@ plantagenet, Monday, 19 September 2016 1:01:49 PM.

Howdy Pete.

"butt yes, those with a leaning to alternative sex don't have to pay for kids and can spend more dosh preening themselves."

"butt yes", Really ?

Now that is a bit naughty.

Or perhaps just a miss-print ? :)

Mikk, I've seen some of the extremely battered and bruised, disturbed elderly victims of break and enter merchants, who are all to often hunting in gangs and out for some demented cheap thrill.

I myself was nearly kicked to death by a trio of uninvited intruders who laughed at me and my, what did I so? Pleading each time a potentially lethal hobnail boot slammed into my head! Headshots are not limited to armed defenders! And a single punch to the head can and does kill, as can a well aimed kick, make no mistake!

If they just limited their activities to petty larceny, I'd be less hot under the collar. And I do believe in the sanctity of life, particularly mine and mine!

If they picked me or mine, got past the movement activated lights and the dogs, I'd be less likely to enquire why they were there, but know they were armed, dangerous and a pitiless threat to far more than me!?

Even so, I'd warn them with load verbal commands, to drop the weapon very slowly, this thing has a hair trigger, do nothing else, and emphasize my resolve with the laser point!

I don't particularly want that outcome, but don't intend to join those elderly victims of brutal bastardry, who remain completely bewildered by the trauma, or reduced to virtual vegetables!

I'd prefer to defend mine with non lethal bean bag ammo and a 20 gauge automatic shotgun!

But the anti gun lobby and those spineless pollies who serve them have eliminated that choice, and treat the law abiding gun owner as some sort of criminal. Simply put, guns don't kill, just the nut pulling the trigger!
Alan B.

Well Richard rather than calling Pauline an idiot at least she is not
like you a "Useful Idiot".
You are obviously short sighted and cannot see what is happening in Europe.
The present invasion of Europe is about the fourth or fifth invasion
of Europe over the centuries. Mohammed commanded the faithful to
invade Rome and his followers have done so every few hundred years or so.
What makes you think it is any different this time ?

David, they would have run straight to their offices and watched on TV.

Greens / One nation,

Two sides of the same coin.

Richard Laidlaw thinks that Pauline Hanson is an idiot. He thinks that Pauline Hanson's supporters are an insignificant minority, and that they are all idiots. I think that Richard Laidlaw is an idiot, and I think that anyone who thinks like Richard is an idiot.

Now that we have the insults out of the way, could we concentrate on the topic under discussion?

I refute Richard's premise that One Nation supporters are an insignificant and idiot minority. If the forces who oppose democracy in Australia succeed in having the national plebiscite on homosexual "marriage" abolished, then my personnel opinion is that Pauline Hanson's vote is going to swell in the next election. There is a growing realisation among the electorate that our parliament is being controlled by an unrepresentative bunch of lobbyists, paid agents of hostile foreign powers, and a new social caste who despises their own people and culture. The probable successful prevention of direct democracy in Australia will confirm that realisation and make the electorate seethe with anger. Look out for the backlash, Richard.

I have always supported Pauline Hanson, but I sometimes did not vote for her, or her party. The reason was, that I did not want to waste my vote on a party that most people thought did not have much of a chance to win office anyway. That all changed with Malcolm Turnbull, the best Labor Prime Minister the Liberal Party ever had.

Despite the pleas of right wing journalists to vote for Turnbull, because Shorten was a lot worse, roughly 5% of the Liberal and Labor voters decided this time to vote for somebody who represented themselves, and true liberal values. The election result could not have been better. Turnbull humbled, and hopefully, a Liberal Party which just might try representing white Australians and real liberal white, secular, democratic values (plebiscites, freedom of speech) instead of sucking up to every noisy minority group in existence.

Better still, One Nation is now an established party, and a serious party who will continue to attract disaffected Labor and Liberal voters, probably in ever increasing numbers.

I don't believe I have ever seen a more disrespectful display than that of the so called "Greens Party" in the Senate during Pauline Hanson's maiden speech.

They all should be ashamed of themselves, with their show of such disrespect shown to any Senator giving a maiden speech.

Who do you think you are? - just shows us all your complete "arrogance" to anyone with an opposing view.......utter disgrace and arrogance displayed to us all in "voter land".....we will all remember.