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Mentioned in this week’s Continuing Crisis column for The Bulletin are Byron Bay councillor Tom Tabart, Dick Cheney, Byron Bay mayor Jan Barham, Graeme Dunstan, Russell Crowe, Greenpeace operative Lally, Shane Warne, Padma Sujata, Muriel, Arianne Townshend, Christian Barnard’s fridge, Jill Lawless, George Galloway, Tony Blair, Annabel Crabb, and Four’n Twenty pies.
Also in this week’s magazine: crime! Hit that link for an abundance of criminality. And read Bernard Lagan on post-Cronulla non-arrests of Lebanese car-smashers:
Of the police decision to back away from the revenge attackers after their convoy returned to the western suburbs, [NSW Police Commissioner Ken] Moroney said: “I understand a senior commander made a tactical decision not to allow his police officers to proceed into what was a dangerous and volatile situation.”
He added: “The commander made an operational decision to protect the safety of his officers on the night.”
That, said the commissioner, was not the same as being spooked.
Hmm. As Richie Benaud sometimes says after a controversial cricket decision: “Viewers can make up their own minds about that one.” Do you like tennis? No? Well, check out the Australian Open-themed picture gallery anyway. And then proceed to the edition’s highlight: grisly crime photos from olden-days Sydney. (Warning: there are hats.)
He added: “The commander made an operational decision to protect the safety of his officers on the night.”
We’ve got a similar problem here in the States. Somehow, “the safety of the officer” became an overriding concern over the past 20 years or so. Hence, “no-knock” warrants that have gotten innocent civilians killed when the cops got the wrong house and said civilian thought he was being attacked and made a move. Or had a heart attack.
Police work is a tough, dangerous, and noble profession. If you think it’s too risky, don’t join.
Hmmm.
He added: “The commander made an operational decision to protect the safety of his officers on the night.”
Yeah that’ll deter them alright.
Sooooooo. You guys moving up here to America when? We’ll put another pig on the BBQ for you.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 01 18 at 04:11 PM • permalink“Roscoe Tanner, a young Neale Fraser, and Evonne Goolagong’s very pretty dress - a pictorial history of Australian tennis.”
Hmmm…those sure were better days for Roscoe.
And here all this time I thought the point of police was to protect the public. Oh, well. Learn something new every day, I guess.
“Once more into the breach . . .”
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 01 18 at 07:58 PM • permalink“Perhaps at last someone has touched his heart. And at what a price. From my heart to yours: thank you, thank you for looking directly into this man’s eyes. Maybe now he will begin, for the first time in his life, to live. Only the heart suffers most deeply. Only the heart can save us. This is real religion. Thank you for being willing to allow your heart to be crucified, for the sake of the crucified. When the world learns to speak in the silent language of the heart, at last, at last, we will be home.”
Some people really deserve to spend a few months in a Turkish prison, just to get their priorities straightened out.
Posted by blandwagon on 2006 01 18 at 09:21 PM • permalinkMy favorite is “they have a little bit of hair.” For the love of Christ, where? Oh wait a minute, I don’t want to know.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 18 at 09:45 PM • permalinkMy what little racquets they had.
Always have been surprised that tennis players were simply allowed to use bigger racquets. If it was meant to convey an advantage then it seemed an unfair move, a bit like Ricky Ponting suddenly walking out with a bat 2 inches wider.
And once everyone had one there doesn’t seem much point to changing in the first place.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…
Do not diss the hat.
Many many people in this day and age would be greatly improved by some sort of felt bag or staw basket stuck on their head…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 19 at 12:48 AM • permalink“The commander made an operational decision to protect the safety of his officers on the night.”
We’ve got a similar problem here in the States. Somehow,
And the UK. You may recall the scandal last year when police were ordered not to enter a backyard in case the criminals were still present. They weren’t, having long since decamped. Meantime the innocent shooting victim slowly died in the arms of a relative - over three hours.
These days police often avoid the hard yards and target soft criminals - fox hunters or muddy tractors in the UK, traffic offences in Victoria, and so on. Graffiti vandals are immune, however. It’s called ‘community policing’.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 01 19 at 03:04 AM • permalinkGraeme Dunstan, organiser of the first Aquarius Festival at Nimbin, was my maths teacher at Blacktown High in Sydney’s western suburbs in the early 1970’s and told the class he was sent there as a punishment for his “radical politics” by the N.S.W. Education Dept.
His Byron Bay “Independence from America Day” speech sounds like a rewrite from 1972.
My lasting memory of the time was seeing him toiling away at the end of a shovel in a muddy field at Nimbin before the hippy festival. He’d been a volunteer in the Australian Army and “I dig your shit, man” did mean latrine duty.
May Blake brings Kate Moss to mind.
????????????
You could get two Kate Mosses up each of May Blake’s sleeves.Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 19 at 02:29 PM • permalinkIf by “alternatively attractive” you mean she’s attractive in that universe where Pres Gore is serving his second term ... nahhh, not even there!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 19 at 04:08 PM • permalinkThere seem to be a lot of sexists and Liberals here.
Posted by Paula Rizzuto on 2006 01 20 at 10:36 AM • permalinkBut you still don’t see, Stoop. The fox fur ...
Now is that faux fox fur or erzatz fox fur? Either way, her alleged charms are somehow lost on me. Maybe I’m just shallow ... Yes, deep down, I’m completely shallow, but for whatever reason, I’m unable to appreciate the ... the charms, if that’s what they are, of the formidable looking May Blake. My loss, I suppose.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 20 at 05:49 PM • permalinkStoop, I’m coming clean.
Have you counted the number of fox fur fetish sites on the net? There are precious few faux fox fur ones and - I googled and googled - no ersatz ones. I started a Yahoo! Club but ... If that guy in Germany can get a volunteer to eat over the net, how come no takers (yet) for “Ersatz Fox Fur Mammas?”
Er ... well! Ah, keep me posted, on that, won’t you?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 21 at 07:27 PM • permalink
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“Warning: there are hats.”
Ah, and SUCH hats. I like the fedora worn by the shifty-looking gent in the first photo. Even the drunk in the alley was wearing a fedora, suit and tie (better dressed than 95% of the passed-out-in-an-alley inebriates one stumbles over these days).
Under the picture of the “Cocaine Lady”, it says she was fined 250 pounds. Were fines handed out by weight in those days? Because she looks like she probably tipped the scales at about 250.