How nice that Col's found someone new to play with. Nothing new here, but this bit did strike me as being funny:

<<...it is the socialistsand their fellow travelers who have a monopoly on the use of lies, propaganda and manipulation >>

I recall a certain conservative PM who was awarded the sobriquet "Lying Rodent" by members of his own party, and who wasn't averse to a bit of propaganda and manipulation (remember the Tampa, 'children overboard' etc?).

Yup, John Howard was definitely a socialist.

Good one, Col.

>>You on the otherhand, prefer to tell us how you wrote the “laws of the sea” and how we should pay homage to your grand plan for regulation of the most mundane…<<

I didn't write the laws of the sea, you dunce, I was part of a project that applied those laws to fashion Australia's claim. You have gone way past the hyperbole stage to an outright lie/mis-statement of the situation.

I can just picture the young Col Rouge as a smartarse whippersnapper who always got what he wanted as a teenager. Probably a complete prat as well who doesn't take too kindly to anyone else competing for resources that he's earmarked as his own. The Hans Grüber of OLO.