Indeed, Ponder. Further, it's precisely the kind of intolerant buffoonery expressed by Tate above that evokes the cringe that Audrey Apple talks about in this Australian.

Leigh: "I sincerely hope that you are not giving me false hope: that you really are going for good and not returning to Australia at some later date."

Heh. Well, apart from a brief return for a family wedding in August, then it's back to NYC on a one-way ticket.

But thanks for the good wishes from one fellow Australian to another setting out to make their way abroad, Leigh.

I find it astounding that you, HRS, Col Rouge and your other pack-mates can come onto this forum day after day to denigrate so many of those who write to OLO in good faith with ideas for improving Australia. You bring nothing to the table but wormwood, you contribute nothing but scorn and have nothing to offer except an unwavering commitment to complacency.

In your Australianer-than-thou piousness, you preach from the gospel of mateship, honour and the fair go, but you do not practice it in your behaviour towards other Australians in this place. You insist that others must genuflect before an altar to so-called Australian virtues that you do not exhibit - warmth, openness, generousity of spirit.

You sing loudest in the church, but you're off-key.

I don't know, perhaps outside this forum you are the very paragon of a generous and warm-hearted Australian. If that is so, then I guess your catalogue of comments on this site, the hundreds of spiteful, nasty messages you have posted, are your portrait of Dorian Leigh: your true self hidden away in an online attic, displaying all the scars and effusions of an ugly mind.

By your words we shall know you - a hypocrite who pays lip-service to values that you do not demonstrate in your interactions with others. In short, sir, you may live in Australia, but you are no Australian.

Mercurius. Poetry. Sheer poetry.

To ASymeonakis, (PART I)

I grew up in Liverpool/Fairfield and I am an Anglo. Whilst you selfishly can only remember the one off long haired AC/DC fan calling you names , I remember the "Wog corner" and the "Serb corner" and "Asian corner". I remember seeing 30 people of ususally Asian or Middle Eastern origin punching and kicking lone Anglo kids.

I don't ever remember even once seeing a group of Anglos bashing an ethnic. If we take just name calling alone every non-Anglo culture wins hands down. I remember derogatory "skip" or "convict" coming my way hundreds of time, or "your country is sh#t". Or what about the rude and racist uses of their parent's language in front of you, even though they can speak perfect English? What about the Lebanese youths who hang around Westfield plazas or at the movies or the beaches, staring at you and sexually harassing your girlfriend while you are with her, the same group who are extremely polite when a veiled women walks past.

Or, if the name calling and general intimidation isn't enough, what about the thousands of gang bashings by Middle Eastern youths or Asian youths on young Anglo males, many of which result in stabbings and even racial murders - lynchings? What about the dozens of racist gang rapes each year (see NSW police prosecutor 2002).

To make this worse, what about how the Muslim leaders and the entire community of muslims generally (which we can infer from how no muslim leaders thought that Hilali was racist or inciting rape, they all said he was taken out of context, and the general sentiment on local muslim radio and in their chat rooms was that the rest of Australia was racist for talking too much about it, just like we were apparently racist for talking about the vile racits gang rapes themselves) don't see that there is anything wrong with what happened, and that the rape victims brought it on themselves for being uncovered "loose" Aussies .

To ASymeonakis, (PART II)

What about how the Vietnamese and now also the Lebanese have set up Australia's drug capitals, where they don't use but sell to Anglos and Aboriginies? What about how, while the Muslim community is 2% and the Vietnamese community is about the same, they represent together the majority of the entire nations violent crime and drug crime? Ask Don Weatherburn of the ABS why he doesn't do a crime stats report into the relationship between serious violent and drug dealing crimes and the offender's parent's birthplace. Instead, they do a relationship between serious crime and offender's birthplace so that twits like you will see stats such as: 5% of people in prison are born in Lebanon, and 80% of all crime is committed by Australian born people. This means that Bilal Skaf and co, the infamous gang rapists, would be classed as Australian born and "caucasian", as the categories of race are limited to Negroid, Asian, Caucasian, Aboriginals. Pathetic and misleading isn’t it?

What about how the old NSL soccer was riddled with ethnic violence and tribalism, same as the tennis now.

What about how one can never go to a Canterbury Bulldogs rugby league match again without feeling intimidated by hoards of racist Lebanese thugs, who bash Anglos on the train to and from the game every time.

I wonder if you can tell me why you, in the true spirit and character of an ethnocentric racist herd animal, only remember the one off long haired heavy metal fan who called you a "wog", but you ignored or perhaps didn't notice all of what I have said above?

How dare you speak about racism, when the Anglo people of Australia have spoken with their actions that they are NOT RACIST, by having such a huge migration program that has resulted in Anglos being now in the minority; that has Anglos moving up and down the coast of NSW to get away from the violence and racism of certain ethnic groups in Sydney.

Mercurious,
Have you been partaking from a "goon" as well, and do you also think that boys are made of slime and snails.

If so, then how un-Australian of you.