Tim Blair

The reply was pure cowardice, "It doesn't matter where you are, I'll find you". Ooooh so tough! Some slack little c@#+ with no honour or guts takes a pot-shot by phone. I'm hoping the Federal Police make an example of the little shit and prosecute to the full extent of the law. Any luck there'll be some jail time with some patriotic inmates for company.

Just how low can terrorist supporters/sympathisers go??

That's nothing. Have you seen the bitchy texting teenage girls get up to!

Jake reminds me oif a bridge buddy of mine during the apartheid era. As a contributor to the struggle, he found himself being targeted by increasingly worrying death threats that were all too likely to be real (someone, for example, sabotaged his car brakes). So this guy, a skinny rake, decided to take em on. He became a fanatical body builder and gun freak. He had a rope hanging from his flat balcony for a fast getaway if they came mobhanded. The phone callers would say: "We'll get you wherever you are." And he would say: "My address is .... and you'd better bring a lot of firepower because I have big guns and plenty of ammo."

He never was taken up on it.

Dave,
Well, I guess there is no defense like a good offense.

If someone could help a guy out. I understand the gist of Jake's response but what does this mean?

"...let's go and blue now."

"Blue" = "fight"

"Blue" = "fight"

As in, get black & blue? Where does this come from?

Tim, keep us posted. I'm looking forward to buying Jake another round.

Blue = argue

could be from rhyming slang

To have a blue, or simply to 'blue' is to argue, debate heatedly or have an actual fist-fight.

Blue is also Australian for red. No, really, 'Bluey' is a pet name for people with red hair.

Australia's Virgin Blue airline has red airplanes and was so named to reflect this odd Australian habit of calling things the opposite of what they are. (Quiet people are often called 'Rowdy'.)

When someone wrote to the papers wondering why the Virgin Blue planes were red, someone else replied 'because if they were blue the air traffic controllers wouldn't see them against the sky.'

I'm with the cops on this... Jake shouldn't have mentioned it. Now not only might the messager be looking to shoot him in the arse, but anyone else who might have entertained the notion has the green light to do it, and their attacks will be blamed on the wanker who sent the original message.

Then when the whole thing ends up in court, the defense will argue that there is no evidence the wanker who sent the text message was actually behind the attacks, nor that the dogshits behind the attacks were also behind the texts. No evidence for either, so everyone gets off scot free, except of course Jake himself.

> Then when the whole thing ends up in court, the defense will argue that there is no evidence the wanker who sent the text message was actually behind the attacks, nor that the dogshits behind the attacks were also behind the texts. No evidence for either, so everyone gets off scot free, except of course Jake himself.

Hint - the existence/availability of evidence is independent of both Jake's comments and the messages. (The messages are, at best, a reason why police might want to look at certain people. They don't stop said police from looking at other people.)