“Multicultural Everybody Loves Ray” and some Leftist Arse Clown wearing his handkerchief on his head, for some reason or other, trash Australia on this most Australian Day
Andrew Bolt
Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 08:38amYou know it’s Anzac Day, because so many of the Left are jeering.
FURIOUS ex-servicemen, the Australian War Memorial and NSW Premier Kristina Keneally have accused TV presenter Ray Martin of insensitivity and disrespect for re-igniting debate about the Australian flag on Anzac Day. Martin has angered defenders of the current flag, including many soldiers who will march behind it today, by hosting a television debate on why it should be changed on 60 Minutes tonight.
This afternoon, between 3.01 pm and 5.16 pm, Catherine Deveny (@CatherineDeveny), a columnist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, posted 14 interesting tweets about ANZAC Day. One she deleted before I could save it. Here are the rest (warning: strong language):…Anzac Day. Men only enlisted to fight for the money, for the adventure or because they were racist.
Anyone who lived through war not a [f....] says no parades, no medals, everyone who suffered and struggled remembered. Anzac Day Shits Me.
Anzac Day. Men only enlisted to fight for the money, for the adventure or because they were racist…
Anzac Day. [F...] repect. Respect is just code for ‘support our selective narrative used to prop up our power that we use to oppress.’
Zombie Myths of Australian Military History: The 10 Myths That Will Not Die
Edited by Craig Stockings
UNSW Press, 288pp, $34.95In Zombie Myths, 10 academics boldly set forth to slaughter myths about Australia’s military past that, in their view, won’t lie down and die… But before elaborating, I have two qualifications: first, some myths won’t die possibly because they contain some truth; second, some writers spend so much time hacking away at their pet zombie—and with so little effect—that perhaps it is they and not the poor, fly-blown creature who resemble the walking dead…
Elizabeth Greenhalgh savages the undead notion that Australians broke the Hindenburg Line and won World War I (they did break the line; but it was not a crucial act)…
Craig Stockings gleefully rips the arms off the myth that we’re a nation of born Diggers ready to jump into a trench at the drop of a slouch hat. Surely few believe this except drunken two-up players down at the local? ...
David Stevens writes with great dollops of hindsight and a sort of wishful thinking when he claims the Japanese never really endangered us.
In [the newly published] What’s Wrong with Anzac?, five historians lament what they say is a relentless, official campaign to elevate war and the Anzac spirit as the seminal forces that have shaped the nation.They go further, arguing the resurgent interest in military history and the popular embrace of the Anzac myth are officially contrived, with John Howard the chief villain, enshrining militaristic values that prime us to rush off to other people’s wars.
They argue this militarisation of national values ‘’has naturalised our condition of always being at war and thus silenced debate about our current and future wars’’.
Whats Wrong With Anzac?: The Militarisation of Australian History (New South, 2010) is a polemical work that argues that the Anzac legend has an exaggerated and unhealthy predominance in Australian identity, and especially in Australian schools…
The argument goes:
Australian national identity is too much focused on the Anzac legend
It excludes other key elements such as the development of democratic traditions, Indigenous peoples rights, and womens equal rights
What is learned about the Anzac legend is terribly distorted, militaristic and romanticising the idea of war
This distortion is caused by the teaching materials sent to schools by the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
These materials are promoted by a conservative government plot to foster a conservative nationalism rather than a more socially critical one…Professor Marilyn Lake[’s] assertion is that a veritable tidal wave, a torrent, a bombardment of DVA education resources (four of which I have written over the last five years) are militaristic propaganda created by the evil John Howard to promote his vision of a reactionary nationalism and disarm progressive thought and social action. Her claim is that, through the DVA materials, History has been appropriated in Australia for militarist purposes and comprehensively re-written in the process ...
How does she support this? She lists DVA resources and other government programs (many of them from Labor Governments, by the way)…
Does Lake describe these resources to the reader? No…
Does Lake show how the resources present a militaristic or romantic view of war? She does not.
Does she offer any critical analysis of the resources? Not a word. She does not say one specific thing about the educational nature of the contents of any of the materials she condemns except, very strangely, to quote their description by the DVA as being written by professional history educators ...
Does she show how the resources stifle debate? No.
Does she discuss the inquiry-based approach of the resources, and show how they in fact only pretend to encourage student inquiry, but in fact are subtle and effective propaganda? Not done.
UPDATE
Meanwhile:
VANDALS attacked a war memorial on the eve of Anzac Day, throwing rubbish around the site and snapping a flagpole. Up to a dozen teenagers are believed to have been involved in last night’s incident at the Anzac Cenotaph outside the Arncliffe RSL Club…
Police say they are keen to speak to up to a dozen teenage males, described as Mediterranean/Middle Eastern in appearance, seen in the area before the incident.
(Thanks to readers Amy and Matthew,)
UPDATE 2
Age columnist Catherine Deveny damns violence:
Anzac Day IS a glorification of war. They didn’t die for us but because they were risktaking testosterone fuelled men with a pack mentality
Age columnist Catherine Deveny advocates violence:
I’m in a FILTHY F[...] MOOD today. If you need me to punch someone’s head in, let me know.
And of course the “Usual Suspects” are up to their usual “Multicultural” activities.
War memorial vandalised on Anzac eve
PerthNow.com
April 25, 2010
VANDALS attacked a war memorial on the eve of Anzac Day, throwing rubbish around the site and snapping a flagpole.
Up to a dozen teenagers are believed to have been involved in last night's incident at the Anzac Cenotaph outside the Arncliffe RSL Club.
The vandals are believed to have swung on the flagpole until it snapped, police said.
Garbage was also thrown around the memorial site in the southern Sydney suburb.
RSL staff and police cleaned up the rubbish ahead of today's Anzac Day ceremony at the club but the flagpole could not be repaired.
Police will maintain a watch over the memorial during the Anzac Day commemorations.
Police say they are keen to speak to up to a dozen teenage males, described as Mediterranean/Middle Eastern in appearance, seen in the area before the incident.
They have appealed for anyone with information about the vandalism, which occurred between 7.30pm and 7.45pm at the cenotaph in Wollongong Road, to contact St George Police on (02) 8566 7499 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Ray Martin and his co conspirator,the fat,lard arsed ex try hard, Australian Rugby Union "player", who, for reasons best known to himself, insists on wearing his handkerchief on his head instead of placing it in his pocket, may very well be repulsed by the Australian Flag, so what? who cares what they and their multicultural constituency are repulsed by?
This is Australia, not some Looney Tunes,South American,African, UN created third world leftist UN despot out post.
Australia, a nation of millions of immigrants, the vast overwhelming majority of who are grateful for our positive response to their request for sanctuary following their decision to abandon the social and religious structures of their nation of birth have decided offers them a far better opportunity to live as free people than the European, African,Middle Eastern cesspool they were presently living in.
Perhaps the Dutchman for instance, should have just gone back to Holland and demanded that the Dutch Flag be changed rather live in Australia,Holland,the country his parents decided was not good enough for them and their children to live in, and RAN AWAY FROM, to of all places Australia!!!!
The Dutchman parents and their children (the Dutchman) were permitted to enter Australia, granted sanctuary,not because Australians were in need of their HATRED for us, and our Flag, we offered the Dutchman and his parents,freedom,prosperity and safety, the Dutchman's parents asked if they could join us in Australia's Judeo Christian based Western Democracy, Australia allowed the Dutchman and his parents to enter Australia not because Australians were yearning to be like the nations the Dutchman and his parents ran away from.
Australians have a flag,and legal system, a Judeo Christian social structure, it may not have been the Dutchman’s flag or Rays flag, it was however the Australian Flag, a flag that represented the Nation where both the Dutchman and Ray were able to make millions of dollars as opposed to their respective preferred homelands and or in the case of Ray “dream time” social structure.
Australians, as opposed to Labor’s Multiculturalists, do not need Ray or the likes of the Dutchman to change OUR Flag irrespective of how many "...... billions of dollars " are up for grabs by Ray, the Dutchman and the rest of the Multicultural industry see dangling before their eyes.
Australia is not the play thing,of some former millionaire ABC reporter and Mid Day Show host and his Multicultural, new best friends ".....it's going to give us billions and billions of dollars, right because to me, that is brand Australia"
Australia has never been up for sale by Australians,Dutch or a Poofteenth Aboriginal former Mid Day Host, no matter how many Billions of dollars the Dutchman, Ray or his handkerchief head wearing Rugby try hard think they may be able to make should they be able to rebrand it in their image.
So exactly what will be Ray and his Dutchman and Handkerchief Head wearing new best friends ".... brand Australia" Australian Flag be....
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