Thank You Diggers!!!! Lest We Forget, Australia's Finest Who Gave Their Today So That The Likes Of Me Might Have A Tomorrow .. Thank You

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place: and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

John McCrae (1872–1918)

Saint JuLIAR Gillard addresses Hags (not in Bags yet) Misandry Affirmative Action Appointee Whine Fest

The Mythology 

Julia Gillard serenaded by ukulele player at Victorian Women's Trust event

Patrick Lion
The Daily Telegraph
November 11,2013

JULIA Gillard was yesterday serenaded by a female ukulele player singing her famous misogyny speech during an address to thousands of women.

The former prime minister was surprised at the Victorian Women's Trust with the performance by Melbourne singer songwriter Bronwyn Calcutt who recited the October 2012 parliamentary speech aimed at then opposition leader Tony Abbott word for word.

"I rise to oppose the motion moved by the leader of the opposition," Calcutt sung, slowly strumming her instrument before picking up the pace.

"I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not! I will not!

"I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now! Not ever!"

Ms Gillard described it as a "world-class welcome" she had not been expecting.

"An unexpected delight!," Ms Gillard said.

JuLIARS Feminist Hags (but not in Bags... yet)

Check the expressions on their faces,Fuck me Drunk, it has to be a JOKE? Even by Labor standards this Welsh refugee is the greatest failure of a PM in the history of the Nation. 

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals - and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

Artistic JuLIAR and other members of Labor's Emilys List Affirmative Action Appointees seen here Doing it for dem selves except for the male musicians and Mick Jagger vocals apart from that the Feminist Arse Clown Collective did it all themselves

Another Sista

Not the place to try and sell Female contraceptive products thats for sure

In a speech defending her legacy, Ms Gillard also called for Australians to think about how the gender revolution of the past 50 years had created a "deeply held cultural stereotyping, anger and misogyny'' towards females.

Failed asylum seeker policy among Julia Gillard's regrets as prime minister

Her comments came as the Prime Minister broadcast a video message on his Facebook page last night brandishing the carbon tax repeal legislation he will introduce this week and calling on Labor to support the move.

"This is my bill to reduce your bills,'' Mr Abbott told his Facebook friends. "This is the first big job of the new parliament and I want to assure that as far as the government is concerned, it will happen.''

Labor has insisted it will only support the repeal if it is replaced with an emissions trading scheme, not the Coalition's direct action policy, potentially forcing the government to wait for the new, friendlier senate next July.

But the pomp and ceremony of the opening of the 44th parliament this week may be without Clive Palmer, who yesterday claimed he was sick and may not make it to Canberra after failing to show for a Meet The Press interview.

During her speech, Ms Gillard defended her record on the economy, the disability insurance scheme, welfare, cracking down on big tobacco and setting up the royal commission into child sex abuse.

But she also admitted to "regrets" including not taking voters into her confidence earlier on why she knifed Kevin Rudd, claiming it allowed a "myth'' to be created about a "conspiracy'' of "faceless men'' installing her.

She also regretted that the government, and the parliament, was not able to better handle asylum seeker policy.

"Another bad error was effectively conceding the terminology 'carbon tax','' she said, urging Labor to stick by pricing carbon. "Our carbon pricing mechanism is an ETS with a fixed price for the first three years and I should have clearly said so."

Ms Gillard said she wanted Australians to think about how her gender influenced her prime ministership.

So been Female is an excuse for her appalling Prime Ministership ?

The Reality

Holiday Snap of "The REAL Julia" visiting her party's head office.

Even  the "Real Julia" had to call on terrible Men to save her oversized "barge arse", arse, after her and her party's "Usefull idiot" "Pet Aboriginies" were letof ftheir leashes by her fellow Union "Sista", Unions ACT's Kim Sattler declared the then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to be ".. a raving Zionist"
Kim Sattler's fellow Tribes persons and wimmin, upon hearing that, went for broke and charged anyone who looked like they might not be on social security and the glass windows of the Australia Day Hero's awards ceremony venue,its recipients and their families and friends,even JuLIAR.   The then affirmative action appointee PM could not run out of sight on a Dark Night to save her own  Arse. Note Australia's now Adult Liberal PM, then opposition leader, Tony Abbott,(top right, blue and white striped tie) has no problem keeping up with AFP Officers as they try to hustle "Barge Arse" into the safety of her Car

Labor IS an equal opportunity employer of  IDIOT HALF WITT'S of either GENDER.
the present Australian Governer General's Son in Law,former Union leader and now Federal Labor Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten has demonstrated this via the above video.

Within months of dumping his ex-wife Debbie Beale at the football grand final, Bill Shorten was married to his heavily pregnant mistress, the Governor Generals daughter, Chloe Bryce.

"If even his 1st wife couldn't trust him, (Chloe too for that matter) then why should we?

Labor Opposition Leader's Mother In Law Australia's (Idiot Savant?,, hopefully) , former  Equal Opportunity Commission,and Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner and part time Australian Governor General and Labor Party Emissary and Order taker to the United Nations and the third world and Kevin 07 Sales Representative / Groupie, Her Royal Highness, Comrade Madame

Quentin Alice Louise Bryce née Strachan AC CVO.

For more on Union GetUp funded Labor affirmative Action Appointee Saint JuLiar click on the picture below.

Fuck me Drunk things ya find!!! Where is Tim the "Beard" Mathieson  ?

Well here is the "Beards" Daughter Stacy "Struttin her Stuff" for the ALP and STRAY LYA 

There is a "Driver" (who's fares are paid for by the Australian Taxpayers) in Brisbane, who says he is regularly called to deliver and pick up a famous "Beard" from various "Progressive" Clubs and Bars in Brisbane when the said "Beard" is in Town 

When you believe in NOTHING you will believe in ANYTHING even in the teachings of a Sociopath Slave Trading Mass Murderer and Paedophile called mohammed or is it just another version of "Dream Time" and the "Vomiting Serpent" Hoax?

Blake Ferguson converts to Islam under the guidance of "his brother" Anthony Mundine

Phil Rothfield 

The Sunday Telegraph

 November 9, 2013

TROUBLED rugby league star Blake Ferguson has been converted to Islam by controversial boxer Anthony Mundine.

 ".............it's not about terrorism. It's about fighting for God's law, and

 America's brought it upon themselves."

The NRL bad boy made the commitment to his new Islamic faith at Zetland Mosque on Friday, hoping it can help to save his ailing career.

The State of Origin star was photographed praying beside Mundine, who also converted rugby league superstar Sonny Bill Williams to the Muslim faith five years ago when Williams was going through a difficult period in his life.

Ferguson declined to comment yesterday, saying: "It's private. I can't talk about it, I'm sorry."

Ferguson has previously vowed to give up alcohol - as required by the Muslim faith - but failed.

Mundine revealed that the sacked and now unemployed Canberra Raiders star had been asking him about converting for almost six weeks.

"He's thought about it and it's a commitment he wants to make," Mundine said. "But it's up to Blake to speak about it when he's ready.

"He's just looking forward to changing his direction in life. At the moment he's in good space - no drinking, no drugs, no parties.

"He's got the colour back in his face. He wants to be a better person but he'll still have his faults, like we all do."

Ferguson's rugby league career has been in limbo for several months after he was dumped by the Raiders over a number of off-field incidents.

He is facing charges of indecent assault on a woman at a Cronulla nightspot and was also caught speeding and driving while suspended before having his $400,000 NRL contract terminated.

" indecent assault on a woman at a Cronulla nightspot" 

Well hey, he has certainly fulfilled at least one of the requirements for been a Pious Muslim in Australia at least 

This was after he was disciplined the Raiders earlier in the season for drinking on a roof with team mate Josh Dugan.

The player, who was once earning $400,000-a-year, is living at Mundine's Hurstville home with the boxer and his mum.

Does that mean that Tony Mundine and his  Wife ("the boxer and his mum" as opposed to the boxer and his parents) are no longer living together? 

Anthony Mundine's Father is a Union / Labor Party / media portrayed "elder" of the Redfern Ghetto known as the Block, surely the Mundine's would want LIVE in what they help to create? Hurstville is a part of Sydney's "Occupied Territories" and a long way from Redfern a suburb Australians have been ordered to accept as a Traditional Aboriginal "suburb" "hunting ground" ? five minutes from the Sydney CBD

When Sonny Bill Williams' life went off the rails and he was battling alcohol-related incidents in 2008, Mundine intervened in a similar way.

He lent the Roosters grand final hero $700,000 ($700,000 to lend ? Strewth maybe thats why his cousin is trying to CONFISCATE Australians homes) for the legal costs of breaking his contract and paying out the Bulldogs - then persuaded him to take up the Muslim faith.

He is now a $1 million-a-year superstar in NRL and rugby union.

Bad boy Blake Ferguson converts to Islam in a bid to save his ailing career

Phil Rothfield
Sports Editor 
TheSunday Telegraph
November 10,2013 

ONE o'clock, Friday afternoon, Zetland mosque.

Brown Noseing the "God" of the Paedophile Slave Trading Mass Murdering Prophet mohammed

In walk two of the city's most recognisable sporting stars in T-shirts and long, baggy shorts.

They're in bare feet as is the practice of this religion and gathering where they assemble every Friday afternoon to say their prayers and worship their god.

They stand and pray, then kneel and bow to Allah.

Blake Ferguson is wearing a shirt with the words "haters gonna hate" plastered across the front. The troubled rugby league star is here with his "brother" Anthony Mundine, the controversial boxer who also converted superstar Sonny Bill Williams to the Muslim faith five years ago.

Neither is keen to talk about this latest chapter in Ferguson's tumultuous life.

Asked if he had converted to Islam, the NSW State of Origin star declined to comment.

But another person at the mosque said Ferguson "had taken shahada" - an Arabic tradition and declaration of faith in the Muslim god.

Under the Islam beliefs, Ferguson cannot drink alcohol. He announced he was off the booze earlier in the year but didn't stick to it.

Mundine was also hesitant to talk when contacted later on Friday afternoon.

"It's up to Blake to speak about it when he's ready to," Mundine told The Sunday Telegraph.

For all his showmanship and madness, Mundine is a deeply religious person who genuinely cares for Ferguson and wants to help him realise his enormous potential in the NRL.

When Williams' life went off the rails and he was also battling alcohol-related incidents in 2008, Mundine intervened in a similar way.

Ferguson has had a troubled year in the NRL and is currently facing charges over the alleged indecent assault of a woman at a Cronulla nightspot.

He was also caught speeding and driving while suspended before being sacked by the Raiders.

He is now even estranged from his "pop", Rex Sutherland, who raised him with his wife in Wellington from age 13 after the Sutherlands' son Michael met and married Retta Ferguson, who had given birth to Blake a year earlier.

Ferguson moved in with them after the Department of Community Services deemed Retta unable to care for her child and demanded they take custody.

"They are my grandparents," Ferguson once said. "They're my family. They're everything."

He has no contact with his mother but recently saw his father on the day he was released from Goulburn jail.

Ferguson now lives at Mundine's home and they train together every day as the boxer prepares for the rescheduled fight with US legend Shane Mosley on November 27.

The NRL has yet to decide if Ferguson will be cleared to play next year, with his decision to convert to Islam unlikely to have any effect on their decision.

"We're still talking about his progress and keeping an eye on him," said the NRL's integrity boss and chief operating officer Jim Doyle.

"Our player welfare and education department have been talking to him and the integrity department will monitor his (upcoming) court case.

"He is no longer registered after being fired by the Raiders and at this stage no club has indicated they want to sign him.

"That's something we'd have to talk about if or when it happens.

"He's got a hell of a lot of talent and it would be a shame to see it go to waste."

Who IS Australian PM Tony Abbott ? Well he is NOT Rudd (aka, Lu Kewen, Kevin 07) or Gillard or Rudd (aka, Lu Kewen, Kevin 07) or one of their Union Bankers and Financiers that's for sure, he obviously cannot afford to live their SOCIALIST lifestyle.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott still prefers his family home to Kirribilli residence

Samatha Maiden 
The Sunday Telagreph
November 9, 2013 

IT has harbour views, a personal chef and the Governor-General's swimming pool in easy walking distance, but 64 days after he was elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott still prefers his modest family home to his official residence in Kirribilli.

Nine weeks after he won the election, Mr Abbott has confirmed he is still waiting for the advice of his security team about whether he can remain at his family home and use his official residences only to ­entertain guests.

"All things being equal, I would prefer to stay at Forestville,'' Mr Abbott told the Sunday Telegraph. "I'm just talking to the security people about what is doable."

The Forestville house is now the subject of around-the-clock security when Mr Abbott is at home with AFP officers keeping  a close eye on the family. The Prime Minister has entertained special guests at   Kirribilli but currently commutes back home whenever possible.

Kirribili House

Kirribilli is missing one ­attraction that Mr Abbott has at home in the suburbs - a swimming pool.

Forestville 

Tony Abbott IS a "Man of the People", unfortunately for him 
"his people" are Australians and as such he is up against the eight ball of Australia's "Progressive Media" and fifth column "Multicultural Industry" insurgents.
Having said that I have a feeling that this is one Volunteer Surf Life Saver,One Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade member, who, like his fellow volunteers will give his best until there is nothing left to give for those who need it most.
This Guy may well be the REAL DEAL,my belief is strengthened by the  number of self identified ASSASSINS seen circling overhead since his election as Australian Prime Minister on  September 7 2013.

Stopping Islamic Colonization of Australia: Australian PM Warns Indonesia "that his pledge to turn back the boats is a matter of "sovereignty''

Abbott describes 'disappointment' as Australia accepts boat people in stand-off with Indonesia

Samantha Maiden
National Political Editor
The Daily Telegraph
November 9, 2013 

TONY Abbott has warned Indonesia that his pledge to turn back the boats is a matter of "sovereignty'' after Australia agreed to back down and accept a boatload of 63 asylum seekers.

Sky News Australia, along with "Their SBS " and  "Their ABC" is a Loyal and valued  propaganda / publicity arm of the Progressive Left and  Islamic Sociopath's Inc. Taquiyha network of enlightened and progressive Journalists.

After a three-day ocean stand off, Australia agreed to accept the asylum seekers today despite the fact they were rescued just 43 nautical miles off Java.

Labor has compared the capitulation with Kevin Rudd's disastrous Oceanic Viking saga but the Coalition said Indonesia had agreed to accept a number of asylum-seeker boats back since the Coalition was elected.

Senior Liberal sources have confirmed that the Prime Minister believed it was still possible Indonesia would have eventually accepted the asylum-seekers but did not want the stand-off to drag on into the opening of Parliament and overshadow the carbon tax debate.

While Australia had requested that the boatload of 63 suspected asylum-seekers picked up close to Java be returned, 

Indonesian officials were still considering the request.

"We will have disappointments. But we will succeed,'' Mr Abbott told a Liberal Party Conference in Perth today.

"We will never again tolerate a situation where an important part of our immigration program has been subcontracted out to people smugglers.

"This is an issue of sovereignty for us. We have good relations with Indonesia. But we will stop these boats."

On Friday, an Indonesian official Djoko Suyanto warned Indonesia would not accept the asylum-seekers.

"The Indonesian government NEVER AGREED to such wishes or policies of Australia,'' he said.

"There is NO CHANGE of policy."

After warning on Friday he would not be providing "shipping news'' on the boat stand off, the Abbott Government broke with recent protocol and issued a statement on the resolution of the stand-off.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison confirmed that Border Protection had first responded to a request for assistance on Thursday.

Because the incident took place within close proximity to the Indonesian coast, "a request was made, consistent with our standing practice under Operation Sovereign Borders, to transfer the passengers rescued to Indonesia, in accordance with international search and rescue protocols."

"On two recent occasions, Indonesia has agreed to these requests and facilitated an on water transfer,'' Mr Morrison said.

"The Indonesian Government has advised Australian officials overnight that they are reviewing the request put forward by Australia.

"While we welcome Indonesia's review of our request, in the best interests of the safety of the passengers and crew of the rescued vessel and the Australian vessel that has been rendering assistance, earlier this morning I requested 

Lieutenant General Campbell to transfer the persons rescued from the SAR incident to Christmas Island for rapid onward transfer to Manus Island or Nauru. They will not be resettled in Australia."

But Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the back down was embarrassing.

"The diplomacy of the Abbott Government with Indonesia around asylum seekers has been absolutely inept.

"What we have seen is the embarrassing spectacle of the Abbott Government seeking to dictate terms to the 

Indonesia Government. This is school year diplomacy backed up by half-hearted resolve and it is a sad embarrassment."

"So today, I call upon the Prime Minister and Minster Morrison to end this farce, to end this culture of secrecy."

The Greens said Mr Abbott's border protection policy was "in tatters."

Indonesia says it will absolutely not take back Insurgents

Australia Haters Gone Bad er

Intolerance and rudeness shouldn't be the bottom line

Andrew Bolt 
Herald Sun
November 6, 2013


IT IS getting harder to cop moral lectures. I mean, have our moral "betters" ever been this savage?

For instance, once you might have thought a "human rights" lawyer just wanted people to be nicer to each other. But then comes Julian Burnside, the best-known of them, urging children to spit on Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.

Tweeted Burnside: "I hope little children stop him in the street and spit on his shoes."

I note Burnside refuses to set the children an example. He neither urges them to act in a civil way, nor takes the lead in spitting on a government minister.

He lacks conviction or lacks guts, urging children to do what he dares not.

How often it turns out that the greatest demands for tolerance come from the intolerant.

Take Dan Savage, a gay activist on the ABC's Q&A on Monday who demands more tolerance for gays, but showed little himself.

"You are full of s---," he told one panellist and heckled: "I give a wicked blow job."

Asked to nominate a "dangerous idea ... to change the world for the better", he suggested "abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years".

Same twist with The Age. It denounced signs calling Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard a "witch", but when former 

Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died ran a big picture on its website of a sign jeering, "The bitch is dead".

The Age has even now promoted T-shirts printed by one of its columnists with the slogan "F--- Abbott."

You see, with tribalists it's not the principle that counts, but the side.

I can understand such abuse from desperate attention seekers. When Catherine Deveny, an ABC favourite, tweeted that she hoped her former Age editor developed "a-----e cancer" I knew she needed to sell tickets to her shows.

Miranda Devine: "THE sneering foulness of the Left is bubbling up like overflow from an unblocked sewer at the realisation the Abbott government is here to stay."

  Catherine Deveny,Fat and Proud ?

But we pay the ABC more than $1 billion, so it could set the moral standard, not trawl the meanest streets for cheap tricks.

Yet we've seen ABC TV even show a picture of a conservative critic doctored to make him look as if he was having sex with a dog.

The journalists' union is no better. To present the finalists of its Walkley Awards, allegedly to honour the noblest journalism, it hired two presenters who had tweeted about Abbott performing sex acts, including with an animal.

The crude rule. And it's not OK.

Miranda Devine: "THE sneering foulness of the Left is bubbling up like overflow from an unblocked sewer at the realisation the Abbott government is here to stay."

Sneering Lefties love to hate Abbott

Miranda Devine 
The Daily Telegraph
November 6, 2013

THE sneering foulness of the Left is bubbling up like overflow from an unblocked sewer at the realisation the Abbott government is here to stay.

From Jonathan Biggins' agonised cri de coeur playing at the Wharf Theatre, to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House, to the live audience of the ABC's Q&A, lefties are suffering an existential crisis.

The letters page of the SMH is exploding with rage.

Refugee advocate Julian Burnside has found his vicious tongue.

Student protesters - suddenly enraged about cuts brought in by Labor - burn effigies of Tony Abbott.

Welcome back to the Howard years, those glory days when the Left laid claim to the moral high ground.

Much of the baggage Labor brought with it into office, and which eventually brought it down, was filled with progressive fancies.

The last six years was an uncomfortable time for lefties as their wishes were granted by government (hello open borders, hello carbon tax).

None of it turned out well, but they now pretend it wasn't the ideas that were the problem. Not that they want to think too hard because they're too busy revelling in victimhood, post-election.

A selection from the Fairfax letters pages shows their fighting spirit: "Abbott's neo-idiocrasy"; "Climate change deniers and coalminers will be dancing in the streets with Abbott"; "This is what happens when you send a boy to do a woman's work"; "Please, Tony Abbott, couldn't I just say an 'Our Father' and 10 'Hail Marys'?"; "Can we be sure it was The Lodge and not Rome he has been aiming for?" Oh, yes, Abbott is worse even than Howard. He's Catholic! Herewith, some tales from the frontline.

At the Wharf Theatre on Monday night the chattering classes wallowed in the rueful melancholy of Whoops - The Wharf Revue. The mystery is that: "Abbott (deficient of faculty) delights not many … And yet he rules."

In one skit "the last surviving Q&A panel", including Bob Ellis and Marieke Hardy, cower as the Abbott forces storm the citadels of culture.

Amid the sound of exploding ordnance, a football falls at their feet: "Oh no! Eddie McGuire is closer than we think." Yuk yuk. The barbarians are through the gate.

In another skit, Abbott is played as a lip-smacking Neanderthal: "a smug Catholic knob … a blokey bloke not worth two bob" whose only skill is producing "soundbites of unrelenting negativity".

The same theme was taken up by the real Q&A on ABC TV later that night.

"For me the biggest mystery is that Tony Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar," sneered Germaine Greer to howls of laughter from the audience.

The program was a classic in the genre of conservative-bashing.

The cleverest person on the panel was British conservative columnist Peter Hitchens, eloquently arguing against same-sex marriage, and other totemic issues of progressives. Or trying to.

He could barely complete a sentence without being interrupted by Greer, American homosexual activist Dan Savage (whose "dangerous idea" is making abortion mandatory for 30 years), and Hanna Rosin, author of The End Of Men.

Tony Jones gave all free rein - except to Hitchens.

"I'm stopping you," Jones told Hitchens.

"Don't stop me … I haven't finished my answer," protested Hitchens. "You haven't stopped anyone else."

It's always the way.

The audience is as bad. "It's a rally," Hitchens told them, waiting to speak over applause for a Savage interjection. "While you do this I can't talk, and you know it, and that's to your shame because silencing opponents is a very wicked thing to do."

He even told his fellow panellists they were "fantastically intolerant".

"This is the absolute seedbed of totalitarianism. When you start believing that the opinions of other people are a pathology then you are in the beginning of the stage that leads to the secret police and the gulag."

Yes, it is true that Abbott has won the election. But conservatives have never yet won the culture war.

When Labor is in office, the Left do their work, quietly, inside the corridors of power, to change the nature of the country. The curriculum, the universities, the ABC, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the National Museum of Australia.

They do it for posterity. When conservatives are in power, they keep busy fixing the economy, controlling the borders, maybe switching off a money tap or two at the ABC.

But they are too polite to seize the narrative of history. In the culture wars it's always two steps forward for the Left. The best conservatives have ever managed is to maintain the status quo.

When the conservatives are in power, the Left make merry mischief.

They bully and bluster and fill every cultural space.

Which is why, for all their moaning, they haven't been this excited for years.

Australian Muslim Terrorist / Harmony Day Ambassador to be free in three years

There are some 'Aussies' we don't want, or need

Alan Howes
Herald Sun
November 4,2013

TREASON has always been treated as perhaps the most serious of crimes.

Elsewhere convicted traitors are executed. Indeed, many Americans wish for whistleblower Edward Snowden to be killed by the state he has so embarrassed with leaks about its information gathering. That's why he's hiding in Russia.

They tortured Guy Fawkes for weeks after finding the gunpowder he had stockpiled in order to blow up the House of Lords and King James. The only reason this most infamous of traitors escaped being hanged was because of a leap from the gallows that broke his neck. Nonetheless, he was still drawn and quartered and his body parts put on display around England.

The Victorian Crimes Act of 1958 details the offence of treason and lists its maximum penalty as life in jail, hanging, drawing and quartering having long since been dispensed as a punishment.

Which makes you wonder why Algerian-born Abdul Benbrika and his malevolent gang of would-be mass murderers - they planned to blow up the MCG on Grand Final Day in 2005, but couldn't decide between it and Flemington on Cup Day - weren't charged with treason, rather than the terror counts that will see Benbrika walk free in a little over three years.

Right now there are traitors in our midst - and not just those who think like Benbrika. ASIO believes there are more than 200 Australians active in the Syrian civil war, most, if not all, fighting to bring down tyrannical Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

Assad is your run-of-the-mill Arab head of state, more than happy to kill children by bombing villages with chemical weapons.

Leaving aside the chemical weapons, Israeli intelligence sources estimate 115,000 Syrians have so far been killed in the conflict. Among the dead are 6087 children and 4079 women.

While the blame for most of those deaths can be laid at the feet of Assad and his henchmen, the opposition forces can hardly be described as freedom fighters.

From this distance it is easy to assume an enemy of Assad is a friend of civilisation. But Assad's splintered enemies include barbarians who are cutting the hearts from fallen soldiers - and eating them. They have even encouraged children to take part in decapitating enemies and place the videos on YouTube, presumably in some warped demonstration of modernity. That Australians - if I can use that term loosely - might be among these insurgents should send a shiver down our spines.

 Algerian-born Abdul Benbrika's "cultural enrichment" of Australia

Late last year Broadmeadows bricklayer Yusuf Toprakkaya, 30, was killed fighting for the rebels. He had changed his name to Abdul al-Walid al-Australi, similar to our first suicide bomber, Abu Asma al Australi, a nasty piece of work from Brisbane who drove a truck and 12 tonnes of explosives at an airport checkpoint in eastern Syria, killing 35.

These two men and the three other "Australians" who have died with them were criminals. As are the other 200 still fighting in Syria.

Then Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus spelled that out at the time, their offences including breaking the Foreign Incursions Act, the Criminal Code Act (by assisting a proscribed terrorist group) and the arms sanctions imposed by us on Syria. They face serious charges when and if they return "home".

But we should go a step further. It is a privilege to be issued an Australian passport, although I have no quibble with Australians holding passports for another country. I do so myself.

But "Australians" who use their second passport as a ticket to go to war in another country - like the Serbians "Aussies" who went to Kosovo in the late 1990s to kill Albanians - should have their Australian citizenship revoked.

Even respected criminal lawyer, Rob Stary, who has represented terror suspects and is known for his generous estimate of some fellows you'd rather not live near, believes some offenders should forfeit their citizenship. He sees Benbrika as an example and believes we should be able to revoke such criminals' citizenship.

"I wouldn't have a blanket provision that once you are an Australian citizen, you are immune to deportation or revocation of citizenship," Stary said.

It's one thing to "turn back the boats" of desperate asylum seekers as the Liberal Government vowed to do in opposition, but what about those who have already entered: the now Australian Muslims who want to conduct Islam's centuries-long civil war between Shia and Sunni wheresoever it erupts?

The 200 Australians fighting in Syria have mostly been associating with groups that are proxies for al-Qaeda. Brainwashed and radicalised, they are the last "Australians" we need.

We shouldn't worry that they have Australian wives, or Australian children. We should worry about ourselves. Their Australian passports should be cancelled.

Alan Howe is Herald Sun executive editor

Australian terrorist leader gets 15 years

Mex Cooper
Daily Telegraph
February 3, 2009 

The leader of a Melbourne-based terrorist cell has been sentenced to 15 years' jail.

Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 48, of Dallas, was sentenced to a non-parole period of 12 years. He has already been in custody for 1184 days.

Justice Bernard Bongiorno in the Supreme Court said a terrorist organisation led by Benbrika had been dedicated to the destruction of non-believers but the group had not planned specific attacks despite the evidence of a key prosecution witness.

Benbrika became the first Australian to be convicted of leading a terrorist group last September, following the country's biggest terrorism trial that lasted seven months and cost tens of millions of dollars.

The father-of-seven faced a maximum 25 years' prison for directing the terrorist group that the jury heard had discussed attacking Melbourne's Crown Casino and bombing the MCG.

Benbrika was also convicted of possessing a compact disc connected to the preparation of a terrorist act.

But in sentencing Benbrika and six of his followers today, Justice Bongiorno said he did not accept the evidence of Izzydeen Atik, who claimed Benbrika told him the terror cell had planned to target the casino on Grand Prix weekend in 2006 and the MCG on grand final day in 2005 and the 2006 NAB Cup.

Atik had been a member of the group before pleading guilty to belonging to a terrorist organisation in July 2007 and was jailed for just over four years.

Justice Bongiorno said Atik was a liar and a cheat who had defrauded the social security system while living in a luxury townhouse and employing a butler.

At the time, he was earning thousands of dollars a month from a credit card scam, the court heard.

But Justice Bongiorno said the terror group had still posed a "significant threat" and might have carried out a terrorist attack if not stopped.

He said the men had committed serious crimes but not as serious as if Atik's evidence had been accepted.

Benbrika used warped teachings of Islam to recruit his young followers and encourage them to wage violent jihad against "non-believers" in Australia.

Justice Bongiorno said that, although the word jihad had many meanings in Islam, Benbrika used the term only to mean a violent attack by his group to advance the Islamic cause.

He said Benbrika had admired Osama bin Laden and believed that killing people and destroying buildings was justified as it would help pressure the Australian Government into withdrawing troops from Iraq and leaving the American alliance.

The court heard Benbrika had told one of his followers, Abdullah Merhi, not just to kill a few people but to "do a big thing".

Merhi had responded "like Spain", in reference to terrorist attacks on Madrid, Justice Bongiorno said.

In May 2004, a Victorian undercover police officer posing as a Turkish Muslim man had infiltrated the group.

Five months later, he offered to show Benbrika how to make explosives and took Benbrika to a remote bush location north of Melbourne where he detonated a device.

Benbrika asked how much explosive would be needed to blow up buildings and homes but did not ask the undercover agent to get him any of the bomb-making ingredients or tell any of the other members of the group about the demonstration.

Six of Benbrika's followers also received prison terms.

Aimen Joud, 24, of Hoppers Crossing, has been jailed for a minimum of 7½ years.

Abdullah Merhi, 23, of Fawkner, must serve a minimum of four years in prison.

Ahmed Raad, 25, Fawkner, will be required to serve a minimum of 7½ years.

Amer Haddara, 29, of Yarraville, was sentenced to a minimum of 4½ years.

Fadl Sayadi, 29, of Coburg, was sentenced to a minimum of six years' prison.

Ezzit Raad, 27, from Preston, must serve five years and nine months.

Justice Bongiorno said that, under terrorism laws, those charged with offences had criminal liability earlier than in other criminal cases.

Remy van de Wiel, QC, had argued at presentence hearings that Benbrika's sentence should be tempered because he suffered from depression and an undiagnosed medical condition which caused him to have "embarrassing involuntary movements" and would make his prison time more stressful.

He said Benbrika had not properly led the group, which had never grown beyond an "embryonic terrorist organisation".

But Justice Bongiorno said that, by its existence and nature, the organisation had fostered in its members the desire to commit terrorist activities.

He said the evidence suggested that Benbrika was still committed to violent jihad, had shown no contrition for his offences and had talked about continuing the group's activities behind bars if its members were jailed.

Benbrika was arrested in November 2005.

More thoughts from this member of the "Religion of Peace & Tolerance"
The AGE 
August 5 2005

"According to my religion, here, I don't accept all other religion except the religion of Islam.""I am telling you that my religion doesn't tolerate other religion. It doesn't tolerate. The only one law which needs to spread, it can be here or anywhere else, has to be Islam."

"Jihad is a part of my religion and what you have to understand (is) that anyone who fight for this sake of Allah . . . when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes from him . . . all his sin will be forgiven."

He described Osama bin Laden as "a great man. Osama bin Laden was a great man before 11 September, which they said he did . . . and until now nobody knows who did it".

Step-by-step al-Qa'ida terror guide used by Benbrika cell

Gary Hughes September 20, 2008
The Australian

IT was a blueprint for terror. Seized by police from the home of one of the alleged ringleaders of the Benbrika Muslim terror ring, it was al-Qa'ida's chilling step-by-step guide on how to build a terrorist cell, avoid detection, conduct training, obtain weapons, select targets and launch attacks.

It was one of at least two such instruction manuals that, according to authorities, were used by self-proclaimed Melbourne cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 48, to set up and run his secret group.

One, which was also found in the hands of an al-Qa'ida member by British police, begins by setting down the three main principles essential to setting up a group: a commander and a leadership advisory council; individual members or "soldiers"; and a clearly defined strategy.

The primary mission of the group should be "the overthrow of the godless regimes and their replacement with an Islamic regime", the manual says.

Other missions are listed as "assassinating enemy personnel as well as foreign tourists" and "blasting and destroying the places of amusement, immorality and sin".

The manual was seized during a police raid on one of Benbrika's trusted lieutenants in June 2005. He was one of six of the fanatical religious leader's followers convicted alongside Benbrika this week of belonging to a terrorist organisation.

The manual, originally in Arabic when found on a computer by British police, had been translated into English for use in a later terrorist trial in the US. It was the English language version that was found in the Melbourne raid and later presented to the jury as a prosecution exhibit.

According to the manual, terror cell recruits had to be Muslims able to follow strict orders and "willing to do the work and undergo martyrdom for the purpose of establishing the religion of majestic Allah on Earth".

They also had to be able to "endure psychological trauma, such as those involving bloodshed, murder, arrest, imprisonment and reverse psychological traumas such as killing one or all of his organisation's comrades".

Operational funds had to be gathered, but kept hidden in scattered locations to avoid their being seized by authorities.

There were detailed instructions about maintaining security within the group, including using secret identification signals, selecting safe houses and avoiding the scrutiny of law enforcement agencies.

Paramilitary training of recruits should be done secretly in groups of no more than 10 at remote locations and care had to be taken when buying weapons to avoid being seen or ripped off.

They were lessons that Benbrika, who this week became the first person in Australia to be convicted of leading a terrorist organisation, apparently learned well.

The seven-month Victorian Supreme Court trial was told the self-proclaimed sheik, also known as Abu Bakr, chose three of the group to form his trusted advisory council to help lead the group, as laid out in the manual.

Fadl Sayadi, 28, was the group's security and intelligence officer; Ahmed Raad, 25, was the treasurer; and Aimen Joud, 23, was Benbrika's trusted adviser, the jury was told.

Funds to finance the group were raised through stealing cars to strip them for parts, and credit card fraud committed against non-Muslims, under a special religious ruling, or fatwa, issued by Benbrika.

One alleged training camp was held on a remote property in outback NSW in March 2005.

Joud, Sayadi and Raad were kept under surveillance by police as they drove to the remote campsite. A Belgian .308 rifle that forensic tests showed had been used at the site during the target shooting was later seized from another man associated with the Benbrika cell.

The group's mission, according to senior Crown prosecutor Richard Maidment SC, was to wage violent jihad on Australian soil to force the Howard government into withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to one Crown witness, potential targets included the AFL grand final at the crowded MCG in 2005 or Melbourne's Crown casino during Grand Prix weekend in 2006.

Among the group's recruits were Abdullah Merhi, 23, who had allegedly offered himself to Benbrika as a suicide bomber, and Haddara, who told police after his arrest he wished to become a mujaheddin and wage jihad as an Islamic holy warrior.

Members of Benbrika's group were taught that they would be regarded as Islamic martyrs if they died, and were instructed on how to be an "effective member of the organisation so that they were capable of going into a situation where a terrorist act was to be actually perpetrated".

The one piece of advice the Benbrika cell ignored from the terror manual, and which would prove to be their undoing, involved how they communicated.

The manual warns that modern communications, such as mobile telephones, were a "double-edged sword". "It can be to our advantage if we use it well and it can be a knife dug in our back if we do not consider and take the necessary security measures," the manual says.

For Benbrika and his followers, their undisciplined use of telephones became their knife in theback.

Despite the fact members rightly suspected that their mobiles, which included many held under false names, were being bugged, they kept talking.

Mobile calls between group members were among 482 covert recordings played to the jury as part of the prosecution case in thetrial.

One of the agents close to Operation Pendennis - the joint ASIO, Victoria Police and Australian Federal Police taskforce that spent 16 months between July 2004 and November 2005 targeting the Benbrika group - described the home-grown terror cell as "the real deal".

Some officers are now concerned that potential new Muslim terror threats could prove harder to combat because of the details revealed during the marathon trial of tactics and techniques used by the Pendennis team.

The trial was told how the task force threw a massive electronic and physical surveillance net around Benbrika and his followers: 16,400 hours of recordings from bugs in homes and vehicles, 98,000 telephone intercepts and 402 shifts by surveillance teams.

The trial was given detailed evidence about the techniques used by an undercover counter-terrorism agent, identified only as SIO39, to infiltrate the Benbrika group. The man, using the name Ahmet Sonmez, posed as the son of a separated Turkish-Australian couple who had initially grown up in Turkey with his Muslim father before moving to Tasmania to live with his Australian mother.

It meant that members of the Melbourne group would have had trouble attempting to verify his family background.

SIO39 went to great lengths to make himself as attractive a recruit as possible to Benbrika.

He told the sheik he had easy and cheap access to ammonium nitrate fertiliser and had learned how to turn it into an explosive mixture while working on farms in Tasmania.

He also claimed to have made surplus money from selling inherited shares, which he offered to give to Benbrika. And he repeatedly talked about how it was time to wage violent jihad in Australia.

Benbrika was apparently fooled but some of the other terror cell members were not so confident, believing SIO39 too good to be true.


As one of them pointed out, he didn't even want to argue with other members during their frequent heated discussions about religion. And in a group that was constantly squabbling, simple agreement was enough to cast suspicion.

slamic Sociopaths Inc. Australia: Satan’s Sword given another “get out of jail card”

Pulling pin on bomb terror plotters' trial
Keith Moor
The Daily Telegraph
September 21, 2011
POLICE secretly created and exploded a "Mother of Satan" bomb to prove that Abdul Benbrika and his extremist followers had the materials to make the feared terrorist device.
They were able to show that terrorist followers of the radical Muslim cleric ordered or bought chemicals and specialist laboratory equipment to make a bomb capable of killing and injuring hundreds of
people.
The "Mother of Satan" bomb is the weapon of choice for terrorists around the world.
It was used in the 2005 London Tube and bus bombings which killed 52 people and injured more than 700, as well as many more terror attacks during the past decade.
But now officers from the joint taskforce that foiled the devastating plot - which had included a bomb attack at Sydney's nuclear reactor - must face the fact Benbrika and the other Melbourne cell members
will not face a jury.
The decision to permanently stay the charges in Victoria was made despite evidence in the trial of the NSW cell members that a terrorist attack of potentially mammoth proportions was imminent when
Benbrika and the Melbourne and Sydney cell members were arrested in co-ordinated swoops in 2005. NSW cell members Mohamed Elomar, 46, Abdul Rakib Hasan, 41, Khaled Cheikho, 38, Moustafa Cheikho,
33, and Mohammed Omar Jamal, 27, were subsequently convicted of conspiring to commit a terrorist act and jailed for 23 to 28 years.
In that trial, prosecutor Richard Maidment SC said the men sought large quantities of firearms, ammunition and chemicals that would have enabled them to build devices "capable of causing substantial
damage and loss of life".
"There are a number of utterances which suggest that the purpose of the organisation was to do something big, cause maximum damage, kill a thousand at the train station, football, whatever," he said.
The prosecution detailed the role of Benbrika and Aimen Joud in helping to order the lab equipment as evidence of a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act. It also provided an extensive chronology of the
many contacts between NSW and Melbourne terror cell members as more evidence of a joint conspiracy to commit a terrorist act.
Justice Terry Forrest's decision means Benbrika, Joud, Fadl Sayadi and Ahmed Raad will not face extra jail time on top of their sentences on the lesser terrorism charges they received in 2008.

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