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| Bob Brown finds China doesn’t like free speech (unlike Bush) |
| 2003-10-24 |
| ’Chinese agents’ kicked out guests CHINESE secret service agents stopped guests of the Australian Greens from entering the public gallery to hear Chinese President Hu Jintao’s speech to Parliament, Greens Senator Bob Brown said today. hahahaha oh, so you mean unlike Bush they don’t like free speech? Bob wasn’t planning to shout him down anyway, he saved that special rudeness for the leader of the FREE world. Although he admitted he had no proof the men were Chinese agents, Senator Brown said he was willing to make the claim. Paranoid AND rude. Please somebody kick him out next election. "Our invited guests from the Chinese Democrats and the Tibetans had their privileges removed," he said. Oh, so a really GOOD cause got sidelined because you were so busy big-noting yourself by criticising the President of a country with a great human-rights record instead. "They were prohibited from the gallery and put up behind glass. What’s more, a Chinese secret service agent was there to determine who did and who didn’t get into the gallery on our invitation." Senator Brown said the Chinese agents stopped his guests, including the chairman of the Federation for a Democratic China Australia division, Chin Jin, at the entrance to the public gallery and phoned Speaker of the House Neil Andrew’s office. "A check was then made with Mr Andrew’s office and he then redirected ... the Tibetans and Mr Chin, representing the democratic movement in China, out of the gallery and up into the school children’s place behind glass and without interpreter facilities," he said. the school children’s place: right where Bob Brown should have been put yesterday "That’s just outrageous." Don’t pretend you care, Bob, you’re just covering your arse against charges you don’t care about anything except bashing America |
| Posted by:Anon1 |
| #14 OK, last Kerry comment today. A week or two ago someone here mentioned John Fitzgerald Kerry. The aforementioned middle name is incorrect. It's MUCH worse. John. Forbes. Kerry. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-10-24 1:31:45 PM |
| #13 So much for socialist solidarity. Whatever their faults, the Red Chinese leaders do show quite a bit of interest in feeding their people and in development projects that will raise the standard of living and provide some kind of security against famine. Naturally, this puts them in direct conflict with the Greens, common Marxist ideology notwithstanding. The Chinese leaders are less willing than the Greens to adopt policies that would starve billions or keep them in the slavery of subsistence agriculture. Commie thugs and slave drivers show far more fundamental humanity than the touchy-feely Greens. Ironic, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-24 1:10:46 PM |
| #12 Raj: We'll that counts. JFK (yes, those are the initials) thinks he's at least an "honorary Kennedy". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-24 12:50:53 PM |
| #11 tu3031 - John Kerry's used that line, too (surprised?). The story goes like this - years ago Kerry's in this Beacon Hill bar and approaches 2 women. They talked for a few minutes, but the chicks don't yet know how priviledged they are to be in his presence. Finally Kerry says, "Don't you know who I am?" One of the chicks says, "Yeah, you're Bob Lobel" (nightime sports anchor on Channel 4). Oh, the humility... |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-10-24 12:27:29 PM |
| #10 At least the speaker had good sense not to cause a international incident. Although, Brown being tortured in a Beijing prison does have it's merits. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-10-24 11:50:45 AM |
| #9 I'm somewhat amazed that the speaker had so much control over who could attend the speach. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-10-24 11:32:55 AM |
| #8 He should've used the line the Kennedy's have made famous around here: "Do you know who I am?!" |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-10-24 8:47:32 AM |
| #7 It's so much more fun calling George Bush and Ashcroft fascists, killers and dictators - they don't have truncheons - unlike the real fascists, killers, and dictators |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-10-24 8:32:42 AM |
| #6 Welcome back,and congrtulatins A1 |
| Posted by: Raptor 2003-10-24 8:07:02 AM |
| #5 Igs, February 1972. |
| Posted by: Brian 2003-10-24 2:10:49 AM |
| #4 So,if Tibet is such a good cause how come Johnny didn't raise it with Hu? Oh shit, sorry, have to strengthen those economic ties instead. btw, when was the last time the US raised this issue with China? Don't know the answer that's why I'm askingthe question. re bashing america, yeah, well, he does that, agree he should be a more unbiased, my preference is for bashing just about any country including Uzbekistan, China, US, Albania, Montenegro, France, Germany, UK, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Israel, Syria, Turkmenistan (that's a good one, nothing like naming days/months after yourself or your relatives), Italy, Nigeria, Liberia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Russia, Georgia (no, not the state), Egypt, Turkey, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Greece, Honduras, Nicaragua, Algeria, Libya...damn, the list is too long, easy enough to find fault with all of them |
| Posted by: Igs 2003-10-24 1:40:58 AM |
| #3 Go, Bush, Go! And good on John Howard, too!!!! every "stop bush" poster I saw got ripped or defaced, and I encourage others to do the same. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-10-24 1:31:43 AM |
| #2 Bush handled those two idiots with such good grace and humour yesterday, he won a lot of fans here. Oh and the "thousands" of protestors was just 3 thousand. NOt 20 thousand, just 3 thousand students and unemployed rabble bussed in from sydney and melbourne. makes me wonder where they get the money to hire the busses and print the expensive colour posters. Oh and the stickers. I ripped every one down that I saw! |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-10-24 1:14:55 AM |
| #1 look at me! look at me! I'm Bob Brown Look at me! look at me! I'm Kerry Nettle look at us, look at us, look at us!!!!! look at us now! look at me, mum! ps: rantburg sorry I left but I have found a really EXCELLENT boyfriend who i reckon i'm gonna marry one day |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-10-24 1:12:32 AM |