Forrest Gumpp, you are having a bet each way here.
Maybe trying to close the site down is a bit harsh.
I was part of that thread defending this site.
I saw it as unneeded, and maybe born out of miss understanding.
Jewerlys thread was in my view both but maybe not with intent, it however I think is still our longest ever thread.
We lost a good poster, because a thread started by them got miss used and maybe not interpreted well.
Just do me this favor, I am aware you are a conservative, leave your biases at the door,tell me my biases are not challenged by my floggings I have handed out to my party here.
Say individuals TAUNTS here in print in this thread about me and ALL WHO vote Labor are not unbalanced or flaming.
I CHALLENGE MY CONSERVATIVE OPPONENTS good the bad and Shadow/Individuals make a donation to keep this forum going, help it continue.
GY told me in those days the outside influences challenged him, other than him I was the biggest contributor.
No fortune believe me,some of you earn 10 times my now weekly allotment,get the check book out.
AND support free speech by developing lines good people do not cross.
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This is scraping the bottom of the barrell even for SM. To attempt to align ALP policy with child porn and pedophilia is nothing more than inflammatory nonsense. Tactics and spin like this are more likely to turn any wavering voter off rather than attract support.

Let SM spout his bile. Decent people will judge each indvidual by his/her actions. SM is purely about Opposition for Opposition's sake and this is another in a long line of one-eyed self-serving threads.

This behaviour reminds me of the anti-Muslim pamphlets distributed by Howard's team in Sydney that were fraudulently attributed to the ALP. Did anyone get arrested over that breach of electoral fraud? Desperate people do desperate things but it is not always in the interests of democracy.

If SM was really about truth and honesty he would be honest about Children Overboard, WMDs, Liberal party bribery cases, AWB etal.

On a positive note, the few mindless comments on OLO do not represent the majority of Australians who are more than capable of thinking for themselves.

Muck raking is a poor substitute for failure in Coaltion policy.

I am proud to say I try EVERY post to put great value on my HONEST OPINIONS.
I have left many sites, one pro union one because lunatic left took it as ground to support extremes, it suffered much before being fixed.
Others because they became verbal graffiti boards.
I never returned even to look at any of them.
Here I twice left,upset with 3, now that number is 4 but Shadow Minister was the reason, I left and the one that bought me back.
This site, is better than any, but badly miss used in three different posts telling me my party and me too are supporters of filth.
My pride like a hard rock in my chest screams this is unfair, you do not need this, sell the computer if that is what it takes BUT LEAVE OLO.
I fight it, every breath, this IS FLAMING, IT IS SUPPORTED BECAUSE some posting here think it true, only conservatives are fit to rule this country.
Think, that saying sorry raising pensions education improvements and a host of achievements never took place but every thing we did was wrong/evil
We saw little of past conservatives, INDIVIDUALS NOT THE WHOLE,sneaking away from Ministries and seats after miss leading Parliament in the wheat scandal and children over board.
It seems my quest for accountability and improvement from my party is not a shared request for conservatives from conservatives.
Next time we see a good poster leave I will follow,unless flaming is stopped here ALL FLAMING all posters
Last get your hands in your pockets come on give the joy some posters get in flaming ALP voters demands a fee for service, shadow Minister give more than I did but give, you above all should

Pelican,

Good comment.

Belly,

This sort of blather is really not worth getting stirred up about.
It's indicative of an opposition stance that offers only empty rhetoric and one that has nothing of value to offer as an alternative.
It's uninspiring, puerile and "cheap".

SM knows how to wind you up - but only if you let him.

Lexi,

Small bickies really, some instances of inappropriate behaviour compared to reams of criminality from the ALP.

Belly,

Que? (P.S. I'm glad you found out how to use spell check)

Pelican, Poirot,

Ra Ra for the ALP. But still my questions are unanswered, and none of you have tried. The feeble attempts to dredge up something from the Liberal side is minuscule compared to ALP examples of criminality.

I would guess that GY's inbox is crammed with requests to have me banned, but I have been very careful not to state anything that does not comply with OLO rules.

The Labor party has for years claimed the moral high ground, and even when the result was an abortion, it was so for a "good" reason. This week, we have seen more evidence of some of the more vile members of the ALP. That these incidents are repeated is serious cause for concern.

SM
You obviously did not read or understand my post. Where is "Ra Ra ALP" even implied. I am merely saying you ignore any wrongdoing on behalf of the Coalition and even applaud their ability to get away with it by structuring terms of reference in inquiries to ensure valuable evidence is not presented.

In the interests of free speech, I would not waste my time asking for your suspension. Your words tell us more about you than if you were hidden away to foster your bile in secrecy.

You judge people by your own perspective. Not all people think like you only limiting comments in narrow terms of Left/Right, Labor/Liberal perspectives.

It is not a competition to see whose side is the most corrupt - the sadness is in the fact that you treat politics like a football game and one of one-upmanship. There is no substance or honesty when you only highlight dishonesty when it suits you, not when it occurs, no matter who is responsible.

That is the real failure of democracy - but you won't get it - your type rarely do and you are as much a pawn in the game as you think you are making a difference. The real test of democracy is when citizens are able to condemn or praise a policy on it's merit not just depending on who has prepared it. Bit like the Carbon Tax, where were all the rioters when Howard policy put forward an ETS or similar Carbon Tax?

While I am not suggesting you are the only one guilty of this, we can all be one-eyed at times, you however must take the first prize.