Lawyers will picnic at your expense

sez Peter Faris

VICTORIANS now have newly guaranteed rights that will change how the law works - whether they want it or not.

The State Government’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities is now in force, and is binding on all Victorian public authorities, Victoria Police and the State of Victoria itself.

I was opposed to the charter on political grounds; it was my opinion that our basic rights and freedoms in Australia were well protected and there was no need for a charter.

I didn’t believe it should be introduced. But it is now the law, so we must all work with it.

(The charter is at http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/humanrights).

It lists a large number of so-called human rights, such as equality and right to life (but not for embryos).

It protects various freedoms: of movement, thought, conscience, religion and expression.

It prohibits torture and forced work.

It protects privacy and reputation, peaceful assembly, families and children, cultural and property rights, and all sorts of rights in the criminal process to ensure fair treatment and a fair trial.

The Charter will be enforced in two main ways. First, from now on, the courts must interpret all legislation (old or new) as compatible with human rights. The Supreme Court has power to effectively declare a law incompatible.

In those circumstances, politics would compel any government to immediately alter such a law found by the court to deny fundamental rights.

In this way, we have handed immense power to the unelected judges of the Supreme Court.

They can now, effectively, if not literally, strike down state laws which do not meet their standard of human rights.

We live in an age of political correctness and this is reflected in the personal and political views of the judges who are appointed.

We can now expect the judges to be even more activist: no longer is Parliament supreme. Every law made by Parliament can be challenged as breaching human rights.

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Sally Neighbour’s heart bleeds for an Al Qaeda grandmother:

The Australian

* Why do these ABC types all look like they belong under a burka?

“It doesn’t look like a terrorist’s lair.”

* How many terrorists lair’s have you been to, Sally?

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The occupant is a 54-year-old mother of six and grandmother of two, retired and living on a disability pension.

She doesn’t look like a terrorist.

* What does a terrorist look like, Sally?

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But this is the most-watched woman in Australia, monitored for the past 20 years by ASIO and described by intelligence analysts as the “matriarch” of radical Islam in Australia. Rabiah Hutchinson snorts with laughter at the description. “They’ve got it wrong. I am not important. I’m just a 54-year-old granny with diabetes and arthritis. What are they so worried about?”

Ms Hutchinson has been closely watched by Australian authorities since October 2003, when she returned to Australia from Iran, where she had spent nearly two years in hiding after fleeing from Afghanistan amid the US bombing raids that followed the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US. Her passport was subsequently cancelled, based on advice from ASIO to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that she was “likely to engage in conduct that might prejudice the security of Australia or of a foreign country (and) endanger the health and physical safety of others”.

Ms Hutchinson remains barred from travelling overseas, believes she is under constant ASIO surveillance and claims her family and friends are continually harassed.

After years of silence, she has decided to speak out to deny any involvement in terrorism and accuse the authorities of persecuting her and her family.

“It’s not just me they’re targeting. Now it’s my children and even my grandchildren,” Ms Hutchinson says. “It’s absolutely ridiculous - to think I had any personal knowledge of or contact with Sheik Osama bin Laden. I am absolutely nobody. I just happened to be there.”

“We just want somewhere to live, somewhere where we can be normal and live according to Allah’s laws.”

* ‘Allah’s laws’ means according to sharia. How ’bout shipping her off to Sowdi Arabia tomorrow, Miss Gillard? Mr. KRudd? Anybody home????

Ms Hutchinson scoffs at the suggestion that she poses a threat. She says the so-called “war on terror” is a war on Islam, and that she and her family are among its casualties.

* Right. And Sally Neighbour gobbles it up and swallows it as if it was a revelation from Muhammad himself: get a life, Sally! Wear a burka! Don’t miss out!

* Read the whole thing!

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* That was then…

Please take a stop by Afghanistanica.Com where the unknown PHD student (he should wear a bag over his head on his about page,) outlines a new poll. It turns out that in Afghanistan the US is more popular than Osama Bin Laden, but Afghans like the Germans better than us even after the sensationalized skull incident.

Germany 71%

* Doctor Evil just phoned in and said the reason the Germans are so popular in Afghansitan is that they are the biggest consumers of hashish on the scene, and they don’t bargain… 

United States 65%

Iran 52%

Great Britain 49%

Pakistan 19%

Taliban 13%

Osama bin Laden 9%

* Hey: what happened to the Aussies?

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…and this is now:

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US Military report sux just like the MSM: Slams Geert Wilders for Making Anti-Islam Film….

Stirring the Hate

* No doubt the correct answer to the wanker who wrote this should be: “lets just lie down and die”- if you think its us ’stirring hate’ for pointing the finger at what Muhammedans do, then get the f*kc out of reporting and into Pallywood-movie productions, you jerk!

Read it if you must:

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* From Arab News: The English language mouthpiece of the religious apartheid kingdom, our oil-slick friends have let their guard down a little bit and showed us what they really think about the White House:

…and about us:

...and about the Jooozzz:

Big news: Indonesia’s largest Muslim group vows to combat misunderstanding of Islam!

Thanx to Robert Spencer/JW

Misunderstanders of Islam Watch

We frequently hear from Muslim spokesmen in the West and elsewhere that today’s jihad terrorists have twisted Islam, and have misunderstood its peaceful teachings. We have on many occasions noted the fact that this alleged misunderstanding of Islam is now a worldwide phenomenon, and that misunderstanders of Islam are often Muslim clerics who have devoted their lives to the study of the religion. And one element that has been conspicuously lacking from this scenario, and that I have called for many times, is any serious attempt by those Muslims who claim that the jihadists misunderstand Islam to teach against these misunderstandings within Muslim communities, in order to blunt the force of jihadist recruitment. We have seen several countries, notably Saudi Arabia and Yemen, claim to rehabilitate jihadists using the “true” teachings of Islam, but such programs have been marked by a high rate of recidivism and a curious vagueness about just how they teach against the jihad ideology from a Muslim perspective.

And here we go again. Six years after 9/11, 10,000 jihad terror attacks later, this Indonesian group decides that it’s time to do something about all this misunderstanding of Islam.

What will they do? That’s not clear. I wish them well, but I wish they would spell it out, so if there is anything to it at all (which the unanimous vagueness on this point renders doubtful), other Muslims could do the same thing.

* Actually, they’re only selling hope to Western dhimmi-wits: these guys will attract western money like s#*t attracts flies. Our half-witted polit-props and NGO’s will be all over them supporting these mothers of a brand-new Islam, which, as we all know, will not be different from the 7th century Islam that we know so well.

But hope sells….

…because there is a sucker born every minute!

“Indonesian biggest Muslim organization declares to halt terrorism”

Read it all

* Lets see what Bucktooth Bashir sez about that…

* Hugh Fitzgerald has a few things to say also…

* But best of all is our old Profit Muhammad

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 * The socialist effort to replace the indigenous population with a Muhammedan proletariat is working: Native Brits are making a run for it:

Record number escaping UK’s immigration, high taxes and crime 

BRITONS are leaving the country in record numbers—thanks to spiralling levels of IMMIGRATION, CRIME and TAX.

Government figures set to be released later this year will show that an astonishing 250,000 people fled Britain in 2007.

That’s 684 A DAY—or ONE every TWO MINUTES.

And it’s a massive 21 PER CENT increase on the 207,000 who went in 2006—and up nearly 70 PER CENT from the 149,000 who left in 1997.

Now experts expect this year’s total to be even higher as hard-pressed families seek a new life in the sun—with Australia, New Zealand, France and Spain the top destinations.

Meanwhile, huge numbers of foreigners are pouring INTO the UK, with 591,000 settling here in 2006.

And there has been a 90 PER CENT increase in immigration over the past ten years—from 327,000 in 1997 to an estimated 620,000 last year. Emigration expert Paul Arthur believes the numbers leaving will continue to rise.

He said: “We have had record enquiries about emigration over this winter, with people not just wanting to escape the bleak weather, but seeking a whole change of lifestyle.

“Many are unhappy with the levels of crime, high taxes and the general way of life. Overseas there are more career opportunities, particularly in Australia and New Zealand which have huge shortfalls in skilled labour.”

Unfair

Typical of those leaving are plasterer Damian Barrett and wife Alison.

The couiple, both 37, who are emigrating from Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs, with kids Holly, eight, and Joseph, six, to Auckland, New Zealand.

Alison said: “We’re tired of Britain, with its unfair tax system, crime, and live-to-work ethic. There are also too many foreigners coming in and using up all our resources. We want a better life.”

*  Watch out folks: rumors have it that the soldiers of Allah are following hard on your heels! 

Gaza buried in flour

The Boston Globe has just run an op-ed under the headline “Ending the Stranglehold on Gaza.” The authors are Eyad al-Sarraj, identified as founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and Sara Roy, identified as senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. The bias of the op-ed speaks for itself, and I won’t even dwell on it. But I do want to call attention to this sentence:
Although Gaza daily requires 680,000 tons of flour to feed its population, Israel had cut this to 90 tons per day by November 2007, a reduction of 99 percent.
You don’t need to be a math genius to figure out that if Gaza has a population of 1.5 million, as the authors also note, then 680,000 tons of flour a day come out to almost half a ton of flour per Gazan, per day.

A typographical error at the Boston Globe? Hardly. The two authors used the same “statistic” in an earlier piece. They copied it from an article published in the Ahram Weekly last November, which reported that “the price of a bag of flour has risen 80 per cent, because of the 680,000 tonnes the Gaza Strip needs daily, only 90 tonnes are permitted to enter.” Sarraj and Roy added the bit about this being “a reduction of 99 percent.”

Note how an absurd and impossible “statistic” has made its way up the media feeding chain. It begins in an Egyptian newspaper, is cycled through a Palestinian activist, is submitted under the shared byline of a Harvard “research scholar,” and finally appears in the Boston Globe, whose editors apparently can’t do basic math. Now, in a viral contagion, this spreads across the Internet, where that “reduction of 99 percent” becomes a well-attested fact.

* Sounds a bit like Islam itself, doesn’t it?

What’s the truth? more…

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The Illustrated PIG has some great pic’s about the reality in Gaza:

Lets start with the wall that everyone was unaware of until a few day’s ago…

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Hamas by Candlelight 

*  Check out Al Reuters bullshit reporting: the shades are drawn, outside its bright daylight! 

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* Lets just count how many times the Spiegel, Germany’s Far Left megaphone, uses the ‘Far Right’ label to discredit those who stand up against Islamic conquest from within:

The party of Austrian right-wing populist Jörg Haider is trying to get the construction of mosques banned.

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A far-right party in the Austrian state of Carinthia, led by the notorious right-wing politician Jörg Haider, is trying to ban the construction of mosques and minarets. They’ve presented a draft law designed to prohibit “unusual” buildings that don’t fit in with traditional architecture.

In the latest anti-Islam initiative by right-wing politicians in Austria, the government in the state of Carinthia, which is led by right-wing populist Jörg Haider, has presented a bill that would hinder the future building of mosques in the state.
“With the help of this law, it will be de facto impossible to construct mosques or minarets in Carinthia,” Uwe Scheuch, the minister responsible for urban planning, told journalists Saturday at a press conference where he presented the draft law. Scheuch, who belongs to Haider’s right-wing Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) party, insisted, however, that the law would not infringe on Austria’s constitutional right to freedom of religion.

Officially, the law is not aimed directly at mosques and minarets, but at “unusual” buildings that stand out “because of their unusual architecture or size (height).” In the future, a special commission will determine if an unusual construction project “blends in with the neighborhood’s existing architecture.” If not, it will be possible to block its construction.

BZÖ will need the support of the conservative Austrian People’s Party if it is to get the draft law passed in the state government. That seems assured, however, as the People’s Party had asked the state government last year to prepare a draft law to ban the construction of mosques and minarets. The Social Democrats and Greens, who are also in the state’s unity government, have spoken out against the law.

* Of course. The Red’s & the Greens are the social engineers of our demise.

* Now count how many times in this article the hysterical far-left journo from Spiegel is using the ‘Far Right’ label just to smear those who oppose the Islamization of Austria! The left is vile and deranged. The Greens are Islamic already, they sure as hell don’t care for the environment. How could we ever allow these traitors to infiltrate and usurp powers in our society?

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Lizard goes Nazi hunting in Sweden: “Sweden Democrats Lying About Neo-Nazi Connections?”

For CJ over at LGF the ‘real enemy’ could be a Nazi under the bed, somewhere… if they keep looking long enough, they just might find something..!

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Meanwhile, in the land of the midnight sun: 

Oslo: Muhammad most popular boy’s name 

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 Huge Mosque to be built in the Swan Valley

Thanx Savitch

* Because Islam must dominate and not be dominated.

* Because all the world belongs to Allah and the soldiers of Allah follow divine orders

* Links: 

Cairns: How To Force a Mosque on Unsuspecting Citizens

STOP THE MOSQUE IN CAIRNS!

 An artist’s impression of the mosque. Note how they deliberately made the 19 meter minaret look small and inconspicuous? 

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The Bosnian Islamic Societys proposal to build a mosque in the Swan Valley has pitched local non-Muslims against Muslims

A plan to build a $4 million mosque complete with a 19m minaret in the Swan Valley has divided the local Muslim and non-Muslim community, with some residents worried it will destroy the identity of the area as a tourist, viticultural and horticultural hotspot

The Bosnian Islamic Society plans to build the 1277sqm mosque on a 9400sqm block on Smallbrook Retreat in Caversham on the edge of the valley. The society bought the land two years ago for $280,000. The design includes several buildings linked by courtyards, a large archway entry and parking for 87 vehicles.
But the design is not the problem, according to Swan Valley Progress Association chairman Rod Henderson, who said the use of the proposed building as a mosque did not fit within the character of the area.

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He believed the mosques construction would be inappropriate under the Swan Valley Planning Act 1995, which was designed to protect the region from inconsistent developments. “If someone were to come in and buy a block of land to make shoes, for instance, that would be contrary to the Act,” he said. “If someone wants to come in and put up a mosque, that is also contrary to the Act. It should be put up in a suburban lot in an appropriate area. Theres no delineation here, its not a matter of bias.”

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But the proposal has been developed with advice from the City of Swan, whose chief executive Mike Foley said the plans would not have been allowed to progress if they did not meet its guidelines.
Bosnian Islamic Society president Sajit Smajic said the land had been chosen because it bordered Beechboro and Lockridge, where 85 per cent of Perths Bosnian Muslims lived.
“I think this building can embellish the whole area and can be another attraction for tourists, I dont think it will make the Swan Valley ugly or that it is out of context with the whole area,” he said.

* As they say: beauty is the eye of the beholder. But did you ever meet a tourist who wanted to see a mosque in Australia?

Mr Smajic said he was not surprised by the communitys reaction to the mosque because many people had negative stereotypes about Muslims. “We can sit down and put everything on the table and see what the people are concerned about and if it is possible to solve the problems, we will,” he said. “Once they sit down with us, they will realise we are not a threat.”

* Strange: where does he think do these ‘negative stereotypes’ come from? Could it have anything to do with Bali 1&2, with 9/11 and with the global  jihad around the world?
* Rrriigth! Lets sit down! Just show them the Koran, brother.  These ignorant infidels will surely see the light…

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Mr Smajic said the prayer room would be big enough to hold 350 people but the five daily prayer sessions were likely to attract only 20 to 30 people. No Australian mosques broadcast a “call to prayer”.

*  ???? Can anybody verify that????

The public comment period on the plan closed last Friday, with the City of Swan receiving 139 objections from 143 submissions. The plan is unlikely to go to council before March.