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2003-10-24 Down Under

Bob Brown finds China doesnât like free speech (unlike Bush)

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Posted by Anon1 2003-10-24 1:10:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 1:12:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 1:14:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 1:31:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 1:40:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Igs, February 1972.

Posted by Brian 2003-10-24 2:10:49 AM|| 2003-10-24 2:10:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Welcome back,and congrtulatins A1

Posted by Raptor 2003-10-24 8:07:02 AM|| 2003-10-24 8:07:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 8:32:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 8:47:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 11:32:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 11:50:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-10-24 12:27:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 12:50:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-24 1:10:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-10-24 1:31:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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