Sorry Is The Word For It
More idiocy in my ancestral homeland, where earlier this week some earnest dingdongs declared the Australian flag to be racist gang colors.
Tim Blair now reports that Google Earth is planning a snapshot from space of Australia for Australia Day tomorrow (more or less tonight, because they’re on the other side of the world, as well as the bottom of it.) So the local anti-civilization, freedom and democracy crowd is planning a big Google Earth-visible “SORRY.“ From a memo making the rounds at a Sydney university:
We think it’s a great opportunity for a bit of activism.
We’ll be chalking up the word “Sorry” in a bunch of places that are clearly visible from Google’s plane. Given our record on Aboriginal human rights, Iraq, Kyoto, East Timor’s Oil, &c. we have plenty to apologise for.
Says Tim:
The author is correct: on these issues, they should be apologising like crazy.
Re Australia Day and why we should celebrate it here: Australia has been there with us in every war since World War I. Technically, we were there with them in WWs I and II … they were there first. Korea, check. Vietnam, check. Gulf War, check. Afghanistan, check. Iraq, check. Britain is considered our closest ally, but I’d suggest Australia, population 20 million, other end of the world, has a better record, and has not been shy about stepping in as needed in its own neighborhood, notably Timor.
Let’s hear it for John Howard, repeatedly re-elected while unabashedly supporting us, and his foreign minister Alexander Downer, who coined the phrase “multi-nationalism of the lowest common denominator” in a brilliant speech rejecting same. Australia Day marks the arrival of the First Fleet at Botany Bay in 1788, the founding of modern Australia as a British penal colony, inauspicious beginnings from which a great nation and force for freedom in the world was born.
To the memory of Flt. Sgt. Philip Crittenden, RAAF, KIA October 1941 over Belgium. Mother’s cousin Rear Adm Bryn Mussared, RAN, WIA survivor HMAS Canberra, Savo, August 1942. Family in Oz going back at least to the 1850s … and no, none that I know of arrived in chains. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:54 am on Thursday, January 25, 2007
6 Responses to “Sorry Is The Word For It”
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January 25th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Happy Australia Day!
January 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Yep, ’tis sorry. The U.S. has heard that our flags are racist and not only the Star and Bars, but “gang colors”, I don’t think so. Never have heard the of the Confederates referred to as a “gang”.
Have no fear though an intellect as in Harry Belafonte, well maybe that sharpie Rangel, or even the original sharpie, Al Sharpie, will think of it, NOW that the OZ’Lunas, have brought this to the attention of his keen edge (as a rubber ball) mind, OUR lunas will surely follow. As you stated Crittenden, you guys were there first in several places…:).
The native American Indian may not have thought to kindly of our Stars and Stripes at one time AND their are a few radicals among them today, but for the most part, Native Americans despite the treatment they received have fought with honor and bravery under our flag. Ira Hayes,a Native American, was one of the 5 Marines that raised our flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima. And, the Japanese could never figure out the Navajo Talkers.
A finer ally the U.S. could not find, in Australia, although the U.S. has not to this point ,gone shoulder to shoulder with the Israelis, (but there may be a shot ,no pun intended, with Persia) against a foe. Of course the Mother country of Merry Old England, and Canada have stood with us, as well as other nations that have served by our side,with distinction.
So ummmm, on this celebratory day, Australia Day, with you being a native of….why you, Jules Crittenden, could become the next John Howard one day, eh?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
OH and with the bloodline of Aussie fighters you have…you’d make a damn good next, John Howard.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I’m a Yank. Born in the USA. The folks immigrated here from Oz. But thank you.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
SeppOz. First-generation Australian-American. A small but fiercely proud minority.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Ahhh, pardon my error…Then you could run for President. The rest still goes…good bloodline…:).