Posted on 01/01/2006 3:43:09 PM PST by Rosenkreutz
"It's time to blast the 1812 Overture around the world... five times a day at Muslim call to prayer. Disrespectful? Yeah. Provocative? Yeah. A much better sound? Yeah."
Wanna relly irk them?
How about Hava Nagila?
I'll buy that too!
Never gonna happen. Americans are just about at the boiling point in regards to islam. Take heart.
AARRGGGHHH
everyone wear clothes with flags on them
bump
'Tis sad as I believe the Aussies have a beautiful and inspiring national banner.
Time to oust the traitors in their government at the next election. Go ahead and fly the flag anyway, what are they going to do, arrest you for being patriotic and showing your enemies that you mean business? What judge in his right mind would sentence thousands upon thousands of standup citizens to jail for doing what's their God given right?
Yes its true Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Welcome to Australiastan...
THE New South Wales Government has urged a Sydney beachside council to rethink its decision not to fly the Australian flag over the iconic Bondi Pavilion amid suggestions the move was inspired by racial tensions. But Waverley Council's deputy mayor said Premier Morris Iemma didn't understand the facts and accused Liberal councillors of hijacking the issue for political gain.
Mr Iemma today urged the council to reconsider its 6-5 vote against flying the flag over the heritage-listed building.
"Our flag is a symbol of national unity and the council decision is just ridiculous, they want to reconsider it and reconsider immediately," he said.
"There's no excuse for anyone else to be saying 'Well, because of the incidents, the riots of two weeks ago we're not going to fly the Australian flag'. That is just ridiculous."
Waverley deputy mayor George Newhouse, who was among councillors who rejected the flag proposal, said it had nothing to do with racial tensions.
"We already fly the flag at Bondi, we proudly fly the flag at Bondi and this decision has absolutely nothing to do with racism or Cronulla. It has everything to do with practical common sense," Mr Newhouse said.
"The Pavilion is a heritage-listed building and it will cost thousands of dollars to perform a heritage study and then erect the poles, which don't exist."
"We already have the flag, we love the flag, there is no problem with the flag and as for council banning the flag, it's absolute nonsense."
Council had first voted against installing the flag in March 2005, Mr Newhouse said.
"To raise it again in December was purely to manipulate the flag and the Cronulla racism issue," he said.
He accused Liberal councillors of taking advantage of the race riots to raise the issue of the flag again, adding: "That is truly offensive."
Greens state MP Lee Rhiannon said Waverley Council was far from shy of flying the national flag.
"I have lived in Waverley municipality all my life and have seen the Australian flag flying on the council chambers and at appropriate municipal events," Ms Rhiannon said.
"Community tensions were running high at the time...the no-flag option is a sensible choice."
The original article had a quote from Muslim leaders saying that removing the flag was stupid. In the current article that quote has been removed. Looks like revisionist history to me.
This is nuts. Australia can't fly Australia's flag over land in Australia because people from somewhere outside Australia are "offended" while in Australia at the Australian flag?
Absurd!
Anyone who finds another country's flag "offensive" should go back home and stay there.
Australia should fly it's flag any.where.it.wants.to in Australia and whenever and however.
How about flying the flag FROM anyone and everyone who complains about Australia's flag when they're IN Australia?
Doesn't pork and the face and hair of females also "offend" these same people who raped women and burned cars in Australia?
Not to mention women driving cars, eeeegaad! And women entirely who aren't draped in cloth from their head to their toes. And women who say "no" and "don't hit me" and things like that?!
By this recent "flag" 'rule', that'd mean that Australian can't now eat pork, that Australian women can't drive cars and now have to wear burkhas and allow rapes and beatings and brutalities so as "not to offend" a certain segment of society.
I can see where this is going and what I think Australians need to do is FLY THEIR FRICKIN' FLAG ANYWHERE THEY PLEASE. Anyone who is "offended" IN Australia by the Australian flag should leave Australia and go somewhere where they fly whatever the heck the flag they prefer.
I first thought this was from scrappleface, that's how absurd this news is to me.
Yeah, all they have to do is "riot" and burn cars and rape and pillage and...the thing to do is make them stop behaving like that by whatever means possible, not to indulge them. Don't have jobs? Feel like a 'second class citizen'? Rioting and raping and destroying property and other people isn't SUPPOSED to land one employment and commendation.
You'd think people would learn: PUNISH this behavior, don't indulge it. Fly the frickin' flag on their cars, in their yards, on their streets. They don't like it? Too bad, so leave.
So much for those Fosters Beer commercials extolling the toughness of the Aussies!
don't think the avg. Aussie is going to put up with or embrace this PC nonsense as Western Europeans and blue state liberals do."
Aussies won't tolerate it for long. my bet is they are already planning something of an uproar. If not it will be a sad day down under. Go Aussies. Don't quit now!
This is like the judge (in New York?) forbiding the use of a "pro-life"
car license plate...because it "might cause road rage".
Talk about blaming the victim...
Appeasement is just another way of asking for slavery and subjugation.
If any appeasers out there don't learn that now, they will eventually -- after a few generations under the foot of their new masters.
*There is only one sure way of defeating the BULLY.
Militant defiance!
"How about Hava Nagila?"
I'd be willing to pay higher taxes for that!
They're on our side.
Don't piss off our natural allies...
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