Chasers war against manners
There is a show on TV where some pretty young thing shows videos of people hurting themselves. A baby falls over and the applause deafens. A man takes a kick in the groin and everyone rolls about laughing. A woman falls over, show her knickers and the audience thinks it’s funny
That’s where I place The Chasers team. Securing laughs by going out of their way to make people look stupid. Anyone with the smallest knowledge of security will know it’s virtually impossible to completely secure a CBD in a democracy like Australia. Someone will aways be able to breach some of the security perimeters but will they be able to do anything when there.
Had the Chasers been real bad guys would they have survived? I doubt it. The chances are they would’ve been targeted by marksmen all the way in and had they shown body language other than that of a group on an undergraduate dare they would’ve been dropped.
Not funny unless your an undergrad, hate police or were just waiting around hoping something happened that would steal any success Howard might have claimed from APEC.
I don’t fit any of those profiles – I just thinks it’s poor form.
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I’ll agree that most of what masquerades for “reality” television is garbage. I also agree that the Chasers wouldn’t have stood a chance, had they been genuinely hostile. I’d guess that the police had a pretty fair idea of who they were dealing with. Many years ago I scored a week-long Saigon guard, and am glad I was never put in the position of having to make a split-second decision from behind an M-60. Biggest problem we had was kids bumming cigarettes.
Having said that, I like the concept of the Chaser. We need something that takes the mickey. It follows a long tradition in the ABC, beginning with Norman Gunston (remember?), and whether you like the ABC or not, they do Australian TV comedy better than anyone else. Kath & Kim has been recently sold to the commercials – sure sign of success.
Sometimes stupid things do happen – and I think it was pretty stupid to pay $300 million to shut down a fair slice of the Sydney CBD, when Canberra (for example) was available – or better still some remote resort that would have cost a fraction as much as Sydney to secure. I’ve always understood that we have a purpose-built national capital for just this purpose.
I’ll be watching on Wednesday night
I don’t think there is enough hotel/motel beds in Canberra for an event as big as APEC
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Sort of OT and long-ish. I don’t have your email address to send it to.
cheers,
Bruce
” Re. Jane Fonda
In Memory of my brother -in- law LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton.
She really was a Traitor
IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS
SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!
She really was a traitor
A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED
KEEP THIS MOVING..
This is for all the kids born in the 70’s who do not remember, and didn’t have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear.
Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the ‘100 Women of the Century.’
BY BARBRA WALTERS
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms.Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country,but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.
The pilot’s name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ‘Hanoi Hilton.’ Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ’s, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American ‘Peace Activist’ the ‘lenient and humane treatment’ he’d received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away.
During the subsequent beating, he fell forward on to the camp Commandant ‘s feet, which
sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant’s frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E’s).
He spent 6 years in the ‘Hanoi Hilton’.. the first three of which his family only knew he was ‘missing in action’. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.
His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a ‘peace delegation’ visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived.. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand.
When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man’s hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: ‘Aren’t you sorry you bombed babies?’ and ‘Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?’
Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped
rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed
him all the little pieces of paper.
Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a ‘black box’ in Hanoi . My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.
At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda’s ‘war criminals.’
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received… and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as ‘humane and lenient.’ Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of ‘100 Years of Great Women.’
Lest we forget…’ 100 Years of Great Women’ should never include a traitor whose hands covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane’s participation in blatant treason, is one of them.
Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can.
It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget.
RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343
PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE . “
Bruce
She had a lovely backside back then.
Come on Kev, it was a classic. How bad was that APEC security? And Bush calling it OPEC and calling us Austria what a joke.