So the overwhelming opinion of posters here are around 80% think Barnes is a scumbag who should have been drowned at birth (me included) and 20%, the monocular doyens of the left who think it must be the governments fault and any other rubbish they can find to build up their sense of purpose and excuse their political ineptness.

I threw out a challenge -

I admit there is (and always will be) an element of racism in Australia JUST AS THERE IS IN ALL SOCIETIES.

However, I ranked Australia as a racist society in comparison to all other parts of the world, admittedly using a very broad and general brush.

No one has challenged that ranking scale.

I, therefore, assume that we are, then, all in agreement.

Whilst Australia displays, within the fabric of its culture, an element of racism, when compared to the rest of the World we are, in fact, the leading example of "Worlds Best Practice" and are "The Least Racist Among All".

The point with dismay at the Sydney beach riots by the rest of the world was not that there were "riots" but they were in "Australia", which has the enviable reputation of being among the safest places on Earth. Had the same riots happened in say Eastern Europe or Asia or Africa they would have hardly got a mention.

Barnes is a negative connotation just as "racism" is a negative connotation both things for which we cannot be proud nor positive about but things which are like the bits of "scum" that end up floating on the surface in backwaters - because they lack the (moral) strength to swim in the "flow" of mainstream.

KAEP,
Your proposed answer to racism by public education and policing is bigoted by your hatred of john Howard. Both education and the police are Morris Iemma State Govt responsibilities. So get of the JH bashing and propose real answers. Stop the political spin and realise we live together in one society and community that must be healed.

The criminal element in our society do not see sitting in classes as providing them with real skills, they are usually drop-outs. Many of them drive around in BMW's funded by drugs and prostitution.

Rex,
Please be honest mate!
Qoute, "Several years ago, during a debate in the NSW parliament on clothes optional beaches, then MP Fred Nile said that he'd like to see us all [on the beach] in neck-to-knees. [I'm not joking, this is true!]"

Fred Nile lives on the beachfront overlooking the beach and his wife does not wear a neck to knee swimsuit, nor does his family members. In fact the family wear the same as everyone else on the beach. The only reason Fred would have used the term was to overcome the abuse your Anglo-pest caused.

How the hell were you ever a member of the Liberal party?

Are you just bitter over loosing your preselection and the fact that your new party is dead in the water?

>>So the overwhelming opinion of posters here are around 80% think Barnes is a scumbag<<

Yes Col, isn't it interesting that 80% of the responses are ad hominem attacks on the author.

This usually happens when the accusations made are a little too close for comfort.

It's always amazed me that nitwits like Barnes and his groupies are quick to cloak themselves in the saintly light of compassion, tolerance, understanding, justice and other similar delusional twaddle and yet fail to see their own hypocrisy when they produce racist, intolerant rubbish like this. I'm quite embarrassed for Greg who I'm sure must go home every night and self-flagellate into a delerium of pius conviction. Thus refreshed he lines up yet again to do battle against the evil white person, the same who bullied him at school, belittled him at work, spurned him in love, and disciplined him unfairly at home.

Remember the climate under one of Greg's favourite guru's Paul Keating? People were too scared to say a word for fear of being called "racist" or worse. Geoffrey Blainey lost his job because he dared to say that perhaps the current level of immigration wasn't good for our social fabric. He has been proved right and people like Barnes wrong. The good thing is that Barnes and his thought Nazi's are becoming more and more irrelevant. Their superior warblings are having less and less influence. Decent Australians are sick of being called racial and religious bigots whilst Christian Churches are put to the torch. They're happy to see a grub sent to jail for carrying a tree branch but dismayed to see other grubs not even charged for smashing cars with baseball bats and waving pistols in the air. And all this accompanied by deafening silence from the thought nazi's.

News flash Greg - racism is wrong no matter who perpertrates it! You might identify yourself as a victim of horrible white people but don't try to drag other Australians into your abyss.

Pericles – ad hominem is perfectly acceptable when one is defending tolerance, justice, fairness, and democracy against the predations of thought Nazi’s and other assorted fascist rabble.