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LONE VOICES HEARD

One-person protests rated as newsworthy in Australia and the UK.

UPDATE. Dan Lewis presents the Interactive Aussie Moonbat Protest Sign Generator.

UPDATE II. Solo David Hicks supporter Margaret Cavalieri is allowed her say in the Age.

UPDATE III. Dennis Sparrow, grandfather of the two children Hicks left behind, has his say in the Daily Telegraph:

“He didn’t care about the kids before he left, he f….d off on them then and now all of a sudden it’s all about him missing his kids,” Mr Sparrow said at his home ...

“Dave and his lawyers think it will help his case if he wheels the kids out - well f… them.”

Mr Sparrow said his grandchildren had been forced to live with the shame of having one of Australia’s most notorious men as a father and were repeatedly taunted at school.

“If he gets out and wants to see the kids he has to come and see me first,” he said.

“He didn’t care about them enough to stay around so I don’t want to hear all this crap about him missing them now.”

Posted by Tim B. on 01/14/2007 at 12:35 AM
  1. “Port Fairy woman”—that’s a woman?

    To say nothing of the name of the town.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 14 at 12:41 AM • permalink

  2. Speak truth to power!

    Posted by MB on 2007 01 14 at 12:45 AM • permalink

  3. Sounds like the story about the protests on the 5 year anniversay of Hick’s incarcaration on the ABC. The cameras were very tightly focussed on the ‘crowd’ to make it appear larger than it actually was. In spite of this, it was still obvious there were only about 30 people there.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 14 at 12:47 AM • permalink

  4. An undeterred and determined lonely voice in the wilderness is newsworthy, at least from the “human interest” angle. A half-dozen sad sacks with lame signs would not be.

    Or something . . .

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 14 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  5. I object to these articles.

    Stop the presses!

    Posted by fidens on 2007 01 14 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  6. OK, there’s always the local crackpot angle . . .

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 14 at 01:01 AM • permalink

  7. If that’s what’s on the outside, he may prefer to remain someone’s ‘bitch’.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 01:02 AM • permalink

  8. That image of the Port Fairy ratbag is just begging to be Photoshopped.

    *evil snigger*

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 01 14 at 01:20 AM • permalink

  9. I read where Hick’s wife and children do not want anything to do with this tool. I think it was his father-in-law, who said that he would have to get past him before he goes near his daughter and grandchildren. So that hideous clown in Port Fairy, looks to be a bigger toolett, than the rat in gitmo.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 01 14 at 01:39 AM • permalink

  10. the woman’s clearly deluded- he cost the yanks a thousand bucks- plus upkeep

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 14 at 01:40 AM • permalink

  11. *Decides not to mention that he occasionally winds up protesting alone…*

    I think I’ll just suggest reading King and Twain on Majorities and Mobs…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 14 at 01:42 AM • permalink

  12. Port Fairy woman Marg Cavalieri

    A pre-misspelled first name.

    Sweet!

    TRUHT TOP OWER MARG !!!

    Posted by guinsPen on 2007 01 14 at 01:43 AM • permalink

  13. There may be a crowd of voices ... in her head.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 01:44 AM • permalink

  14. what are the chances of even just one person from any of our right on progressive anti racist groups turning up at sydney airport to protest the return of sheik hilali?

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 14 at 01:51 AM • permalink

  15. Yesterday, Mrs Cavalieri said she was glad Standard readers had been moved to vote.

    She said the result of the survey was not as important as thrusting the issue on the agenda of south-west residents.

    The voice of the voters ain’t as important as her nagging, apparently.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 14 at 02:02 AM • permalink

  16. We once had the ABC send a media team to port Hedland (about 2,500km) from Perth to cover a protest by about 25-30 “free ta refugees” rent a mob.
    The modern news cycle falls right into the hands of ratbag mobs.
    Slow news day=nationwide coverage.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 14 at 02:20 AM • permalink

  17. Why was a whole project precipitated by this woman?  Why was there a poll?  Why an article?  Why was any notice taken at all?

    We used to feel sorry for people like her; there was always one nut in town that everybody ignored, or maybe a little tsk tsk.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 01 14 at 02:26 AM • permalink

  18. Does anyone remember the ethnic cleansing of Gollytown in Noddy books? They (interfering leftiod PC fuck-wits) substituted Monkeytown for Gollytown.
    Bring back Golly!! Teddy misses him.

    Posted by Skid Marx on 2007 01 14 at 03:05 AM • permalink

  19. #18
    And Noddy and Big Ears no longer sleep together (they’re dolls, for gorsakes!)

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 03:21 AM • permalink

  20. Free David Hicks…figurine with every McMohammed Unhappy Meal

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 14 at 03:30 AM • permalink

  21. Surely this is just crying out for this kinda treatment.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 14 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  22. #8

    That image of the Port Fairy ratbag is just begging to be Photoshopped.

    Knock yourself out. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the:
    Interactive Aussie Moonbat Protest Sign Generator

    Hours of fun.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 14 at 03:42 AM • permalink

  23. #18 & 19

    I was disgusted with the PC-ification of ‘Noddy’.

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 14 at 03:48 AM • permalink

  24. #22

    This is going to be good. Thanks DL.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 14 at 03:49 AM • permalink

  25. #22
    Tks.
    So one can’t link to one’s creation?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 04:48 AM • permalink

  26. #25

    Save it to your hard drive and then upload it to a free image hosting service such as:
    http://www.imageshack.us - then post the resultant URL here.

    For example, my two creations.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 14 at 05:05 AM • permalink

  27. #26 - Here’s mine

    Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 01 14 at 05:18 AM • permalink

  28. #9 BJM, that’s the forgotten side of David Hicks.  I mean apart from the anti-semitic, jihadi side.  Yes, David Hicks is a deadbeat dad.  But as long as there’s an anti-HoWARd angle, he’ll be a rallying point for the left.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 14 at 05:24 AM • permalink

  29. PORT Fairy woman Marg Cavalieri
    You sure thr phot’s of a woman? Photos not mixed up somehow? From the butch hairdo and the hairy legs and well, a kind of 3 o’clock shadow… are you sure Cavalieri is female?

    Port Fairy woman - you couldn’t make it up could you? Port effing Fairy!

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 14 at 05:37 AM • permalink

  30. Dan Lewis - I was going to have a go, but the Tilt: “-2” got my heeby-jeebies all aquiver.

    What happens if you change the “Tilt:” component?

    A larger compassionate head tilt?

    Posted by Kaboom on 2007 01 14 at 05:40 AM • permalink

  31. #26

    egg_sample

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 06:09 AM • permalink

  32. ... a scapegoat for the nation.
    More! We demand more scapegoats!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 01 14 at 06:11 AM • permalink

  33. When she opened the “Protesters Handbook” to find out what to wear at a Free David Hicks Rally, she must have accidently opened the chapter “How to meet wemen at a lesbian pride march”. People must have wondered what she was talking about when she chanted “2-4-6-8 are you sure Hicksy’s straight”.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 01 14 at 06:22 AM • permalink

  34. egg_sample #2

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 06:27 AM • permalink

  35. She looks good doesn’t she!

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 14 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  36. #28rebase. Of course, you are correct. What I was alluding to, was that this little scum weasel went and joined an outfit, leaving his children and their mother, to join an outfit hostile to our way of life. Yet, some sections of the media play the ‘victim angle’ and you get loons like the ‘Port Fairy Princess’, trying to engender sympathy for this traitorous rodent. Still, the left are so devoid of ideas, they have to grab ‘global warmening’, and the ‘Hicks cause’, just to be relevent. I think the Howard Government has spent too much time and money on it now, as it is.
    If his family don’t want him, we certainly don’t.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 01 14 at 06:32 AM • permalink

  37. Lone moonbat protest…

    Posted by Hanyu on 2007 01 14 at 06:39 AM • permalink

  38. I just realised, if a single weirdo holding a sign warrants major media coverage, there’s a whole lot of weird homeless dudes in Sydney who should be on the front page of the newspaper.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 14 at 07:21 AM • permalink

  39. It reminds me of the good old days of No Thappy John. Whatever happened to Margo?

    Posted by Hanyu on 2007 01 14 at 07:24 AM • permalink

  40. Curse you, Dan Lewis, and your infernal Interactive Aussie Moonbat Protest Sign Generator. I will have designed and posted a hundred of these damned images by midnight…

    What would a moonbat parade be without references to Ant or oil and joooos?

    Posted by Hanyu on 2007 01 14 at 07:38 AM • permalink

  41. Oh Lordy, thank you Dan Lewis (#22).

    I am full of singing syrup after waching the Aussies burn bash and bury the Kiwis at the ODI and am totally incapable of Photoshopping anything at the moment, but that site and the Blairite’s submissions are outstanding.

    God, I love this irreverent and hilarious website, Amen.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 01 14 at 07:45 AM • permalink

  42. I’m with you Pedro.

    Not that bloody ignorant, are you?!?

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 01 14 at 07:49 AM • permalink


  43. egg_sample 3

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 08:11 AM • permalink

  44. Yeah, real brave, just like the article said.

    Now, if she’d show up at the Hajj in Mecca with a great big Christian cross or proudly displayed Star of David and loudly denounce all blasphemers against either of those religions are dupes of a false prophet…that’d be brave.

    Short lived, foolish, but pretty damn brave.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 14 at 08:14 AM • permalink

  45. Hey, egg_:

    Can you do your sign whammy with something like: I’m so ugly, I use chains to keep me from touching myself!

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 14 at 08:16 AM • permalink

  46. According to al-Age:

    Margaret Cavalieri stuck her neck out

    Just like Daniel Pearl and every other person beheaded by Islamists…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 14 at 08:18 AM • permalink

  47. #46
    Grimmy sample

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 08:27 AM • permalink

  48. thanks dan lewis- cool program- here’s some of my attempts: lost and
    one dyke

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 14 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  49. Dennis Sparrow, grandfather of the two children Hicks

    a relation of Jill “dawood day” and Jeff “Come, my love Saddam” Sparrow perhaps?

    it’s not exactly a common surname

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 14 at 08:43 AM • permalink

  50. #48, egg_:

    Thanks boss. I tried it but I couldnt figure out how to get it on the page lol.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 14 at 08:52 AM • permalink

  51. Fucking brilliant, Dan.

    I did a “Barack Obama is a poofter” sign and laughed myself asleep

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 14 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  52. Damn!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  53. #49 Eeenimeenie

    Your first entry had me laughing out loud.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 14 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  54. #51
    A pleasure!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 08:57 AM • permalink

  55. Peace offering

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 09:06 AM • permalink

  56. I think that photo in the Age has been photoshopped…

    Posted by Hanyu on 2007 01 14 at 09:37 AM • permalink

  57. port fairy used to be a little jewel of a town with lovely cottages & cheap steaks & lobsters.  then the folk festival attracted a bunch of tree changers who took it over & turned it into an enclave of latte sipping lefties & hippie moonbats like poor old marg, she of the bad hair, unfortunate complexion & even more unfortunate veneration for traitors.  now it’s $250 a night to stay in someone’s old shed & no lobsters for love or money. a triumph of market forces, however

    Posted by KK on 2007 01 14 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  58. Could she be pro Dubya?

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 14 at 09:52 AM • permalink

  59. #22 Dan Lewis -

    Knock yourself out. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the:
    Interactive Aussie Moonbat Protest Sign Generator. Hours of fun.

    Hah!  And just think Paco Industries has been selling hundreds of moonbat sign printers at $599.99 a crack.  paco will not like this.  Beware when neocon globalist capitalist robber barons get angry at the introduction of new competition.

    But for me, I say it again.  Hah! at paco’s expense.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 14 at 10:14 AM • permalink

  60. Engage Hicks

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 10:40 AM • permalink

  61. Little Davey’s father in law is a Sparrow.
    Any relation to the Leftwrites Sparrows?
    Talk about a family madness…

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 14 at 12:42 PM • permalink

  62. Port Fairy?  Shouldn’t that be Very Small Port?  How insensitive!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 14 at 01:14 PM • permalink

  63. Phil me in

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 14 at 08:39 PM • permalink

  64. Port Fairy is also the preferred shagging venue of the mutton bird. Colonies of this amazing bird do a 15,000 lap of the Pacific every year before arriving at the Port—always within a couple of days of September 23—and immediately set about expanding the family. Thousands fly in at the same time and have been known to black out the setting sun. Foxes and stray dogs have been cutting a swathe through their numbers this summer and I came across at least a dozen beheaded carcasses last weekend beside the South Beach road. God knows how many corpses were in the sand dunes.
    All the old hippies that have swarmed on Port Fairy in recent years could well have been inspired by the mutton bird. It is ugly, smelly, shags itself senseless over summer, is fancied by ferals and buggers off north when the weather turns cold.

    Posted by slatts on 2007 01 14 at 10:04 PM • permalink

  65. Jay walker

    Pop quiz

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 14 at 10:09 PM • permalink

  66. #66 Infidel Tiger

    You forgot this one.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 14 at 11:39 PM • permalink

  67. [url=“http://www.signgenerator.net/?allow=976&text=International+
    Bad+Hair+Day&font=ARIAL&color=black&fontsize=30&move2=109&move=182&rot=-2&height;=&width;=&offx=5&offy=5&spacing;=&gradient;=&tag;=&bubble;=&bubH;=&bubW;=&watermark;=&background;=&border;=&picURL=http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/1331/aussiemoonbatwc7.jpg&shade;=&shadecolor=black&x=109&y=182”]Bad day[/url]

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 15 at 09:23 AM • permalink

  68. Camp X-ray was closed down years ago, and still he’s being described as residing there, even in a column critical of Hicks. Aargh!

    Posted by Andjam on 2007 01 18 at 06:06 PM • permalink

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