Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jan 15
th, 2015 at 5:47am:
They had it coming and they knew it, that's why they needed police protection after several threats, the type of threats a sensible person would listen to.
That's a mystery in itself, isn't it? It's not even as though they were getting paid a small fortune for working in that office, but then again, we keep hearing of swimmers getting routinely killed by sharks at WA beaches and still they keep coming to plunge into the surf.
A Death Wish, or simply no capacity for feeling a healthy level of fear?
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In France it's legal to lampoon and caricaturise races, religions, and anything else, and so the public display of Je Suis Charlie wasn't in contradiction of the law.
And this is despite their President leading the Socialist Party.
Meanwhile, here in Australia the so-called hardliner Abbott of the 'Tories' has been too much in a funk to scrap C18 and put us on an equal footing with the French.
Political correctness has stripped Abbott of any pretensions he may once have had of being an Australian 'Putin'.
I'd rather have an openly leftwing pollie like Shorten than a 'rightwinger' who buckles at the knees every time the Ethnic Community leaders put in a call to his office.
One term prime minister.
His body language on TV is looking very defeatist. We can only hope that Scot Morrison replaces him as the only chance of the Libs getting a second term.