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Between the One Nation lines
Further evidence is emerging of the loony on-line organisation Left Link's
close association with the Labor Party.
We will continue to put the pieces together and expose the party which
has a policy of "winning at any cost".
Here
is the latest evidence which includes background on how Left Link
promoted the student protests for the communist Resistance movement.
Ipswich City Council reverse decision AGAIN
One Nation is set take the Ipswich City Council to the Supreme Court after
a decision by the councillors again
reversed a decision
allowing Mrs Hanson to use the Ipswich Civic Centre next Tuesday.
Last Friday One Nation state director Peter James sent the council a letter
threatening to take it to court if it did not allow the party to use the
council venue.
The memo sent to councillors yesterday reads, in part, "In line with council's
responsibilities identified in section 30 of the Workplace Health and Safety
Act 1995, the council determined not to hire the Civic Hall to Pauline Hanson
for the purpose of conducting a public meeting for constituents and others
in the surrounding district.
"The security plan provided by Peter James for Pauline Hanson does not reduce
the high-risk category of this event as identified by the Queensland Police
and federal Police in conjunction with council's own security consultant."
What we now have in this "free, democratric" country is blatant
intimidation by groups who deserve behind bars not running around like lunatics
stopping people's right to freedom of assembly.
Can you just imagine the media outcry if a multicultural group representing
the Vietnamese were prevented from gathering in a public place. What
we have is, in effect, the reverse happening but because the media
say so it is okay. This is discrimination of the worst kind and what
the journalists, chiefs-of-staff and media barons behind the jaundiced
coverage of what is happening do not realise is that the issue will come
back and bite this country very hard if they are not careful.
Just like the inappropriately tagged label of "racism" by the media on anything
that Pauline Hanson or One Nation does, the continuing unethical reporting
by Australia's press is a blight on all Australians irrespective of race,
creed or colour.
State press gallery move to ban Hanson
The State Parliamentary Press Gallery
(the mob who
threw a frothy because I was taking pictures in Parliament on Monday)
moved to ban coverage of Pauline Hanson unless she lifted a ban on the Queensland
Times (QT).
Their president Mike D'Arcy said, "There have been a couple of precedents
where politicians have banned journalists that they have been upset with.
There was some disquiet that the journalists didn't take action on the day
(the QT was evicted from her office)".
D'Arcy said that if the ban on the QT was not lifted all gallery members
would refuse to report on Pauline Hanson. Meantime the QT has written and
complained to the Australian Press Council about the ban placed on it.
One Nation to stand against Labor’s Delhunty
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party would stand a candidate in the by-election
for the Melbourne state seat of Northcote against the ALP’s new candidate,
former media personality Mary Delahunty.
Delahunty has been
clearly
associated with the loony extremist left of the Labor party with
posts linking her to people behind the protests and violence against One
Nation.
One Nation announced the decision barely half an hour before nominations
closed on Wednesday, apparently concerned that the Liberals might reconsider
an earlier decision not to contest the seat.
One Nation’s Victorian co-convener Rodney Spencer said Nick Kavalenka,
a resident of Melbourne’s west, would run for One Nation in the
multicultural north-Melbourne seat.
He would use the campaign to revive allegations of Labor Party branch stacking
in the region and also lobby for youth employment initiatives and measures
to combat the effect of Melbourne’s Crown Casino on ethnic groups.
Spencer said he thought One Nation would have broad appeal in Northcote.
"The Liberal party have said they are not standing a candidate, and if Labor
is putting in a woman from the journalistic glitterati who probably doesn’t
understand the Northcote area very well, I think our candidate will be one
with an understanding of both national and local issues," he said.
Kavalenka had sat on a national One Nation committee, Spencer said.
The seat is one of Labor’s safest, with a margin of 19.9 percent and
a large ethnic population. The by-election was forced by the resignation
of former state Labor Treasurer Tony Sheehan.
MD
Ruling German party moves right on immigration
Is Germany now a racist country?
MUNICH: Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservatives on Tuesday took the wraps
off their long-delayed election campaign program with vows to take a tough
stance on foreigners.
With just two months left before the election, Kohl's Christian Democrats
and their arch-conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union,
presented their campaign platform after missing two earlier deadlines in
May and June.
"Anyone who abuses their rights as a guest has to leave our country", says
the nine-page platform presented by Kohl's Christian Democrats and their
arch-conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. "We
will work firmly against foreign criminals that are here illegally or have
been here temporarily."
Kohl, Europe's longest serving leader, is trying to win a record fifth four-year
term. But his campaign has been hurt by persistent high employment well above
10 percent as well as inner party squabbling all year.
The conservatives have been making stricter controls on foreigners one
of the core themes of its campaign amid signs of waning tolerance towards
immigrants among some Germans. But the campaign platform on crime-fighting
failed to satisfy hardline conservatives, who had held up the program for
three months in an unsuccessful bid for an explicit statement that Germany
is not a nation for immigration.
Leaders from Kohl's CDU and the Bavarian CSU had denied media reports that
the delays were due to bickering between the two parties, even though some
CSU officials had threatened at one point to publish their own platform.
The CSU finally caved in on key demands and a sentence they had wanted stating
that "Germany is not a land of immigration" was struck from the final draft
at the insistence of Kohl. Also dropped were CSU demands that "foreign children
who commit crimes should be deported."
CSU campaign manager Bernd Protzner tried to downplay the retreat, saying
that even if such proclamations were not in the campaign platform the two
conservative parties were in general agreement on strategy if they win the
election.
"It's not necessary to put everything in writing,"
Protzner said in a NDR radio interview. "We agree that foreign criminals
have to leave our country. We have agreed that foreigners who abuse their
rights as guests and commit crimes have to leave."
The emotive issue of foreigners has played a growing role in the campaign,
especially after the far-right DVU party won a shock 13 percent of the vote
in a state election in Saxony-Anhalt in April campaigning against "foreign
criminals."
Protzner said that the conservatives were also clearly in agreement that
"we don't want any more immigrants" and that the two sister parties would
work to tighten rules to prevent children of "guest workers" from coming
to Germany.
Kohl's CDU/CSU alliance is far behind the opposition challenger Gerhard Schroeder
in voter surveys. His Social Democrats have held a consistent five to seven
point lead in most opinion polls ahead of the Sept. 27 election.
CDU and CSU leaders said on Tuesday they wanted to cut crime by taking a
more severe line against young criminals, and to create a national database
on genetic data on repeat offenders.
They also want to allow police to use video surveillance of private apartments
where criminal activities are suspected, and restrictions on violence and
obscenity in the media and Internet.
The CDU/CSU alliance will unveil their ideas on rebuilding eastern Germany
and international policies at news conferences over the next three weeks.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject:
FIRST DAY
COVERAGE.
Dear Scott,
Excellent coverage. and interesting photos, You should
have taken some nice pictures of the "Pressocracy" to sooth their ruffled
feathers.
Let us know how Pauline trip to TOOWOOMBA went. I
am only half an hour west of Toowoomba but manage thoroughbreds and can't
get away much as place would be deserted.
Regards,
Keith R Powney
Subject: Their First Day, 28 July 1998
For Pauline Hanson,
You were reported by Australian National News of the
Day to be the Proudest Wonam in Australia, on 28th July 1998 when the first
11 One Nation Members of the Queensland Parliament MP's took their
seats.
Please be assured there are many, many of your supporters
throughout the world, who share your pride in the unprecedented accomplishments,
relized by One Nation in only just over one year!
Sincere three cheers!
john hamilton - USA
Subject:
Confused
Demonstrators
Confusion Reigns Supreme
I never cease to be amazed at the confusion which reigns
supreme in the minds of all demonstrators. Why is it so difficult for
demonstrators to realise that they are playing into the hands of global power
mongers when they reduce national problems to incredibly monolinear abstractions
like racism for example, a concept which has been misconstrued by deceiful
manipulators. Regrettably the young generation has been ‘educated' to
ignore the implications of external influences and the manipulation of national
policy outcomes by external forces. Australia may be well removed from the
world geographically, but by no means is she isolated. Politically and
economically whether rally organisers care to admit or not, Australia was
always subject to external power forces with relatively little of her own
influence having been exercised on outcomes. British capitalism, natural
resource depletion, foreign investment, world trade, multi-lateral agreements,
globalisation, human rights conventions, the list is endless, are just a
few sources of political and economic controls to which Australia had to
submit, a submission which was encouraged by a band of incompetent and self
serving politicians. Our national agenda is being dictated by IMF, Asian
monopolists and the recent addition of "reconciliation policies" which translates
to mean assimilation in accordance with indigenous consent.
I am not inflamed or outraged by school children
demonstrators or by poor misguided rally organisers, I grieve for them. They
do not recognise that they are the means towards unwholesome ends.
Ms Hanson your foes are formidable and they are threatened.
Why don't you recruit some from their ranks? Asian and indigenous One Nation
supporters?
Kindest regards
Ildi Antal
Subject: HI there
Just a little bit of interest.
I am 17 years old and I go to Boarding School an in
my final senior year. Today at school I found plastered around the whole
school that some local high school students were planning a high school students
against racism rally a campaign against One Nation. On the two sided sheet
displayed absolute rubbish about Pauline Hanson One Nation and their policies.
What is the world coming to??
I am only a school student we are not yet ready to
vote though I could guess who the dole bludgers who are holding this insane
movement. I am a 100% Pauline Hanson One Nation SUPPORTER evern though I
am young. I love the party and policies and I think she is going to do really
well in the Federal Election. She had phenomenal support but people are too
scared to admit to it.
Please read carefully.
the flyer is stupid.
Thanks
jenna
Subject: My support of one nation and a youth
spokes-person.
I am 15, live in NSW and go to a private college. I
am a person angry at some immigrant crimes. I am not racist, and have several
friends originally from other countries all over the world. However I hate
immigrants who bring their crime with them. I beleive this is our major problem.
What Australia must do is clean up their immigration act, by getting rid
of the crime and bringing in those who can help this country and make it
prosper.
I am glad finally someone had enough guts to stand
up to immigrant crime allowed to come in by past polititions.
I also support a youth spokes- person.
Thank you.
Anon.
One Nation is currently establishing a youth arm called YOUNG NATION.
Editor
Subject: FYI
Scott
Are the Australian minnows Howard & Beazley and
all their media mates going to abuse Germany's Chancellor Kohl as a racist
as they do Pauline Hanson? If not, why not? Her views are far more tolerant
than his. It will not surprise me if their silence proves to be deafening
after reading the following.
Antonia
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
This post is to congratulate both Dr John Kingston
& Dr Peter Prenzier, both veterinarians, on gaining membership to the
Qld parliament for the One Nation Party. As a vet myself, I can tell you
that vets are sensible down to earth rational fellows, and these guys will
do a great job.
We (those of us who subscribe, anyhow) were informed
about the two ON MP vets in a trade "newspaper" called the "Veterinarian".
The paper did a great article on these guys, it is an informative
publication.
What has annoyed me, though, is a column that usually
has humorous stuff, in this issue has a rather nasty take off on ON and,
by implication, the two ON vet MP's. The piece is titled "To be one with
your practice", and a quote from the article (highlighted in larger letters)
is "One Nation vets will keep it simple. Diseases will be limited to fly
strike, the trots, and hurling" The article is about how One Nation Veterinary
Clinics will behave.
If I find some time, I might type it out in a future
post. Again, congrats to the two vets, and all the other guys, of course,
on become Qld MP's.
I shall be watching the Qld Parliament proceedings
with interest to see whether the ON MP's are treated fairly by the others.
As parliamentary beginners, it will a real steep learning curve. Just as
long as they don't learn to duck & dive like all the other b's.
Marshall Thornton
Subject: Downer gives more of OUR money away to
China
Australia has give $56 million to China so far this
year!
China is the country which holds more foreign reserves than any other country
in the world!
(Refer Paul Sheehan's book: "Among the
Barbarians")
China has much more money than us, but the moron gives
away more of our money anyway!
Subject: Albright's Outburst
I've been sending complaints (see below) to several
American newspapers. Next I'll complain to their president.
You
might want to publish his email address, so that other loyal Australians
can object to their interference.
Dear Editor,
I am offended.
As an Australian, I object to foreigners lecturing
to me about how I should vote in my own country. I especially object when
that foreigner is a political appointee, who only needed one vote (Bill
Clinton's) to get her position. Albright is in no position to lecture to
Australians about democracy.
If I was rude enough to tell Americans who they should
vote for, I would expect them to respond angrily, after all, it is none of
my business.
I would truely be astounded if the American public
endorsed Albright's behaviour and political interference. She obviously has
no idea of the widespread public support of the One Nation Party, and she
risks the genuine friendship and goodwill that currently exists between
Australians and Americans.
Gweilo
Subject: More Foreign Influence
Just what we need, a foreigner telling us who we should
vote for.
Maybe someone should ask Madeleine Albright how many
votes she got at her election. (The answer is one - Bill Clinton's) She is
an unelected, political appointee. What would she know about democracy?
No doubt her advice is in America's best interests
(but not Australia's), it's a shame that most of our politicians don't support
Australia's interests when they go overseas on their junkets.
Gweilo
Subject: 'How Ms Hanson Did it!'
To Graham Watson, yes, I do have an answer as to how
an 'ordinary' person like Ms Hanson has been able to not only break into
the established political scene, but to do it in a most emphatic fashion.
And, yes, it is quite incredible, especially given that your democracy scenario
- where 98% of citizens' participation rarely goes beyond appearing at the
ballot box at regular intervals - goes double for most oz citizens who have
been justifiably labelled apathetic about anything other than sport for a
very long time indeed! And, while Ms Hanson does have charisma, she is definitely
not a born speaker, and has most often been presented in the public arena
in the most unflattering light the mainstream media could possibly manage
to contrive.
Nevertheless, the recipe for her success is as
follows:
Take an especially long period of government - about
fifteen years - over which the citizens begin to experience definite feelings
of unease overcoming their normal apathy, mainly about the unwise social
policy direction being taken by government, most often in deference to minority
lobby groups. Then add to that a scenario where these ever strengthening
feelings of disquiet and disapproval are completely unable to even be expressed
in polite company - let alone openly debated! Sprinkle in some extremely
rare occasions where the odd educated voice is raised in fairly mild opposition
to the direction being taken, only to be instantly invalidated and, inevitably,
silenced.
Now, simmer all of this for quite a while, whilst stirring
regularly, before introducing a completely new, and unexpected ingredient
- Ms Hanson, raising her obviously non educated voice, in plain unvarnished
language, and voicing up front, and out loud, and very publicly, all of those,
now very strong, underlying feelings of disquiet and unease.
Finally, add constant, unified, equally very public,
very loud, mostly patently untrue, often completely outrageous, and even
violent, ongoing pressure, and disinformation, coming from minority pressure
groups, most of the mainstream media, and, eventually, all the other political
parties, in transparent attempts not to refute what she is saying, but to
invalidate, smear, denigrate, villify and, hopefully, as a direct consequence,
completely silence her!!!
Finish all this off with a Ms Hanson who hasn't even
so much as quivered, but has, unlike those rare 'educated' voices that went
before, only to disappear almost without trace, instead, faced it all down
with courage, and honesty, standing seemingly alone, yet resolute, like a
veritable rock of Gibralter, and continued to clearly voice the unease and
disquiet. Talk about extreme bravery under extremely hostile fire. When most
of the citizens did not even have the courage to discuss their now often
quite grave concerns about these issues in polite company, let alone put
them out there into the public arena, Ms Hanson did it for them, did it often,
and did NOT back down, not then, and not later!
She is a fair dinkum, first class, absolutely genuine,
blue star, blue chip, unadulterated hero!!
Carol Kavanagh
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
Please stop the Liberal Government from ruining Australia
with a GST. I have been living in Canada now for a year and still have not
got use to there GST and PST (Provinciall Sales Tax) system. For example
so you go to a restaurant with $50 in Australia you can see the prices on
the menu and you can order accordingly. With the Canadian system you get
the menu price less GST and PST which you have to add on, without a calculator
this becomes difficult. I usually only spend $40 just to make sure I have
enough to cover the bill. Then you have to add 15% for the tip.
Regards
Andrew Cook
Toronto Canada
Subject: Globalisation's foundation
argument
Have you noticed that the arguments for Globalism,
immigration, foreign investment
(MAI), the level
playing field etc, are firmly resting upon a foundation argument that is
totally false. That is: A country like Australia would simply curl up and
die (literally) if the rest of the world didn't exist to support it.
Academics seriously peddle the theory we would be all
unemployed if we didn't keep immigrants pouring in. As though an economy
left to it's own devices would not exist at all. Well lets get it straight;
We work,we produce,we eat. WE are the ones doing immigrants a favour, not
the other way around. And as a guest/host code of conduct dictates, WE don't
HAVE to if WE don't (by the goodness of our hearts) WANT to.
I bet academia could come with theories to show the
benefits of negative immigration if they all followed each other down that
avenue of thinking. In fact, they already do in the form of population control.
Funny they can't formulate the theory of "leave it the @#$% alone!
T.Shaw
Subject: Your web site
Q. What kind of man spends all morning with a Herald
journalist 'proving' he isn't the no friend loser that he was made out to
be in the Australian? A. The same kind of jerk who would publish the trash
I've just read on your web site. David Oldfield, you are nothing but a vampire
preying on the dissillusionment of the victims of the major political
parties.
Mark Lyden
Another perfect day in paradise.
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