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GORDON SLOANE

Reality TV star and human shield Gordon Sloane has died in Beijing. An overdose is suspected.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/13/2007 at 03:06 AM

  1. Couldn’t shield himself from himself.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 13 at 03:10 AM • permalink

  2. From Big Brother contestant to human shield in Iraq. On a trajectory like that he was bound to crash one way or the other.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 13 at 03:17 AM • permalink

  3. The group planned to make camp at predicted US bombing targets such as water treatment plants in support of the Iraqi people.

    No, not in support of the Iraqi people. The support given by these pieces of filth were directly and overtly to the Saddam regime.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 09 13 at 03:18 AM • permalink

  4. A major loss to the gene bank of non-human species

    Posted by Rod C on 2007 09 13 at 03:27 AM • permalink

  5. He developed some self awareness and died of shame.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 09 13 at 03:27 AM • permalink

  6. The pitfalls of instant celebrity and high strength recreational drugs?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 13 at 03:29 AM • permalink

  7. He may have innocently been practising Falun Gong and was offed by you know Hu.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 13 at 03:32 AM • permalink

  8. #7
    Another Hu dunnit mystery?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 13 at 03:34 AM • permalink

  9. Hu knows what happened to the Sloane ranger?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 13 at 03:35 AM • permalink

  10. The Mossad did it under orders from John hoWARd.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2007 09 13 at 03:47 AM • permalink

  11. NOW he knows the Truth.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 13 at 03:54 AM • permalink

  12. Natural selection in operation.
    Darwin Rules!

    Posted by wanglese on 2007 09 13 at 03:54 AM • permalink

  13. Of the Americans, he says they “cruise round the world burning resources ... They’re not planning on using oil more efficiently or sustainably - they just want to guarantee they have 40 per cent of the world’s oil so they can keep having big cars.”

    A bit judgemental and sniffy from someone who carked it from shoving drugs down his gob.

    Sustainable drug use? Darwins’ theories in action.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 09 13 at 04:04 AM • permalink

  14. Recipe. Bask one mediocre personalty in a high beam of media attention. When pink and lightly glazed add one tbs of political pretentiousness. Stir until it forms a transparent gel. Set aside and ignore until it sets. Then lay odds on the outcome.

    Serves 4
    If more show up throw in a rotting cabbage for bulk and colour.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 09 13 at 04:05 AM • permalink

  15. Shield Sloane slayed, not laid?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 13 at 04:07 AM • permalink

  16. How’s this for a C.V:

    Ben Williams won the 2001 season best remembered for contestant Sara-Marie Fedele’s “bum dance”.

    One year after his appearance on Big Brother, Mr Sloan gave up his job in Sydney to join a “human shield” protest in Baghdad.

    QED

    Posted by Nic on 2007 09 13 at 04:28 AM • permalink

  17. By the way Tim, both MSN and the Daily Terror have his name as being ‘Sloan’.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 09 13 at 04:29 AM • permalink

  18. I think Gordon will be remembered as a kind of idiot savante - but without any special abilities.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 09 13 at 04:33 AM • permalink

  19. Kevni chats with Hu?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 13 at 04:39 AM • permalink

  20. There is a silver lining to drugs: it is particularly useful in removing from the gene pool who were born with shit for brains.

    Posted by murph on 2007 09 13 at 04:43 AM • permalink

  21. See.  I keep telling you there is Justice in the world.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 09 13 at 05:02 AM • permalink

  22. Do you have to be a total lefty fruitcake to get on Big Brother? Look at this bit from Wikipedia about the “bum dancing” girl:

    Sarah-Marie also made an appearance on John Safran vs God where she was featured in a focus group to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 09 13 at 05:06 AM • permalink

  23. #22 - Applying to be on Big Brother should see you cooling your heals in a sanitarium for a decade or more.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 13 at 05:10 AM • permalink

  24. Care Factor? Precisely zero.

    Posted by Tom H on 2007 09 13 at 05:15 AM • permalink

  25. I’d stop and grieve, but hey! Those socks don’t fold themselves, ya know.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 13 at 05:32 AM • permalink

  26. I assume that he was in Beijing campaigning for the rights of the six million or so Chinese subjects who are held in slave labour camps.

    Posted by murph on 2007 09 13 at 05:49 AM • permalink

  27. #25 wins Post Of The Week Prize. Whatever it is this week… let me check…
    Hey, Texas Bob! You’ve won a six-lesson course in bum-dancing! And your teacher, Sara-Marie, will be posting the results on youtube!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 13 at 06:19 AM • permalink

  28. #26 murph:

    That can’t possibly be right.  China barely has enough slavery to rate a mention in this Wikipedia entry, while the US had so much they had to move it to a whole page by itself.

    Posted by alexs on 2007 09 13 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  29. I never watch Big Brother, but I have heard of it. Now let’s see - is he the one who slapped the plastic turkey?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 09 13 at 06:40 AM • permalink

  30. #18 - spot on MM!
    Drain Man?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 09 13 at 06:44 AM • permalink

  31. Guess the Chinese thought he was there as a a human shield for the Falun Gong. Hu’d-a-thought that they’d off him?

    Honestly, what is it with those useful idiots and their passion for the most squalid of dictatorships?

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 09 13 at 07:21 AM • permalink

  32. Take away the warning labels and the world self corrects.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 09 13 at 07:46 AM • permalink

  33. 22. AlburyShifton

    John Safran is GOD! Squeaky annoying whine of a voice and all.

    John Safran vs. God - Atheists

    John Safran vs. God - Fatwa

    John Safran meets the KKK

    They are all good, but in the last its worth watching for the bit where he tells the KKK man hes Jewish (he is) The bloke has big balls!!

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 13 at 07:52 AM • permalink

  34. #33: I hope that Gordon got a chance to see this one before he died.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljsAKGmKlMY&mode=related&search;=

    Posted by AussieJim on 2007 09 13 at 08:02 AM • permalink

  35. 33. Thanks I hadnt seen that one.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 13 at 08:09 AM • permalink

  36. Tim, you may have just amended one of Rittenhouse’s Laws.

    I have observed that when a person’s name appears as the subject line of an e-mail, that person is dead.

    I believe, then, that it is possible to kill someone just by sending an e-mail with his name in the subject line.  The instant someone else opens the message, the poor chap dies.

    Until today, I hadn’t thought someone could be killed by the subject line of a blog entry.

    But there he went.

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 09 13 at 09:21 AM • permalink

  37. Rittenhouse, that is the silliest damned thing I have eve

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 13 at 10:04 AM • permalink

  38. Yeah, Rittenhouse. Especially when I got an email with ‘bin Laden’ in the subject line the day he made his most-recent video presentation and he’s still alive.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 09 13 at 11:02 AM • permalink

  39. Arafat has a bitch in hell.

    Posted by Hucbald on 2007 09 13 at 11:24 AM • permalink

  40. I for one, am celebrating Sloane’s carbon neutrality.

    Posted by Latino on 2007 09 13 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  41. I feel sorry for his family.  From the sounds of things, he can’t have been an easy child to love, but no doubt they did.  It’s too bad he never learned what the word “hypocrisy” means.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 09 13 at 11:45 AM • permalink

  42. believe, then, that it is possible to kill someone just by sending an e-mail with his name in the subject line.  The instant someone else opens the message, the poor chap dies.

    That’s kind of a Schrodinger’s Cat kind of thing, aint it?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 09 13 at 12:11 PM • permalink

  43. andycanuck, I’ve found name-as-subject-line = dead to be true only when the name appears by itself.

    It works at the office and at home.  Now it works with posts at timblair.net.

    Besides, OBL is dead.

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 09 13 at 12:43 PM • permalink

  44. I’ve been listening, but I can’t quite hear the bell tolling…

    Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 09 13 at 03:05 PM • permalink

  45. Besides, OBL is dead.

    Yes, Rittenhouse. I was having some fun.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 09 13 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  46. 43 Rittenhouse

    I worked that out in 2 minutes saving stills to nero photosnap viewer I posted on this when photo first appeared on ABs website

    Posted by Hillyminx on 2007 09 13 at 08:09 PM • permalink

  47. One less loser to warm the globe.  I’ll set some coals aflame to compensate for his lack of future carbon footprint-making.

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 09 13 at 09:21 PM • permalink

  48. An overdose is suspected.

    Administered by whom?

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 09 13 at 10:43 PM • permalink

  49. #39 - No Hucbald, Arafat is a bitch in hell.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2007 09 13 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  50. An overdose is suspected.

    Administered by whom?

    Being a person who in the past has been a human rights campaigner, maybe he met his match with people that do actually violate human rights. No not the USA but China. You live to tell the tale protesting the American government, I wonder if Gordon had been doing something that annoyed Chinese government officials?

    Posted by Jamie-Reardon on 2007 09 14 at 03:18 PM • permalink

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