Dear holidayhaven,

Of course you are right. To use one example is not fair, and some Christians besides Laura Vertigan such as Sells have spoken on this list against government and Labor policies in the area we are discussing. Bruce Haigh may also be a Christian. Your statement about Gillard behaving like a typical atheist is in error. I don’t know the attitude of most atheists towards cutting pensions, but I am pretty sure most atheists would not approve of funding chaplains in the public schools as Gillard did.

Dear Jay of Melbourne,

Hitler was charming when he wished and wanted to draw Turkey into war. However, to say that Islam never changes is to make it different from all other human groupings and societies. At present the Muslim world is in disarray. Dictators have been overthrown in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. A new military dictator against great opposition is appearing in Egypt. Tribal battles are going on in Libya. A vicious Syrian civil war draws in many forces from outside to support Assad or join his opposition. The number of those who have fled that war to go to Turkey and Lebanon dwarfs the number of boat people coming to Australia. After outsiders leave Afghanistan they will continue killing each other. Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites, Druze, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah etc. are busily engaged in slaughtering each other. Saudi Arabia and Iran are at odds. To assume they are going to get their act together in the near future to come after us is unreasonable scaremongering. Before the Soviet Union broke up and China became capitalist in fact if not in name many thought of the communist world as a monolith united to destroy us. That was not true of them then, and it is not true of the Islamic world now.

Dear Cohenite,

Of course I’m serious. Your statement that Islam is the only religion that is trying to break down the separation between religion and state is false. Whether Robertson is a kook or not he is a valid example of why it is’nt true.

SPQR: Right!

Getting back to the original article, sorry, but you didn't bother to check Julie was home before you called! As for the kids in detention, on whose watch did they arrive? Not Tony's, true he hasn't released them, but they are in the main unaccompanied children. Who should he release them too? Much better to contact the governments of the countries they came from, and send them home.

Jon R

stop bringing up inconvenient truths. It does not fit with the ABC charter.

<<Much better to contact the governments of the countries they came from, and send them home.>>

An eminently sensible solution, JonR!

They are playing us for suckers.

SPECIAL PROVOCATEUR/QED/SAID..<<..<<Much better to contact the governments of the countries they came from, and send them home.>>

An eminently sensible solution, JonR!>>

DEAR HERR HITLER
please be advised..we have found a mr ben guriON
HE CLAIMS TO BE THE ..founder of modern Zionism.
we are pleased to be of service..YOU WANT HIM PRE GASSED OR YOU WILL BURN HIM YOURSELF?

dear white power south AFRIKANS
we have found..me mandela..please advise which jail
ONE PIECE OR TWO?

deaR mr pol pot
we have found a band of darkies
should we return them to you/or just chop them up here

<<..They are playing us for suckers.>>

you nearly got it half right half wit
IDI AMIN WOULD THINK YOUR CUTE.BUT..

YOUR PLAYING THE FOOL..BUT HEh..he he.. THATS COOL..
[we know ye by ya work]..VERY PROFESSIONAL MOSSAD HAS TRAINED YOU *SPICS WELL

ANYHOW SHOULD WE SEND BEN GURION..*HOME*
TO YOU BLUE EYED NATZIE BOYS?..want him gassed up?..is the oven hot?

stop playing with the trolls johanneine

Dear oug,

Sometimes humour makes a point that eloquent words and fancy speech doesn't. You wrote a terrific post.