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Originally posted by OzzyKP
(and Caligastia, I'm not ignoring your question, I'll get to it later)
(and Caligastia, I'm not ignoring your question, I'll get to it later)
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......people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty -
How many people here have actually been in the outback camps and have actually seen what is occuring?
It is all very well to argue these things from a political/dogma point of view - but once you view the absoluetly horrific conditions then you may change your view on wether something needs to be done or not.
And wether I agree with the proposed actions or not - at least they are trying to do something!
The current policy of chucking money at the problem and hoping it goes away has not worked.I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.Comment
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How many people here have actually been in the outback camps and have actually seen what is occuring?
You got the impression that we might actually argue about something we know first hand?!
Seriously, though, it is impossible for us to always argue about things we know first hand. None of us are arguing on anything other than dogma or political persuasion. Viewership may change our stance, but in many situations in life on which to have an opinion such luxury is seldom available.Comment
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googling on"tribal alcohol ban" shows that here in the USA, some native american tribes have instituted bans on alcohol sales on their reservations.
This would seem to be a case of self-determination in action. (though there are still issues with alcohol sales in nearby towns, IIUC)
Do Aborigines have any such vehicle for self-government?"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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This is very true.Originally posted by Japher
Viewership may change our stance,I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.Comment
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Young children having access to X-rated movies has made many of them sexually active very early in life, girls 12 years old and younger in some cases are prostituting themselves to employees of outback mines, climbing over or cutting through high wire perimeter fences to get access to living quarters, young boys are raping younger girls in some towns, overall life has became very sexual for even young children, because they view too many of those movies.
A permit system controlled by some aboriginal leaders has restricted access to these towns, so that the problems cannot be easily publicized, very rarely are non residents allowed to visit the towns, only some gov't employees can get past the permit system, as some of these leaders have been perpetrators of sexual abuse, and also arranged marriages where young girls are promised to old men. The new gov't policy will allow relatively unrestricted access to the towns although the wider aboriginal lands will remain restricted generally to aboriginals only.
Due to poor education and limited English skills, reports of sexual abuse generally go unpunished, as young aboriginals who cannot speak good english are seen as unreliable witnesses, and unsuitable for court appearances. Even murder charges are almost always reduced to manslaughter charges or dangerous act causing death resulting in prison sentences of several years only for murder, lesser crimes are also usually downgraded in the court system so serious assaults are often unpunished or lightly punished.
The new action on these lands can only work if the court system start treating the crimes seriously in every case and provide interpreters as needed for witnesses with poor english skills.
A failed system hidden behind restricted permit laws is now being tackled, that cannot be worse than the current situation and should make things betterComment
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Are you really that much out there? if DISCLAIMER is in English, they can READ IT. It has WARNINGS. Now, they aren't warned at all. It's like boom, what is this, Ok, no warnings so this must be OK.Originally posted by Last Conformist
When did knowing English stop anyone from looking at porn?In da butt.
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And when a giant **** is ramming its way acoss the screen but they can't understand when the slut yells, "OH BOBBY DO IT HARDER!" are they still unable to turn it off?Originally posted by Pekka
Are you really that much out there? if DISCLAIMER is in English, they can READ IT. It has WARNINGS. Now, they aren't warned at all. It's like boom, what is this, Ok, no warnings so this must be OK.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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How about you read my posts again and comprehend them before replying again?Originally posted by Pekka
Are you really that much out there? if DISCLAIMER is in English, they can READ IT. It has WARNINGS. Now, they aren't warned at all. It's like boom, what is this, Ok, no warnings so this must be OK.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Like 'it was a short time'.Originally posted by Heresson
Antisemitic mesures were not introduced, but tolerated by 1935-9 regime. It was a short time.
Australian policy towards Aborigenes was not perfect is a great euphemism.
Yes, any further Polish antisemitism was curtailed by the outbreak of war in 1939.
The Nazis failed in making Poland 'Judenrein'. The Poles post-1945 made a pretty good job of it though.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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Baseless assumptions.
1968 is a great shame, true. Kielce was an incident."I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
Middle East!Comment
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Oh no, with such a devastating riposte, all my baselesses are belong to you!Originally posted by Heresson
Baseless assumptions.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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please, prove that Poland was heading towards Jewlessness."I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
Middle East!Comment
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When and why ?Originally posted by Heresson
please, prove that Poland was heading towards Jewlessness.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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35-9"I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
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