Friday, November 30, 2007
SONG FOR DAVE
Want to be an Australian folk hero? Just join the Taliban, set out to end Western-Jewish domination, try to kill Indian soldiers, and the Age’s Martin Flanagan will love you:
David Hicks will become one of the ghosts to be heard when we sing Australia’s national lullaby, Waltzing Matilda.
The Left were outraged when an Indian doctor was arrested in Australia following attempted bombings in the UK; yet they’re all huggy towards Hicks, who - among his other free-spirited Aussie antics - fired “hundreds of bullets” at Indians. He’s the little warmonger who tried.
UPDATE. Mainstream columnist Flanagan is dismissed as a crazy left field source. Well, he does write for the Age ...