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Letter to the Queensland Times, 17th August 1997
Dear Sir,
My wife showed me a school brochure which publicised ‘Ipswich’s Little Athletics’ and said, with confidence, ‘Roll on 2000 Olympics’.
The tragedy is that the hopes and dreams of mainstream Australians are, at best, being undermined by the collusion of the major political parties with the mainstream media.
To demonstrate this point I would like to summarise what was uncovered last week on the Internet but was ‘trivialised’ by the mainstream media as ‘not news worthy’.
Last week a bulletin board post (rather like an advertisement on a large international cyber-bill board) was placed by Left Link, a national organisation of the ACTU, on the Internet. The post included an electronic letter by one Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin which responded to a press release by the Nyungah Aboriginal tribe in Western Australia. In the press release the Aboriginals call for the ‘boycott of the Sydney 2000 Olympics’.
In his response Ervin says, and I quote, ‘Your letter is so important because it not only makes your wishes known, but it confirms our statements that an international boycott of these bread and circus Olympic games, on stolen land soaked with the blood of your ancestors, is really the way forward to winning the human rights of the Indigenous people in the land known as Australia.’ Ervin goes on to say that ‘I have set up the Boycott 2000 Coalition in those 17 countries’.
A simple search on the Internet reveals the following statement by the Nyungah tribe on their home page and again I quote, ‘The smell of the white man is killing us’ while Ervin says of his short prison stay in Australia, ‘There was no heat in this hellhole, which is full of young black men even though they only make up 2% of the population. Over 100 blacks have been killed in that prison over the years.’
Every day on the Internet I am confronted by open acts of reverse racism, as well as acts of treachery such as calls for the boycott of the Sydney 2000 Olympics which, when revealed, are ignored by the media as they are not seen as ‘important’.
Yet come the day you don’t have to be Einstein to predict that the finger will be firmly pointed at Pauline Hanson when calls for a boycott get more vocal. The mainstream media will be in the vanguard perpetrating this distortion of the facts as they would have you believe it. Have you ever wondered why?
I am still waiting for Ann Scott or any Labor Party candidate for the seat of Oxley to take up my challenge to provide me with a public forum of their choice to allow them to either publicly ridicule me or for the ALP to be ridiculed over these and earlier statements I have made which hit at the very heart of the ideals of the mums and dads who received that school notice. In the meantime I will continue to draw their attention to these issues as your gutless refusal to take up the challenge says it all.
Scott Balson, Karana Downs
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