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PEOPLE’S COURT
Oh. My. God. Margo Kingston is founding her own legal system:
What I suggest is that we establish a “People’s Inquiry” into Vivian Alvarez. We can start the inquiry now.
Ideally, we need a retired judge, barrister or solicitor of good standing to head the inquiry and direct our efforts.
In the meantime, we can get to work straight away. I intend to work full time next week to compile a dossier on the case.
She’s going to work for a whole week! The woman’s serious!
What I intend to do is to report to you on what we know to be true, what may or may not be true, and what we don’t know.
The “what we don’t know” file will be housed here, if they have enough room.
This would be a basis for further inquiries by Webdiarists. There are many other mysteries other Webdiarists could volunteer to investigate.
The Bermuda Triangle. Amelia Earhart. The Marie Celeste. Harold Holt. Area 51. Go to it, gang! Enjoy your wizard adventures, with lashings of ginger beer afterwards at the secret clubhouse!
We need volunteers to interview witnesses, such as people at Lismore and Liverpool hospitals who had anything to do with Vivian while she was there, and the people in the Philippines who had contact with Vivian.
We need a hotline to receive tip-offs from whistleblowers, and volunteers to follow up leads.
We need volunteers to compile a data base of all the relevant stories on the scandal to date, and what has been said in Parliament and in government statements and interviews.
We need volunteer lawyers ...
... we need a system of weights and measures, we need to mint a form of currency, we need to establish borders and a capital, we need a state religion, we need to reach trade agreements with other sovereign nations ...
We need a Website to store this info and keep people updated on where we’re at and what needs to be done next, so we need website builders, designers and maintainers.
I predict that one day, possibly within our lifetimes, internet technology will become so advanced that anybody may launch their own website. Until then, alas, we’ll remain dependent on builders, designers, maintainers, pixel buffers, download sweepers, and URL chunkers.
There’s much to be done, in many directions, by many different people. We need a group of Webdiarists to form a management group to co-ordinate our activities.
Anybody got any experience herding cats?
To conclude, the Alvarez scandal is not a partisan political issue. It is an issue crying out for all of us to exercise out responsibilities as citizens on behalf of another citizen. This is not merely altruistic. Strong action now will help ensure that none of us are ever put through a Vivian Alvarez nightmare.
Which is a constant risk here in Australia. Night time is the worst; that’s when the Human Deletion Squad does its rounds, “disappearing” hundreds of terrified citizens every evening for the mildest of infractions.
Note: To Webdiarists who want to slam me or my idea or to tell people to shut up because Howard was elected in 2004 or to make other such comments, please don’t post here. Post to one of the other Alvarez entries. This thread is for people who want to help. Expect to be deleted if you ignore this request.
Oh no! Margo is one of them! God damn her and all HDS goons.
UPDATE. Marilyn Shepherd, one of Margo’s expert investigators, is already hard at work:
How on earth would Vivian ask for a particular nun when she hadn’t been in the Philipines for years and could no longer speak Dogalog.
Amanda is either spectacularly stupid or naive or hopes we are.
The language is Tagalog.
UPDATE II. Former Labor minister Nick Bolkus unloads on the immigration department:
It’s a department which also has a dark history ... We’ve got to remember that this is a department that applied the White Australia test.
Make up your mind, Nick.
UPDATE III. Here they come! The massed regiments of Margo’s volunteer sleuthing army!
UPDATE IV. Our friend Bryan Law has a cunning plan:
I’m inclined to one day next week remove all ID, walk into my local DIMIA office with a note declaring myself to be an illegal alien, remain silent and then see what steps they take.
That’s him taken care of. Enjoy Manila, mate.
(Compiled with legal assistance from volunteers Rafe Champion, Paul Bickford, Imre Salusinszky, Craig Mc., and deportation specialist Alan R.M. Jones)
According to the guidelines on bipolar disorder issued by the National Institute of Mental Health in the US:
Signs and symptoms of mania (or a manic episode) include:
* Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
* Excessively “high,” overly good, euphoric mood
* Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
* Distractibility, can’t concentrate well
* Little sleep needed
* Unrealistic beliefs in one’s abilities and powers
* Poor judgment
*A lasting period of behavior that is different from usual
* Increased sexual drive
* Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications
* Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior
* Denial that anything is wrong
Repeated from ealier topic: Andrew Bolt has the goods on Vivian Young, Vivian Solon, Vivian Alvarez and Vivian Wilson (all the same person) here.
Let’s hope Margo’s paralegal army can solve the mystery why “Young abandoned her five-year-old in a Brisbane childcare centre more than a month before turning up injured in NSW.”.
I can imagine Lismore and Liverpool hospital staff are going to be really cooperative when a mob of starry-eyed Margo accolytes (with issues with personal grooming) turn up demanding instant answers to questions that would breach the Privacy Act (an Act Margo is clearly unaware of).
Whatever you do, don’t post a lot of plausible red-herrings on Margo’s site. That woudn’t be right.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 05 15 at 05:36 AM • permalinkHi Margo, I live in Lismore and I actually saw a car( commodore) (typical racist redneck car) full of white men (maybe/usually rapists) wearing white hoods(racist/nazis) throw a petite asian lady (saint/victim) out of the car (commodore) (racist/redneck/bogan vehicle) into the gutter. Maybe I can help?
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 05 15 at 05:48 AM • permalinkWhat I intend to do is to report to you on what we know to be true, what may or may not be true, and what we don’t know.
Reporting on “what we know”: reporting “facts”
Reporting on “what may or may not be true”: unconfirmed rumors, AKA gossip. Not reporting.
Reporting on “what we don’t know”—proclaiming your ignorance, unless you label it as an opinion. Whereupon it’s not reporting anymore.
Two out of three ain’t reporting. Margo is but stirring muck, aside from being just plain silly.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 05 15 at 06:37 AM • permalinkI intend to work full time next week ... or at least I’m hoping all you guys will work full time ... yes, I know you have jobs ... well, at least some of you might have jobs. But I hope that at least some of us might spend ... at least some of our time next week ... compiling a really, really, big, big dossier ... oh, shit, I feel tired just thinking about it. I’ll just take next week off and then see how you are getting on when I get (yawn) back ... what’s that? Andrew Bolt? Who’s he .. some sort of blogger?
walterplinge said:
I can imagine Lismore and Liverpool hospital staff are going to be really cooperative when a mob of starry-eyed Margo accolytes (with issues with personal grooming) turn up demanding instant answers to questions that would breach the Privacy Act (an Act Margo is clearly unaware of).
Having spent a fair bit of time in and out of Lismore Base Hospital, I can assure you that it would be very difficult to tell the difference between the majority of the inpatients, almost all of the outpatients and quite a lot of the staff, and starry eyed margo accolytes (shudder).
“Hi Margo, I live in Lismore and I actually saw a car( commodore) (typical racist redneck car) full of white men (maybe/usually rapists) wearing white hoods(racist/nazis) throw a petite asian lady (saint/victim) out of the car (commodore) (racist/redneck/bogan vehicle) into the gutter.”
This actually happened at the Manila airport.
The car was driven by Australian officials. I suggest that Margo interviews Tony Eastley. He seems to be privy to more information.Wow, Margo has finally, seriously gone completely out of her mind.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 05 15 at 07:15 AM • permalinkI can’t speak Dogalog, but I know some Catalog.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 05 15 at 07:41 AM • permalinkMarilyn Shepherd speaks doggerel, and certainly looks vaguely canine; perhaps she thinks fluency in South Asian languages can be picked up from a hardware supplier.
If i remember dogalog was the language spoken by the cattle dog in the hardware adverts :). Incidentally any thing that keeps grand loony Marilyn Sheperd occupied is a blessing in disguise.
Posted by Astonished on 2005 05 15 at 07:56 AM • permalinkLaugh if you must, but the builders, designers, and maintainers are already well on their way to completing their compilation of what Margo doesn’t know, which may be viewed here.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2005 05 15 at 08:45 AM • permalinkBryan’s going to have to languish in Villawood for a while awaiting repatriation- he’s just missed the last Mars shuttle, and the next one’s not ‘til June 8th.
What, Bryla wants a government paid vacation to the Philipines? Has the
cash cowwife cut off his allowance?Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 05 15 at 09:27 AM • permalinkDon’t tell Bryla this is the best he’s going to get in Manila.
“Former Labor minister Nick Bolkus unloads on the immigration department:
It’s a department which also has a dark history ... We’ve got to remember that this is a department that applied the White Australia test.”Labor on White Australia:
“Two Wongs don’t make a White” Arthur Calwell
“Fucking Vietnamese balts” Gough Whitlam
Lets not mentions Theophinous either shall we. He treated asian women SO well.
Posted by Astonished on 2005 05 15 at 10:23 AM • permalinkIf by the White Australia test she means the dictatatoin Test, it was introduced by the ALP.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 05 15 at 10:42 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
Can I ask her to investigate where all my damn socks go? I buy a 10 pack each month and still I’m missing socks. I must have one of the greatest collections of single unmatched socks in the history of mankind!
Posted by memomachine on 2005 05 15 at 10:44 AM • permalinkA “people’s inquiry”? Here in the states, we used to call that the Klan…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 15 at 11:22 AM • permalinkRafe — That cat herders commercial is one of the funniest Superbowl commercials of all time… if you look closely, you can see Rove leading, and Pat Robertson skulking in the middle of the pack pretending he’s not there, and Buchanan and the libertarians off on the fringes with their own little sub-herds…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 15 at 11:25 AM • permalinkWe need volunteers to interview ... We need a hotline to receive ... We need volunteers to compile ... We need volunteer lawyers ...
Uh, Margo is planning on doing something during this process, right?
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 15 at 11:42 AM • permalinkCB — Actually, I suspect Margo is one of the latter creations of the late great Lewis Carroll. Tell me you can’t see a big ole dollop of the Red Queen in her….
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 15 at 12:14 PM • permalinkWeb Diary, what a site. Dogalog and Ghandi. Is there anything about Asia that these people can spell correctly? BTW: Margo can spell Tocqueville but not Gandhi?
In comments, some idiot is referring to Margo as Robspierre, Bryan Law (another idiot) is going to “approach a couple of recent arrivals of colour I know…”, and Peter Prisoner #614601 Woodforde refers to Auslanderfeindlichkeit Abteilungen and Befehl ist Befehl. It’s like a circle jerk for, well, jerks.
The only people in the Asia-Pacific with a bigger inferiority complex than Australian left wingers are lefties from the Philippines. Watch this thing go stupid in the Philippines once the NGOs get hold of it.
BTW: has anyone else noticed that Lulu Respall Turner is contributing to Margo’s comments box on this? Lulu is involved with the Solidarity Philippines Australia Network (SPAN), an organisation that provides “material and moral support to the peoples’ organisations in the Philippines and inform Australians through publications, fora, meetings and other educational and cultural activities of the work of the peoples’ organisations and facilitate direct people to people contact with the members of these organisations at the grassroots level…”
Max Lane - hard core Marxist - reported on the establishement of SPAN for Green Left Weekly as follows:
The conference adopted a Statement of Principles as the basis of unity for SPAN. The statement emphasised that both the Filipino people’s struggle and solidarity with it in Australia are part of a broad international movement for justice and peace. It also called for support for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, other indigenous peoples and all Third World national liberation movements.
So which liberation movements is Lulu linking up with: the Communists or the Muslims? Small wonder she thinks a People’s Enquiry is such a good idea.
An entire week?
Including weekends? (er, weekend)
What a dedicated scholar. A true intellectual. Her devotion to fighting injustice, to righting a wrong, to taking on an unjust system has no bounds.
And people say the Left doesn’t have any new ideas anymore.
SMG
Posted by SMGalbraith on 2005 05 15 at 12:34 PM • permalinkAnd Deputies ... Margo’s gonna need deputies.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 15 at 12:47 PM • permalinkI thought this was the warehouse filled with things Margo doesn’t know.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2005 05 15 at 01:39 PM • permalinkMargo might like to contact well known self proclaimed Social Justice Lawyer Stephen Hopper.He was the gent carrying the ball for Guantanomo Bay graduate Mamdough Habib,fee free,who was dropped just when the big-bucks started to flow out of the coffers of 60 Minutes in the direction of Habib.He might be stupid enough to tumble in again.
“I had never heard of Webdiary until I read this blog. Having had a look at it, I don’t see why it is such a hobby horse. Don’t you have anything better to do?”
Well, yeah, but even riding my motorcycle and banging my lovely wife every single minute of the day would get a little monotonous. Gotta take time for other entertaining diversions like Family Guy, guitar practice, and gaping in disbelief at stupid lefty moonbats.
Don’t you have anything better to do than ask nonsensical questions about other people not having anything better to do?
Yeah, the White Australia policy. A Labor Party policy, introduced and maintained by the Labor Party, and administered by the Immigration Dept (or its predecessors) under Labor governments. Sharply curtailed by Menzies in 1949, and abolished by Holt in 1966, to protests from the ALP. That White Australia policy.
I’ve just found the recipie for dogalog- yummy!
nwab,
We love Webdiary so. We also love Margo’s antics a great deal too.
If Margo didn’t (fill in the verb that best describes what she does with Webdiary which evidently doesn’t include “work”) with Webdiary, some of us would probably pay her to do it, we love it so. Please don’t take this somewhat naughty pleasure from us.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 15 at 11:18 PM • permalinkOMFG! Have any of you read the comments thread at Margo’s? People are offering money!
Once you’ve set up a process for donating, I will also donate a couple of hundred dollars to the cause. Contact me to let me know what I can do.
Posted by: Sally Woodward at May 15, 2005 02:40 PM
A fool and their money…
No doubt Margo will be in touch with Sally as soon as she needs another hit of whatever it is she takes to make her come out with these wacky ideas.
Posted by James Waterton on 2005 05 16 at 12:10 AM • permalinkLooks like Bryan Law made good his threat - I didnt know he played the piano though
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 05 16 at 12:20 AM • permalinkComedy gold:
Let’s get to the daily commute bottlenecks. Every day in the ‘burbs people sit waiting in traffic at particular points. We know them all; they’re repeated on traffic reports regularly. What do you think people think about when caught in the daily traffic jam? Next week it should be our Public Inquiry!
Because when I’ve been stuck in traffic for an hour going at 5 kmh, what I really want in my face is some greasy activist yahoo, pissing and moaning about asylum seekers.
Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2005 05 16 at 12:30 AM • permalinkDeo:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=
/news/2005/05/16/npiano16.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/16/ixnewstop.htmlCopy and paste each line etc. I had to chop it in half to keep the comments window from getting messed up. By the way, I’ve emailed the Expression Engine people for support on this little url problem. Let’s see if they respond.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 16 at 01:12 AM • permalinkHow would these dingbats know where traffic’s held up anyway- none of them would listen to corporate swayed advertising afflicted commercial radio, and the only traffic reports on JJJ and the indie bonghead stations is an update on who’s just been pinched in Bali, and with what; pretty handy to know what’s going to be in short supply for a few weeks. They do, however, sometimes cause major traffic disruptions with pointless protest marches and critical mass bicycle activism, and they could combine the two- I’m sure some poor sod who’s been hemmed in by immobile traffic caused by feral freaks yammering away or blocking roads with their pushbikes will be highly receptive to a lecture on his racism and xenophobia. Haven’t seen a hippy punched in ages, and I reckon it’s a winner as a spectator (and even a participatory) sport.
OK, mock if you must BUT how can you be sure that you are right? How many of you actually speak dogalog?
What if - get ready for this - Margo and her faithful followers have got it right.
How will you all feel languishing in the gulags as Margo leads her inquirers against the enemies of her democracy?
I know that I am ready to help her. Not keen on the Phillipines but, if they raise enough money, I am prepared to travel to Bangkok to find out what we don’t know there.Andrea,
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If they also include what they don’t know they don’t know, they might need to borrow this.