SM,

Satire targeting "any" party is funny - if it's done well.

Say what you like - gagging people from alerting the public to abuse that is ongoing, unchecked and systemic in our detention camps is sinister.

...and probably the high end of a very slippery slope.

I'm still fascinated that you repeatedly trumpet about the debased trade and the drownings, but you don't appear to give two hoots about the abuses perpetrated in the camps - to the people you say you are so concerned about.

Don't bother replying...I know how it goes. You'll tell me to prove it - even though you know the govt has made any such mechanism difficult, shot the Human Rights messenger and has now legislated to make it illegal for professionals to speak out.

So it goes....

(I think I'm just about done with this thread now)

P,

How come you are more concerned about the allegations of activists about alleged abuses than the hundreds of people saved from drowning?

Secondly why ask a question when you know the huge flaw in your argument?

You said "Satire targeting "any" party is funny - if it's done well."
For you, apparently not!

Yeah, whatever....

"For you, apparently not!"

My message to you, SM, is that if you haven't got the gift for satire or clever rhetoric in general - then don't attempt it.

Poirot,

You would know clever banter or satire if it hit you between the eyes. You certainly haven't experienced any on this thread.

I rest my case.....

Hi Shadow, "but I am puzzled by your acceptance of another poster whose main objective appears to post childish and inflammatory drivel to troll others, yet focus on my comment which is verbal kick in the nuts to remind him that others can play his game. (at least I used a play on the word pedophilia which translates to child love)

Your general state of mind "puzzled", you need to get a grip. This is a social political forum, you seem to think your comments are of serious value to the world, peppered with legal opinions, quotes and links to the Murdoch press, these should never be lampooned, you a typical conservative with no sense of humour, bound up in your own self importance . Sorry to shatter your delusion, this is not the Australian Parliament or the UN where your opinions might count for something. Unfortunate you are poor at "playing the game" as you put it.

As for your use of the word "pedophilia" to describe Greens and therefore me, as a known Green on this forum, and you having firstly posted comment about some Green Party member who was arrested by police recently for online activity in relation to child exploitation. Couple that with the connotations associated with the word "pedophilia" in modern Australian society, which is, men who inappropriately and sexually interfere with children, which is not the literal meaning which you very well know. It is quite clear you were trying to convey to others on this forum a most unsavory opinion of me by association through comment and word. Your crass vulgarity fell flat, and failed its purpose, I am never insulted by anything anyone posts, including you.