Yar, thanks, runner.

Isn't it great to live in a country where the serving govt acts as an incendiary mechanism to ramp up religious and race division!

Where a serving member, elected to represent his entire electorate, can choose to go and mouth off in support of a racist rally - even though his leader bans ministers from a program on the public broadcaster.

And this forum appears to host a lot of peeps who think that's a wonderful turn of events.

as usual Poirot you ignore the fact that trying integrate cultures that depise Western civilisation has not worked anywhere in the world. Unfortunately pig headed regressives have created this problem and now demonise and commit violence against anyone with consenting views.

Yes it is a very sad state of affairs but yet again an easily avoidable mess had the people with any commonsense not been silenced and berated by the likes of your and socialist abc/sbs intent on inflicting stupidity on this nation.

btw even you are not so blind as to realise that Islam is not a race. The left has a way with weasel words.

Different thread same offer, I was in the thick of the action all day at the Melbourne rally, saw all the fights, got pepper sprayed, took videos etc. It's not 100% accurate to say that the Anti Racism campaigners started all the fights, ANTIFA, the black masked, balaclava wearing Anarchists were bashing people left right and centre and they are the ones who rushed the cops at about 11.30. What happened was that there were two lines, one at the top of Bourke St and one across spring St outside the theatre. From about 10:30 people started to drift in to the Spring St line but at about 11:30 a crowd of maybe 100 people came running up Little Bourke St into spring St and began to form a picket line in front of the cops, this caused some confusion and a group of ANTIFA took advantage and charged the Police line at the Princess theatre end. The Socialist Party marshals and innocent bystanders got caught up in the melee trying to stop the ANTIFA as OC foam was deployed and a counter charge let by Public Order officers and mounted units pushed all of us back about ten metres. Steve Jolly and his people did try to keep order but they were too few to make a difference and tempers flared when the ANTIFA were confronted and asked to behave themselves.

I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to a bit of biff but it was pretty shocking to see the ANTIFA assaulting anyone who came close to the picket and who wasn't obviously a Leftist. One poor guy was on the ground being pummeled a few feet away from me so a bunch of us "adults" dived in in tried to right him and get him away from the mob, as we did so a young girl, maybe 18 years old leapt in and kicked him, she was given a mighty shove backwards and told to "F-off" by one of the other men.
His crime? He was in my estimation mildly mentally handicapped and wanted to get around the crowd to as he said "get a coffee" in Bourke St, he couldn't understand why he'd been assaulted, it was pitiful and I was worried he was going to have a heart attack or something because he was so worked up.
The other "Racist" attackers, the ones you probably all on the news saw being assaulted then arrested at the tram stop did provoke the ANTIFA but it was three against twenty and they were seriously beaten before the Police could get to them, that was another melee where OC was used.

That's hardly logical, Hasbeen.

>>Useful idiots will be the first target of the MMs, I hope you can run<<

Surely, if your intention is to dominate a society (cf. fifties and sixties Soviet Union) than you want to keep "useful idiots" around for as long as possible, n'est-ce pas?

As far as the topic here goes, I am still a firm believer in the value of free speech, whether from the mouths of rag-tag ferals on a panel programme, or rabble-rousers in the high street. I am able to make my own judgment on the values of the individuals concerned, and the platform from which those views emanate.

Whether the rally was fundamentally "racist" or not is irrelevant, as I am also capable of making up my own mind on the attitude of those involved. On both sides. And I certainly don't need the media to do my thinking for me.

Poirot,

It is not pedantic to point out the misuse of a simple English word, nor did I think it was necessary to mention Nazis, who will certainly there in the form of radical Islam, the new Nazism. Incidentally, Nazis were, and are, socialists. Is it too pedantic to remind you that they called/call themselves National Socialists? I don't like them at all, but I can't see what you would have against them. Uncle Adolf was a socialist like you, carried along by a German workers' union.