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Won’t be there sorry.

Canberra calls this sunny weekend.

Will they also protest against racism by Lebanese gangs that attack Aussies?

EP - why can’t people protest racism that’s it? Why does it always have to be one side protesting against the racism of another side? I am not in Sydney, but if I attended a similar protest, I would be there as an opponent of all forms of racism. I think you are making a pretty harsh assumption that every person at such a rally ignores, supports or condones certain types of racism.

EP, how about reading before you begin your usual bleating?

“against the racist violence in Cronulla last Sunday, and against the ongoing racist acts that have followed from them.”

Ahh NUS always striving for relevance.

They will need to strive at present

or… nus doing what it should - participating in and leading action and debate that is of relevance and interest to students and the community at large. it’s a damn sight better than the liberal students or any number of ‘swampy trots’ have done.

Steve and Stuart – I’ve seen nothing to suggest that the rally will condemn any racist violence other than that perpetrated by Anglos.

Given the political leanings of NUS, the absence of such a specific statement indicates that it is unlikely the rally will condemn Lebanese gang violence.

If either of you can provide evidence to the contrary, please do so.

Why are you protesting in the CBD? Who are you protesting to?

God (at the Anglican Church)

Will you be burning down churches, like the “men of Middle Eastern appearance” did at Auburn last night?

EP - As Steve notes, the title did state that the rally was against the Cronulla racism and ‘ongoing racist acts’ from that date. Maybe the function will be hijacked by those pushing only one line, who knows. If the function is hijacked by an extreme cause, it will be a dissappointment to many people who attend.

Aren’t protests normally done in the city because it is a central, relatively accessible location?

NUS has leanings all over the place, not just to the hard left. Burning churches? I hope not!

:)

An idiotic variation by EP on the usual RWDB Stalinist tactic of “you haven’t condemned this”. While his blog is happily hosts commenters ranting about Lebs…

The same blog also hosts commenters ranting about whites (and paedophiles, for some reason).

Anyway, let’s see what the rally on Sunday brings. If it’s balanced, I’ll apologise.

Well I won’t be. Nor will the students who can’t practice law or get a good job with arson on their criminal record.

Do NUS protests have a history of arson EP? Name one NUS protest involving burning something down?

You can’t can you? So shut your cake-hole :o)

(The only student protest I have seen involving fire was the infamous smoke-in at Sydney uni but no buildings were damaged through misplaced bongs.)

On another note the rally wil be a great opportunity to see the ‘activist’ paper sellers. I reckon you gould get copies of socialist slacker, weak left greenie, guardian, vanguard and maybe even the Progressive Labour Party journal. Add to that the millions of leaflets from all and sundry and people will have to take shopping trolleys to get all the rubbish home.

Oh-oh. EP will connect the dots and realise all that trash makes for great fuel in a fire!

Historically, NUS protests have tended to run to vandalism rather than arson.

But since this is their grand farewell performance, maybe they’ll do a Hendrix. And church-burning seems to be all the rage in Sydney these days.

Ok.

Two churches in two months. One a regular target that has nothing to do with muslims and all to do with local youths (Yagoona Uniting).

Try to keep your hysteria to a minimum.

On another note how unlucky is the Uniting Church?? One of the better ones yet it owned both churches!

Try four churches in 24 hours, O fact-challenged one.

Any other stupid errors you’d care to make today?

Well, I turned out to be right.

Again.

Of course.

Well, we didn’t burn down any churches (as you claimed we would), we didn’t turn to any vandalism (as you claimed we would), and we didn’t just condemn one side of racism or violence (as we claimed we would), so from your chair, Evil, what exactly were you right about?

the cardinal rule of rallies was broken - no more than three speakers, no more than 5 minutes each… heinous crime eh, EP?

Amen, dibo, amen to the cardinal rule. When that bloke was telling his life story I felt like popping down to the pub on the corner for ten minutes and a swift middy.
Osmond, if you’re reading, well done organising on short notice. Ditto frequent commenter DF.

Straw man city!

I didn’t say you’d be burning down churches – I said the rally would only condemn one side of racist violence. And so it was, with all the signs and statements I saw attacking John Howard, Alan Jones, Australians in general – but not a skerrick of condemnation for Lebanese racists. Just as predicted.

But I have to congratulate the Communist Party of Australia for actually rising from the dead for the occasion. Well done, zombie comrades!

Yes, that moment alone was worth the entire rally, Evil.

As you weren’t there, Evil, you wouldn’t have heard the speakers who condemned all gang activity and said that the beaches were for everyone to use peacefully. Though I suppose not knowing what you were talking about never stopped you getting whingey about an imagined LEFT before, though.

If there were a left, and I belonged to it, I’d feel faintly embarrassed about at least a couple of these pictures.

Dunno why that didn’t work.

Missing quotation mark in the link, Rob, now fixed.

“we stand with the lebanese against racists”

“we blame john howard’s war on terror”

And then there’s the dissonant image of some Middle-Eastern guys holding an Australian flag saying “Im an aussie” contrasted with the hairy-armpitted “lady” holding a picture of the Australian flag on a sign saying “symbol of racism”.

So does this mean you are supporting the racists holding the racist australian flag?

Evilpundit is 100% right. This demonstration never promised anything except more blaming of white Australians for everything, and it delivered exactly what it promised.

Extra bonus points for getting the Communist party to turn up. You should be about as proud as yourself as anyone who organised a rally and got the PYL to participate would be.