We will listen to Obama's Gitmo pleas
Geoff Elliott and Patricia Karvelas
The Australian
January 05, 2009
THE Rudd Government would still be open to overtures from the incoming Obama administration to reconsider its refusal to take inmates from Guantanamo Bay.
After formally rebuffing for the second time the Bush administration on taking former terror suspects being held at Guantanamo, Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Australia would consider subsequent requests from the US as it tries to close the notorious island prison.
But Ms Gillard played down the prospect of accepting any former prisoners.
"We will consider any future requests on a case by case basis against these stringent criteria for both national security and immigration," she said.
Despite the latest rejection, there were no hard feelings from Washington - at least for now.
A State Department spokesman said "no derogatory shadow is being cast" on the announcement from Ms Gillard to deny the request made in December to take a small group of inmates.
"We realise that a lot of the people coming aren't the kind of people you might want, so there are no negative signs being hung on this," the spokesman told The Australian.
The Bush administration has been looking at ways to close Guantanamo for the past 12 months, including asking more than 100 countries if they might consider taking some of the 60 or so detainees already cleared for release but facing possible persecution if they were returned to their homeland.
In all, there are about 250 detainees in Guantanamo, including many never likely to be released, such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
After revelations in The Australian, Ms Gillard said the federal Government advised the US on Saturday that Australia would refuse the latest request.
A spokeswoman for Ms Gillard yesterday said the Government had not received any more requests to resettle inmates. "The Government has received two requests to resettle persons from Guantanamo. Both these requests were considered, and rejected," the spokeswoman said.
"The Government has not received any other request. Any future request would be considered on the same basis, which led to the rejection of all earlier requests."
Referring earlier to the two requests to help house detainees from the war on terror, Ms Gillard said: "Those resettlement requests were considered on a case-by-case basis against Australia's stringent national security and immigration criteria.
"Assessing those requests on a case-by-case basis, (they) have not met those stringent national security and immigration criteria and have been rejected."
Opposition legal affairs spokesman George Brandis said the request should never have been considered by Australia.
"We are speaking about people, terrorism suspects captured on the field of battle, detained in Guantanamo Bay who are among the most dangerous people among the world," Senator Brandis said.
President-elect Barack Obama has said closing Guantanamo is a priority; already there have been several overtures from European countries, including Britain, Portugal and Germany, indicating they could resettle detainees.
While the Bush administration requests have fallen on deaf ears, analysts believe soundings from Europe indicate a willingness to turn over a new leaf with the incoming administration and build bridges with Washington.
However, the public has been to ask why the US cannot sort out a mess of its own making and resettle all the detainees in the US, either releasing them or continuing the incarceration.
The State Department spokesman said it was perfectly understandable that many felt the US should be responsible for any resettlement, and noted "many regions in the US are not looking at this favourably either".
"But we may end up having to take them all," he said.
The father of former Guantanamo inmate David Hicks said he thought Australia should consider taking prisoners from the military prison. Australia had been "hand in hand with the American Government on Guantanamo and "should look at it", Adelaide-based Terry Hicks said yesterday.
He said he thought any security concerns about inmates coming to Australia could be addressed by the existing screening process for refugees. "We take people from all over the world, we don't know what their thoughts are," he said.
"I can't see any difference from Guantanamo people and people we bring from overseas through the settlement process."
The left media here in Australia has made a big deal of demanding that Madame Gillard tell that terrible Pres. G W Bush what he can do with HIS prisoners, after all, he captured them and he should take care of them if HE wants to shut down Guantanamo Bay,fair enough, however these same commentators have been demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay and the release of it's prisoners because Guantanamo Bay is not necessary because there are no terrorists interned there,for instance, David Hicks or "Our David " as his leftist cheer squad preferred to call him, well if there are no terrorists interned there whats the big deal with these internees coming to Australia ? surely an Australia full of "Our David" clones cant be a bad thing ?
The Left in Australia, the Australian Labor Party,has told Australians since 911 that protecting our nation from terrorism by the implementation of stricter immigration and passport regulations was simply GWBush and John Howard beating their chests inciting fear amongst the Australian and American populations, Australia has nothing to fear from Islam, hey just ask Sheik Hilalie, Keysar Trad and David Hicks aka "Our David"
I saw Madame Gillard refuting any suggestion that her government would accept any Guantanamo Bay internees as requested by GWBush, she then went on to say that every applicant would be accepted on a case by case basis, so if Pres.GWBush says for instance "hey Madame Gillard can you take 20 Muslim terrorists off my hands" she says "no way", however if the United States government (aka Barack Obama) says "hey Madame Gillard can you take 20 Muslim terrorists off my hands" she will look at each one on a "case by case basis", so Obama's Muslim terrorist internees are somehow not a threat to Australia but Pres.GWBush's Muslim terrorist internees are?
It must be said here that Australian PM Kevin Rudd, is, along with all things China and it's political system,one of the most gushing Barack Obama groupies on the planet, he leapt to Obama's defence when the previous PM John Howard suggested that the Taliban would prefer an Obama / Democrat president be elected in 2008 than a Republican, Rudd reacted as would be expected he do so, as all good leftists China,Chavez, Obama groupies,would, when one of their political and ideological soul mates,especially a black one, came under attack from a member of the evil "coalition of the willing" or someone who believed that Islamic terrorism was a threat to the west, the politically correct thought police here rolled out the specter of racism and defied any one in the community to dare agree with Howard lest they suffer Tar and Feathering for daring to criticise one of the "enlightened ones" that are the left.
Now let me see Madame Gillard,President Bush's Islamic Terrorists are BAD,but President Barack Obama's Islamic terrorists are not necessarily BAD,in fact they could, in all likely hood be good, given the election of a man to the US Presidency who is a Black Democrat,and also an apologist for Islam and there fore they should be considered on a case by case basis......mmmmmmmmmm I see.
Given PM Rudd's promise to allow the entry of over one million immigrants into Australia before the year 2010, with a preference given to NON English speaking UN Skilled applicants will these referees from Comrade Obama be included in the one million or will they be in addition to the one million NON English speaking UN skilled quota ?
Madame Gillard will your government ever explain to the Australian people as to why the previous Hawke / Keating Labor government allowed the entry into Australia of Muslims from the middle east,who were refused entry / residency by the Australian Immigration Department in particular Lebanon, just why did the Australian Labor Party over rule the Australian Immigration Department and allow these Muslims into Australia against all advice ?
and could you explain to the Australian people why your party or any government would give preference to immigrants who have declared their hatred for Judeo Christian values and the culture manifested by it, why would the Australian Labor Party in particular enforce a policy of Muslim immigration into Australia, a nation the very antithesis of every thing that the Islamic manifested culture and religion of Islam stand for, just what is it about Australia you despise so much you are so determined to destroy?
A blog revealing the horrors of Islam,International Socialism,the misery these two evils are inflicting upon the free the world,and those it has already enslaved,along with various articles revealing the attacks from within upon the western Judeo Christian ethic by those we entrusted to preserve it. Videos and Pictures of many varied subjects from around the world, along with some jokes of mine and any funny ones you want to send me.
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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
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This matters above everything.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”
--------Check this out, what an Bum WOW!!!!
When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.
Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Islams Love of it's children .........
"Teach your children well .... blah blah and know they love you .......
Whilst the ever politically correct new age "she males" of the west are harangued from birth, to at all costs to be in "touch with their feelings" and that "there has to be a better way" or "war is not the answer" and to tolerate whatever foreign cultural ideology, no matter how obscene or perverse is imposed upon them, by their new age drug fucked post 70's hippie parents and leftist's "educators" those, who are by the moral compass of their very lives, and indeed what they believe to be the only moral code for mankind,the ramblings of the Pirate Paedophile, slave trader,misogynist and mass murderer Mohammed, the Koran, are taught from birth, how to at every opportunity to slaughter all and any who dare subscribe to, or desire any thought or deed not approved of by their "Holy" Koran.
I believe Islam has the upper hand for one reason and one reason only, there are so many Jews / Christians, "progressives" and leftists ensuring it's followers "rights" are protected and it's goals facilitated, under the guise of civil rights and social justice.
I find it weird that the Liberal intelligencia that is the left,the beautiful people, the free thinkers and beard strokers, the self appointed custodians and arbitors of all that is good and right, in what they see as their Godless Humanist world, rush at every opportunity to slander and defame at every opportunity the very institutions that have enabled the creation of a society where they are able to exist and express their belief's without persecution or penality,whilst at every opportunity giving any and all the support they can to an governance / ideology that if it were to be the governance/ideology they found themselves living under, they would simply not exist, let alone have the right to proffer a differing opinion least of all an opinion demanding tolerance of views differing to those of those who they champion now.
Maybe thats why the first thing the movers and shakers of the Russian revolution made it their first priority to execute all the "beautiful progressives" who so vigoriously worked for the imposition of Communism.
Islam cannot stand on its own merits simply because it has none, look at what Islam manifests to see its worth, how dare these creatures call the perversions of the Koran the word of God.
If Islam was a medication it would be withdrawn by the FDA because of the Lunatic Psychosis that manifests in the mind of the patient after exposure to it.
Whilst the ever politically correct new age "she males" of the west are harangued from birth, to at all costs to be in "touch with their feelings" and that "there has to be a better way" or "war is not the answer" and to tolerate whatever foreign cultural ideology, no matter how obscene or perverse is imposed upon them, by their new age drug fucked post 70's hippie parents and leftist's "educators" those, who are by the moral compass of their very lives, and indeed what they believe to be the only moral code for mankind,the ramblings of the Pirate Paedophile, slave trader,misogynist and mass murderer Mohammed, the Koran, are taught from birth, how to at every opportunity to slaughter all and any who dare subscribe to, or desire any thought or deed not approved of by their "Holy" Koran.
I believe Islam has the upper hand for one reason and one reason only, there are so many Jews / Christians, "progressives" and leftists ensuring it's followers "rights" are protected and it's goals facilitated, under the guise of civil rights and social justice.
I find it weird that the Liberal intelligencia that is the left,the beautiful people, the free thinkers and beard strokers, the self appointed custodians and arbitors of all that is good and right, in what they see as their Godless Humanist world, rush at every opportunity to slander and defame at every opportunity the very institutions that have enabled the creation of a society where they are able to exist and express their belief's without persecution or penality,whilst at every opportunity giving any and all the support they can to an governance / ideology that if it were to be the governance/ideology they found themselves living under, they would simply not exist, let alone have the right to proffer a differing opinion least of all an opinion demanding tolerance of views differing to those of those who they champion now.
Maybe thats why the first thing the movers and shakers of the Russian revolution made it their first priority to execute all the "beautiful progressives" who so vigoriously worked for the imposition of Communism.
Islam cannot stand on its own merits simply because it has none, look at what Islam manifests to see its worth, how dare these creatures call the perversions of the Koran the word of God.
If Islam was a medication it would be withdrawn by the FDA because of the Lunatic Psychosis that manifests in the mind of the patient after exposure to it.
Hamas pre school graduation
The red on the little girls hands represents the blood of the descendants
of the "Apes and Pigs" aka the Jewish people (and the Infidels.)
Islamic Paedophilia of the mind
The red on the little girls hands represents the blood of the descendants
of the "Apes and Pigs" aka the Jewish people (and the Infidels.)
Islamic Paedophilia of the mind
Israel please dont stop until the job is done
Israel is now in a position where it can put the Islamic threat of world domination back a long way.
I know it's easy to sit at a computer keyboard thousands of miles away pontificating about matters, that so far, thank God, I (I must point out that even though personally I have not suffered at the hands of the followers of the Religion of Peace based in what are known as Sydney's occupied territories, Sydney Police estimate that at least 100 + Sydney teenage girls have been the victims of Islamic gang rape, only a hand full of Islamic gang rapists have been brought to justice, let alone charged) have yet to physically suffer the consequences of Islams blood lust, it's easy to be an expert so far away, however me and many Australians have witnessed the malignant pathology of the Islamic mindset already entrenching itself here in Australia, following years of leftist immigration policies based on the myth of Multiculturalism, that gave preference to Islamic applicants and other anti Judeo / Christian Western cultures into Australia.
I believe that Israel is and has been nothing more than the canary in the coal mine since its inception, could 2009 be the year and the time when someone in the civilized world has the balls to call Islams bluff?
Israel has nothing to lose, with the USA soon to be under the control of a man with no experience in anything other than what he describes as been a "community organizer" or Acorn activists,aka another product of the Mob's / lefts Chicago Democrat carisma (Camelot) factory,Israel's days as a Jewish sovereign state are numbered should it need the military might of the USA, I fear it's days are numbered, given Barack Obama's victory in the November 08 presidential elections many could argue that this is what the American people voted for, it is my belief that the majority of Americans will not be cheering at the destruction of Israel should the "Palestinians" ( Islamists) prevail, however it's a long way away from the next Presidential election and four years of pro Islamic US foreign policy would undoubtedly mean the end of Israel and the start of the Islamisation of the Judeo Christian Western world.
President elect Obama has made his loyalties clear, when it comes to siding with Judeo Christian values or Islamic values, in his book he boasted about his intentions to "...side with Islam" if put to the test.
The American people voted for this mindset and the full ramifications of this mindset are obviously yet to be felt, 2009 and beyond will be interesting times to say the least.
Israel please just go fo it, show the world Islam is what it is and when put to the test will run out of women and babies and the disabled to hide behind as they try to slaughter Jews or anyone else they decide should die to further their Koranic inspired beliefs.
The "Palestinians" aka the UN / left's and main stream media's favourite Islamic terrorists,are a cowardly mob, motivated by the most base of human desires, thats why they subscribe to the cult of Islam, for only Islam can offer these base depraved desires to it's followers, have shown they are easily defeated should they be put to the test as are most of "Allah's brave warroriers"
Who can forget the seeing the live TV footage of the lefts and main stream medias & Saddams elite Allah inspired Faydein Guard, running almost naked along the banks of the Tigress River stripping themselves of their Iraqi military uniforms lest they be identified (and killed or captured) as "Allah's brave Iraqi warroriers" as the US and co alition forces moved into Baghdad.
The second world war saw Hitlers armies constantly betrayed by these same "Holy Warroriers" in Egypt, for when they started to realise they were no longer on the winning team they soon started offering allied forces their services,they of course could not be trusted as far as they could be thrown needless to say the rest is history, their allys the Japanese were at least bound by honour, a character trait that has only ever burdend the Islamic mindset in matters concerning their wives and daughters, as in gee did they shame me? or do I feel less of a man? because they are around, and If I answer yes to the pervious hey guys when is a good time to kill them, you free Friday?
Go Israel!!! as I know you are well aware, cease fire (Hey UN we are on the end of a hiding to nothing here start earning your bribe money and start demanding a fricking cease fire) is Hudna, Hudna is "gee we are getting our arses kicked here give us time to re supply so we can start killing Jews / infidels again"
I wish Israel well, I hope it kicks Islams / UN's arse from one end of Gaza to the other,
Why? because I believe this is it's last chance to do so.
To believe in the Koran, Islam, is to believe in all the obscene absurdities ever imagined by man since creation, to credit these belief's as been the word of God, is to prove conclusively the total Satanic inspired insanity of it's proponents.
God Bless Israel.
I know it's easy to sit at a computer keyboard thousands of miles away pontificating about matters, that so far, thank God, I (I must point out that even though personally I have not suffered at the hands of the followers of the Religion of Peace based in what are known as Sydney's occupied territories, Sydney Police estimate that at least 100 + Sydney teenage girls have been the victims of Islamic gang rape, only a hand full of Islamic gang rapists have been brought to justice, let alone charged) have yet to physically suffer the consequences of Islams blood lust, it's easy to be an expert so far away, however me and many Australians have witnessed the malignant pathology of the Islamic mindset already entrenching itself here in Australia, following years of leftist immigration policies based on the myth of Multiculturalism, that gave preference to Islamic applicants and other anti Judeo / Christian Western cultures into Australia.
I believe that Israel is and has been nothing more than the canary in the coal mine since its inception, could 2009 be the year and the time when someone in the civilized world has the balls to call Islams bluff?
Israel has nothing to lose, with the USA soon to be under the control of a man with no experience in anything other than what he describes as been a "community organizer" or Acorn activists,aka another product of the Mob's / lefts Chicago Democrat carisma (Camelot) factory,Israel's days as a Jewish sovereign state are numbered should it need the military might of the USA, I fear it's days are numbered, given Barack Obama's victory in the November 08 presidential elections many could argue that this is what the American people voted for, it is my belief that the majority of Americans will not be cheering at the destruction of Israel should the "Palestinians" ( Islamists) prevail, however it's a long way away from the next Presidential election and four years of pro Islamic US foreign policy would undoubtedly mean the end of Israel and the start of the Islamisation of the Judeo Christian Western world.
President elect Obama has made his loyalties clear, when it comes to siding with Judeo Christian values or Islamic values, in his book he boasted about his intentions to "...side with Islam" if put to the test.
The American people voted for this mindset and the full ramifications of this mindset are obviously yet to be felt, 2009 and beyond will be interesting times to say the least.
Israel please just go fo it, show the world Islam is what it is and when put to the test will run out of women and babies and the disabled to hide behind as they try to slaughter Jews or anyone else they decide should die to further their Koranic inspired beliefs.
The "Palestinians" aka the UN / left's and main stream media's favourite Islamic terrorists,are a cowardly mob, motivated by the most base of human desires, thats why they subscribe to the cult of Islam, for only Islam can offer these base depraved desires to it's followers, have shown they are easily defeated should they be put to the test as are most of "Allah's brave warroriers"
Who can forget the seeing the live TV footage of the lefts and main stream medias & Saddams elite Allah inspired Faydein Guard, running almost naked along the banks of the Tigress River stripping themselves of their Iraqi military uniforms lest they be identified (and killed or captured) as "Allah's brave Iraqi warroriers" as the US and co alition forces moved into Baghdad.
The second world war saw Hitlers armies constantly betrayed by these same "Holy Warroriers" in Egypt, for when they started to realise they were no longer on the winning team they soon started offering allied forces their services,they of course could not be trusted as far as they could be thrown needless to say the rest is history, their allys the Japanese were at least bound by honour, a character trait that has only ever burdend the Islamic mindset in matters concerning their wives and daughters, as in gee did they shame me? or do I feel less of a man? because they are around, and If I answer yes to the pervious hey guys when is a good time to kill them, you free Friday?
Go Israel!!! as I know you are well aware, cease fire (Hey UN we are on the end of a hiding to nothing here start earning your bribe money and start demanding a fricking cease fire) is Hudna, Hudna is "gee we are getting our arses kicked here give us time to re supply so we can start killing Jews / infidels again"
I wish Israel well, I hope it kicks Islams / UN's arse from one end of Gaza to the other,
Why? because I believe this is it's last chance to do so.
To believe in the Koran, Islam, is to believe in all the obscene absurdities ever imagined by man since creation, to credit these belief's as been the word of God, is to prove conclusively the total Satanic inspired insanity of it's proponents.
God Bless Israel.
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Complaints beaver away at tampon ad
By Elle Halliwell
The Sunday Telegraph
January 04, 2009 12:00am
A list released by the Advertising Standards Bureau found the hotly debated Kotex U tampon ad showing a woman going about daily activities with a beaver in tow was the most complained about ad in 2008.
The ad, which received more than 185 complaints, tells its audience, "You only have one of them, so look after it'' and featured the animal which viewers understood to be a reference to female genitalia.
A Domino's pizza ad in which a character named Many Toppins uses the made-up term "Supercalafreakinawesome'' was the second most complained-about ad for the year.
"While `freakin' is not particularly terrible, on the ad, it sounds more like `friggin' and was repeated as such by my four-year old,'' one of the 145 people who complained said.
The controversial Advanced Medical Institute billboard ad also prompted more than 110 offended people to complain to the ASB, making it the third most objected to.
The billboard ad was one of three on the list which were discontinued after being found in breach of the Australian Association of National Advertisers' code of ethics.
Despite orders to replace the `want-longer-lasting-sex?' billboards by September, many were simply covered with "censored'' stickers.
Women's Forum Australia spokeswoman Melinda Tankard Reist said families were very upset by the company's outdoor campaign.
"In one case we heard that a six-year-old child asked his mother, `How long is it supposed to last?''' she said.
"They're forcing parents to have conversations with their children when they might have preferred to have waited until they were more mentally developed and it was the appropriate time.''
Also in the list was an Inghams television ad which suggested there was "something seriously wrong'' with people who didn't like chicken, and a pamphlet for the Tell the Truth Coalition which featured images of aborted foetuses.
ASB chief executive Fiona Jolly said the number of complaints was higher than in 2007, with some 2350 received about more than 540 ads.
"This year we launched a public education campaign to highlight to people that there is somewhere they can raise their concerns about any advertising,'' she said.
"Since the launch, the number of complaints to the ASB has continued to climb.''
Ms Tankard Reist said advertisers and brands needed to take complaints more seriously as consumers, particularly women, would just stop buying their products.
"If advertisers want to show some corporate social responsibility they need to listen to these concerns'' she said.
"Companies need to recognise that women make the bulk of household decisions.''
Upon posting this story I had been unable to post the text AND the video, for some strange reason, I hope it all makes sense now.
You tell me is it offensive? or just a bit of fun?
Complaints beaver away at tampon ad
By Elle Halliwell
The Sunday Telegraph
January 04, 2009 12:00am
A list released by the Advertising Standards Bureau found the hotly debated Kotex U tampon ad showing a woman going about daily activities with a beaver in tow was the most complained about ad in 2008.
The ad, which received more than 185 complaints, tells its audience, "You only have one of them, so look after it'' and featured the animal which viewers understood to be a reference to female genitalia.
A Domino's pizza ad in which a character named Many Toppins uses the made-up term "Supercalafreakinawesome'' was the second most complained-about ad for the year.
"While `freakin' is not particularly terrible, on the ad, it sounds more like `friggin' and was repeated as such by my four-year old,'' one of the 145 people who complained said.
The controversial Advanced Medical Institute billboard ad also prompted more than 110 offended people to complain to the ASB, making it the third most objected to.
The billboard ad was one of three on the list which were discontinued after being found in breach of the Australian Association of National Advertisers' code of ethics.
Despite orders to replace the `want-longer-lasting-sex?' billboards by September, many were simply covered with "censored'' stickers.
Women's Forum Australia spokeswoman Melinda Tankard Reist said families were very upset by the company's outdoor campaign.
"In one case we heard that a six-year-old child asked his mother, `How long is it supposed to last?''' she said.
"They're forcing parents to have conversations with their children when they might have preferred to have waited until they were more mentally developed and it was the appropriate time.''
Also in the list was an Inghams television ad which suggested there was "something seriously wrong'' with people who didn't like chicken, and a pamphlet for the Tell the Truth Coalition which featured images of aborted foetuses.
ASB chief executive Fiona Jolly said the number of complaints was higher than in 2007, with some 2350 received about more than 540 ads.
"This year we launched a public education campaign to highlight to people that there is somewhere they can raise their concerns about any advertising,'' she said.
"Since the launch, the number of complaints to the ASB has continued to climb.''
Ms Tankard Reist said advertisers and brands needed to take complaints more seriously as consumers, particularly women, would just stop buying their products.
"If advertisers want to show some corporate social responsibility they need to listen to these concerns'' she said.
"Companies need to recognise that women make the bulk of household decisions.''
Upon posting this story I had been unable to post the text AND the video, for some strange reason, I hope it all makes sense now.
You tell me is it offensive? or just a bit of fun?
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