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Byron Bay remains outraged over the non-publication five years ago of a Michael Leunig cartoon. Beats me what they’re complaining about; the cartoon was eventually published just last year.
(Via Raffi)
Being a leftist means never having to accept someone saying they’re sorry.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 08 24 at 01:10 PM • permalinkMy questions for Leunig:
1. “War brings peace”? Which Israeli leader is supposed to have said that?
2. It seems pretty obvious to me that Israel fights not for peace, but simply for its own survival. Do you disagree? If so, why?
3. If the Israelis were to melt down all their weapons and become a nation of pacifist flower children, for how long do you think Israel would continue to exist? A month? A week?
Just because a cartoon was published, doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to be upset because it wasn’t published.
Publishing a non published piece does not absolve the publisher from the criminal act of non punishment.
Some things should never be tolerated, especially if we want to instill a completely tolerant society.
Pro-Leunig and anti-
zionistsemitic. That says it all about Byron Bay, methinks. Reminds me of San Fransciso, less Pelosi.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 08 24 at 01:54 PM • permalinkThanks for the link, Grimmy. Berkley lampoons everyone in his strip, which is why I read it. Even when he targets “non-leftard” stuff, he’s funny, and often makes a good point. Too bad the MSM are a bunch of pandering surrenderistas.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 08 24 at 01:58 PM • permalinkGrimmy: trackbacks are turned off here because they are a spam magnet. I’m not sure what you’re talking about otherwise.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 08 24 at 04:14 PM • permalinkFor a breif moment I thought they were talking about the Mo cartoons at a writers festival. Speaking truth to power etc.
Silly me.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 24 at 08:56 PM • permalink“Most people” seems to consist of a population of two - Gareth Smith and Henry di Suvero.
Just what is in the air at Byron?
No, you don’t have to answer that, but why should thoughts of “Zionism” intrude even on one of the most beautiful places on the planet?
And why should the home town of my grandparents attract and be left to such arriviste wankers? (”As I approached the railway track on my cycle...”)
We should invade now.
Speaking of Zionist takeovers, one of the local Pubs in Kal has the Australian and Israeli flags flying over it. I wanted a photo but the camera batteries cacked it about then. If I go in Monday Ill get a shot, looks quite good flying over a traditional looking Aussie pub.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 24 at 10:29 PM • permalink# 15 ann j
Just what is in the air at Byron?No, you don’t have to answer that, but why should thoughts of “Zionism” intrude even on one of the most beautiful places on the planet?
A good question. One I took to the heart of Australian blog Greenism just recently on the very subject of “free speech”, Henry di Suvero and Byron Bay.
“I too quite liked Byron Bay. I was a regular visitor to the place long before it became fashionable in certain quarters and the town was taken over by well heeled, elitist, grey haired aliens in funny hats working on their next play about Jews running the world and drinking dead martyrs blood or whatever. You know. The same aging aliens who forced up the prices of local property and hemp and set up barricades in the streets to keep out common people, especially if they were from Queensland.“Ah yes. I remember the town from forty-five year ago. It was a typical coastal Aussie town back then. As pretty as a picture of a bright spring shower. Before the antisemites and xenophobes from outer space arrived and stuffed the joint.
“Still. It’s not too late. The place can still be recovered. Nothing that a fleet of thirty cement mixer trucks working around the clock for five or six months couldn’t fix.”
The Greens demanded I clarify my comments. Rather rudely I thought. So I did. Keeping in mind that Henry di Suvero once wrote a play about Rachel Corrie.
I Have A Dream
Yes. That’s pretty much what I have in mind.
One giant concrete slab on steel footings stretching from the Shirley St junction along Jonson St and Bangalow Dve at least as far as Mackay St with a northern boundary along Lawson St and Lighthouse Road. With an extra pouring on Daniels Lane of course.
Naturally we will have to contract the preliminary site works to these people.
And what should be built on this mother of all concrete slabs? The world’s largest Club Med, of course.
Its in the main drag, Im not sure of the name, The York I think??
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 25 at 03:02 AM • permalink#14 1.618
tim, You’re dumped
He’s probably got the message by now. Be gracious.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 08 25 at 08:28 AM • permalinkYou don’t need gaia-raping cement. These viruses all
believe inworship gorebal wormenising, so all we have to do is wait till the sea level rises and watch the bastards drown. Incidentally, as socialists, I am surprised all BB inhabitants are not members of People Against Coastal OwnershipCheers
RodCSlowly but surely, evil capitalism is winning and peace-loving-pot-loving flower-power society is moving to the sideline in Byron Bay.
These days it’s flooded with tourists all year round. And why not? it’s beautiful.
Beautiful, popular places need…(drum roll) tourist infrastructure. Tourist infrastructure needs capital and people who want jobs.
In a couple of generations, the hippies that still rule in Byron will be old and irrelevant.
I like to think so, anyway.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 25 at 08:58 PM • permalink
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Tim:
I sighted a Plastic Turkey in a post about Michael Deaver in today’s Counterpunch! Do I get any points?