Australian Flag = Swastika?
Sober idiots tried to ban the Australian flag as racist “gang colors” at the annual Big Day Out concert in Sydney Thursday, two days before Australia Day, because a few drunken yobbos have wrapped themselves in it. But it didn’t fly.
Prime Minister John Howard said today it was “stupid and offensive” for Big Day Out promoter Ken West to attempt to stop fans taking Australian flags to Thursday’s concert at the Sydney Showground.
But BDO organisers insisted their plea to the expected crowd of 60,000 not to bring flags was “simply a request, not a command”.
“If people show up with a flag they will not be refused entry if they have a valid ticket,” a spokeswoman said.
Mr West said the display of nationalism under the flag at the Sydney leg of BDO last year, a month after the Cronulla riots, was intolerable.
“The Australian flag was being used as gang colours. It was racism disguised as patriotism and I’m not going to tolerate it,” Mr West was quoted as saying in News Ltd papers.
“The proposition that the display of the Australian flag should ever be banned anywhere in Australia is offensive and it will be to millions of Australians,” Mr Howard said.
(h/t Tim Blair)
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:36 pm Comments (3) on Monday, January 22, 2007
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January 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Don’t question their patriotism.
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:59 am
Where is this guy when the Palestinian flag is brandished? Or the Hizb’allah banner? Why does it seem that it is only the flags of free countries that get their dander up?
January 23rd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Leaving aside his idiotic stand on guns John Howard is the best conservative leader on the planet.