Tim Blair

Some people just need a good smack in the head.

Take one part catholic school girls add 30 parts convicts and a pinch of stupid horny school marm. Shake vigorusly = riot.
It's a simple recipe. No need to get Amnesty International up, unless they are having a slow week.
Not enough Christians hanging naked upside down in Saudi jails for them to investigate?

Are they saying that Catholic girls can't take a punch? How chauvinist.

Amnesty says, "They're in remote parts of Australia and people are incarcerated, detained there without trial or charge and it leads to situations such as this," Mr Doherty said."

No Mr. Doherty, the riot was not *caused* by people being detained (lawfully one might add), but by the actions of a teacher who was irresponsible enough to disregard the authorities and place the lives of students in his/her charge at risk.

One would also like to know whether said teacher acted with the knowledge and permission of the College, and of the parents of the girls concerned.

Umm, why didn't they let the girls in?

Remember - a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

Any reports of injuries to the "detainees"?

Any reports about kickbacks to the immigration dept for deporting prostitutes who blow the whistle on the trade in illegal sex slaves from Asia?

Any reports of fucked up doubled standards come to hand lately?

Who gives a fuck about the detainees? They can piss of back to where they came from any time they like. It's not like they are genuine refugees or anything - they are just lying scum immigration rorters.

Heads wll roll at Mandurah Catholic College over this one. A 3 400 km round trip to start a riot and get the school into the news so badly.
Please post any follow-ups to this amzing affair.
Who, and what, was the teacher behind this?

Andy,
The phrase is "A Neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality." That is quite a different matter from the misquotation you give. It refers to the liberals who moved in the 1970s from the Democrats or from socialist pasts to the conservative position (many did not join the Republicans until much later, despite becoming conservative, but remained Democrats) when they realiszed the liberals were wimping out on opposing Soviet Communism and that liberal and socialist policies were failing to accomplish what they were intended to achieve.

"This is Liberty Hall - you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard."

A letter in today's SMH:

"PENPAL PROTEST REACTION BEGGARS BELIEF

I am in my 60s, and a grandmother of four. There are several young men in Port Hedland Detention Centre I consider friends. We have been communicating by letter and by phone for the past three years. They are polite, respectful, and appreciative of the friendship and support of an increasing number of Australians.

The denial of a visit by a school group to their penpals in the centre, on the grounds that as the detainees had not mixed with women for some time they have become potential rapists, beggars belief. Most have received visits from young Australian women and, as far as I know, there have been no reports of attempted gang rape in the visitors' centre.

How can I describe my reaction to the news that the protests generated by these unsubstantiated insults were broken up by police and guards using tear gas and batons, against both men and women? Appalled, horrified, angered - all these and more.

Jean Jordan, Eltham (Vic), December 5."

Blair is nothing but a low mongrel obfuscating liar, breeder of race hatred, and apologist for state-sponsored brutality.

And TFK is just another of the bloghead's sheep, who must, by his silence, be perfectly at ease with the "scum immigration rorts" being played out in the sex industries of Australia's major cities.

You people are beneath contempt.

But you just keep coming back for more.

What an extraordinary letter.(11)
The writer makes no attempt to address the issue of how the girls came to be there, after their school had been advised not to come.
The rioters seem a different bunch to Jean Jordan's polite and respectful pen-pals.
Jean is suitably appalled, horrified and angered.
No doubt she is also ashamedtobeanAustralian, as her ilk usually are.

As a student at Mandurah Catholic College, I am apalled at the accusation that one of our teachers would ignore such a letter! How do you know for sure that the school even received the letter? The mission group went to Port Hedland in order to help the refugees because hardly anybody else in this country will! The girls and teachers have been working their asses off just so they could get to Port Hedland and as soon as they get there people accuse them them of being irresponsible and disregarding authority. That sort of behaviour is below our school. I suggest everybody get their facts right before they go and open their mouth. What is wrong with this country if an innocent school group and teachers get penalised for just trying to help!!!

They were told not to go, Vanessa. What part of "do not bring your students here" was so hard to understand?