Are Dumb and Dumber leading the Australian Cricket Team?!

 

A few months ago (say during the ashes test series), if you asked the question, who are the dumb crickets in the Aussie team (or in the world, for that matter), it is very likely that most would have included Steve Smith in that list. Then if you followed that up by asked the question, who would you consider to be dumber, then undoubtedly, most would have included Warner! – get my drift?!

One might argue that if Steve was on the list, so would everyone else on that ashes tour – Khawaja was not on the team then. Fair argument. It’s not that everyone knows that Steve is dumb, it’s more that we don’t know that he isn’t, we usually classify all Aussie cricketers dumb and he mostly appears to be an amicable, naive country bumpkin, to whom there was nothing more to life than smacking a cricket ball around the park.

It is disconcerting when Cricket Australia (CA) appoints as skipper, a player that hasn’t even been a certain selection in the team just a few months prior to his appointment.

This has happened before, but usually when there is some wise ole’ sage with years of cricket experience backed by a degree in nuclear physics from Cambridge! Appointed for their brilliance in strategy and leadership – a la Mike Brearley changing the course of a whole ashes series!

Smith was selected as a bowler and didn’t really get to bowl and then to the relief of CA scored a gazillion runs in the most whimsical manner (I used to think it was an embarrassment that Australia would have to resort to players with such atrocious batting techniques, in the test arena).

“Place-holder for Smith’s crazy shots video!!”

To their credit (I think?!#$%), CA backed this kid, just as they had done with other “untouchables” like Hughes – untouchable only because they would be given all the easy opportunities to cement their places whilst their competition would be given the real tough conditions to fail – thereby justifying CA’s decisions – Khawaja being one of the victims – it’s great to see him flourish now that he has finally been given the opportunity to play on conditions that he is accustomed to – an opportunity to succeed.

The timing has been great for Steve, The schedule appears to provide him a lengthy honey-moon period with the initial test series being against Bangladesh, NZ and the West Indies. NZ could have been a competitive affair if they had played on more reasonable pitches with some time acclimatise to them – rather than the Blacktown paddy-field debacle (since when did touring test teams play games in Blacktown?!!! – we will be accommodating them in Blacktown too! – close to the grounds, you see!).

For a nation that likes to whinge about other nations’ pitches, the Blacktown debacle was a real doozy!!

The GABBA and WACA (arguably the worst test pitch on earth) are real gimme’s for the Aussies – no other country really wants to play on them. The third test in Adelaide, where there might have been some competition will be the “pink ball test”!! I doubt any Kiwi, at test level or otherwise, has played with a pink ball!!! So, the CA have mitigated the potential risk of a loss, brilliantly!

But there are some real refreshing aspects to Smith’s captaincy as well. He clearly has not been in the team for long enough to have ingrained in him the typical Aussie cricket culture.

“Having been the lackey in the team, he obviously wasn’t involved in much of the nonsense that Aussie teams are reputed for and proud of.” 

I don’t recall Smith ever being involved in any distasteful behaviour on the cricket field or otherwise – unlike his predecessor who was involved in 3 unsavoury incidents and was promptly rewarded by the CA with his appointment as vice captain!!!

Since when has an Aussie player or official (let alone skipper) ever admitted something negative about a team member. It was refreshing to see Smith, in his usual unassuming naive manner say he would have to have a word with his fast bowler after the nasty ball throwing incident!

Smith really does have an opportunity to change the rotten culture of the team. Australia has just played against a couple of teams where the culture is the complete opposite to theirs – England and NZ. Will Smith’s attitude rub-off on the team or will the CA culture override him and bring him into line? – time will tell.

If Smith does bring a change in culture, then it will completely destroy my theory that the reason Aussie cricketers are thugs and louts is because of the low level of intelligence and self-esteem in the team. See, the louts such as Ian Chappell, Rodney Marsh and the many who followed will never be esteemed as gentlemen or role models as is the case with the Sangakaras,Tandulkars, Lloyds or even the Strauss or Gowers of the world – but that’s a story for another day.

I’d rather a well behaved fair minded Aussie team than my theory remaining accurate! Go on Smith – here is your challenge!

Are Australian Company Boards the dumbest?!!

There will be thousands of kids who would be relieved after just completing their HSC this week. Amongst them will be the kids of first or second generation migrants. And a great proportion of that will be Asian migrants – Australians don’t see European (yes, “white”) migrants as migrants at all, migrants are Asian or African.

In a few weeks the results will be published and when one reads the honours list, one tends to have a quick flick to the front page, just to make sure one was reading an Australian news paper (ok, the banner on your web page)! The names will all be Asian with some exceptions of Eastern Europeans.

At the same time, there will be hundreds of boards meeting around Australia and all of them, without exception, will be as white as white can be. Ok, there are some exceptions, where some Asian tycoon has setup a company in Australia.

Several months back, the SMH published some humorous charts on the capabilities of students and their ethnicities “Asian students more likely to be in HSC honours list”.

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Whaaaaat?!!! the English are the worst at English?!!!!

Well, that’s not entirely surprising. Which Englishman (or woman) with any intelligence would leave England and Europe to live in Australia?!! As for the Welsh, well, one can excuse them, they have there own insufferable language!

The only reason to question this data is that . . .

. . . apparently the Irish can Add?!!! – that’s gotta be a joke of some sort!

Somewhat questionable, judging the experiences of yours truly!

Apart from that minor aberration, it is undoubtedly the case that the cream of the crop are from Asia. This trend is maintained in universities as well (although it’s harder to get the data), and all the way to lower-middle management. But that is where the infamous “bamboo ceiling” hits. There is little representation in senior management and board rooms.

So the verdict has to be that

Aussie company boardrooms are gatherings of white people who can’t Add, Can’t write English and have no Logical capability!!

The question is, How can this be?!!

The standard white conservative answers to this questions are

1. “it will take time”!

2. Asians lack the “soft skills”

All of them, true. However the latter applies to every race and the first one really depends on the willingness to change.

Q&A recently touched on this issue and the responses of any intellectual substance came from, yes, you guessed it – an Asian and an American!

Q&A discussion on Racism against Asians

Taxi drivers with the highest IQ in the world are in Australia. They are usually Phd qualified from all non-white parts of the world! At least one can have an intelligent conversation while in a cab!

The “It will take time” excuse

Yes, it will take time and it will take even longer in Australia. Remembering that Australia is

“One of only 2 countries that have ever had a codified apartheid regime against coloured – the white Australia policy”

The racism against Asians is deeply rooted in a majority of white Australians. Asians are great when they serve Aussies on cheap holidays and when the pervert oldies want a sex slave for a wife, but otherwise they are either “curry munchers” or “bow legged yellow skins”.

The efficiency argument brought up in the video, simply does not work in Australia. Australia has never been efficient at anything. It is an economy based on digging up cheap minerals and resources out of the ground and selling it to other countries. There simply is no need for efficiency in that.

Due to the small population and the low population density, many foreign companies stay away from Australia rather not compete in this Market. Banks are a classic example. The foreign banks came in when the sector was deregulated, but were mostly gone within 5 years. And so, Australian banks are arguable the most profitable collusion in the world.

And when efficiency is irrelevant, the majority can afford to be racist and suppress the more capable minorities – particularly so when there is an over supply of skills.

Asians Lack “soft” skills

This is another wonderful invention. The definition of soft skills is really skills that are completely subjective. It is purely an invention to make any assessment of skills for a role subjective rather than objective.

As was mentioned in the video, there are many Asians with the so called “soft” skills and capabilities to lead companies in Australia, just as they are doing in Asian countries that will soon surpass Australia.

There is a saying in Australia that

if you wake up in a hospital and the doctors are all Anglo Celtic - then get the hell outa there!

In other words, it is unlikely that there would be doctors or surgeons of Aglo-Celtic decent – it is likely to be a scam of some sort!

The moral of the story is that, in any field where deep skills are required to perform a role, it will be dominated by Asians and non Anglo – Celtics. It is the roles where no skills are required where “soft” skills appear to prop up, and needless to say, these roles are dominated by Anglo-Celtics. This is also the reason that Australia will remain the lucky country rather that the smart country

Asian migration, as controlled as it is, is increasing the IQ of Australia.

So, there is some chance, the Asians will be able to drag Australia out of the deep mines into the Asian century and make Australia competitive and even intelligent. Maybe one day

The Taxi drivers will be leading our companies and the directors driving our taxis!

Maybe that would cause a safety hazard on the roads!

Would the world have been a better place without Bush, Howard and Blair?

Roccoco Fazzari

A Response to: An apology for the Iraq war is nowhere near enough (SMH 26th October 2015)

It’s taken over a decade for the public and the journalists of these three nations to outwardly hint that maybe the Iraq war was a right royal stuff-up. When I criticised the gung-ho decisions of the Anglo-Celtic leadership a decade ago, SMH would, duty-bound, sensor my comments and now Blair and Hartcher feel it’s been long enough for the public to be spoon fed the reality.

I refer to this mob as the Gung-ho Saxon, white Supremacy, Crusaders (GuSWhiSuCs - pronounced “sooks” at the end and in short the “SuCs”) for good reason.

What is evident is that

We have learned little in a near thousand years of crusades!

Remember some of the others?! Richard the Lion heart, Bush the Lion Heart, Howard the “I’ll lick ya ass” heart and Blair the “I’m lost for words” heart!

It is a mistake to believe that the whole Iraq crusade was simply an error in judgement due to poor intelligence. It was far more sinister than that. The “Suks” had already murdered close to a million Iraqi children alone through embargos on critical medication on an astonishing pretext that they would be used to create nuclear weapons! A nuclear industry dependent on imported medical supplies!! – now that would be a force to be reckoned with.

The mentality of the pleb “SuCs” is to knowingly accept these ridiculous claims by their leaders, when it comes to justifying a crusade against a seemingly weaker military force. Yes, there were some protestors on the streets of Sydney (including the author), but a majority wrapped themselves in national and white supremacy flags and engulfed themselves in patriotism and pride out of displaying military might and blasting to smithereens an age old “enemy”! It was someone else’s war and someone else was going to suffer from it.

Wars are easy to handle when they occur 10s of thousands of miles away from home.

Yes, a few poor sods come back home maimed or in boxes, but that’s a small price to pay for the pride it gives the pleb “SuCs”. The leaders, particularly the near fascist far right factions, know this well and exploit it - a la Thatcher and the Falklands, Bush and a whole list of dumb wars, Eisenhower and Vietnam. We now don’t even get anywhere near the fireworks – we simply fire missiles from a bunker in a different continent! and as the military general of the SuCs proudly announced on TV

“We don’t count the civilian dead of the enemy, they are mere collateral damage!”

The more considered would say that the “SuCs” engineered the cause for war. The appointment of a gang member – Butler – with the sole mission of creating falsified evidence that would support a war (described well by Pilger). Butler may have made millions by it (and the profits of crime – his book), but it cost 224,000 lives (a number that is grossly underestimated). Butler was appointed simply because the UN’s representative was undertaking a more rigorous approach and the findings just didn’t suit the gang’s leadership – the rest of Europe watched in bewilderment as the blood thirsty pleb SuCs marched passionately to the drums of war!

Whilst it is possible to miss evidence of something that DOES exist, it is near impossible, with any level of competency, to find evidence of something that does NOT!

The very fact that the crusade was launched at all, is evidence that the SuCs were certain that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. True to their name, the SuCs would never have waged war against a nation with such weapons.

Nuclear weapons are the great equaliser!

So, the public’s acceptance of an apology (or non-apology) is just a means of rationalising the war crimes. It is interesting how the journalist have not used the term “war crime” in this instance. Just imagine if this atrocity was committed by Russia or China! Just look at the uproar over China installing some military hardware on some desolate islands! Or, the SuCs inability to accept that the downing of the Malasian Airlines aircraft was truly an example of collateral damage!

The “SuCs” self righteous view of themselves prevent them from accepting that this was a heinous war crime. One that has lead to an unprecedented disaster!

In any case, the SuCs Leadership is well protected against war crimes. The Heads of state cannot be prosecuted. Even though, these very same protections were dismissed and overlooked by the puppet court established by the SuCs to murder Saddam. Yes, murder!!

If the laws of the nation do not allow you to prosecute the head of state and you setup an instrument with the sole purpose of illegally killing somebody – that is the very definition of murder!

Ah! but the SuC chieftains have explained it to the pleb Sucs as “the world is a better place without Saddam” –  Still a response by them when asked if with hindsight, they would have engaged in the crusade. The question we really should be asking ourselves is

Would the world have been a better place without Bush, Howard and Blair?!!

or even better

Who’s done more damage to the world, Saddam or Bush, Blair and Howard?!!!

But that is a question that the GuSWhiSuCs are incapable of assessing rationally!

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!