Warning to those Visiting Oz
Jeruselem
16-09-2005, 15:24
US anti-Bush activist gets removed from Australia as a "risk to national security" and then gets charged $11,000 for costs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1462086.htm
Legless Pirates
16-09-2005, 15:28
Did he sit on the yellow brick road refusing to go away?
Jeruselem
16-09-2005, 15:34
Did he sit on the yellow brick road refusing to go away?
He was actually in Australia, doing his activist thingy then the Pro-Bush Australian government decided to kick him out. If he was a threat, they should not let him into Australia in the first place.
In Australia, we have red dusty ashphalt roads! ;)
Legless Pirates
16-09-2005, 15:37
He was actually in Australia, doing his activist thingy then the Pro-Bush Australian government decided to kick him out. If we was a threat, they should not let him into Australia in the first place.
In Australia, we have red dusty ashphalt roads! ;)
:eek: DEPORTED?!?
My fucking god.
Eutrusca
16-09-2005, 15:39
US anti-Bush activist gets removed from Australia as a "risk to national security" and then gets charged $11,000 for costs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1462086.htm
ROFLMFAO!!!!!
Jeruselem
16-09-2005, 15:40
:eek: DEPORTED?!?
My fucking god.
Yes, we deported a US citizen! If he was from 3rd world country, he would end up in our really nice detention Stazi camps.
Monkeypimp
16-09-2005, 15:40
If I ever go to oz, I'll probably just go to Bondi where there aren't any australians :p
Jeruselem
16-09-2005, 15:44
If I ever go to oz, I'll probably just go to Bondi where there aren't any australians :p
Any space in NZ for Australian? Might need to flee the police state.
Monkeypimp
16-09-2005, 15:47
Any space in NZ for Australian? Might need to flee the police state.
It depends whether or not Don 'I would have done what president bush did' Brash wins the election later today :(
We might just end up being another american suck up if that happens.
Jeruselem
16-09-2005, 15:50
It depends whether or not Don 'I would have done what president bush did' Brash wins the election later today :(
We might just end up being another american suck up if that happens.
I heard about Brash and his Howard-ian style. Hopefully the Maoris will torpedo his plans.
Monkeypimp
16-09-2005, 15:56
I heard about Brash and his Howard-ian style. Hopefully the Maoris will torpedo his plans.
Maori traditionally support labour, but since the seabed and foreshore issue, many have shifted their support to the newly formed Maori party who probably wont go into coalition with anyone.
As it stands, this election is too close to call. Niether of the main parties will be able to form a govt without help though, and Brash has very nearly run out of friends. The next govt could ride on the ACT party winning the seat in Epsom or not, as they are pretty much Nationals only real option left.
A huge amount can happen in the next 24 hours. It's going to be a big one...
Yeehaaaah
16-09-2005, 16:46
:eek: DEPORTED?!?
My fucking god.
I know, Australians deporting people?
Mind you, what goes around, comes around.
Jeruselem
16-09-2005, 16:52
I know, Australians deporting people?
Mind you, what goes around, comes around.
We send our drug dealers to Bali. Nice export eh? :)
Shingogogol
16-09-2005, 16:57
The Indonesia gov't also claimed people like Alan Nairn and Amy Goodman (oh, and probably that film Australian? too)
were "threats to national security" when they were reporting
from inside illegally occupied East Timor (just north of Australia).
So, given that's the line that fascist gov'ts use (in the case of Indonesia)
when people are trying to report on what is going on,
would any gov't that ejects someone with that "reason"
be considered fascist?
(p.s. I did not see your Bali reference and do not know if you
are from Indonesia or not. This post was not personal)
Revasser
16-09-2005, 17:23
Yeah, it sucks doesn't it? Australia is becoming crappier every week. When our government pulls this kind of crap, I feel ashamed to live here.
At least I can be proud that I didn't vote for the current regime. But if we stay on the path we're on, in twenty years or so, that'll be enough to have me locked up.
Shingogogol
16-09-2005, 17:32
Yeah, it sucks doesn't it? Australia is becoming crappier every week. When our government pulls this kind of crap, I feel ashamed to live here.
Hey, at least Bush isn't your furher.
uh, sorry all....
just last night Bush talked about N.O.
and he mentioned something about the military being
the only institution capable of quick responses.
.....
things are getting creepier all the time.
in the last 4 years the gov't also developed
a military command for north america.
What the heck does that mean?!?
the US already had regional commands for all other
parts of the world. Southern Command for overseaing interventions
in South America....
are we looking at full scale military gov't in future years?
....
a marine called into WPR during the hour George Galloway
was on. the marine warned about the increasing militarization
of the US. yikes... :(
The Lone Alliance
16-09-2005, 17:59
:eek: DEPORTED?!?
My fucking god.
Yeah what's worse they're footing him the bill.
Revasser
16-09-2005, 18:06
Hey, at least Bush isn't your furher.
uh, sorry all....
Hah! With the Howard-run coalition government in power here at the moment, Bush is our fuhrer every bit as much as he is yours.
I'm sick of my country being the bitch to whatever world power we can attach ourselves to. I wish my state would secede from the federation. Maybe NZ would have us.
Edit: ASIO will probably be breaking my door down on Monday and detaining me for sedition for saying that. It'll have to be Monday, though, the slack bastards don't work on weekends.