A lovely day at the beach.
'Paul, a local for 50 years, said he was not surprised by Sunday's violence. "I was here a week ago and the Lebs said to me 'What are you doing here, whitey? Piss off"
"...They've tried to take over this stretch and make it their own. They've got no respect for anyone or anything."
'A little down the beach a group of young Australians sit on the bonnet of their car, beers in hand, Southern Cross and Union Jacks on their arms.
Andrew, 24, sat under a miniature umbrella hat, peering through a fog of inebriation. "I'm a local boy, a Shire boy all me life," he said. "I'm sick of the young Lebbos and ethnics coming down here and causing trouble."
'...Barely a moment later, another of the young men, Brad, tells angrily how the Lebanese frequenting the beach are ogling and mistreating local women, making them feel unsafe.
"We are all fed up with it and something must be done...they've got no respect, they hate women and they are gutless."
'...The boys on the car bonnet are especially mad at a Sunday night incident, in which a group of Middle Eastern youths reportedly attacked an RSL club at beachside Brighton, clambering atop the structure to burn the Australian flag. "That is just un-Australian," Brad said.'
(in today's Age):
'The young Howard battlers at Cronulla have done us proud. Let the Aussie flag fly proudly over every beach!
- Andrew Ralvars, Fitzroy North.'
696 days til the next election.
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*sobs at failing hope*
Andrew Ralvars isn't in the phone book, unfortunately. I was going to ring and give him a piece of my bile.
I'm constantly wanting to call letter-writers and give them an earful. Is it illegal do you think? I am rather law-abiding and fear retribution.
Failing hope? Yes. But not if you're a nationalist.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nationalists-boast-of-their-role-on-the-beach/2005/12/12/1134236003135.html
You know, when somebody asks me where I'm from, I just say Melbourne nowadays. I don't want to be associated with the "Australia" we have become.
I've been so shattered by this. Sounds stupid I know, but all I've done for two days is skip work and write about it. Coz, you know, my LJ is *obviously* a force for major social change.
Fucking sigh.
Andrew Ralvers lives in North Fitzroy? It is tempting to go round there and give him an earful.
I haven't called myself an Australian for years. I became a Kiwi in 2001.
Hey, that sounds kind of cool. What sort of inititation process does one need to go through to become a Kiwi?
Fits, I recommend googling them. It's cathartic and totally legal.
Is there a better example of more capable and responsible young fellows than Brad and company? Such upstanding citizens – I can’t thank them enough for their selfless efforts to defend our values and protect our women.
I feel ill.
Young men like Brad have more in common with the dickheads who bashed the lifesavers the weekend before last, than their little brains would permit them to realise.
As I have said before: fuck-wits are fuck-wits: idiocy doesn’t discriminate.
Well, first you can't say tough. It's gotta be staunch. And you have to drink Speight's, or some other Kiwi beer. And you can never, ever put tobacco in your spliff, in fact real Kiwis don't even smoke spliffs, they have spots, using hot knives. And you have to be able to pronounce Maori correctly (it's like saying mouldy but you replace the ld with a rolled r).
But I don't know if it's for you, Fits, they don't vote. I keep threatening them that they'll end up with another Howard (which they v. nearly did last election) but they just laugh and somehow Helen Clarke keeps getting in.
Lucky Bastards.
This post is just another in a succession of reasons why I like you. Another triumph.
Googling Andrew Ralvars reveals a stunning ZERO results. Two possibilities: he was too gutless to use his real name ("Alan Jones"), or he's sub-human and therefore not on the internets.
I have changed my profile picture to this. Haha, the dude looks like he has an Aussie flag for a penis! How fucking patriotic!!
Well, whilst you and your brethren were having a mild time tapping your toes to the avalanches, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks et al others at KKKAid 2005 in Cronulla were rocking out to 'This Is Australia Calling' by John Williamson. Beat that!
Oh, don't worry. We had our own racist riots up at Meredith. The naked race ended in a fucking gang war and everything.
ar dear ms.
hope the rash is coming along nicely.
and those feelings of well being and contentment?
Step right up kiddies.
Watch Magic Johnny and his odious cretin assistants dog whistle an entire nation into a xenophobic lather.
Quick weren't they?
Vale multiculturalism.
Perhaps I am naïve, but I read Andrew Raivars letter as a sarcastic attack on Howard and his “battlers”. Johnny has famously described Cronulla and surrounds as “the part of Sydney which has always represented to me what middle Australia is all about". Isn’t Raivars pointing to the black irony in this, or am I being overly optimistic? As for not getting any google hits, I think you might be misspelling his name, team. It’s Raivars with an i, not an L. Maybe you should think about this before you ring, email or otherwise hassle anyone?
If you think andrew is gutless then have a look at some of the fuckwits responses here, if that is not enough to want to make you renonce your australian citizenship then what is. Can you imagine Mr Bolt rubbing his hands with fucking glee about what he is going to print tomorrow. I had had such a lovely weekend with ms fits, the sherrif and the krankster as well, now i feel sick. and Richard Pryor died as well. *sobs to self*
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17539406%255E11788,00.html#
Not that I want to stoke the Raivar's fire, but I'll take a punt that his comment wasn't ironic given the manner in which he rolls "lefties" off his tongue. Then again, maybe it's just those who are "lacking in artistic restraint" that he has a beef with? At least he likes trains!
Sorry.
Oh, der.
anonymous - the way I read it the Raivars letter you are linking to is actually a spirited attack on John Dawson, an ultra conservative writer and regular contributor to “Capitalism Magazine” (I kid you not) who has written in defence of rightwing revisionist historian Keith Windschuttle (among other unpleasant things). Maybe the Fits cheer squad needs to start taking their irony pills?
I thought it wasn't so much a "spirited attack" so much as a comment that it couldn't be the real Dawson because it was so obviously bogus - hence it must've been written by some lefty lacking artistic restraint
Two bunch of Aussie Yobbo's with a skin full looking for any excuse to knuckle...with the cops in the middle...
WTF is going on? And little Johnny doesn't have a clue...
my heart sinks daily at the thoughts of racist bogans taking up precious space.
i grew up in sydney and the social degredation is endless, there is so much dissent in the suburbs, racial predjudice has become the norm.
so can we move to mars yet? i hate this planet...
Hang on anonymous, let me get this straight – you think that Raivars is a right wing guy attacking another right wing guy because he thinks the second right wing guy is actually a left wing guy impersonating a right wing guy? Ummm… yeah, right, I think you’ve figured that one out.
There's an awesome amount of carazy characters being used here... Gav/Anon, are you using da Word? It's looking totally €â“™¯Ã up y'all.
From Herold Son comments. Neither of them can spell but only one of them is a dick.
"From: harrison Knox
Comment: Hi, my name is harrison and im 13. Every day when i go to school i see people who are from differnt cultures, you dont see me tryin to bash them or anything like that but i make friends with them. Imagine that your father or mother where from the middle east, you wouldn't hurt them or abuse them in any way, i've got family who are from a differnt culture but i don't to hurt them but i won't to learn from them. What is the point of calling some one black or white when we are all the same at heart. From Harrison Knox"
Bless your gentle heart, Harry my boy.
"From: stephen dick
Comment: Yesterdays riot had nothing to do racism,it was all to do with the fact that our country is being taken over by imigrants not willing to become australians and continuing to live the life they were supposedly trying to escape from. I;m not condonig what happened, but when we as a nation feel threatened we will stand up to be counted, because our pollititions are to weak to make the tough decissions.This has been coming for some time and unless corrective action is taken it will only worsen. Now is not the time for do-gooders to show their head, for this is your fault."
I believe he's recommending we wear burqas. Get it on, do-gooders.
xoxox nora
Yeah but as johnie told us the flag waving, middle eastern beating crowd weren't being racist.
Nooooooooo
That would never happen in relaxed and comfortable australia,
sorry yubris -
€â“™¯Ã is actually lebanese for 'let's all go to the beach for a nice family picnic'.
Anonymous who's confused about Andrew Raivars old letter to the Age that someone above linked to:
Raivars says -
The further assertion, that "freedom-loving people have nothing to fear from the US using its power in pursuit of its interests", encourages the suspicion that Mr Dawson's letter is a hoax, perpetrated by lefties lacking in artistic restraint.
What he's saying is that Mr Dawson's assertion is so appallingly idiotic that Mr. Dawson comes off as not merely a parody of a right wing dickhead but as an unbelievably over-the-top parody.
Verdict: Andrew Raivars is a smartarse lefty. Hooray!
*lights fart while reclining on car bonnet and clutching red flag*
Yep. That's what I've been trying to tell you all for the last 20 odd posts. Glad you finally caught up, guys.
Look, respect and props and all that to each and every one of you, but aren't we discussing the background rubbish, here?
Lefty or righty; does it really matter? The real atrocity here has been the LA Riots-style behaviour of the idiots in this country allowing their pent-up rage and fear brought on by who-knows-what (terrorism and September 11 would be a big part of it, though) and succumbing to the 'mob mentality' (and then getting to a place where there's no going back because of the righteous indignation each 'side' feels towards the other. Blood must be spilled to "right the wrong" ... and that's what both sides think.)
This is why there has never been lasting peace in the Middle East. Each side still feels sleighted (or just has a few bad eggs amongst their number), so "one final attack" - due to whatever perceived injustice last befell them - is required so they can get the last word (bomb) in.
I don't see this being fixed easily or quickly, and I am now VERY, VERY afraid for our country.
Dear Y'All
It's fucking Great how Smart everyone has got! I am so pumped to be coming to Australia in 1 hour so I can Punch an ethnic while wearing a big Mural of Symbolism. LOL I can punch my own Self! ('Stupid Immigrant from English / 'Miscellaneous race', how do you like my Kevin Bloody Wilson right in your Nuts --> Bitch?' 'Oh, it's alright')
It's almost like the whole place has become Pretty Fucking Shit. Was there a memo about it? ('Hey Evry1 Let's Get Way Shit U Keen LOL K L8r')
Kind Regards,
IOYC The Red Zone is For Loading and Unloading
Hey,
Can somebody tell me . Is it going to be okay for me to return to my country in a few years? Watching this shit from over here is kind of odd. And really unsettling. These are the beaches for crying out loud. This shit is not supposed to go on there or anywhere else for that matter.
Mr Howard's timing is a little off this time. It's not even close to the elections, unless of course if he can drag it out.
geez. I just knew that if you scratched the surface, even a teensy weensy little bit, this sort of shit would appear.
My hubby is a Shire-born boy, and it's exactly these f#ckwits that made the first 20 years of his life a misery. They're all f#cking rich kids with nothing better to do than try to make themselves feel important by hurting/belittling/humiliating other people. Only now they carry bigger sticks.
I'm so ashamed.
My favoourite bit was the guy who said "our grandfathers fought for this country".
Let me see, blond, blue-eyed boys singing patriotic songs, waving flags and beating up defenceless men and women for their race.
Your grandfathers are turning in their graves, you Nazi scum.
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