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Very impressive site there Marco. Keep up the good work!

LordyLordyLordy

How about we burn this website to the ground at the next new moon?

The boy stood on the burning deck
the sails were all a'fire,
the captain cheered the burning wreck,
the Rodent is a liar.

All those who seek salvation,
send all monies to:

Rev. Doctor Chato
Church Of The One True Faith
c/o XenoXnews

The cheque is in the mail.
But Flim gets my vote. He be THE Bard!

Faaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrk!

My word is...
stiff.
I woke up and grabbed me wood;
twas hard, hard how me women likes it;
Stiff

I squeezed it for a while,
and those spirals of infinity that lay in me knackers,
allowed out a stringy song.
Stiff

When i'm in the box
and I'm done flogging off
me pecker will flop like a florida willow
never to be
Stiff

FlimFlamMan
(Author of most read poem on XenoxNews)

Congrats Piggsy! You win the XenoxNews.com comments award with the best comment ever.

Your complimentary wine glasses can be picked up at the office.

Tex Lumbago
Editor
XenoxNews

You take the hero lord high chancellor supreme diety god figure, his emminence, his holyness, his goodness, his preter-natural supernater spiritual super-star status sure fire winner, and provider, his and in all his greaterness, Sir Winifred Howardstonian Smithwitherson Prime Imperator of Australis and all it's states and terroristories in a less than splendid and full glossy sheen shiny light, and you dress the figure with words so beguiling and introspective, so hallucinatory, that your readers are tricked into believing that Our Prime Minister, Your Prime Minister, Their Prime Minister, The Prime Minister isn't, is not, hasn't, will not, will never, can never be, is or in any other way expressed in language the glowing halo like figure of magnificence, the saintly majestic john boy, good boy, johnny good boy come home, Johnny Appleseed, Johnny be good, St John the Baptist, Saint John the revelator, Saint John Howard........you do more damage to the reputation of this prominent Australian, you do harm to the office of Prime Minister, you cast aspersions over the rule of law, we make law, we follow law, we love law, law is good, law is right, more law, the better law, law, law, law, and property, investment, growth, workers working better cheaper, workers working longer cheaper, workers working, working, working, for a strong Australia, for a vibrant and sure Australia......You take all these words from the Holy Book, the Holy Howard Bible, the Book of God, from the praisy mary psalm song word singing along to organs happy days in church together......You take the Lords name in vain. You take the Prime Ministers name in vain, you take and you take and you take....All for your shallow rude amusement, all for you shadowy, spiteful, wry, sneaky surprise....You do this, and you expect to make a difference. The Australian's in Howardland have spoken, reform, the charter for reform, the bugle horn for reform, reform for the 'right', reform for the wealthy....So you say, that God and Howard are as one in this. Yes indeed! God and Howard are one & the same. Howard and God, on his right hand sitteth Jesus, and on his left hand sitteth the spiky horned devil, that little troll of Australian politics, the silvery tongued snake, the clever manipulator, the man of a thousand lies......For without evil, should we not know good. For without the hard-right, we should not know the soft hearted puppy-loving wet, and sopping wet left. It's a hard world, and Howard is a hard cutting, hard taking, hard hard hard man doing what must be done, not standing still, moving ahead, changing society into a mold, making the new Howard-land of fierce competition with the lowest paid workers in the global economy. only God and Howard look down from on high....Those lowly workers, Heaven and Earth built in 7 days....Howard the handyman of God building the new empire on Earth for the people of God, for the betterment of mankind....Praise, praise, be the name of the Lord, for thine did pick the best plum off the tree and place it in the seat of power in Australia, this plum, this Johnny apple seed, seeding Australia with Law. The God of law, also the Prime Minister of law. Holy, holy, holy, thy will be done. Lest we forget and before the setting sun, we hold our hearts and remember the mighty deeds done, things that must be done, by smilingly savage grin, from ear to ear. We like John because he's like us. LOST!

Uplift your soul (R-soul) with this crap:

Put a rocket in your pocket.
Ignite it - don't fight it.
Take flight. Outta sight!
A bright flash! Now you're ash.
The akimbo - who knows where it go?
These verses had no nurses.

I have spoken with a number of people who are completely unaware of the PM's opportunistic "anti-terror" legislation (not to mention his discriminatory "workplace reforms"). It is a sad fact that most Australians don't know - or just don't care enough to know - what is happening to their "way of life".

All Murdoch products should be boycotted, for allowing his media empire to to be a part of Howard's lies.

Andrew Bolt would have to be the biggest dickhead ever!

Mr Chato there is a special place in hell reserved for blasphemers like you...

It's called Australia 2005 and it seems to be punishing you very nicely!

God
C/O the cunt upstairs
Heaven.

No! No! I want LOTS of patriotic Oz
loons to FLOOD the middle east, and
hand out Hillsong CDs and try to
convert ragheads to John Howard style
"Abundance Theology".
I want them to hand out pix of our
leader's noble face and tell the
Islamics that he is OUR prophet,
and how we call him the Lord of Truth
and Compassion, and that Mahomet is
a know-nothing jerk and Allah is
useless in a brave new Global, neocon
world! I want them to tell the Islamics
that they are retarded bludgers who
need to beg forgiveness from Howard,
Bush and Blair who spit on Islam!

How stupid do you want it to get?

You confuse silence with willful ignorance.

It looks like the vast silent majority of Australians have spoken by the puny attendance at this demonstration.

How many were there? A couple of hundred at best.

Just the usual rag-tag dial-a-lefty hangers on. The types that hate America and the freedoms she brings to the world.

I think it is time the latte-sippers woke up and realised that fair dinkum Aussies hate terrorists and their supporters. And that these Aussies are starting to lose patience with the 'anti-war' protesters who are disparaging their brave diggers. The average Aussie knows that if our troops were withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan then it would hand the terrorists are huge win. Yet this is what the professional protester like Max Gross and Chato want!

Maybe these lefties ahould focus their energy on a real rogue state: Syria. And that way we can free more people of the middle east from the yoke of Islamo-fascism.

God Bless,

Patriot

Maybe its the chocolate Willie?
Too much chocolate...

Yeah. I have one where I cut my
legs off at the knees, stick a
monkey's arse on as a mask and
run about on the stumps yelling
"I am the PM. I am the most
powerful man in the world!"

Spot on, Max! Trust the Little Bastard with shoot-to-kill "anti-terror" laws? You must be fucken joking! Never thought I'd agree with that old stiff Fraser though... mind you, the Rodent's previous claim to fame was his busy undermining of Fraser PM while the little Bastard was treasurer... Oh yeah, i'm old enough to remember that fucken bit of chicanery Johnny you old shitbird!

Crazy Condi reckons the Yanks may still be stuck in the Iraqi quicksand 10 fucken years from now... or does she really mean the 16 military fortresses the Yanks are building will still be there, packed with marines to protect all that precious oil for Dumbya's gang of corporate thieves?! Victory!!!!!!!

Here is an example of the incendiary pro-terrorist rhetoric the average aussie is concerned about.

Who knows what this lunatic might actually do?

I for one would feel a lot safer if this person was monitored by Australia’s intelligence agencies.

Patriot

My brother we are at war until you are free....

Oh Max why do you hate freedom so? Can't you allow the poor Iraqis a chance rather than have them fight your proxy war with democracy and free enterprise?

A.Bolt

Detention (aka imprisonment!) without charge? That's fascism, that's communism! It sure as hell isn't democracy. Looks like Osama has won!

This demo is endorsed by Liberty Victoria, Federation of Community Legal Centres, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, National Union of Students, Federation of Australian Muslim Students & Youth, Friends of Scott Parkin, Australian Centre for Democracy & Justice, Lesbian & Gay Solidarity, Nuclear Free Australia, Anarchist Black Cross, International Socialist Organisation. Needless to say, John W Howard PM is dead set against it! For more info contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

And have you heard how our morally bankrupt Attorney General Phil Buttock reckons we mustn't call the Rodent's policy "shoot-to-kill". In typically Orwellian fashion, he says "You need to detain them ('terrorist suspects'). You need a proper basis for being able to do that." By his logic, that poor bugger shot dead in London was actually not murdered but "detained".

Good luck guys! I've got a major
geographical - I cannot get there
from here! Is it for real?

Watch out for bullets in the back.
(shoot to kill is now OK)

"We ordered them to run, and they
just sat there, your worship.
What could we do? We had to shoot
them to preserve our freedoms."

Here is a chance for ASIO to catch all you terrorist-lovers in the one spot.

Good on ya for organising it!

Digger

Cranbourne

The so-called "constitution" is a meaningless document rushed through at the insistence of the U.S.A. because they are desperate for signs of "progress". Unfortunately, as I have said before, few Iraqis outside the Yank's Green Zone have read it. What's more, looks like the Shiites overdid the usual ballot stuffing! All it's doing is pissing everyone off!

"In Australia, any of us can be detained merely because authorities believe we might know something that we don't even know we know." - Malcolm Fraser Oct 2005

A betrayal of trust and liberty

A betrayal of trust and liberty
October 20, 2005
The Government and Opposition assume we cannot fight terrorism while adhering to principles of democracy and justice. Their folly is a grave threat to our freedom, writes Malcolm Fraser.

TODAY'S world is preoccupied with terrorism. How we in democracies respond is critical to the maintenance of our own values and to the ideals of liberty. There is a danger that Islam, which is essentially a peaceful religion, will be blamed for the actions of terrorists and that we will be increasingly divided by religion and race.

We need to understand that terrorism is as old as the human race. The Crusaders from Britain who fought against Islam in the Middle Ages; the Spanish Inquisition; the IRA and the Protestant militias in Ireland all practised terrorism; all were fundamentalist in their beliefs. The Chechens wanting independence are terrorists. People in some parts of the Philippines who want independence, were once called communists, then freedom fighters and now terrorists. The Basques in Spain; the Belgians in the Congo; the Portuguese and Spaniards in Central and South America; the Red Army and the Red Brigades in Germany and Italy in the late '70s and early '80s were all terrorists.
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Many believe the war in Iraq has provided a new motivation for terrorists, to end the occupation of an Islamic country by an infidel army. To understand that there are different causes of terrorism is not to condone but is essential if we wish to overcome and end terrorism.

Because civilisation as we know it was so nearly destroyed during the Second World War, leaders of all major states believed they must strive and work to achieve a better world. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed in 1948. In the years since, protocols and conventions established under it were designed to build a law-based world. The International Criminal Court finally came into force on July 1, 2002. It is more than unfortunate that our response to terrorism has reversed much of that progress and leaders in too many countries do not seem to understand that that is happening.

These are powers whose breadth and arbitrary nature, with lack of judicial oversight, should not exist in any democratic country.

The ASIO legislation of 2002 underlines Australia's official indifference to "due process" and to what until recently would have been regarded as universally accepted Rule of Law. We're the only democratic nation, I am advised, to legislate for the detention of people whom the authorities do not suspect of any wrongdoing or even wrong thought.

In Australia, any of us can be detained merely because authorities believe we might know something that we don't even know we know. The authorities do not have to believe we are guilty of any crime, or are planning any crime, or have consorted with any suspicious persons. How could such a law be drafted by the Government and supported by the Labor opposition?

You can be detained for one week but then on a new warrant, another and another and another week. Unless it is approved in the original warrant - and why would ASIO do that? - you are not allowed to contact your wife, your husband, your child, your mother, your father and, of course, not a lawyer.

If you don't answer ASIO's questions satisfactorily, you can be charged and subject to five years in jail. But the law is reasonable, it goes on to say that if you don't know anything, then it's not an offence not to tell ASIO anything. But you have to prove you didn't know anything and so the "onus of proof" is reversed.

You can be asked to produce a paper and if you don't, you also go to jail on prosecution for five years but the law goes on to say, being fair-minded again, if you don't have such a paper, it's not an offence not to produce it but you have to prove that you didn't have it. How do you prove you do not have something that you do not even know exists. Again, "onus of proof" is reversed.

If a journalist heard that you had been detained and sought to report it, he would go to jail for five years. If a detained person were released and talked to anyone about his or her experiences, subject to prosecution, five years in jail.

This seems to be a law for secret behaviour by authorities, for making somebody disappear. It is a law that one would expect in tyrannical countries and not in Australia. Do we do nothing about it because we believe it will not apply to ourselves? Do we believe it is only going to apply to people of a different religion who look a bit different?

United States authorities and others have, time and again, denigrated those in Guantanamo Bay. We have been told they are the worst of the worst, that they are terrible people, that they do not deserve the normal protection of the law.

People who make such comments clearly do not understand or believe in the Rule of Law as it has evolved through the ages. They have taken such views because they believe those in Guantanamo Bay and others are not "people" like ourselves. In a different day and a different time, but within the memories of many, we have heard those words before.

The presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the presumption that all people should have access to "due process" in a properly constituted legal system is no longer valid in Australia. It is not reasonable just to blame the Government alone for such laws. The Labor Party approved such laws. As a consequence of the Government and the Opposition basically agreeing, Australian law already provides for the abolition of "due process", of habeas corpus and the presumption of innocence. All this is already law.

Australian law, or lack of it, has already failed many individuals and groups. Among these we can include: Aborigines; people held in the Department of Immigration detention centres; an Australian citizen deported; Australian citizens wrongly held in detention centres without medical attention; a US citizen deported without "due process" and an Australian citizen being tried before a military tribunal. By the detention of the innocent, by the questioning of people known to be innocent by the authorities, by the right confirmed by the High Court with a majority of four to three, to keep a failed asylum seeker in jail for the term of his natural life, if he could not be returned to his land of origin.

Authorities in Australia already have the capacity for the exercise of extreme and arbitrary power without adequate judicial safeguards. Much of this involves the gravest failure of administrative and ministerial responsibilities. As shown in the Palmer and Comrie reports, the Department of Immigration has been at the centre of much of it. Two ministers have been in charge, neither minister is responsible. As far as one can tell, nobody has been held accountable. The people involved appear not to have mattered to the administration or to the Government.

Australia now has new proposals in front of it providing even greater power to the police and to the Government. Attention should, in particular, be turned to those provisions that allow for "preventive detention" and the use of "control orders" to arrest and to limit and monitor the activities of individuals. No cogent case has been made for the expansion of these powers, except a general one that it is necessary to fight terrorism. It would be reasonable to ask why, it would be reasonable to expect a considered answer. Do we really believe these powers will be effective in the fight against terrorism, or do we believe that the powers themselves are likely to lead to a sense of grievance and of alienation? These are powers whose breadth and arbitrary nature, with lack of judicial oversight, should not exist in any democratic country. If one says that they will not be abused, I do not agree. If arbitrary power exists it will be abused.

All this has happened in a country which has not experienced a significant terrorist incident for many years. What would be our Government's reaction if this great city were tied up and disorganised by terrorist attacks similar to those which recently occurred in London?

The Government is really saying on these issues, trust us, but no part of the history of the Coalition's invasion and occupation of Iraq gives any member of that coalition the right to say on these issues: "Trust us." We were told there were weapons of mass destruction. There weren't.

More recently published British cabinet papers have made it clear that President George Bush had made the decision to go to war seven or eight months before the American people were told.

More particularly, after the Tampa, after the children overboard, the experience and treatment of asylum seekers, the abandonment of Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks, all suggest that any right to trust has been long destroyed. Concerning the Tampa and children overboard, the Government knew they were playing to the more fearful and conservative elements in the Australian community and with great success. The Government also knows in relation to terrorism that the public is concerned, even fearful and can be made more fearful.

It may be brilliant politics but will such laws make Australia secure? By its actions, the Government has long abandoned and lost the middle ground. The rule of law and "due process" has been set aside.

These new proposals should be opposed. No strong case has been made that they will be effective in the fight against terrorism. There are no real safeguards. There is no adequate judicial review.

The laws should be opposed because the process itself is seriously flawed. Instead of wide-ranging discussion the Government has sought to nobble the field in secret and to prevent debate.

The Government and the Labor Party have both assumed that we cannot fight terrorism and adhere to the basic principles of justice and democracy. They have assumed that certain people are outside the law and do not deserve justice. They are saying "Trust us" when they have given us every reason not to trust them on peace and war and on security for our people.

If we stand silent in the face of discrimination and in violation of the basic principles of humanity, then we betray our own principles and our way of life. I regret that many believe they must throw basic rights overboard to defend those same rights. Such views are wrong and will make it harder to overcome terrorism.

Malcolm Fraser was prime minister from 1975 to 1983. This is part of the Stephen Murray-Smith memorial lecture last night at the State Library of Victoria.

You lefties and your crazed conspiarcy theories. All because of your hatred for America and it's freedoms it has given the world.

Patriot

Anyone with even slight knowledge of the dirty activities of the Indonesian military in Aceh, Ambon, West Papua and East Timor (etc, etc) have always understood the connection with the phoney "war-on-terrorism". Successive Aussie governments are compliit in covering up this link... And on and on it goes!

Man, that's as true today as it ever was.

Bring him to Oz.
He can remove 10kilos of ugly fat
from the top of our leader too.

What uncanny power does
this little creep have?
Or is it that most Aussies
are so pathetic that they
suck-up to the Alpha-suckhole?

You would need to be totally
nutless to crawl to a putrid,
senile, sociopathic old maggot,
with his shrivelled nuts like
dried raisins!

Only a moron would expect any
real character in the type of
slime that rises to the top
of Aussie politics.

I have mentioned this already.
(see my FLU FUCKS FOOLS article)
But it may be unfair to the little
non-core loony if some REAL
problems interfere with his
"WAR OF TERROR" games.

Forget Iraq. Forget "terrorism". Avian flu will kill me and you.

But his lower lip is his foreskin! The old adage: Big men have big pricks, little men are all prick.

Remember: Hitler was VOTED into office. The Germans sold their souls to the devil then, ("Save us, Adolf, from the nasty old Jews and Bolsheviks!) just as the Americans, the British, and Awe-stralians have sold theirs now... History repeats... and the best/worst is yet to come... the only question remaining will be: which side are you on?

The Rodent's "logic" goes like this: to protect our enviable "way of life" and "freedom" we must sacrifice that freedom and ditch our way of life...

The Oz Prime Malignancy says that
shit-eating is very much underrated.

Just as true now as it ever was!

I think it's worth all the "terror"
just to see Howard stick his lower
lip out as he tries to put on a
"stern" look. I wonder how he'd like
me to grab it with a pair of pliers
and pull it over his head like a
fucking foreskin?

Fuck! That old WW3 stuff sounds hot!
Do we get to fuck the daughters first?
Not sure that I fancy Howard's daughter.

I'm still waiting for Johnny to go
a few rounds in the ring with Saddam.
Let's get some use out of these cunts!
(my money's on Saddam)

Do not forget:
Governments have an interest in
helping "terrorism" along.
Check out how Indonesian military
gets some useful pocket money
from Aussies by using the fake
"war on terror".
(SBS-TV "Dateline" program
"Inside Indonesia's War on Terror")

Yes, and it says so much about the Labor "opposition".

It's true, Howard IS a vile, vindictive creep... but what does it say about our nation when he has been re-elected so often? It is truly sickening to contemplate.

It seems those dimwits at the New York Times have finally caught up with XenoxNews.com

We said Syria was the new Cambodia months ago and I'm sure we copyrighted this comparison.

See you in court you bastards!

The little non-core lunatic could introduce
the little prince to the Dark Lord.