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Paul Bickford emails:
Roger Waters has announced he’ll daub “Free David Hicks” on the inflatable pig flown outside the venues he’s playing during his Australian tour (no link found yet) …
A devout Muslim’s name painted on a massive pig? Has Waters no respect? Next he’ll be flushing car-sized Korans down a massive on-stage toilet. In other insensitivity developments:
Explorer, scientist and author Dr Tim Flannery ranks as hot favourite to be named the 2007 Australian of the Year at a nationally televised event on the lawns of Parliament House tomorrow night.
For the love of Gaia … a global warming fundamentalist is the hot favourite? Flannery will likely reject the honour out of sheer disgust.
(Via walterplinge)
- Please, please, please let him do it. We can in appreciative audiences from Cronulla, right?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 24 at 11:21 AM • permalink
- from: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1169122,00.html
Camp Echo’s current inmates, say the three men, include the Britons Feroz Abbasi and Moazzem Begg, and the Australian David Hicks. One detail of Hicks’s life inside Guantanamo Bay reveals the desperate measures prisoners go to retain their sanity. He occupies his mind all day by catching and killing mice. More than a year ago, the three men said, Hicks renounced Islam and shaved off his beard. He no longer answers the call to prayer. ‘He’s just a little guy with a very deep voice,’ says Rasul. ‘If you met him you’d think he was the typical kind of Aussie you might see drinking Fosters in a bar.’
Sounds like he’d rather drink beer…
- As if anyone believes the Guardian.Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 01 24 at 12:03 PM • permalink
One detail of Hicks’s life inside Guantanamo Bay reveals the desperate measures prisoners go to retain their sanity.
Could someone please explain how this differs from the run of the mill criminals who spend years, decades even, in prison? Except for the fact that Guantamo prisoners don’t have to toss salads or use soap on a rope in the showers.
And yet no leftie so much as says BOO about any of them, except possibly for radical blacks who kill cops.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 24 at 12:17 PM • permalink
- I love PF and will continue to do so.
I want to see Gilmore there with his “Fuck David Hicks” pig.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 24 at 12:39 PM • permalink
- So, the implication of #2 and #5 is that Islam is much like a psychiatric illness and the person afflicted by it shouldn’t be punished for his actions due to being certifiably insane at the time, but can instead be expected to become a regular member of society again once the illness is successfully treated/cured in him?
Rob: it seems an unlikely fabrication. If Hicks was still a Muslim, he would not be calling himself David Hicks. Think Cat Stevens= Yusuf Islam…
Unless he’s lying as a tactic to get out of Gitmo.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 01 24 at 02:12 PM • permalink
- #13: Is your name not Tim? That’s bound to cause a bit of confusion. Mind if we call you Tim to keep it clear?Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 01 24 at 02:27 PM • permalink
- Tim Flummery for Australin of the Year?
Give me a break!!!
Yet another fine institution hijacked by the looney left, and debased beyond recognition.Take a look at the “entertainment”.
The Australia Day eve concert will be hosted by television personalities Gretal Killeen and Ian “Dicko” Dickson and televised on Channel 10.Established entertainers such as The Whitlams, Renee Geyer, Deborah Conway and Guy Sebastian will feature, as will rising stars such as solo recording artist Mia Dyson, folk group The Audreys, 2006 Australian Idol finalist Damien Leith and indie rock band the Sick Puppies.
John Howard is bound to love that – especially The Whitlams whose particular schtik is to shove it up him.
For our overseas readers the above list of acts are what we laughingly call in Australia ‘stars’ or ‘headliners’. Most of this mob couldn’t get a gig in a roadhouse sixty miles from Albuquerque.
I need to visit the vomitorium.
- #3 Dan: Apostates of Islam must be killed, so I’m surprised he’s not in solitary confinement for his own protection.
No surprise, Dan, that’s probably the reason-
The Religion of Pieces.#8 wronwright: the run of the mill criminals who spend years, decades even, in prison?
To be fair, ww, we don’t know he’s a criminal yet – his US lawyer has been able to stop even a single trial for years.
On the other hand, Hicks claims POW status, so how does he differ from a POW in any war – in ‘for the duration’…
In fact he’s in a 4-star officers’ stalag.
- #31 That’s rich: when Barry started off as summer-relief host on RN, his persistently bungled attempts to do the time calls were like some weird Beckettian comedy routine. And anyway, didn’t they forget to set the Clock of Doom for daylight savings? And apparently Waters is having trouble with that giant inflatable pig: due to a scaling error on the original conceptual drawing, the finished pig turned out to be six inches long.
- I support the selection of David Conry, founder of Young Care, as Australian of the Year.
- Soon, pig farmers will come out in support of Mohammed Daoud by painting “We’re all David Hicks Now” on all their pigs.
Keep your eyes peeled for giant papier mache pigs at demos with David Hicks’ face on them.
McDonald’s restaurants are also about to rename a burger to “Hicks and Egg McMuffin” in support.
Next he’ll be flushing car-sized Korans down a massive on-stage toilet.
Remember, Roger, 18’ not 18”.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 24 at 06:59 PM • permalink
- Given the amount Waters is charging (a pair of tickets will set you back $460), perhaps he could afford Hicks a decent lawyer.
Oh, i forgot. Childish gestures are much better and cost nothing.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 24 at 07:13 PM • permalink
Hicks has renounced his Muslim “faith”…
I’ll believe it when we have corrobation independent of the Graudain. Like, say, a statement from his lawyer, Major Michael Mori, (who has said not one word, even though he has a high news profile [Google news link, SFW]).
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 24 at 07:16 PM • permalink
- My wife and I are going along to Rogers concert tonight, I’ll let you know what happens regarding any Pig/Hicks developments.
I saw him on the 7.30 Report last night he referred to Hicks as “that kid in jail in America”. Got the distinct impression he had never heard of him until he arrived in Aus and asked what was a hot political topic that I can write on my pig.
Anyway love the Floyds and only wish he and Dave Gilmore had made up so the old band was back. Heard he had to replace Dave with three different guitarists.
Now where’s my bong pipe
- #17 While in Oz, I was invited to a meeting of the Australian Philosophical Society:
1st Philosopher: G’day fellas. Allow me to make the introductions: Tim – Wimpy; Wimpy – Tim; Tim – Wimpy;
2nd philospher: Hold on, this is getting difficult.
3rd philospher: Yes, can we call you Tim? It will make matters easier.
Me: Yeah, sure.
Tim – Tim; Tim – Tim; Tim – Tim;
Apologies to Monty.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 24 at 08:06 PM • permalink
- #22 Bonmot, but lewt me guess, they are eternal faves of teh ABC. We have the same problem with the CBC.
Incidentally, CBC radio also has an infatuation with bad poets.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 24 at 08:11 PM • permalink
- #39 Can’t happen. Syd Barrett is dead 🙁Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 24 at 08:17 PM • permalink
- Tim Flannery Australian of the Year? For the love of Science (published results be upon him) we won The Ashes 5-0. Shouldn’t Ricky Ponting be Australian of the Year in accordance with the Border, Taylor, Waugh precedents?Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 24 at 08:28 PM • permalink
- Either the lunatic is in his head, or this is a momentary lapse of reason.
(C’mon gang, let’s see Emily play with witty permutations of their lyrics in response to this funky dung)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 01 24 at 08:36 PM • permalink
- Tim Flannery for Australian of the year. Roger Waters painting support slogans on a pig for a muslum wannabe. Paul Barry making funny on Radio National (did not quiet make it at Channel Nine I think) so a fall back on the tax payer teet for a living. I BLAME glowball warmening for all this strife. I like Pink Floyd, but really, its not like Waters is up there with the Stones, at least the Stones stay out of all this crap and do what they do best, make music.
- I don’t give a rat’s tossbag whether Hicks has dumped Islam or not.
However, what Hicks dumped many years ago should be a wake-up call to deluded lefty loopheads who use the Hicks case to champion their anti-US view of the world and who conveniently forget that not only was Hicks prepared to betray his own country with monstrously evil intent, but was also a thoroughly nasty piece of work who betrayed his very own children:
(Hicks’) former partner and the mother of his children, Jodie Sparrow, is raising her daughter Bonnie, 14, and 12-year-old son Terry in a ramshackle house in the working-class suburb of Elizabeth, on Adelaide’s northern outskirts.
Their maternal grandfather Dennis Sparrow said his daughter and grandchildren wanted nothing to do with Hicks – regardless of whether he was freed and returned home from Cuba’s Camp X-ray.
Then, the best sound bite of the entire Hocks’ saga:
“Dave and his lawyers think it will help his case if he wheels the kids out – well f… them.”
On the other hand, maybe Hicks should be released. On one condition:
“If he gets out and wants to see the kids he has to come and see me first,” he said.
Bring him on.
- We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for Tims on the wing.Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 01 24 at 10:54 PM • permalink
- Maybe Dawood is considering a career as frontman for a rock band if he ever gets out. He might be catching mice…. and biting their heads off.Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 25 at 03:48 AM • permalink
- How, in the name of greek buggery, is Flannery an “explorer”?.Posted by Daniel San on 2007 01 25 at 07:44 AM • permalink
- We don’t need no taliban scum
What we need is thug control
No major mori in the courtroom
Leftards leave hicks in gitmo
Hey! Leftards leave hicks in gitmo!
All in all he’s just another jihadi whore.
All in all he’s just another jihadi whore.
“Wrong, Do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer pork, you can’t have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don’t eat yer pork?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bazooka, drop dead laddy!”Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 25 at 07:45 AM • permalink
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