Aussie-Irish boozer ejects 'terrorist' drinker In a story replete with irony, a man has been booted out of an Irish pub in Cairns after his fellow drinkers, disturbed by his choice of reading material, reported him to the pub management. He was reading The Unknown Terrorist, a fictional thriller that tells the story of a ballet dancer who has a dodgy one-night stand with …
It's nice to see that that society's level of paranoria is now in line with all of it's other levels. Not only is this story not the bit suprising, but it is a sign that all is going well. We are so busy fighting one another that we are ignoring the real issues.
Coat, Hat, Pub.
They've got to be loving it too! They don't really even have to blow up that much anymore and the entire world is scared shitless of them. The best part is the more the governments try to "protect" us, the more they play into the hands of the terrorists through general paranoia and a pansified public who truly thinks they need protecting.
Too bad really, I hope this passes soon, I don't want my kids to grow up in a world where the government scares people worse than the terrorists.
This is awful! I mean what next? Some dark-skinned guy with a rucsack mistaken for a terror suspect gunned down by armed police in the street (or on a popular form of public transport)?
What is Oz coming to?!? We should be thankful that that kind of paranoid abomination couldn't happen here in good old blighty!
.. he'd be turning in his grave.
If this story is true, then it is a testimony to the cluelessness of some people. Maybe if he was reading "Mein Kampf" they wouldn't have said anything. Bunch of redneck f00knuts.
Good job he wasn't reading "The Silence of the Lambs", heaven know what they would have thought of him. Oh, wait, they are sheepsh4ggers....
I suspect the book was merely a pretext, the real reason for his removal was one of the following:
1/ An Aussie in a bar - the staff probably saw him as a threat to their employment.
2/ His dancing was to blame - everyone knows Aussies can't dance, just like they can't play cricket, or rugby..... I mean they're almost as uncoordinated as those other colonials the Kiwis or the South Africans!
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Welcome to your freedom citizen! It was all for the benifit of providing a more secure and safer environment for not only you, but those around you and their families and their poor blind three legged dog, Ruffles.
Thank you for bringing this "literature" to our attention and you can rest assured that our Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Peace will both look into the full details surrounding where you bought it, how you purchased it and weather you have copied it or indeed lent it to anyone else. The results of this research will be available for as long as you can stand in Room 101at the Ministry of Love, where our attendants will help you in every way they can.
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Welcome to what happens when ignorence collides with media sensationalisation, sorry this happened to the poor guy, but guess its something that our overlords want us to get used to...
Well, I reckon this story is dodgy. Who ever heard of a man who would dance without having a drink? Especially if you are 40. No way would you dance without at least six drinks.
Lucky he wasn't reading 'Where's Spot?' otherwise he'd have been thrown out for being an unaccompanied dog.
"If you want to give more powers to the police, security agencies and military, and you want the public to demand you do it, then ensure there is more crime, violence and terrorism, and then it's a cinch to achieve your aims. Once the people are in fear of being burgled, mugged or bombed, they will demand that you take their freedom away to protect them from what they have been manipulated to fear."
The aforementioned turquoise lizard spotter is (for once) almost correct.
The difference is that the Government doesn't have to *ensure* there is more crime and terror. All they have to do *say* there is more crime and terror, then sit back while the 'popular media' (i.e, those that specialise in the thick-as-shit end of the market) blow it all out of proportion.
Before you know it they have the perfect excuse to introduce new laws to 'protect' us and new taxes to pay for it all.
Though most people with more than two brain cells to rub together (i.e, those that don't rely on Fox for their info) know that when Bush and Brown say 'protect' they really mean 'subjugate'.
Here in the states, a member of a gym was overheard talking with someone on the phone about the wisdom of sending troops to the Sunny Sandbox when the terrorists were actually based out of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.(ssshhhh..don't make too large a mention of this...they are our friends after all................with "friends" like that...blah blah blah).
Long story short....the eavesdroppers (also fellow members of this gym) contacted the local Feds and, as a result, he was questioned at length about his discussion. By "at length", I mean the better part of 2 days.
Crap...I almost forgot....he was a 66 year old white male....you know---the "classic" terrorist profile. Oh, and the time frame was shortly before first deployment.
Orwell would be proud..and Solzhenitsyn would be saying "I told ya so!"
The most hilarious aspect of the paranoia is the complete inability by those afflicted to make honest rationalization. I say "hilarious" because if you REALLY try to concieve of a bunch of zealots arriving at the outskirts of your local municipality with obvious intent to do harm, here in the states they would be mowed down in a hail of bullets by the local armed citizenry (only if they weren't too busy trying to shoot the lugnuts off of their vehicles....but I digress...) If they attempted this around Alabama ( or Georgia, Louisiana, etc...), not only would they get reduced to a fine red mist, but whatever was left would probably be turned into jerky. Only after that would the police be summoned.
The final punch line is the fact that this communication has most likely been run through a "splitter" and has has a copy of itself run into a Data Repository in California. Room 641b I believe.
Cue uneasy, stifled laughter.....
A little more info from the Cairns Post, adding details that sure seem relevant:
“A man’s odd behaviour was what patrons of a Cairns pub say led them to fear he was a terrorist.... Mr Chalk failed to mention he was standing on the dance floor motionless for a period of 20-30 minutes...Mr Chalk also failed to mention he had a side pack on his hip with wires hanging out of it, and the fact that it was 10.30pm and he was carrying a book called The Unknown Terrorist in clear view”.
The wires were from Chalk’s MP3 player.
This was local. Lucky he wasn't in the toilet, it would lead to confusion as to what sort of "piss" he was taking while leaving the book face up on the ledge.
If you think that is bad, try getting on an local plane and telling them the book is "not an bomb" (seriously, don't, the laws give long prison sentences and there have been an number of local incidents ;).
Political paranoia gone mad, maybe. If the dimwits only knew how easy it was to seriously do something, they might have some sort of sense of humor. Back in the 70's (or maybe early 80's) there was an sixteen year old that designed an serious bomb as an party trick, according to law enforcement all it needed was the actual materials.
Having recently been to afore-mentioned pub during a work-related jaunt to Cairns, I can tell you that there aren't too many aussies in evidence at that pub, or indeed anywhere at Cairns.
Having said that, are we all so old that we have forgotten how these places work?
"Wrong shoes,mate, you'll have to leave"
"no red shirts tonight, sorry, not allowed in"
"no trainers"
"no work boots"
etc....
Who cares why they ejected him - annoying losers get turfed out of pubs and bars all the time for whatever reason the bouncers can dream up, using the limited and steroid-stunted intellect available to them at the time.
"Reading a book about a terrorist and standing motionless in the middle of the dance floor" sounds like one of thos most valid reasons for chucking somebody out that I've ever heard.
As an aussie I thought I would just respond to some of the comments in here:
"terrorism! - aussies cant even spell it!"
Yeah tell that to the families of the nearly 100 aussies who died in the bali bombings moron.
"discrimination is alive and well down-under!!"
Every country has it's dumb hicks... look at all the red states in America. It's pretty harsh to paint us all with the same brush though.
"Oh, wait, they are sheepsh4ggers..."
Nope, that's the new zelanders. To quote wikipedia page on domestic sheep: "In New Zealand, sheep outnumber the human population 12 to 1"
"I suspect the book was merely a pretext, the real reason for his removal was one of the following..."
I suspect it was because he went to an irish pub in a distinctly redneck town and ordered pink cocktails with the fairy umbrella's in them.
"after all they call beer XXXX cos they forgot how to spell beer"
Hey that's a joke about Queenslanders. No-one else in Australia would be stupid enough to drink that crap.
"The whole country is turning into The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...."
Do you all you poms just speak in cliche? seriously, have you ever even been here?
P.S I was just wondering... have you guys figured out the great practical joke us Aussies have been playing on the rest of the world for the last couple of decades yet? You know no-one in Australia actually drinks Fosters right? That is the most disgusting swill we can produce, that's why we export all of it to the UK and America.
Drink Australian, think Australian? ROFL.
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