Paul1405,
So, you're calling our Police what ?

Paul,

No, that does not answer the question as you well know,
so just answer it and tell us all what the Greens would do in such a life and death situation as the pregnant woman faced.

Remembering always that it is a Green belief that a firearm should not be used for self-defence; a belief, please note, beliefs are I believe non-negotiable.

Just to get back to topic:

There is a brilliant article on this topic of the dangers of forgetting history in today's Australian by Henry Ergas:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-pens-of-reason-wrote-their-way-to-our-future/news-story/c6e0d661520500824bd87d2ee83e2300

Here in Adelaide, some morons have defaced the tomb of Colonel William Light who first surveyed the city site of Adelaide. As it happened, Colonel Light had a Malay-Thai mother, he was born on an island near Langkawi. In that sense, he was a damn sight less 'White' than some of his detractors. His father, Charles Light, planned the city of Penang.

Those dumb-arses know so little about the early history of Adelaide, their own history, that they are unaware that it was colonised by what would have been the left wing of London society back in the day, greenies calling for open spaces in British cities and recognition of the rights of Aboriginal people, dissenters from the dominant religion, abolitionists and campaigners for women's rights.

That's all set out in Douglas Pike's 'Paradise of Dissent' (1957). It's no accident that Aboriginal women in South Australia had the vote twenty and thirty years before women had it in much of Europe or the US.

But when you deface history, deny history, forget history, you cut yourself off from knowing where it's all come from. You willingly turn yourself into a half-wit.

Joe

Joe,

So glad that finally you're seeing the light at
the end of the tunnel regarding the true history
of our nation.

Kudos.

"But when you deface history, deny history, forget history, you cut yourself off from knowing where it's all come from. You willingly turn yourself into a half-wit."

Could not agree more Joe. History, including Australian history, has been written by the victors. Very much an incomplete sanitised version has been presented for general consumption over the last 230 years in our schools and places of learning.

Hi Paul,

To paraphrase the old joke, if you know of a better history, write it. Otherwise run with what there is already.

Joe