Urban Renewal II (The Arab Revolt)
Taking further cues from the last reel of the Blues Brothers (“Use of unnecessary violence has been approved”), I’d like to spend a little bit of time laying out a bit more of my own urban renewal plans for the city I love. The target of opportunity this time is the sleepy suburb of Camden in Sydney’s South-West.
It’s connected to the metropolis of Sydney only by the tenuous links of an electrified train line, a motorway, and the shame the father of the Prodigal Son must have felt halfway through the parable. There can be no instructive resolution here, though; I say we ought, like its more belligerent residents, to take matters into our own hands, and like the Chinese over Taiwan, keep the renegade province as isolated from the rest of the planet as is possible.
Some locals are threatening to take matters into their own hands if the 1,200-student school in Camden is approved by either the council or via appeal to the Land and Environment Court.
A group calling themselves the Public Affairs Education Committee organised last night’s meeting and had to shut the doors when the Camden Civic Centre reached full capacity.
Police formed a protection line in front of the civic centre’s front doors and had to calm a group of more than 200 people who were unable to get in.
One protester issued a stern warning to the Qu’ranic Society, which has lodged the $19 million development application.
“If it does get approved, every ragger that walks up the street is going to get smashed up the arse by about 30 Aussies,” he said.
Here’s my plan. Let’s go and borrow from our libraries a few copies of The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom and learn from the great student of the Near East, T.E. Lawrence. Cutting of the enemy’s railway links, with a bit of well-placed dynamite, just after Liverpool and East Hills Stations would isolate them fully, leaving them only with the motorway as an economic artery, and entirely at the mercy of our forces, who can strike anywhere. We can then march in secret across the cultural desert of the Sutherland Shire to take the fortified town centre of Glenfield.
Don’t thank me for the plan, dear readers. I am a river to my people.
arleeshar wrote:
I say do it soon while Fred Nile is still down there stirring up racial hatred in a community he has far fewer ties to than the people who have proposed the school.
What a disgusting human being.
liam wrote:
He’s even out of step with his own Party.
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arleeshar wrote:
Also with his church.
Well, ex-church, anyway.
EvilPundit wrote:
News flash: Islam is not a race.
liam wrote:
I didn’t mention race, Evil. I object to sectarianism, a far more traditional and true-blue Australian bigotry.
If they want to be a “rural” village unspoiled by the diverse, densely-populated city upon whom they depend for their livelihoods—fuck them. The rest of the Western Suburbs got over population growth in the 1960s.
EvilPundit wrote:
The ABC story you linked mentioned racism, as did two of the comments. It’s also the subtext to the whole left-wing approach to the issue.
Oddly enough, bigoted sectarianism doesn’t seem to be a problem when lefties attack Family First, Hillsong or those Brethren dudes.
liam wrote:
Hooray for subtext! Now if only everyone could agree on subtext universally, regardless of the topic of the argument, we’d transmit a whole lot more meaning.
Yawn. Come back with a link where one of us has attacked FF, the AOG or the Brethren for wanting to open a Christian school, and then we’ll talk.
The closest thing you’ll find is Jason shining up his secular kicking boots here—though as you’ll see, his is an equal opportunity anti-clericalism.
EvilPundit wrote:
I said ‘lefties’, not ‘the specific lefties who post on this blog’. I’ve seen many attacks on Christians, especially those who dare participate in politics, from the broader Left.
From Bob Brown’s attempted abuse of the Senate committee system to attack the Brethren, to Catholic-bashing over abortion and homosexuality, the sectarian attacks come thick and fast.
But somehow, Islam is off limits. There is a clear double standard on the Left as far as religion goes. Christianity is usually attacked, while Islam is usually defended.
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