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Geoff Pike (gpike@hotmail.com) wrote:

: On his first day in the Senate, WA Liberal Ross Lightfoot said -
: "Aboriginals in their native state were the lowest colour on the
: civilisation spectrum."

More interesting still John "No More PC Censorship" Howard demands
he retracts the statement and he does. So it is alright for Hanson
to spew bile over Asians but not for Lightfoot to say something he
has some grounds for believing. Where is David Moss I wonder? After
all I've just been remembering his tedious and pompous article on
the need for new members of the Liberal Party to have the right to
speak their mind. All full of piss and wind he was over free speech.
Care to condemn the actions of the Liberal Party over this hmm?

: taking arrogance. Here we have a civilisation that lived in Australia
: for 30,000 plus years, in harmony with the environment, without
: pollution, mortgages, stress, or environmental degradation, without loss
: of native fauna species etc etc etc - and this turkey is arrogant enough
: to basically call them the lowest form of life.

That turkey did not call them the lowest form of life. Why distort
what the moron said in this fashion? In harmony with the environment?
Pig's Arse. The introduction of the dingo alone would have caused
massive damage (what is the difference between the Dingo and the Fox?
One is a foreign canine species introduced by men and the other is
a cute little red thing that people hunt on horseback). Without any
pollution? Well given the CO@ and Dioxins produced by Aboriginals
burning off I doubt that. Mortgages? I'll grant you although I'm
looking foward to having one and so I see that more as deprivation.
Stress? What a fool. Being hungry tends to produce stress. As does
not knowing where the next feed is coming from (if you don't believe
me try going on a fishing camp with my little brother after you have
lost your driving licence). Not to mention fun things like gang rape
by the tribal elders. I think we have covered environmental degradation
and loss of species.

: No Senator, it is you that is showing your lack of civilisation and your
: lack of the big picture by making such a biased, insensitive and
: appallingly ethno-centric remark! You should resign immediately.

Of course. He should learn to speak in Code. Everyone knows you don't
say that Aboriginals couldn't boil a cup of water or live in a dry
house if their lives depended on it (as before the arrival of White
people I imagine it often did). But you can't say that. You say
that they lived in harmony with nature. At one with their environ-
ment. At peace with nature. Part of the natural ecosystem. In other
words you patronise the hell of out them with nice sounding Leftist
terms. They all mean the same thing in the end.

: And while I'm at it, what about his party's refusal to apologise or
: compensate for the aboriginal kids stolen from their parents over a
: period of some 60 years? Haven't they heard of the concept of collective
: responsibility?

I don't know, is that like what the Germans used to practice in
Yugoslavia and Russia, not to mention most famously at Lidice in
Czechoslovakia?

: If we wrongly jail someone, the community has a
: collective responsibility to compensate that person (even many years
: after the event) - and we do. 

Actually I flatly refuse to accept we do and think we ought to
stop right away.

Joseph

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