting against your own country is treason.

The problem occurs when a fascist government decides to go to war against it’s people’s wishes – a la the Iraq war. A majority of Australians did not want a war in Iraq. Most were aware of the lie that was being concocted by the leaders of the mob. If one was a dual citizen of Iraq and Australia and one could clearly see that the government was acting against it’s own people’s will and fighting an unjust war and killing innocent Iraqi’s, then, maybe the concept of treason becomes a bit cloudy.

If Germans decided to fight Hitler in world war II, was that treason? Yes, it was. Was it a crime punishable by death? Yes it was. But was it justice? Now, that’s when it becomes a bit murky.

The problem with treason is that it does not take into account as to who or what is right and wrong – it simply says, are you a member of team Australia! In fact it’s probably, team white Australia.

The Diversion

The Fibs strategy was to divert the discussion from the policy and their fascist MPs by accusing the ABC of bias. The key gripes that the Fiberals and their colluders (including the so called Human rights commissioner!!!) appear to be that

1. The ABC was giving a platform for a “terrorist” – ok an extremist.

2. The question could have been presented by a more “suitable” representative

Zacky may have many unconventional views that are displeasing to the average white Aussie, but he was proven innocent in relation to terrorist involvement. He represents a marginalised, discriminated group that the average Australian dislikes. The ABC allows many people to ask questions particularly those who have personally faced injustice. The questions was a legitimate question and was at the heart of the issue. His behaviour was quite normal until incited by the fascist, racist, vile response of the MP.

Even then, Zacky’s response, although clumsy and misinterpreted for the benefit of effect, was accurate. The on-going attacks on Muslims through racist view points prevalent in the Fiberal party, is a catalyst to further alienating groups that are already marginalised and therefore potentially making individuals more receptive to the calls of hideous organisations such as IS.

Australian governments and in particular the Fibs are in denial about their role in the so called “radicalisation” of a small number of Muslim youth. And as long as their response is purely to look stronger by implementing racist laws targeted at Muslims, under the guise of “security” and saving Australian lives, there will be no change. The evidence suggests that their actions are doing just the opposite – making Australia a target for terrorists.

On the question as to whether Zacky was the right person to represent that point view, who better than one of the few, if not the only person to have been victimised by the Fiberal party through their extreme right-wing laws. Any other person representing this point of view would have been, in the usual fashion, brushed aside and ignored.

The ABC is not anti right wing it is progressive

Recently there have been 3 Q&A episodes that have been amongst the the best. Without a doubt the Fibs have had a battering in these programs. However, it’s not because the ABC is anti-right-wing but because the topics have highlighted some incredibly hostile policy positions of the Fiberals. In the first, we had the argument on the separation of the judicial system from politics and the Fiberal’s personal attack on Triggs – Triggs undoubtedly came out the winner by far. Then we had the Zacky vs. Ciobo debacle. This one was probably a 50-50 as many die hard members of the mob blindly were caught up in the accusations of the government, but the rest of the world was astounded by Ciobo’s crazy behaviour as was highlighted in the third episode by professor Lawrence Krauss.

The ABC is clearly (and fortunately) progressive and intellectual at heart. As such, it isn’t surprising that it is more often in conflict with the Fiberals’ Neo conservative views rather than the progressive views of the left. It is obvious that the ABC does take extra effort to present the right-wing position to counter the continuous attacks they get from the Fiberals.

A pointless beat-up

So there will be a bit of a kafuffle over the next 2 weeks or so but none of the real issues that were highlighted by the episode will get addressed.

1. Upholding the principles of separation between the legal system and politics

2. Addressing the racist policies of an ultra right-wing government that marginalises, isolates and excludes Muslim communities with disastrous outcomes.

It appears that White Australia will uphold the first point, but only for white Christian Australians and remain in denial on the second point. And so, the status quo remains.

Regardless, lets hope the ABC continues strongly as ever. It is precisely when Australia is in the grip of an extreme right wing government that we most need a media outlet for the independent voice!

What is the Christian equivalent of Al Qaeda (IS)?

George Dubya was never rated much for his intelligence but what he did do was to surround himself with a bunch of right wing extremists and along with that went the whole white supremacy Christian thing. So he had a group of intelligent social misfits with dreams of Nazi like power structures of which they would be the top dog.

One of the most brilliant concepts that came out of this group’s propaganda machine was the concept of al-Qaeda! Al Qaeda never did exist – it was simply a term invented by the Gung-ho-Saxon-White-Supremacy-Crusader (GSWSC) mob to create a single entity made up of hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of mostly independent Islamic groups who were resisting the world-wide domination and oppression of the mob.

The marketing ploy worked brilliantly to create a common enemy that could be demonised and scared the bejesus outa the citizens of the three dominant nations of the mob – USA, UK and Australia. The extreme right wing governments (I am still to understand the UK labour party position) in these countries were able to exploit the patriotism of the mob nations to prolong their “rule”!

Whilst prolonging their rule might have been their only objective, what did also happen was that the creation of Al Qaeda did help the hundreds of independent mostly Islamic groups to unify under this banner – something that they could never have managed themselves due to their complete disorganised state and their disliking of each other.

Now, any atrocity in the world could be attributed to this monster – Al Qaeda. At least until some research was done and it was discovered that “Al Qaeda” had nothing to do with it. By the time that happened, the public have usually moved on! We never did ask our governments to justify or explain the Iraq war.

The creation of Al Qaeda also created an avenue by which any crazy disgruntled Muslim youth could now commit an atrocity and wave some black flag with some Arabic writing, regardless of whether they had any association with Al Qaeda and the crusader mob would promptly interpret it as a terrorist act committed by the Islamic extremist terrorist group – Al Qaeda or as they have named themselves – IS (A la the Martin place incident).

Now, you probably wonder what any of this has to do with the headline?!?! Well, the point is that we never seem to aggregate all the atrocities committed by the Gung-ho-Saxon-White-Supremacy-Crusader mob and demonise them as terrorists – nor do IS (apart from referring them to be infidels). There simply isn’t the Christian equivalent of Al Qaeda. One couldn’t  possibly suggest that that’s because the Christians do not commit atrocities. After all the GSWSC has committed and continues to massacre far more Muslims and coloured than IS can or ever will, Christians. One only has to consider the state sponsored terrorist atrocities committed by the GSWSC mob and their puppet – Israel – let alone the recent atrocity committed by a crazy white supremacist in Charleston.

It’s often stated that IS are wining the propaganda war (a questionable view, but a discussion for another time), but they clearly can learn from none other than Dubya and his team of right wing extremists and create this entity to whom all atrocities committed by Christians could be attributed to. The name should have an exotic feel to it – just as Al Qaeda or Daesh.

Aussie Citizens for sale! Is the mad Abbot creating heaven on Earth?!

Maybe our dear leader is smarter than we give him credit for. Just imagine an Australia with only the people that we like?!!! Wouldn't that be the nearest we would get to "heaven on Earth"?!!

Our dear leader has let out another one of his "fart bubbles" (yes, a bit crude may be, but they do have a nasty stench to them and they clearly don't come from a thinking mind!!). Strip people of their citizenships for being freedom fighters, ooops. . . I mean terrorists!!!

Many aspects of this fart bubble are problematic let alone the very basic one of the definition of Terrorism. I'm sure I need not repeat the saying that goes "one mans terrorist is . . . . ". Does that mean that every person who carries out an act of terror on other people will be stripped of their citizenship? Maybe half the teachers in schools, the policemen and undoubtedly the clergy will be on some bright orange boat soon, to some place that will have 'em! Why even my local butcher could terrorise a few people when he wields his sharpened knife! Or maybe a terrorist will be defined from the perspective of the fat rich white men, all members of the Gung-ho Saxon White Supremacy Crusader mob.

It then raises the questions of whether being a terrorist is the worst crime possible and if stripping one of their citizenship is the worst penalty that can be dished out! Or are we now starting a whole new way of dishing out penalties by assigning particular types of penalties based on the nature of the crime, regardless of the severity. Some might argue that we already have that, but really the penalty system is quite simple, it is either financial or a period of incarceration. Yes, I'm all for it! Let's have all the politicians use their creativity to dish out penalties at their discretion - stuff the courts, they were pretty nasty anyway! The politicians should be given turns to be creative.

We now have the notion that there is no trial, it is simply a dictatorial decision by a minister!! Human rights are somewhat over rated and so is the English legal system. This is somewhat like a system that would be suggested by Saddam, Stalin, Thatcher, Reagan or the Knesset (the whole bloomin' lot of 'em). Lets bring in a few more penalties like chopping off ears, tongues, fingers, female genitals, castration - the list is endless and is limited only by the ministers' creativity and imagination. Just imagine, we could spend our week-ends with the kids, stoning a terrorist!! Would beat the state or origin any day!

Human rights have never been a strong point of our dear leader and his team. Nor has it been something that any Aussie really gives a darn about, except when it becomes an issue of their own rights. The mad abbot will have to tread cautiously. He will not want the Australian chapter of the Gung-ho Saxon White Supremacy Crusader mob thinking that it might impact them. But this is very easily avoided. He'll just have to position it as a means to get rid of those radical Muslim types who wear long beards, peculiar head gear, pyjamas during the day and the chics are so modest that not only do they cover their whole bodies in bed sheets but they even cover their faces so we can't perve at 'em!!! That 'll fix it. In any case, many of the chapter would be descendants of others who were stripped of their citizenship generations back - so they will be able to relate to it pretty well.

Once we're rid of the radical Muslim types, we are going to have to find away to rid the others we dislike. As long as we have the chapter comfortable, we will be able to move on to the others - all the bow legged yellow skins - particularly the ones that arrived by boat, all those Niggers from Africa and curry munchers from the sub-continent and of course the abos (who have been a drain on the economy since forever - that will fix the deficit!.

Wow!! This is feeling like heaven already!

There is still one problem outstanding - once we've gathered these terrorists and stripped them of there citizenship, what do we do with 'em? We could put em on orange boats and point 'em in many directions and let them solve their own problem. OK, the stupid UN might create a hoo-ha, but we've never paid much notice to them.

But picture this. . . . A steamy, humid day in some port in a poverty stricken Asian (pacific Island or African) state - say Cambodia or PNG - a fenced off square, in the middle of the bustling town. Some bright orange boats have just arrived. A line of terrorists tortured and chained in impossible positions, shuffle into the ring in their bright orange outfits. They've been sailing for weeks enjoying the party atmosphere of loud music 24X7, water boarding and propaganda. The auctioneers (the Bishop and Dutton) are ready! But this auction is a bit different - it is won by the lowest bidder! Australia will pay any nation to take on these citizen-less terrorists.

The usual culprits are present for bidding. The other chapters of the mob - Uk and US, and of course the poverty stricken countries for whom the payment is split (the auction fee and bribe for the politicians and officials).

The first terrorist shuffles in and the US keenly bid $10 million! UK halves the US bid at $5M. But all present know that these bids are just a show of support from their chapters. The real bidding starts when PNG bids $1M. Vietnam brings it down a further $100k and so it goes on until the final bid of $100 by Cambodia - which wouldn't even cover the cost of travel for the other nations. But guess what, we've got rid of our terrorists and alike at a $100 a pop plus a couple of million as bribes for the officials!!!

Now, it really is the closest thing to heaven!

But Alas! like all his other ultra conservative "fart bubbles" this one will be gone pretty soon. At least some of the team are talking back at the captain and running like mad to ensure they are not associated in anyway to this swill. The captain knows  he no longer has any power. He will give into anything that will keep him as captain and keep the numbers up. I suspect that even our dear leader is beginning to question his own farts!

We can only dream!

Should Australia ever host the cricket world cup?

Well done to the Aussie cricketers, they’ve won the world cup at home! An ACB strategy has come to fruition – we should all be glad.

But the question is, was the world cup a great spectacle, like it usually is? Certainly the new rules made the batting spectacular with heaps of runs and sixes being scored and then there were the tense moments and games such as the noble Black caps win over the crass (let’s have another drink) Aussies and the 20 minutes of torcher dished out by the Pakistani fast bowlers at Watson (if only they could field and catch the sitters!). The magical four centuries in a row by Sanga and the brilliant scores by AB, Gale and Guptil. It certainly had it’s fair share of cricketing excellence on the field.

But apart from the TV watchers, did anyone realise that the world cup was going on in Australia. There’s never been such a boring place to have a world cup than Australia. If not for the Sri Lankans and to some extent the Indians, it would have been such a flop.

Why, you ask

1. The Aussies insulted their guests both on and off the field
2. No one, but the Aussies, wanna play on the worst wickets in the world (thanks heavens there were some games in NZ!!)
3. The locals are crass, racist and ignorant
4. The hosting cities just didn’t ummmm. . . host!!

My judgement is based on Sydney, as I didn’t travel to any of the other games. So lets consider each point.

The Aussies insulted their guests both on and off the field.

As usual there was a fair share of sledging during the tournament by pretty much all teams, but only in games that involved Australia. It’s a cultural thing. Australians feel that sledging is mental toughness. Not unusual in the world of the Neanderthal. The rest of the world thinks otherwise.

The civilised behaviour of the Black Caps made the yobbo Aussie cricketers “uncomfortable” and “they deserved it“ apparently! So they decided to take it out in the only way they know how. That, in contrast to the impeccable behaviour of the black caps.

Then we had the media getting involved in insulting the most ardent of supporters. Comments about 7-11 store etc. I didn’t hear the joke – if you wake up in an Aussie hospital and you are surrounded by whities, get the hell out of there – it’s not a real hospital! The thing about those Indians at 7-11 stores is that 3-5 years later they are surgeons and engineers (doing the stuff that one really needs a skill to perform, where one can’t be put down as not having “soft” skills).

Darn good thing the Kiwis were co-hosts – at least the overseas guests had some hospitality.

No-one, but the Aussies, wanna play on the worst wickets in the world.

Without a doubt the wealth of Australia shows in the grand facilities available for sport. In some case Aussies feel the necessity for things “bigger and better” – it compensates for a deep rooted inferiority complex they have. But it is the lucky country. We get foreign companies to come and dig the earth and make money and leave some to us. That way we become rich – not dissimilar to the wealth of the Middle East, really. Except the wealth there goes far beyond money, to a rich culture and heritage.

The ACB’s strategy of bouncy pitches has served them well. Apart from a mishap (a Blue on Blue attack - to use a war time “caption” - aren’t we just great at using phrases such as Green on Blue to paint ourselves as superior to others?) that occurred at the beginning of the season, it all went well and the cup was won. One could say the mishap was mere “collateral damage” – the phrase we like to use when we blow up innocent women and kids to smithereens as we march on, un-phased, toward our ultimate goal of greed and controlling of wealth – securing our future, one might call it (and many do!!).

Cleverly, the drop in pitches in Sydney and in particular Melbourne (where the final was) were made more bouncy. Clearly, the Aussie pitches are outliers. Apart from perhaps the South Africans, the rest of the world really would have difficulty playing on them. Some would argue that there is a home advantage where ever the game is played. The reality is different. Most pitches around the world are converging. And whilst there will always be differences, teams have a much better chance of acclimatising elsewhere.

The locals are crass, racist and ignorant.

The Aussies love to look down upon the yanks as being insular, but there is no more an insular nation than Australia when it comes to most things and in particular cricket.

Most Aussies are totally ignorant on cricket, where their knowledge, at best, might extend to the most recent ashes series in Australia. This state of blissful ignorance together with an over inflated view of their own knowledge and their national sides capabilities often results in a rude shock when other teams of “unknowns” smack them in test series (such as the recent series against Pakistan). But unknown only to the Aussie.

Whilst they may be ignorant, there is a win-at-all-cost mentality and an archaic tribal sense to the support base. I attended a couple of games and on one occasion had an Aussie family with a couple of 11 or 12 year olds in front of us. Each time a boundary was scored by the Aussies, they would turn around and give the group behind us a “fist-up” – almost as if they had personally dealt a killer blow! And when they forgot to, there parents would instigate it – “give it to ‘em, mate!!”. Where the group behind, in particular the kids, would look at them quite alarmed. When it was the oppositions turn to smack the Aussies, the group behind would simply dance and cheer their team on! Wasn’t that a clash of cultures (well, I use the term loosely – fist-ups may be considered more un-cultured than cultured, by some!!).

It was a good thing that not many Aussies attended the games. Apart from the few Aussie games, the locals were simply not interested – a good thing for the supporters of other teams.

The host cities just didn’t host.

The cities were completely void of any World cup fever or atmosphere. Sydney just did there usual dreary grind. It was a stark contrast to the Olympics, where the city and the locals really did host the games.

I made the mistake of driving to the first game I attended. The SCG car park was full by the time I got there and it took me almost an hour to travel a short distance on ANZAC parade and get to the Fox studio car park. There was hardly a copper in sight. Not surprisingly I missed the first 45 minutes of the game! Getting out was an even bigger disaster – It was over an hour before we even moved a meter on the 4th floor of the car park. The only concession was that when we finally did get moving the car park attendants had been shelled with so much verbal abuse that they had left the gates open and disappeared! So we had free parking!

That experience was bad, but nothing compared to what occurred when we decided to take public transport. The websites had minimal information on how to use the public transport, although it was free if one had tickets to the game. It was on a week day, so we didn’t get to central station until about 4:30pm. There was absolutely no signage on where or how we were to get the free buses nor directions on how to get out of the station with the tickets for the game. In fact, one could say that if one walked into central, apart from the many people in supporter clothing, one would have been none the wiser that a world cup quarter final was on in the city and this was a key hub in the transport arrangements!

Finally a station attendant informed us that the special bus service had been discontinued and we had to use the standard bus services – he rattled off a series of bus route numbers – not one sign to be seen. No sign suggesting the best place to catch them.

Being familiar with the area (heaven help the foreign supporters), we were able to get to the bus stand. When a bus turned up, I asked if we could travel to the SCG on the bus and was rather rudely advised that it went to Moore Park. Fortunately, I did know where that was and got on. Clearly the bus driver was in no mood to be helpful.

Then someone else, who was clearly a foreigner asked the same question. The drivers response was “did you look at the other passengers, what do you think?”!! That’s crass Aussie hospitality at it’s best!

In general, most of the games lacked any atmosphere. The party was brought to the games by the Sri lankan and Indian supporters.The only Aussie contribution being the odd Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy, Oy, Oy chant! Do Aussies really know how to enjoy themselves. Apart from drinking themselves silly and punching each other out and being rude or racist to others, there’s nothing much in the form of fun stuff!

Epilogue

Clearly World Cup 2015 won’t be remembered for the great atmosphere nor the hospitality of the hosts. There was some great cricket and some would remember it for the Aussies winning.

The decision for the Man of the tournament was debatable – could anything beat the spectacular run scoring of Sanga?!

BTW what happened to Warner. All that big mouthing before the tournament – did he play?!! Didn’t notice much being said about him!

Unfortunately Aussie sledging is proportionate to their ranking and climaxes when they are dominant (typical symptoms of bully-boys, really), so we are going to experience a few months of absolute crudeness until they play a respectable team on decent wickets.

So, that’s another world cup done and dusted! Here’s until the next one comes 4 years on! Hopefully, the ICC will think twice about ever bringing it back to Australia! Unfortunately money controls everything!