Jay Of Melbourne,

It is alleged that Freddie Grey's fate was linked to neck and spinal surgery he had as a result of a car accident one week prior. Apparently, he was negotiating for a large on payment insurance settlement, so the paper trail should be available.

That being so, one wonders about his own contribution to his demise through his risky behaviour. The police arresting police would not have been aware of his surgery.

The lesson to be taken away from this incident and its shocking lawless aftermath is that the Australian government should pay heed and be very careful to assess and manage the risks inherent in its own large scale immigration and multicultural policy.

The Australian public is NOT confident that federal governments present and past have given due regard to what the public wants, which is a reduction in immigration and preference to migrants with suitable needed skills who can and will integrate well.

Conservative Hippie,

".... the accounts of what American Indians and Australian Aborigines were actually like, how habitually violent, unpredictable and wantonly destructive they were.'

Which is true and happened before the contact with Europeans,
there are accounts from First Fleet members of aboriginal women appearing in the settlement with their hair matted with blood from the beatings that they had received from their men.
The American Indians had a pre-contact history of savage warfare, the torture and murder of prisoners; they didn't suddenly change because they were fighting Europeans.
Our own Torres Strait Islanders murdered strangers as a matter of course and regarded Mainlanders as animals to be killed and if taken alive were used in ritual sacrifice.

Then there was cannibalism which was going well in Australia pre-contact, it was not something learned from Europeans.

A prominent long-term appeaser has just come to his senses and published a deep apology to all those around the world who have been warning about Islam for years:

Appeaser repents
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2015/04/mike-dobbins-gives-public-apology-to.html

"Good" and "bad" appeasement are analysed at the following URL:
http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2015/01/18/good-appeasement-and-bad-appeasement/

Both are links to some common-sense wisdom it would be worth persistent appeasers studying (Betcha they won't engage with either to show them wrong).

I admit I do not know much about pre-European Aboriginal culture. I also admit that some Indian tribes were renowned for their violence against other tribes. However there were many Indian nations on the American continent and not all were savagely violent.

Some of the plains Indians had inter-tribal agreements that when they went to war it was almost our equivalent of sport. The opposing sides would ride into battle on horse back with the aim of slapping the back of their opponents heads; if contacted, you were out. Somehow they had a way of determining the winning side, without serious injury and then were able to negotiate the settlement or grievance. When these same Indians first encountered American cavalry they were easy targets for pistols and swords. They had no idea the cavalry was going to kill them, though I believe they caught on very fast.

Look at the way a handful of Spanish were able to easily conquer the highly civilized yet extremely violent Aztecs through deceit, violence and accidental germ warfare. During the 1800's many of the American Indians were wiped out with purposeful germ warfare by distributing small pox laden blankets.

Mankind has been violent from the beginning. Our whole Western way of life is founded on the success of the very brutal Roman Empire. Saying the American Indians and Aboriginals were violent before the whites arrived isn't justification for the excessive genocide they both suffered at the hands of the whites.

ConservativeHippie, "Saying the American Indians and Aboriginals were violent before the whites arrived isn't justification for the excessive genocide they both suffered at the hands of the whites"

Black armband is the dominant narrative in Australia. Aboriginal genocide, stolen children etc., are 'facts' promoted by the taxpayer-funded ($1,3 billion pa) 'fact-checking' ABC and 'facts' taught from Kindy on. What about that 'Rabbit Proof Fence! It did exist, didn't it? Maybe not.


Where is the compelling evidence for it though, not unreliable anecdotes, or speculation from historians fuelled by government grants?

Dear CH,

Have you read the book, "Bury My Heart
At Wounded Knee," by Dee Brown?
I think that you might find it interesting -
if you haven't read it.
Your local library should be able to get hold
of a copy for you (published in 1970). It's a frank
and heartbreaking account of the Indian history of
the American West.

BTW: My husband and I worked and lived in the US
for ten years (our children
we born there). A colleague recommended the book to me
while I was working at USC (University of Southern
California) in Los Angeles.

Also, have you read any books by Australian
historian Henry Reynolds? I especially enjoyed his -
"Why Weren't We Told?" which is a personal search by
Reynolds for the truth about our history. It's a fine
and engaging memoir - and I think it is crucial reading
on a very important debate in Australia in the
twenty-first century.