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That politically correct Ipswich killing

It is now a week since Hoera Te Kooti was killed by a feral bunch of Aboriginal thugs on the prowl late at night.

It has taken seven days for the papers to come clean about the "dark skinned" offenders. With reports that police are scared of apprehending the Aboriginal youths because of the legal and career implications.

Readers might recall that exactly two years ago today a group of Aborigines attacked some visiting American soldiers and party goers outside an Ipswich nightclub. Several police came into sort out the problem.

The report is at this link. Here is an extract:

The incident has polarised the local community with the local citizens defending the action of the police while expressing concern that they are scared to go out at night because of "marauding groups of Aborigines".

Well respected Aborigine, Neville Bonner, who heads the State Government's newly created Indigenous Advisory Council said that council members would meet today to make recommendations to the Government about the incident.

Ipswich councillor Paul Tully, who had previously come to the defence of the Aborigines involved in the incident, changed track yesterday when it was revealed that one of the Aborigines involved had a knife in his hand which could be seen flashing in the light (a piece of the video tape which had previously not been carried on television news reports). Yesterday Mr Tully lashed out at critics of the police saying, "There are two or three allegations where the police acted improperly but if you listen to the reports you would think it was like the Rodney King beating tape.

"It appears the knife was produced and thrust out (by an Aborigine) in response to the action (of the police apprehending suspects). It's quite unmistakable."

The police were cleared of any wrong doing long ago in the courts but because of complaints by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) four of those police involved in this two year old incident are still waiting to front that political joke of an organisation called the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC).

The video showed one policeman, referred to by Tully, allegedly assaulting an Aborigine (one of many thugs at the disruption who had long criminal records). The truth of the matter which has never been revealed by the media.

Footage showed this policeman, with back to the camera, crouching over an Aboriginal man on the ground. The policeman had his arm around the young man's neck and appeared to be shaking him as he lay there. This looked like an assault. The truth was that the Aborigine was trying to chew the thumb off the policeman's hand and all he trying to do was to save that appendage.

That policeman is one of those waiting to appear before the CJC.

While the police wait to see the CJC they are not allowed to receive salary increases, senior appointments or certain benefits. They are in a state of career limbo over trumped up charges.

Of course the big loser is the Ipswich community because these Aboriginal thugs are allowed total impunity knowing that the police are scared of having their careers and reputations destroyed if they apprehend them.

On the night that Te Kooti was killed a group of Aborigines threatened a woman working in a late-night pharmacy. She was too scared to do anything - and was not sure if the thugs took anything - but you can see the general picture. Its total anarchy out there.

For the first time the Queensland Times drops the guise of "dark skin" and states, "Ipswich district Superintendent Alex Erwin said police were seeking a group of Aboriginal youths in connection with Mr Te Kooti's murder."

So seven days after the murder we now have a clearer picture on just who the assailants might have been. Until now it could have been a group of sun-tanned white Australians.

Superintendent Alex Erwin, perhaps mindful of ATSIC and the CJC said "I don't consider them a gang. The perception of gangs is organisation, and I don't think we don't have organised gangs in this city."

Strike one for political correctness.

Meanwhile Murri elder Merle Tilbrook came out with these words of wisdom... that the problem was not restricted to Aboriginal youths...

How Murdoch the mamzer Jew "hammers" his foes

Yesterday I had a call from Courier-Mail reporter Jeff Summerfeld whose opening gambit was to question why I had a link to an article in yesterday's @notd where the comment was made about Rupert Murdoch having been referred to as a "mamzer Jew" by others. The implication of his call being that I was being anti-Semitic by using the link using this derogatory reference of Murdoch.

I told Jeff Summerfeld in no uncertain terms that I would never discuss anything with him on the record again after his earlier attempt at denigrating me. A copy of the email I sent him later that day is at the bottom of this article.

I did a bit of research on the Internet about the word "mamzer" as it was new to me and had no bearing to the reason why I had put a link to this page - my interest, as @notd readers would know, was who was funding Murdoch and what influence they had over what we see, read and hear in his media.

Well, it appears that "mamzer" means con man... according to this alert made to Rabbis. (Think of Murdoch's tax dodges)

Then the word appears on another email giving the word another perfectly legitimate Jewish connotation, and I quote:

There are many considerations which go into a determination about a person's status as a Jew. The resulting effects of the decision sometimes affect the decision. A marriage may be annulled, a witness disqualified, a child saved from mamzer status.

From what I have read "mamzer Jew" appears to fit Murdoch rather well. Certainly nothing anti-Semitic here, just a term of phrase that fits an individual. In fact a far better fit than the Courier-Mail calling Pauline Hanson a racist or a bigot to quote just one of many colourful demeaning and false tags attached to people by this paper.

Thank you Jeff for drawing my attention to the statement and be assured that in future your boss will have an equally colourful, if carefully explained status.

It was interesting to see that despite his phone call no reference was made in today's paper about Murdoch being called a "mamzer Jew". Maybe the truth was a little too close to home.

In the mean time this is how Murdoch hammers foes:

Here is an extract:

Murdoch uses his diverse holdings, which include newspapers, magazines, sports teams, a movie studio, and a book publisher, to promote his own financial interests at the expense of real newsgathering, legal and regulatory rules, and journalistic ethics. He wields his media as instruments of influence with politicians who can aid him, and savages his competitors in his news columns. If ever someone demonstrated the dangers of mass power being concentrated in few hands, it would be Murdoch.

Here is an extract:

Recalled Murdoch: "I then did something that I like to think set the tone for the behavior of our company: I broke the rules of the establishment and published our opponent's offer on the front page under a headline that screamed, Bid For Press Monopoly! And I included in the story a photograph of the confidential letter to my mother. That ruined any chance I might ever have had of being invited into the better clubs of Adelaide." But he won the ensuing newspaper war and later gobbled up his rival.

Murdoch's past investors have suffered for other reasons too. News Corp. is frightfully complex, vexing analysts with its disparate collection of movie, TV, newspaper, and publishing assets, some stashed in joint ventures, others exposed to foreign markets, and all of them valued under liberal Australian accounting rules that can magically turn losses into profits (see box). More fundamentally, Murdoch's detractors argue that he treats News Corp. as his personal fief and lacks a strong commitment to shareholder value.

Email to Jeff Summerfeld:

I refer to you call earlier this afternoon.

I am amazed at your brazeness in contacting me regarding a comment made on a link from my news of the day. Please don't waste your phone call costs in future - I would rather speak to Terry Sweetman... and that says something - as you well know.

You told me just a few weeks ago that you would stand by the article which appeared in the Courier-Mail following my agreeing to give you an interview based on "rules of engagement" which you carefully set out before the interview. You then proceeded to ignore and breach them.

The article in question is before the Australian Press Council because of its misleading headline (your headline).

You had your chance and you blew it.

It is indeed a shame that you are just like most of the others at the Courier-Mail with a sad disregard for journalistic ethics and credibility.

May I just say that I am delighted that my growing campaign against media consentration in this country is obviously starting to bite those serving Murdoch and his foreign-based financial partners' every desire.

One day journos may wake up (before its too late) and realise that they, more than anybody else, will be the biggest losers under a media monopoly. I will watch with interest the squalling of your colleagues when the Internet and Murdoch's monopoly in Australia makes 90% of your jobs obsolete. Oh, how the worm will have turned then!

For the record I haven't really started my campaign against Murdoch's drive for a media monopoly yet... and those who should be standing beside me (even if for their own sakes) still cower like gutless wonders under the mighty sword of News Corporation.

Scott Balson

"Yugoslav Town Bathed in Blood"

ALEKSINAC, Apr. 6 - "Pools of blood, two corpses and parts of dismembered bodies lay in the wreckage of a large apartment building today in this central Serbian town after an overnight air strike," the Associated Press reported today from a scene of carnage in this small mining community of 17,000, some 100 miles southeast of Belgrade (see the map).

Yugoslav authorities said five people were killed and at least 30 injured when NATO missiles hit a residential neighborhood Monday night. Journalists permitted by authorities to visit the area today saw a destroyed apartment building. Some bricks, wooden boards and roof tiles were tossed more than 500 feet from the site. Three two-story homes were also flattened.

In the town's center, shop windows were smashed. Closer to the blast site, several nearby apartments caught fire. A young physician, Dr. Bratislav Miladinovic, stood at the entrance of a hospital, dazed and in shock. He was on duty at the time of the strike. He said his sister and father were killed and his wife and child injured.

About 30 people were taken to the hospital, some with head injuries. An entire street was wiped out,'' a local doctor, speaking on condition of anonymity, told journalists (see the photo of a mother and her two children at the Aleksinac hospital, posted within this story at our Web site).

Even before this Aleksinac tragedy, the NATO bombing had killed over 300 civilians, and wounded over 3,000 others, the Yugoslav ambassador to Russia said today in Moscow, according to a Bloomberg newswire report.

How Sweet War Is: Bombing to Cost $2-$4 Billion?

WASHINGTON, Apr 6 - Estimates by the non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments suggest that if the air strikes proceed for even a few weeks longer, the price tag could quickly grow to between $2 billion and $4 billion, particularly as the Clinton administration expands the scope of the mission, the Los Angeles Times reported today from Washington.

The cost to the United States of the two-week-old air campaign against Yugoslavia may already have topped $500 million and, if the mission continues to escalate, that figure is likely to skyrocket, threatening budgetary and political explosions on Capitol Hill.

Moreover, the preliminary cost estimates do not include either the massive humanitarian aid program that the U.S. and its allies are beginning or the expense of providing peacekeeping troops and a military escort for refugees returning to the disputed Kosovo region if a peace accord is signed.

President Clinton promised Monday that the campaign will be "undiminished, unceasing and unrelenting" - and warned that it might not end quickly. "We are prepared to sustain this effort for the long haul," Clinton said. "Our plan is to persist until we prevail."

Ivanov: 100,000 NATO Ground Troops for Kosovo

MOSCOW, Apr. 6 - Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister, said today that NATO is planning to send 100,000 ground troops to Kosovo in the next 15 days (mostly European), according to Agence France Presse (AFP). The goal of the operation would be to separate Kosovo from the rest of Serbia and set up a provisional government, AFP said, citing the deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, Yuri Boluyevsky.

So far, the "lie and deny" Clinton administration has been denying that the ground troops would be used in Kosovo. At the same time, however, speaking quite comfortably out of both sides of its mouth, Washington said it was planning to send to Macedonia up to 24 Apache helicopters along with 2,000 to 2,700 American troops as "air support."

Now let's see... if the first statement is true (no ground troops), then the only logical plan which follows from the above statement seems to be for Apache helicopters to be grounded, and for the 2,000 troops to be suspended in mid-air. Par for the course, we suppose, for a Draftdodger Commander in Chief.

If the situation weren't so tragic, it would be downright comical.

Yet, based on the reports we've been getting from TiM readers across the country about the American troops being deployed, or getting ready for action, it sure sounds like a lot more than just a few thousand troops. Yet, the Clinton administration continues to hide its real intentions and already mounting casualties, while playing with American lives as they were poker chips.

The snake begins to uncoil

Hi Scott,

Now you're onto them! :-). I mean Murdoch's powerful backers of course. If it were really just a case of exposing the "two man" Murdoch / Packer duopoly for corrupting the news and destroying democracy then your book alone would probably have been enough to break up this stranglehold and inject some fresh blood into the so called "free press". I have known what you were up against because when one reads a Murdoch or a Packer paper, one reads, not the thoughts of either of these men but those of their masters and that is why not one of those names mentioned in your exposé yesterday was cause for any surprise to me.

I found the article expressing a modern Zionist view of seperation of Church and State to be very interesting. Watch this mob Scott, I find them particularly disconcerting when they appear to move toward the Nationalist view. Maybe they are having a change of heart, maybe they really are sick of killing people, but I have yet to be convinced, though I remain open to anyone having a change of heart. Just be extra careful when a snake begins to uncoil, I would say, and we are talking, New-World-Order Internationalism V National Sovereignty here. Personally I think these elites have made a serious miscalculation in thinking they can bring in World-Government with the new millenium. They have acted hastily and shown their hand to anyone with a brain. And thankfully that's a lot more than they seem to think, but then that was the essence of their error to begin with.

Moving on (although it's all interconnected really), I have some thoughts to express on the drug / crime problem which may not sit well with all One Nation supporters but as Jimbo and others have reminded us, this madness goes on regardless, and still we are not exploring the obvious. At the risk of being called all sorts of names and being shot down in flames from every direction, I'm willing to, 'fess up to a couple of things about myself....

I have over my long-ish life tried almost every drug known to man. I have mixed among the percieved, and the absolute, dregs of this world at one time or another. I have never tried any drug less than twice and in the case of Cannabis, I wouldn't mind "a dollar for every ounce I've smoked"! And yes I still enjoy a choof every now and then even at my age!. Anyway the reason I am telling y'll this is because I want to pick up on what Jimbo was saying yesterday about the crims being "on drugs" when they're out robbing and pillaging etc. I don't think so Jimbo, coz while I believe most of us in here have our hearts pretty well in the same place we are a motley cross section of ordinary Australians and whilst I believe ordinary Australians are recognisable, I don't believe any two of us are the same and that's why I've told you these personal details because I want to say that unless a crim is on speed they would be unlikely to go pillaging "stoned" as it is the condition of being "straight" that motivates the junky out of his chair/ bed. If you've ever seen a heroine addict (as I have) literally clawing at the wall from withdrawals you would understand why they are usually "hanging out" when they do their crime and that is when a heroine or any sort of powder junky for that matter can be potentially very dangerous. When they are stoned most of you would mistake them for ordinary people.

Now I know this may prove even more controversial than "that letter" that made brief history here recently (if Scott posts it :-) and may provoke a lot of questions and or criticism so if we are going to debate this I would like to ask a couple of questions everyone should really ask themselves before entering into a debate about drugs.

Q. a), can anyone tell me, when "The Drug War" or the "War on Drugs" is talked about; Just which war is that please? Who is fighting in it? What theatre is it being fought in? and who are the opponents and what are their battle strategys?

Q. b), can anyone tell me if this war strategy is working, then why does America which has (supposedly) waged war relentlessly and unceasingly for decades against drugs, continue to be overun everywhere with crime (most of it drug related), whilst Holland, which by comparison has had legal narcotics for decades and enjoys a considerably lower crime rate (almost none of it drug related) fights no war on drugs?.

Q. c), are YOU Experienced?. To someone who knows, the sort of rhetoric that most "inexperienced" persons parrot on this subject would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.

If we are going to continue treating the issue of drugs as a legal matter (as America has forced Oz to do since the '30s) and not recognise the issue as being properly addressed by the health portfolio as Holland has long since done, then I hope Y'll are ready for another 100 yrs of drug wars American style!

Have a Nice Day.
David Morgan.

Hill and the challenge by Hong

I would be interested to know how this lady progresses her case, which was reported in the British newspapers as being one of nationality; that she was claiming Britain was not a foreign power. that should not be too difficult if one reads the 1901 Federal Constitution. And what of the Governor in each state and the Governor-General in Canberra, all representing HM The Queen. Whilst she is head of state in Australia she is also head of state in Britain. Sharing a monarch must surely mean that the two countries are not foreign to one another. Until quite recently Australian citizens could still appeal to the Privy Council in London if they were unsatisfied with a legal decision in Australia. I suspect that one or two of the states have retained that right. I should think that Mrs.Hill cannot lose. Of course, if the judges are from non-British or irish backgrounds it may be a partisan case rather than a legal one!

Good luck.
GREG

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