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BRYAN FREE!
Webdiary’s Richard Tonkin on the conspiracy to silence Bryan Law:
When I think of the ghost of Banquo I think of Bryan. Having somebody who is so well-known to resistance networks (and probably ASIO) would not doubt heighten the intensity of such a media-op. However he’s about to be well and truly kept away from the Bush visit.
That was Bryan’s wish, too. But in the Howard regime’s cruellest move yet:
Four protesters who broke into the Pine Gap spy base have been let off with fines.
Donna Mulhearn, 37, Jim Dowling, 50, Adele Goldie, 29, and Bryan Law, 51, were yesterday found guilty in the Northern Territory Supreme Court of breaking into the secret spy base near Alice Springs on December 9, 2005 …
[Justice Sally Thomas] imposed fines on the four totalling $3250 and ordered them to pay $10,075.89 for damaging the fences at the base.
UPDATE! Our pet activist Bryan emails:
It’s nine Oclock in Alice Springs as the mercury plummets to below zero, and the warm activist pines for home. Good ol’ Qantas.
Here I was, all set for glorious martyrdom, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt (Rise Up Against War).
$1,000 fine, or ten days inside. I could do ten days hanging by my balls on a barbed wire fence (apologies to anyone eating while reading).
If any of your readers think the state will be getting any money from me, well they must be loonier than moon-bats.
Are any of you concerned about the $150-250,000 spent by the Commonwealth on our trial? Plenty more taxpayers where that lot came from. Ho Ho Ho.
How about the glum faces on Defence Department officials when they saw their “Big Gun” legislation reduced to a fine so petty that even a Blairite could afford it. $100 for taking a photo inside Pine Gap. $250 if you’re a serial offender.
We’ll take this one all the way to the High Court.
Just to rub it in (bad, smug wombat), the Judge said about me in sentencing: “Mr Law is clearly skilled in delivering public speeches. I have read the references that he put forward. I accept the matters that are set out in those references. I accept he is regarded by those persons as a man of integrity and with many other fine qualities”.
No wonder I’m feeling smug. See you at Talisman Sabre hey?
Cheers
Bryanp.s. I’m attaching one suitably heroic montage of me and my glorious crew. Suffer in your jocks mateys
UPDATE. “Bryan Law - who is without doubt an elastic band short of a jockstrap ...”
UPDATE II. Andrea (by the way, donate) in comments:
Well, I’ll say this for bryla, he was always a cheery sort of troll. Stupid as a bag of hair, but chipper.
Yep; that’s about sums up our boy. Next time I’m in Cairns I’ll look him up for a drink.
What? No martyrdom for Bryla and Friends?
I guess they’ll have be more obnoxious next time… and there will be a next time, surely.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 15 at 02:21 AM • permalinkNah I like the judges thinking on this one. They desperately want to be able to point to the cruel HoWARd Junta imprisoning its critics.
Instead I wonder if Mr law has worked out how many nightshifts he will be taxi driving for before he makes a single bob for himself?And if sweet Donna has to start hawking the fork to pay she will be all the better for it. (apologies to anyone who may have been eating)
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 15 at 02:26 AM • permalinkThis relentless crushing of dissent is, well, unrelenting.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 15 at 02:29 AM • permalinkBry’s still got the option of being banged up, if he doesn’t pay the fine and restitution there’ll be a bench warrant issued for his arrest. I believe he’s planning on attending Talisman Sabre to generally get in the road (ike he has a choice) and make a tit of himself. With a bit of luck his floundering mass will appear like a CGI invading force on radar, resulting in a deluge of spent uranium-tipped ordnance and a couple of hellfires for good measure.
Good point, ‘mole (#3), but Donna would have to be hawking it at the sleazy end of town to make a quid or two.
She is no oil painting.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 06 15 at 02:35 AM • permalinkHow many dole cheques will it take for them to pay those sort of fines…?
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 06 15 at 02:37 AM • permalinkMaybe as a fluffer?
Or even in the specalist end of the adult film market.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 15 at 02:39 AM • permalinkMole and Pedro, hang your heads in shame! Apparantly (so I’ve heard)these days, girls on the game are
nubileyoung Uni students looking to earn a few bucks. Do you dare besmirch this employer of Australian youth in such a manner by suggesting that Ms Mulhearn is fit for such activities?She’d need to work a generation to pay her share of the fine.
She is no oil painting.
Au contraire. Dali wishes he could paint something so surreal.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 15 at 02:45 AM • permalinkA fine for someone in paid employment would hurt. But BL and company are (presumably) unemployed and on welfare, so they will get to pay this off from their centrelink payments at whatever rate they claim that they can ‘afford’ which could take forever. The taxpayer is the loser, again.
Grubbing up Caltrop Weed, especially in my neck of the woods, would have been more appropriate.
After much consideration Donna decided to become a hooker to cover the Pine Gap Incursion fines.
Donna: Here you go guys. I made $50.50 last shift.
Bryla: Which bastard gave you 50c?
Donna: All of ‘em.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 15 at 02:50 AM • permalinkOne can’t help wonder whether the ABC would have named the religion of the perpetrators so prominently in its headline (“Four Christian pacifists guilty over Pine Gap break-in”) if self-proclaimed members of another faith had been responsible.
Webdiary office on any other day:
“I bags being Che Guevara. Bwyan, you can be Fidel and Nguyen, you’re Mao. It’s not because you are Asian, it’s because I own the Che cap and Bwyan’s mum made him a Castro beard out of cotton wool, so he has to be Fidel. So there. Now, I have written out new manifesto. Bugger off, Nguyen, we are using my manifesto, not yours. I did it on dad’s new printer and it looks real professional, just like Marx did him himself. It even has a real cool border. Yours is written on the back of a menu from your mum’s takeaway. By the way Nguyen, did you bring any prawn crackers. No? Arehole. I’ve got a bottle of water here were can pretend is vodka. Fuck you, Nguyen, if you don’t like it you can piss off. Hey, I got a new PS3 game yesterday…”
A couple of months ago there was a bit of a row about MP’s providing character references to criminals. If this reporting of Bryla’s sentencing submission is accurate then it would seem that such reference’s are still being handed out:
Bryan…presented a number of reference, including a letter from his State member, and one from Des Ball.
Bryla lives in Queensland, right? In a state where Labor are (for the moment) top dog, what do you reckon the chances are that the ALP is writing character references for people who break into national security facilities?
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 15 at 03:32 AM • permalink“...have been let off with fines.”
Will no one think of the children!?
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 06 15 at 03:43 AM • permalinkFrom the Queensland Transport application form for taxi drivers:
If you have any criminal history please note the following:
Criminal history checks are part of the application process of assessing the eligibility of a person to be issued with driver authorisation.
Applicants for driver authorisation must have a satisfactory criminal history to be issued with driver authorisation.
You must declare on the form:
· all criminal history offences from Queensland, interstate and any country and
· charge/s not finalised and
· any finding of guilt - this includes where no conviction was recorded, conviction recorded, good behaviour bond,
a fine or restitution, etc must be declared.Anyway, I seem to remember that Bryan is dependently (sic) wealthy, so this restriction probably won’t worry him.
I think they should all get off with a good spanking and no honey for tea..
Oh by the way on previus thread ABC bungling -anyone else cop an eyeful of the caption “Wallaby fly half” beneath footage of the master KGB spy who “some say” nuked a Soviet dissident and English resident at dinner.
Mainstream press review of ABC’s Phat Phil Adams being a Talking Head teamed with Peter Thompson.
“It is hard to imagine a less necessary CULTURAL product than a half hour of Philip Adams talking about himself.
Adams, after all is a cultural identity whose ubiquity is matched only by his predictability. Turn on Radio National or read his news column and there he is, selecting the SAME OLD LEFTY topics and the same old standard Lefty world view he has been peddling for the last two DECADES -football, John Howard, religion BAD, Australian cinema and Antiquities Good.
What could one half hour more of Adams talking possibly achieve? As it turns out,not much. con’t.#30 Adams walks viewers through his UNHAPPY, PUNATIVE CHILDHOOD, before the focus turns to raking back over his various TRIUMPHS, the ad campaigns, the films, the career as a media campaigner of influence, the biodynamic cattle farm in Elmswood.
An INTERVIEWER might have made this well travelled tale more compelling with a provocative question or two BUT THOMPSON PLAYS THIS INTERVIEW STRICTLY LIKE A GAME OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SOFTBALL.He and his PRODUCERS GIVE US FOOTAGE of Adams laughing as he watches one of his 1970s productions. Also vision of him dictating his column as he drives about in his FLASH Audi.“If nuclear power is the answer the Prime Minister is clearly asking the wrong question” we hear Adams say.
What THOMPSON DOESN’T DO IS PRESENT ANY SORT OF CHALLENGE to Adams’ too comfortable wisdom. Between Thompson and Adams there’s TOO LITTLE FRICTION..”
Tsk Tsk where’s MediaNanny when ya need it?#26.
Applicants for driver authorisation must have a satisfactory criminal history to be issued with driver authorisation.
Well, it sounds like to me that they all now have a “satisfactory criminal history” and should have no problem getting their hack license. Or does it take more than merely being fined? Would they have had a better chance if they’d blown the place up?
Is that the same Donna Mulhearn as this one?
(scroll to bottom of page)Posted by carpefraise on 2007 06 15 at 05:24 AM • permalinkThat posturing idiot Mulhearn styled herself as a ‘human shield’ during the early days of the Iraq conflict in 03.
She was over there saying that she was protecting the poor Iraqis from the carpet bombing of the evil coalition , by chaining herself to a grain silo or some other obviously non-military target.
Naturally, she received not a scratch, but a warm inner glow of moral vanity.
If she was REALLY serious about the poor old Iraqis, she would be over there NOW, trying to protect the innocents from the shitbags who bomb markets and use power tools on captives
What a dumb, self absorbed scrubber!!!
So Bryla has been denied his Bobby Sands moment? Ah Howard, you heartless bastard!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 06 15 at 07:05 AM • permalinkCB, your dissent was crushed already, man. Gone.
Bryla and Donna have obviously been grazing in a good paddock, the other two look like they’ve been on a diet of mung beans and tofu.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 06 15 at 07:10 AM • permalinkMind you, this was my response.
“To chief bastard - maybe if you didn’t swear so much and moved beyond sarcasm we might leave your posts up. Looked at your blog - funny enough you didn’t choose to share any of your thoughts.
There’s enough hatred around, we don’t need to air anymore on sites aiming for peace.
Have a go at some constructive criticism and I promise to publish your post….”
Here’s some constructive criticism. Go fuck yourself. Publish and be damned.
I put in my two cents’ worth of constructive criticism on their blog:
I’ll give you some constructive criticism.
Iran is building nuclear weapons with the express intent of committing genocide against the Jews in Israel.
Will you go to Iran and stop this?
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 06 15 at 07:51 AM • permalinkThey are very pleased with themselves over there aren’t they?
They have effectively neutered Pine Gap and all they need to achieve now is to stop the war in Iraq.
This should be easy for people with their skills. They just need to get the Iraqi Government to stop its citizens blowing each other to pieces and our troops can come home.We interrupt this important discussion of the adventures of Bryla – noted Christian, outlaw and buffoon – to bring you an update on the Ash baby pool. Tiny, you got the latest dope?
The massive figure of Tiny Weismann lumbers over to my desk.
“Here’s the book, so far, Paco. Say, this guy Skeeter. He know’s we’re talkin’ about a human baby, right?”
“I’m sure he does. Why?”
“It says here he’s got the baby down for 10 pounds, 10 ounces. Now, I trip the scales at 260, but I was only 8 pounds when I was born.”
“Well, Tiny, you can’t go by that. In your case, it looks like good living and genetics have caught up with you.”
Tiny jerks his head from to left and right, as he slips his right hand quickly into his suit jacket and backs up against the wall. “Genetics? What’s that, some kinda cop? They got nothin’ on me! I’m clean: twelve arrests, but no convictions!”
“Easy, big fellah! Genetics just means – well, it just means the way you’re wired. Now, let’s see what we’ve got, so far.”
Paco: 7 pounds, 1 ounce
Rbj1: 6 pounds, 8 ounces
Brett_1: 5 pounds, 11 ounces
Old Tanker: 6 pounds, 9 ounces
KC: 6 pounds, 4 ounces
Ash_: 8 pounds, 4 ounces
Wronwright: 6 pounds, 3 ounces
Sonetka’s Mom: 9 pounds, 3 ounces
Crossie: 5 pounds, 2 ounces (Have I got the name right, there?)
Zoe: 8 pounds, 2 ounces
Skeeter: 10 pounds, 10 ounces ( Tiny whistles )
JorgXMckie: 5 pounds, 14 ounces
Pickles: 7 pounds, 2 ounces
Calliope: 8 pounds, 3 ounces
Reese: 6 pounds (even, whether or not at sea level)
Blue State Sil: 6 pounds, 14 ounces
Wimpy Canadian: 4 pounds, 12 ouncesOk. That’s the book so far. If I’ve left anybody out, just holler. Anybody else wants to join in, feel free.
#55: Ok. Tiny, you got that? kae down for 8 pounds, 11 ounces.
Tiny scribbles the info in his notebook; a look of recognition flashes across his map
“Kae. . . Is that the broad what put up her pictures a while back?”
“Yes, come to think of it, I believe she did.”
“Well, as the song goes, ‘She musta been a beautiful baby, ‘cuz, baby, look at you now’! Yeah, I could go for a skirt like that . . .”
“Er, ok, Tiny. Heh. Why don’t you just be on your merry way, now, and leave the customers to their discussion of Bryan Law.”
Tiny’s face clouds. “Bryan Law? Ain’t he that lousy red?” Walks purposefully to the door, with an ominously determined look on his face.
I’ll go with 5lb-12oz. What’s that, like 37 metric tonnes? 254kph? Math is hard.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 06 15 at 09:43 AM • permalinkBryla is simultaneously gloating over the verdict while complaining about his lack of martyrdom? Sounds like a typical leftie—doesn’t know what he wants until someone tells him “No.”
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 15 at 10:00 AM • permalinkDidn’t those four used to be on “The Electric Company”, say, 30 years ago??
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 15 at 10:49 AM • permalinkSay, did anyone notice the resemblance of those photo of the Four Fucktards™ to mug shots? Must be part of Bryla’s tantrum over not being martyred.
“Lookit my mugshot! HoWARd is crushing my dissent!” sez the Four Fucktards™.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 15 at 11:01 AM • permalinkOh, hang on, El Cid, I’ll have to put that on the list.
Now, ballroom or other?#119 Yeah, Ash, but please don’t rub it in! (I got my excesses as a youth!! Don’t you worry, but I didn’t realise that you only got so many in your life or I would have been more, er, I would have regulated my distribution…)
Just to reiterate what I had said on an earlier thread, 5 pounds, 4 1/2 ounces. The weight of my oldest daughter who was 16 days early.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 15 at 11:39 AM • permalinkI haven’t laughed that hard in I don’t know how long. THAT (Bryla’s e-mail) is one of the funniest things I have ever read. If he had written it as a joke, it of course, wouldn’t be funny. The fact that he is serious however, makes it priceless…...ready for martyrdom.....what a tool, you want martyrdom, head to Afghanistan to be properly ventilated. Anything to let all of the hot air out of the windbag….....
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 15 at 11:53 AM • permalinkbryla is jealous that no one considers him in the same category as David Hicks. If he could he would volunteer to spend time in Gitmo, so all lefties can speak of his heroism. Yet all he got for his effort was a measly $1,000 fine. That’s no pathway to leftist sainthood.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 15 at 11:58 AM • permalink136 kae
If he can’t now, maybe he soon will be…..
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 15 at 12:00 PM • permalink0.08 ... Wait, we talking ‘bout Bryla’s IQ or Ember’s birth weight ? Ember’s birth weight? ‘Kay then, 7 pounds.
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 06 15 at 12:11 PM • permalinkI suppose the failure to obtain martyrdom is something of a bummer. Rather as if St. Sebastian, instead of being tied to a tree and perforated with arrows, had simply been pelted with water balloons and run out of town. Of course, in the Christian tradition, it is a sin to actually crave a martyr’s crown. Brother Law should know that.
From an earlier thread: Hey Paco, what happens if the weight is halfway between two guesses? Do the makers of the two guesses draw, and so we get to see two baby pictures then?
Yeah, that sounds jake, strictly according to Hoyle. In case of a draw, each winner gets to pick a commenter (also in the pool) who must then submit their own baby pictures (and Wronwright, if somebody picks you, no fair going back in time so’s you can claim you ain’t been born, yet).
Himmelarschundzwirn ASH! Your implication that I might have personal experience with the zone in question (bazooka barf!) hurts me to the core. It just stands to reason you don’t shoot a fly with an elephant gun, you don’t run a gnat through a sheep dip tank and you don’t paint a mustard seed with a roller.
Deep thought will know that, no need to run it by the mice.Even here in the land of frogs (France) where the metric system is so entrenched as to have people tell you their height in centimetres (pity the basketballers) they still measure babies in pounds and ounces.
The last one we were related to was a whopper (10 pound 2 ounces). If the pool is still open, we Aussies-cum-Frenchies are shooting for 6 pounds 6 ounces.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 15 at 01:38 PM • permalinkHey! Guess what?
I just found the original of Bryla’s photo!
The one that “hasn’t” been Photoshopped.
#137 wronwright
bryla is jealous that no one considers him in the same category as David Hicks. If he could he would volunteer to spend time in Gitmo, so all lefties can speak of his heroism. Yet all he got for his effort was a measly $1,000 fine. That’s no pathway to leftist sainthood.
Robbed of his martyrdom, Bryla changes tactics and snivels about the cost to the taxpayer of prosecuting him and his fellow overgrown adolescents.
Wanker.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 15 at 01:57 PM • permalinkDoesn’t look like Bry’s missed too many meals due to the injustices of the military-industrial complex, does it?
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 15 at 04:10 PM • permalink“Fight the Power!” exclaimed the old fat parastically-wealthy delusional narcissist as he single-handedly brought peace to the land.
How will our Hero top his Great Act of going to court and getting fined? The sheer BRAVERY!! Will he hold up a sign at a rally? Pen a letter to the Age? Beg his wife for more money!? Stay tuned for the “exciting” continuation of “Life of a Perpetual Child” ...
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 06 15 at 07:05 PM • permalinkPut me in the pool for 8lbs 8 and a half oz.
Not my birthweight (7lb, 12 and a half), but it’ll do.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 15 at 07:05 PM • permalinkPaco! Greetings, wise one - if I’m not too late, put me down for 6 pounds 7 oz.
Good luck Ash, Prunella sounds like a brisk one!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 06 15 at 08:14 PM • permalinkWell, I’ll say this for bryla, he was always a cheery sort of troll. Stupid as a bag of hair, but chipper.
Anyway…
I could do ten days hanging by my balls on a barbed wire fence
Well what’s stopping you, bry? Not me, that’s for sure. Tim, make sure you get pictures.
Speaking of pictures, I’m not sure why bryla thinks that the sight of his and his pals’ unremarkable mugs will drive us to backflipping spasms of jealousy. I mean, those Anton Corbijn poses are so 1994.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 15 at 08:45 PM • permalinkOh great. I got six pounds even but there are guesses at 5 lb 15 oz (Steve H) and 6 lb 1 oz (Peter M). Ain’t got a hope. Luckily, this isn’t about me.
Mr. Paco, can I add a proxy wager? My boss, name of “Sony.” She’s an engineer so won’t finesse about mass/weight. Says 7 lb 4 oz. (That’s the birthweight of her now one-year-old.)
Ah, Wikipedia answers much:
Soft-Shoe Silhouettes—Two cast members appeared in silhouette, one giving the prefix of the word, the other the suffix, to form a new word (e.g., “th-” and “-ing” to form “thing”). Most notable for the soft-shoe-type music that played during the segment. Done twice through, sometimes with the viewer trying to read the word the second time through. The song usually ended with the two saying a soft “yeah!”
Obligatory Wikipededia disclaimers here. (A starting point for research but not authoratative.)
Well now we know how Detective Paco makes ends meet when the divorce cases aren’t coming in.
Bryla and company Christian pacifists? Christian pacifists my ass. They are fifth columnists for the scum who fly airliners into skyscrapers and set off car bombs in open air markets in Baghdad. They are the enablers of the new Nazis. By trying to sabotage those who stand between civilization and a barbaric, nihilistic death cult they prove they are no pacifists at all. And based on Bryla’s blatherings about martyrdom in so lenient and easy-going a place as Oz, their primary motivation seems to be nothing but overblown and gigantically inflated vanity. I’d call them swine but it would be an insult to pigs.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 06 16 at 12:02 AM • permalinkPerhaps the Lawless Brillo-pad is disappointed that he hasn’t (yet) gotten to be someone’s Prison ‘Bitch’ ... if he eventually does, might wipe the smug off his face:
Bradley John Murdoch as a cell mate has been suggested prior?
When he said “heroic montage” I expected Bryla, atop a mountainous pile of his vanquished foes… shirt off, massive pectorals gleaming in the idealised much-too-orange sunlight, his mighty hand-and-a-half sword held crosswise above his head, while his female compatriots clung gratefully to his rippling, muscular legs.
but you know, I guess the “couldn’t afford a real graphic designer” independent release Capella CD cover is OK too.
Well, judging by those pics:
Jim Dowling and Donna Mulhearn are truly in love…or hate each other.
Donna’s expression might say,
“God, you look like some dried up goanna’s rectum my cat dragged in!”,
or,
“Take me now, big fella”.At least they are looking at each another.
On the other hand, Adele Goldie and Bryan Law just don’t see eye-to-eye at all, although Adele’s trying.
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