Antimulticulture
2005-11-30 11:04:06 UTC
He doesn't deserve a minute of your time
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17392697-5001032,00.html
By Piers Akerman
November 29, 2005
THE nation pauses for a minute on Remembrance Day to remember the Armistice
called at 11am, on November 11, 1918, bringing an end to World War I.
On Anzac Day people stand at ceremonies, in schools, in offices and in their
own homes, as the Ode, the fourth stanza of British poet Laurence Binyon
poem To the Fallen is recited, refreshing the memories of the great
sacrifices that have been made to keep this country free.
Now, in a fit of collective madness, advocates of lunar politics such as the
Democrats' perennial undergraduate Natasha Stott Despoja, the Greens'
inner-urban conspiracist Senator Kerry Nettles, and the wetter-than-water
Liberal Bruce Baird, are demanding a national minute of silence to mark the
expected execution of the convicted drug smuggler Nguyen Tuong Van in
Singapore this Friday.
They are effectively placing Remembrance Day and Anzac Day on par with the
execution of a heroin smuggler.
RSL National president Bill Crews believes it is totally inappropriate to
use the special moment's silence for any other purpose than honouring those
who gave their life while serving their country.
Mr Baird says Australians should observe a minute's silence at 9am on Friday
when Nguyen Tuong Van is scheduled to be hanged "to express our compassion
for this young Australian and our opposition to the imposition of this
barbaric sentence".
A pause for parents to celebrate all those whose lives will not be put at
risk by the heroin he hoped to deliver would be more appropriate.
Not happy with calls for trade sanctions against our ally, Labor Senator
George Campbell also wants to mix sport and politics by demanding that the
Prime Minister's XI cricket match against the West Indies be called off on
the grounds that it would be insensitive.
Perhaps Senator Campbell could be sent a calendar listing the dates of
scheduled executions in China, Malaysia, Vietnam and the US, to name a few
countries which retain the death penalty, and advise us how he intends to
mark each and every execution?
Beyond the sheer idiocy of their approach, beyond their denigration of the
memories of men and women who made genuine contributions to our culture and
society and the gross insults delivered to the people of Singapore, these
politicians - with the tacit support of Opposition Leader Kim Beazley and
his foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd - are guilty of fostering the false
notion that there may still be some hope of reversing the decisions of the
Singapore High Court and the Singapore Court of Appeal.
Despite the flawed reporting of the ABC (which yesterday simply described
him as an "Australian man", omitting to mention his conviction) and the
Fairfax press, Nguyen Tuong Van is not an admirable person.
Neither is his twin brother, Khoa, who has two convictions for heroin
trafficking to his discredit, and one for involvement in an ethnic gang
brawl.
There is natural sympathy for the mother of these two criminals, Kim Nguyen,
but that does not excuse their criminal behaviour or provide any reason for
the mitigation of the sentence handed down by a highly reputable court.
Nguyen, according to arresting authorities, was bringing 396g of heroin into
Australia for two drug dealers known only as Tan and Sun.
The Singaporean authorities say such an amount of heroin could be
distributed as 26,000 hits. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
earlier this year suggested the Sydney street price of heroin was about $380
a gram, but that gram would have been heavily diluted. The street value of
Nguyen's cargo could therefore have been anything from $500,000 to many
millions.
Nguyen has said he made his drug run to pay off his brother's legal debts of
some $30,000 to $45,000. The minimum value of Nguyen's illicit and poisonous
haul would have been 10 times the debt he hoped to clear.
Why didn't Nguyen arrange to find the necessary money legally, and how did
he know how to contact major traffickers who were able to put him in touch
with an international heroin supplier operating from Cambodia?
Nguyen, according to friends, seems to have come to terms with his crime and
his punishment in a far more graceful manner than those shrilly hectoring
the Singapore Government over its well-publicised drug laws.
Despite facing the ultimate penalty, he has not succumbed to the madness
that seems to have affected many in the media and political worlds, indeed,
there seems in his writings to be a sense of relief that he will soon be
spared their incessant irrelevant chattering.
Though he has no choice in the matter, it does seem unfortunate in the
extreme that death will provide Nguyen with his only release from their
nonsensical posturing.
We now wait for the same vacuous fools to mount another meaningless assault
against capital punishment - and call for the cancellation of sporting
events - when the smiling assassin Amrozi is given the date for his
execution.
[Ed. What I find startling is that these people can defend a convicted drug
trafficker and expect everyone to shed tears on command, but then they demand
a vote in parliament to legalise child murder through abortion...oh wait, it is
lefty logic - contrarian yes, coherant, no...]
Let's hope that more than sports fixtures are scheduled for the same day,
the event of his death should be marked with parties.
[Ed. I will be having a minutes applause, then opening the bubbly...]
--
Jim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Nationalist
Union Against Multiculty
"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17392697-5001032,00.html
By Piers Akerman
November 29, 2005
THE nation pauses for a minute on Remembrance Day to remember the Armistice
called at 11am, on November 11, 1918, bringing an end to World War I.
On Anzac Day people stand at ceremonies, in schools, in offices and in their
own homes, as the Ode, the fourth stanza of British poet Laurence Binyon
poem To the Fallen is recited, refreshing the memories of the great
sacrifices that have been made to keep this country free.
Now, in a fit of collective madness, advocates of lunar politics such as the
Democrats' perennial undergraduate Natasha Stott Despoja, the Greens'
inner-urban conspiracist Senator Kerry Nettles, and the wetter-than-water
Liberal Bruce Baird, are demanding a national minute of silence to mark the
expected execution of the convicted drug smuggler Nguyen Tuong Van in
Singapore this Friday.
They are effectively placing Remembrance Day and Anzac Day on par with the
execution of a heroin smuggler.
RSL National president Bill Crews believes it is totally inappropriate to
use the special moment's silence for any other purpose than honouring those
who gave their life while serving their country.
Mr Baird says Australians should observe a minute's silence at 9am on Friday
when Nguyen Tuong Van is scheduled to be hanged "to express our compassion
for this young Australian and our opposition to the imposition of this
barbaric sentence".
A pause for parents to celebrate all those whose lives will not be put at
risk by the heroin he hoped to deliver would be more appropriate.
Not happy with calls for trade sanctions against our ally, Labor Senator
George Campbell also wants to mix sport and politics by demanding that the
Prime Minister's XI cricket match against the West Indies be called off on
the grounds that it would be insensitive.
Perhaps Senator Campbell could be sent a calendar listing the dates of
scheduled executions in China, Malaysia, Vietnam and the US, to name a few
countries which retain the death penalty, and advise us how he intends to
mark each and every execution?
Beyond the sheer idiocy of their approach, beyond their denigration of the
memories of men and women who made genuine contributions to our culture and
society and the gross insults delivered to the people of Singapore, these
politicians - with the tacit support of Opposition Leader Kim Beazley and
his foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd - are guilty of fostering the false
notion that there may still be some hope of reversing the decisions of the
Singapore High Court and the Singapore Court of Appeal.
Despite the flawed reporting of the ABC (which yesterday simply described
him as an "Australian man", omitting to mention his conviction) and the
Fairfax press, Nguyen Tuong Van is not an admirable person.
Neither is his twin brother, Khoa, who has two convictions for heroin
trafficking to his discredit, and one for involvement in an ethnic gang
brawl.
There is natural sympathy for the mother of these two criminals, Kim Nguyen,
but that does not excuse their criminal behaviour or provide any reason for
the mitigation of the sentence handed down by a highly reputable court.
Nguyen, according to arresting authorities, was bringing 396g of heroin into
Australia for two drug dealers known only as Tan and Sun.
The Singaporean authorities say such an amount of heroin could be
distributed as 26,000 hits. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
earlier this year suggested the Sydney street price of heroin was about $380
a gram, but that gram would have been heavily diluted. The street value of
Nguyen's cargo could therefore have been anything from $500,000 to many
millions.
Nguyen has said he made his drug run to pay off his brother's legal debts of
some $30,000 to $45,000. The minimum value of Nguyen's illicit and poisonous
haul would have been 10 times the debt he hoped to clear.
Why didn't Nguyen arrange to find the necessary money legally, and how did
he know how to contact major traffickers who were able to put him in touch
with an international heroin supplier operating from Cambodia?
Nguyen, according to friends, seems to have come to terms with his crime and
his punishment in a far more graceful manner than those shrilly hectoring
the Singapore Government over its well-publicised drug laws.
Despite facing the ultimate penalty, he has not succumbed to the madness
that seems to have affected many in the media and political worlds, indeed,
there seems in his writings to be a sense of relief that he will soon be
spared their incessant irrelevant chattering.
Though he has no choice in the matter, it does seem unfortunate in the
extreme that death will provide Nguyen with his only release from their
nonsensical posturing.
We now wait for the same vacuous fools to mount another meaningless assault
against capital punishment - and call for the cancellation of sporting
events - when the smiling assassin Amrozi is given the date for his
execution.
[Ed. What I find startling is that these people can defend a convicted drug
trafficker and expect everyone to shed tears on command, but then they demand
a vote in parliament to legalise child murder through abortion...oh wait, it is
lefty logic - contrarian yes, coherant, no...]
Let's hope that more than sports fixtures are scheduled for the same day,
the event of his death should be marked with parties.
[Ed. I will be having a minutes applause, then opening the bubbly...]
--
Jim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Nationalist
Union Against Multiculty
"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"