This you tube presentation, on a man who says give me justice or give me death, is not as salacious as the Tiger story, but it was enough to get onto a Current Affair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQxfVy4zSI
Go have a look and if you know Julia Gillard, suggest she buys or gets from the Parliamentary Stationary Office, a copy of the official Australian Style Manual. In it she will find on Page 300 that Royal Identifiers are required. The nine de-facto Republics established after 1986, can not and do not use Royal Identifiers on their legislation, and have been sailing under the Flag of Convenience, of the Council of Australian Governments, as if that was the highest council in Australia.

Judges and Magistrates are not producing Royal Identifiers because they cannot, and because of that Australia is a fractured, divided, sad little country of 21 million people, sixty five percent of whom claim to be Christians. In Julia’s home State Victoria, there are Royal Identifiers on the Seals the Supreme Court uses, and at Cambridge Publishers, 477 Williamstown Road Port Melbourne the only source of the Holy Bible with a Royal Identifier in it is situated.

Belly will not like it, and Sharon Burrow may not be pleased, but if they had insisted on a Royal Identifier being affixed to the Work Choices legislation, by an independent and freely convened Supreme Court, as required by s 22 of the Australian Courts Act 1828, the separation of powers in the Australian Constitution would have struck out most of its draconian penalties, and if Julia Gillard seeks a Writ in the name of Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second from either the Supreme Court in Western Australia or the Supreme Court in Melbourne, with a view of giving Peter Spencer a day in a real court, he will probably come down.

There were a thousand arrests in Copenhagen, on television last night. Tiger Woods is still in the limelight, but there are more important things than Tiger’s love life happening. One of those important things is to reestablish the Commonwealth, and Labor should do it

I don't get it. OLO regulars will happily spend their days composing swipes at each other, yet many seem reluctant to write anything that sounds judgemental of someone who lives half a world away, will never know what we all think of him and has committed adultery on the largest imaginable scale.

Benk sorry but I just do not get the point of your post.
Yes we swipe at one another, but the thread got a fair bit of interest just as the subject did in the media.
Is it truly wrong to snipe? to be human in print as well as real life?
Maybe more likely, see the very first rule of the forum, the one we see on beginning to post, is do not divert threads.
I only came back to observe PTB and the latest lurch into new territory.
But truly while it is your right to express your views they baffle me.

Hi Benk.

Benk: <"... many seem reluctant to write anything that sounds judgemental of someone who lives half a world away, will never know what we all think of him and has committed adultery on the largest imaginable scale.">

Well I don't mind saying that I disapprove of adultery. However:

1. I also understand that life and relationships get complicated and that we can't know everything about other people's business.

2. I don't really think this is one of the exceptions because he seems to have duped quite a lot of people. It's not like he had one lover on the side but instead it seems he has been an habitual cheat and liar. Having said that; adultery isn't against the law these days. Therefore although we might go - tch oh dear norty boy! - we needn't crucify him over it or cause his family more distress. The media are actually causing more harm I think (as are the blabbing women involved).

3. I don't think this is the largest scale or even all that unusual. Like all of those travelling salesmen type jokes that most of us understand had to come from somewhere - some shared understanding about reality. It isn't only single blokes frequenting strip clubs and brothels. Is porn an adulterous activity ? - some would say yes; some would say no. I am not sure. What do you think ?

Anyway, if it isn't all that unusual I don't think we'll find many people who can in good conscience condemn him too harshly.

Maybe all of us need to reflect a bit on what our values are.

Belly,
my point is that there seems to be a question about our priorities. We will rip into someone because they have written something that we do-not like, yet we seem reluctant to say anything critical of Tiger when his behaviour seems to be worse and in any case, he will never know what we say anyway.

Pynchme,

I agree that we cannot know everything that happens in other people's marriages. However, I like the expression "marriage is a celebration of all that we should be." While many people struggle with fidelity, lets not abandon it as an ideal. Cheating is one of the most hurtful things that people ever do.

Benk: <" I like the expression "marriage is a celebration of all that we should be." While many people struggle with fidelity, lets not abandon it as an ideal. ".

Benk thanks for that - that quote is very special.

I agree with you.