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Prison Colonists Hold Your Heads High!
Jan 26, 2024, 2:30:03 AM1/26/24
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<bigtrump...@protonmail.com> wrote:>
> Screw the protesters. Execute the piece of shit woke DEI vandals.
Thousands of Australians have gathered at rallies against the
Australia Day holiday, which marks the arrival of British colonists
in 1788 and has become increasingly contentious.
Protesters gathered on Friday at Invasion Day rallies in Sydney,
Melbourne and other major cities across the country, according to
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Once known as a time when Australians held barbecues and went to the
beach to mark the end of the summer holidays, debate has grown over
the meaning and purpose of the holiday, which is marked on January
26; the day a fleet of 11 British ships carrying a human cargo of
convicts arrived in present-day Sydney in 1788.
Indigenous people refer to it as Invasion Day or Survival Day
because it marked the start of a sustained period of discrimination
and dispossession of Indigenous peoples without the negotiation of a
treaty. The lack of such a treaty puts Australia out of step with
other countries including the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
On the eve of this year’s holiday, protesters damaged two monuments
to the country’s colonial past in the southern city of Melbourne,
itself named after a former British prime minister.
A statue of Captain James Cook, who mapped the coast around Sydney
in the 18th century and first claimed the territory for Britain, was
sawn off at the ankles, while a monument to Queen Victoria was
doused in red paint.
Images posted on social media showed the Cook statue lying on the
ground with the words “The colony will fall” spray-painted on the
stone plinth where it had previously stood.
Protesters threw red paint at the same statue in January 2022.
“This sort of vandalism has no place in our community,” said
Victoria state premier Jacinta Allan.
At Friday’s rally in Melbourne, organiser Tarneen Onus Browne said
the holiday needed to go.
“We believe that there is no day in the calendar that massacres and
violence didn’t happen,” Browne, who represents the Warriors of
Aboriginal Resistance, told the ABC.
“That’s what we’ve been coming out every year to say, and we also
want to dispel the myth of this colony and the discovery of it.”
Hundreds of people also attended dawn services to mark January 26.
“Basically if you break it down, it means peace, unity and coming
together, and acknowledging the past so we can move forward,” Jason
Briggs told the ABC at a We-Akon Dilinja, or mourning reflection
ceremony, in Melbourne.
He said such activities were designed to bring Australians together.
“We’ve got to look forward to a pathway that takes us and brings us
to a place where we can engage in a better dialogue about resolving
issues, differences, reconciling outstanding matters and say, hey,
we’re all in this together, we’re a nation, we’ve got this country,
we’re all fellow Australians,” he said.
Polls show a majority of Australians are keen to keep the public
holiday and the name, but are divided, often along political lines,
about changing the date.
Cricket captain Pat Cummins, perhaps the country’s most prominent
sports personality, this week suggested a more inclusive date could
be found.
“I absolutely love Australia. It is the best country in the world by
a mile,” he said.
“We should have an Australia Day, but we can probably find a more
appropriate day to celebrate it.”
Last October, Australians rejected changes to the 1901 constitution
that would have recognised the country’s first inhabitants and
created an Indigenous consultative body known as the Voice to
Parliament.
Some 3.8 percent of Australia’s 26 million people are Indigenous.
They are among the country’s most disadvantaged people and face
issues including poor health and education outcomes as well as high
imprisonment rates.
Fuck the activists. Take them out to the wilderness, knock them in
the heads and leave them for the wildlife.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/toppled-statues-protests-
australia-marks-contentious-national-holiday
<bigtrump...@protonmail.com> wrote:>
> Screw the protesters. Execute the piece of shit woke DEI vandals.
Thousands of Australians have gathered at rallies against the
Australia Day holiday, which marks the arrival of British colonists
in 1788 and has become increasingly contentious.
Protesters gathered on Friday at Invasion Day rallies in Sydney,
Melbourne and other major cities across the country, according to
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Once known as a time when Australians held barbecues and went to the
beach to mark the end of the summer holidays, debate has grown over
the meaning and purpose of the holiday, which is marked on January
26; the day a fleet of 11 British ships carrying a human cargo of
convicts arrived in present-day Sydney in 1788.
Indigenous people refer to it as Invasion Day or Survival Day
because it marked the start of a sustained period of discrimination
and dispossession of Indigenous peoples without the negotiation of a
treaty. The lack of such a treaty puts Australia out of step with
other countries including the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
On the eve of this year’s holiday, protesters damaged two monuments
to the country’s colonial past in the southern city of Melbourne,
itself named after a former British prime minister.
A statue of Captain James Cook, who mapped the coast around Sydney
in the 18th century and first claimed the territory for Britain, was
sawn off at the ankles, while a monument to Queen Victoria was
doused in red paint.
Images posted on social media showed the Cook statue lying on the
ground with the words “The colony will fall” spray-painted on the
stone plinth where it had previously stood.
Protesters threw red paint at the same statue in January 2022.
“This sort of vandalism has no place in our community,” said
Victoria state premier Jacinta Allan.
At Friday’s rally in Melbourne, organiser Tarneen Onus Browne said
the holiday needed to go.
“We believe that there is no day in the calendar that massacres and
violence didn’t happen,” Browne, who represents the Warriors of
Aboriginal Resistance, told the ABC.
“That’s what we’ve been coming out every year to say, and we also
want to dispel the myth of this colony and the discovery of it.”
Hundreds of people also attended dawn services to mark January 26.
“Basically if you break it down, it means peace, unity and coming
together, and acknowledging the past so we can move forward,” Jason
Briggs told the ABC at a We-Akon Dilinja, or mourning reflection
ceremony, in Melbourne.
He said such activities were designed to bring Australians together.
“We’ve got to look forward to a pathway that takes us and brings us
to a place where we can engage in a better dialogue about resolving
issues, differences, reconciling outstanding matters and say, hey,
we’re all in this together, we’re a nation, we’ve got this country,
we’re all fellow Australians,” he said.
Polls show a majority of Australians are keen to keep the public
holiday and the name, but are divided, often along political lines,
about changing the date.
Cricket captain Pat Cummins, perhaps the country’s most prominent
sports personality, this week suggested a more inclusive date could
be found.
“I absolutely love Australia. It is the best country in the world by
a mile,” he said.
“We should have an Australia Day, but we can probably find a more
appropriate day to celebrate it.”
Last October, Australians rejected changes to the 1901 constitution
that would have recognised the country’s first inhabitants and
created an Indigenous consultative body known as the Voice to
Parliament.
Some 3.8 percent of Australia’s 26 million people are Indigenous.
They are among the country’s most disadvantaged people and face
issues including poor health and education outcomes as well as high
imprisonment rates.
Fuck the activists. Take them out to the wilderness, knock them in
the heads and leave them for the wildlife.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/toppled-statues-protests-
australia-marks-contentious-national-holiday
Prison Colonists Hold Your Heads High!
Jan 26, 2024, 3:20:03 AM1/26/24
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Jan 26, 2024, 5:19:23 AM1/26/24
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> Fuck the ...
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infesting aus.politics with its mental pollution.
Get lost!
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:19:18 +1100, Ördög <or...@your.service.biz>
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>
>> Fuck the ...
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>A brain dead, low live, waste of space and good oxygen subhuman troll is
>infesting aus.politics with its mental pollution.
>
>Get lost!
>
> FOAD1 FOAD FOAD
>
> *P* *L* *O* *N* *K*
>
>Make my day and my ever hungry BOZO bin satisfied!
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wrote:
>Prison Colonists a retarded troll
>
>> Fuck the ...
>
>A brain dead, low live, waste of space and good oxygen subhuman troll is
>infesting aus.politics with its mental pollution.
>
>Get lost!
>
> FOAD1 FOAD FOAD
>
> *P* *L* *O* *N* *K*
>
>Make my day and my ever hungry BOZO bin satisfied!
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